How we make decisions: The Alamo

Yesterday's trip to the Alamo was fun, enjoyable, peaceful, and a perfect example of how Joy and I make biggish decisions.

Last August I told Joy that I really wanted us to go see the Alamo. With the Dallas temple closing in October, I wanted to plan a couple days for us to drive down to San Antonio, see the Alamo, do some temple work at the San Antonio temple, and maybe see a few other things. We planned and we discussed for MONTHS and just couldn't make it work. It didn't fit and we were too busy and it was a mess. So we didn't go.

Fast forward to February. Last week I had planned to go to the Dallas temple on Tuesday, but I was behind on 4-5 different projects at school and wasn't feeling well and I just couldn't see my way clear. So we planned that Joy would drive me up Saturday with the kids. Then we had a rather large snow storm that canceled classes. I got to spend 3 days lying flat in bed getting caught up on those projects.

When Friday night came, we talked for a while, prayed about it, and confirmed the plan that we would all drive up to Dallas the next day despite the prediction of more rain and flooding.

Saturday morning at 5am while we're up and getting ready to go, Joy says, "The thing I keep feeling from the Spirit after our prayer is that we ought to bring a day bag just in case we get stuck in Dallas overnight." While we prepared a bag of clothes and pull out our 72 hour kit to take with us, she wondered out of the blue what the weather was like in San Antonio.

Slight rain and otherwise sunny. ... 90 minutes later, we had the kids awake and in the car and were on our way to San Antonio.

So that's how we get things done. We talk, we counsel, we plan and nothing happens until suddenly we just make a decision and git'er done. It's how we went to South Africa and Italy; it's how we bought our house and car; and now we're talking about how we're going to rearrange all the furniture in the house once my leg is better.....


The kids had a great time and kept talking about how they felt the Spirit at the temple and what they liked about the Alamo. Good times.