General Authority Interview

Part of the hiring process for Seminary teachers includes a couple's interview with a General Authority.  And yesterday Kole and I had our General Authority interview with Elder Per G. Malm.  Elder Malm was so super nice (Of course!  As if I should expect anything less!) and it was really fun to meet with him.  I didn't really know very much about Elder Malm before a few weeks ago (when I looked up his bio and re-read one of his talks).  I know members of the Church sometimes act as if the Prophets, Apostles and General Authorities are some type of celebrities but like Elder Malm told us yesterday, "we're just ordinary people who happen to have pretty extraordinary callings." 

When I found out a few weeks ago that our General Authority interview had been approved and set up, I was really excited but then a few days ago I started getting really nervous.  Kole started telling me crazy stories about the General Authority interviews of some of the other seminary teacher's he works with.  I was nervous that it was going to be very long and intense.  Thankfully, ours was nothing scary, strange or intimidating.  I was really relieved that our interview was very easy going and comfortable.  Short and sweet.  He asked some questions, got to know more about each of us, took a few notes and said he would write up a positive report to send to the General Board of Education.  And that's all we hoped would happen.  All in all, it felt somewhat uneventful.  But now we get to move onward. 

After the interview we decided to enjoy a few more kid-free hours.  We started by going to the Salt Lake temple.  We had been before but it had been several years since we had been through that temple.  My goodness it is so big and confusing inside!  I felt so lost.  Even just getting to the dressing room.  And then we were the witness couple and my timing was so off (it being a live session and all). I guess I am spoiled by the Logan temple where everything is so easy going and familiar.  But it was fun to get to do an endowment and short sealing session after in such a beautiful and historic temple.

After the temple we headed to Maddox.  Yum!  We totally stuffed ourselves.  Then we decided we should head back home and get the kids.  We had to leave our home at 7 am in order to get to our interview in time so the grandmas had watched them all day.  They all love the grandmas but once Porter saw me, he was soooooooo mad I had left him all day!  He wouldn't stop crying for over and hour and then he was grumpy and needy the whole rest of the evening.  Quite the contrast to a serene and peaceful day we had.  Oh well, opposition in all things.  Now back to normal life.