One more thing

I need to clarify.  I announced on FB the other day that I was getting a job and that changed.  So on Monday I accepted a full time position at Ensign Peaks Services in West Valley as a program manager over an after school therapeutic program for 4th, 5th, and 6th graders.  It would mean program start-up and development, supervisory, and grant writing experience, along with individual counseling.  It was an awesome job.  But, on Tuesday, New Roads called me and offered me a position, even though they had turned me down the week prior (I had interviewed there twice and really hoped I would get it).  So after much thought and a pros and cons list (social work strategy), oh and consulting with Philip, Ray, and my former supervisor Sherrie, I decided to go for the New Roads job.  I am sad to turn down a great opportunity, but this position is in Provo, benefited, and would provide me with experience to work with an older population and substance abuse--an area in which I need more expertise.  I am happy to have been blessed with two job offers, something I never thought would happen!

Finally!

I feel truly blessed because I accepted a full time position as a therapist at New Roads Treatment Center in Provo.  Since I graduated in August, I have been a lazy sack of potatoes.  Well, not too lazy, I managed to interview at eight different facilities, send out over a hundred resumes/applications, earn my CSW license, and go on two awesome trips, but, nonetheless, I have felt extremely bored and have been a recluse.  In retrospect I am thankful that it took a little while until I got this job because I got time to go visit family, help Mac and Rachel move, move ourselves (a two month process), and get some needed recuperation from school. 

I have an increased testimony of paying my tithing.  Over the month of September, Philip and I's lives were hectic (we were temporarily living with some friends, went on two trips to Oregon and California, and were not going consistently to one ward).  While in California, I was panicking that I would never find a job, we would go broke, I would be a failure, etc etc (a downward spiral I know, and it was silly and irrational).  It seemed like nothing was working out on the job front.  I had a few fluke things happen with different potential positions, and lots of places just were not calling me back.  I also heard that many people in my program were having a hard time finding work.  The economy has been a constant worry for me as well.  While in California I watched conference and just had a strong feeling of urgency that we needed to pay our tithing.  The first Sunday we were back we paid our tithing.  The Monday after, I got a call back almost within two hours of applying to New Roads for a phone interview.  Yesterday I accepted a job to New Roads.  Tithing is such a blessing and I know that as long as I pay my tithing, I will always be protected and watched over.