Elder Nelson - Hot Under the Collar, a Lesson I Remembered

The air conditioner on our car is flaking out. Sometimes it works great and sometimes not so great. We took it into the shop yesterday (Saturday) for them to look at it. Of course it worked great, so they could not fix it. We borrowed a mission car so we could drop our car off at the shop and still get around.

Today, I wanted to take the mission car to church just in case. But I was over-ruled by Mom. I left after sacrament meeting to meet with our friend David and to take him to his work. Of course after 5 minutes the air conditioning in our car quit completely. The thermometer in our car said the outside temperature was 101 and we had our normal East Coast humidity.

As I drove the half hour to David's house, I was getting hot under the collar because of the heat and humidity, but also because this problem could have been avoided it only someone listened to me.

I was feeling very sorry for myself on the way back. Then I had to smile as I thought of the thousand times I told Keri, "Choose to be happy". We can't control the circumstances, but we can control our attitude.

Well, chose to be happy. I smiled and sweated all the way back to the apartment. I was happy (and sweaty and hot!). When I got back to the apartment, I cooled down a minute, I washed my face and I happily picked Mom up at Church in the cool mission car. Mom was very understanding.

And now Mom and I are living happily ever after!

Love,

Dad

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