Jacob Lake - Snow Mobile Gang Round Three, Sunday School

Friday night after closing down we had a meeting with management. We went over rules and scheduling. Each night after close we had an activity planned. Saturday and Sunday nights were blocked out for Sunday School and Sacrament meeting. Salesi said that Gospel Doctrine class would be postponed a week because no one had been assigned yet, and it was too short notice to do so now. I volunteered myself to teach the class. I could prep a lesson during my break the following day. After the meeting I took the chance to square away my RCA work arrangement with Laura. At first I was kind of nervous bringing it up, hoping that she had already been informed. I didn’t want to spring something new on her and start off on her bad side. Luckily she already knew that my time was going to be limited and was extremely understanding and willing to work with my schedule. She basically told me that I was to manage my own time, informing her when I could and could not work. Thank you Laura. I blogged for a few hours and then hit the sack.

The following morning was the busiest I’d experience yet. A few of the Snowmobile Gang came in for breakfast, along with three other parties. I had two in the diner, and two on the counter. I was running from one place to the next to the next, tending to all four parties at the same time. This would be nothing to an experienced waiter – but for me it was clearly pushing my limits. And to make it worse, the kitchen was training a new employee as well, making things even slower. When I brought Tanner the bill, he asked for a lunch menu as well – that way he could put his order in now and have the food be ready by the time they came back.

Another fun party that came in later that day was a Hispanic group from Columbia. They were on a guided tour, visiting some of the attractions in the area. I wanted so bad to speak Spanish with them, but thought it better to hold off a bit. However, as I was waiting their table and listening to their conversation, it just slipped out as I asked for them to hand me their menu. Haha. They were pleasantly surprised and continued their order in their native language.

After a busy morning, I took my break time to organize a Gospel Doctrine binder. I grabbed the glass of orange juice that I had poured myself four hours before, but not had the chance to drink. I found an empty binder in the office and printed out the first ten lessons of the 2010 Old Testament Teachers manual. I stapled each packed and whole punched them to be put in the binder. This way whoever was going to be teaching could just grab the next lesson out of the binder and be good to go. I also printed off a few other talks that I thought were amazing along with a copy of the Proclamation.

My lesson that night was the first out of the Old Testament. It was all about the ‘work and glory’ of God through the plan of salvation. I did an overview of the last two lessons dealing with family and Zion, and thought it extremely insightful to include a few parts from a talk from Julie Beck to seminary teachers on the family. She spelled out the importance of the family, and how the reason for everything we do revolves around it. The Creation – to have a place for families to be born. The Fall – to allow families to grow. The Atonement – to bring families back together. Every part of Christ’s doctrine points towards families. And those that oppose families ultimately oppose the plan of salvation, labeling themselves as an antichrist. Powerful.