Nate again...

So I can't help but wonder if I'm going to be assigned the new Sunday night blog updater, but I'm doing this without Stac telling me to. I just wanted to share my thoughts on a couple things here:
So today was Sunday, so we, trying to do what we are supposed to be doing, go to church. Sacrament meeting was fast and testimony day cause we'll be having stake conference next Sunday. First, I'm really learning that testimony meeting as an adult, when you actually pay attention to at least MOST of what people are saying is so much different than what I remember it being as a younger fella. Testimony meeting really is a crap shoot when it comes to who is gonna get up there and even more what on earth they're going to say and even more than all that how they're going to tie it all into the gospel. Realizing that not everyone has grown up in the Church, and no 2 people will experience the same things and walk away from it all with the same story to tell; realizing all that, there are just some people who get up and I just find myself looking at Stac and laughing or shaking my head in wonder. I wonder what in the world (or the Spirit World) makes some people say what they do, or makes them think it's worth broadcasting during such a relatively important time such as sacrament meeting. I could go on but I don't want to beat a dead horse. So I'm just gonna finish this subject with just kinda a side note, something that i doubt I will ever be okay with and I credit to people just not thinking about what they're actually saying- When you close your testimony, you close it in the name of Jesus Christ... It is through Him and the Holy Ghost that we are able to communicate with our Father, who happens to be the Son of HEAVENLY FATHER. He is not my son, so don't close in the name of my son (who coincidentally will never be Jesus). You close prayers "in the name of thy son, Jesus Christ" because of He whom you are speaking to. You close your testimony "in the name of Christ, the Lord and Savior" because, again, He is not any of our son. Get it right people. It really isn't that hard if you'd just think about it. The Church is still true.
Here's the other thing. Kind of a change of tone. My heart really goes out to anyone and everyone who has or will have to experience the faith trial of being called to Nursery. Trying to drop Zoee of in there has not been as easy as it was before we changed wards. We can't figure it out but it doesn't matter. Stac had me try to drop her off in there today, she didn't want to be dropped off, so I got to experience the nursery for almost the first hour, most of Sunday school. There are/were 18 little kids(!!!) half of them crying and screaming in that little, hot room. (For those of you who might not know, I really don't have much patience at all for other peoples' crying kids; kinda makes me want to slap the kid and the parent.) That being said, I had a tough time just sitting there making it so that my kid wasn't the one someone wanted to slap. I just sat there trying to figure out how I was going to get out of there without Zoee realizing it, and I watched the poor couple girls who I could tell were more flustered by the mini crowd try to get some kind of plan as to what they were going to do with these freakin kids. I just want to make it be known that I hope and pray that I never have to have that obligation on a weekly basis. I never want to have to put up with that for 2 of the 3 hours I'm supposed to be getting spiritually uplifted. I hope I never have to do that cause I realized sitting there with Zoee, that if I were ever in those shoes, it really could depress me and make it enough to stop going to church long enough to get released, however long that ended up being.