Our Niche At The ERC

This is where you can picture me during most days at the ERC. The most important thing we do second to greeting and working with candidates who walk in to the center, is call those who have registered on the website, so we can offer assistance. I am telling you all....the Career Workshop (and the ERC itself) is one of the best kept secrets in the church and I am not sure why that is! Here is today's tender mercy for Sharif Warner who was a walk-in looking for a warehouse job. His mother is from Antigua, but Sharif is American-born. Long story short....we were going through the whole registration process, including an email account, and simply could not get him registered....we kept having all sorts of computer issues, (and I promise it was not me....someone in the know was watching), and we were alternating between one computer and the other to get screens to come up...so bizarre. We were working on this for quite some time and Sharif was so patient, and I was saying a silent prayer that we could help him before he left. A few minutes later off to the side I hear one job searcher say to another that such and such place was hiring warehouse forklift drivers tomorrow between 10-12. Thrill of thrills for me....so I passed that on to Sharif; did a bit of one-on-one training relative to Power Statements....now don't you know everyone is going to say they are a hard worker....Prove it with a Power Statement, and now Sharif can! He was upbeat walking out the door and I was most grateful for this tender mercy that is so illustrative of how Heavenly Father loves each of his children! Such a sweet experience. Oh, yes...Sharif has a brother who just was released from prison who he is going to bring in. Let's just sit by and watch what tender mercies Heavenly Father and the Savior have in store for him!
Yesterday Sister Peterson and I spent some time planning so we can do everything we are asked to do....we planned our individual study, our companion study, our exercise time....so this morning our schedule went well. We were ready for some down time after work, but after going to Walmart for a box fan for Sister P. because there is a little bird outside her window that has his days and nights mixed up....we walked two laps around our apartment complex. Were we ever glad to went to lunch after the temple Saturday and saved leftovers, because that is what we had for dinner tonight. That is going to be our pattern....lunch every Saturday after the temple....no cooking one night of the week. Fix a big Sunday dinner and then have that for two more nights...no cooking! For FHE we listened to the first two General Conference talks feeling such gratitude for a living prophet and for all the prophets who teach us the truths that help us be happy and at peace! Oh, how I wish everyone could know what we know! Personal activities after that, like this blog, and soon the end of a wonderful day, except I miss my family!