This Friday, April 30th, began as usual with a very insistent alarm clock going off at 3:30 a.m. so we could leave at 4:15 a.m. so we could be dressed in white and in the Idaho Falls Temple by 5:30 a.m. The short night’s sleep on Thursday night meant it was going to be a long, tiring day. However, being in the Temple also makes it a fun and uplifting day as well.

Since last September, a group of teenagers in one of the Wards has gotten up early enough every Friday morning to be at the Temple by 5:30 a.m. to do baptisms and confirmations for the dead. They’ve been there every Friday morning without fail, even when school wasn’t in session. Between 7 and 15 young people, sleepy but well dressed, along with a couple of adults come, stay for a little over an hour, and then leave so they can get to school on time. They’ve been quite an inspiration to me. For the past couple of months part of my assignment at the Temple has been to be at the baptistry at 5:30 a.m. to assist these young people. They’ve become kind of heros for me. The school year ends in a few weeks and they’ll have met their goal. Good for them!

We got home about 1:30 p.m. from the Temple and I had an interview at 2:30 p.m. with a company here in Pocatello looking for some web site programming assistance. This was my second interview with the company for the position. It looks to be a very interesting part-time position, well suited for my skills and interests. They gave me a programming assignment, a kind of a demonstration of my skills, to do and deliver on Monday, May 3rd. Hopefully that’ll be good enough to close the deal.

We finished off this last day of April at the Symphony for a fabulous performance of the Brahms German Requiem. This is a favorite piece of mine and I have two different recordings in my iTunes library. What an grand finale! Bravo, Idaho State Civic Symphony and the Camarata Singers!!

TTFN!