Monday evening Erick and I were going over some of the things coming up on our
schedule in the next couple of weeks. He had two pastor's meetings locally, one
at the district level, and a business meeting on the calendar this week, and
next week on the 29th he had his ordination exam scheduled. They had told him
that the ordination exam was much more difficult than the licensing exam, which
took him 6 hours to finish two years ago. He had started to study for it, but
was going to wait until next week to really crack the books.
We had
thought it would be nice, since I needed to go, too, for the interview part, to
make a date of it. After all, we had our babysitters lined up, some gift cards
leftover from Christmas to spend, and some coupons to Cheeseburger in Paradise.
We'd even considered staying in a hotel.
We decided to plan out our
trip, and I asked him what time his interview was. So he pulled up the e-mail
and looked at it...and lo and behold, I had the date wrong on the calendar! It
wasn't the 29th after all--it was the 20th! We looked at the date--it was the
19th. Lovely. Now we needed to ask our babysitters if they could babysit
tomorrow instead of next week. We called them, and they weren't home. We called
Erick's mom to see if she could watch them if we couldn't find anyone else, and
she said she would.
We also didn't know what time it was. It didn't say
on the e-mail. It said that more details would be coming, but we didn't have any
other e-mails and hadn't received anything in the mail, either. The District
Office was closed when we called, but the answering machine said they opened at
eight. So we decided that's what time we'd be in Indianapolis in the morning.
Our friends finally did make it home and agree to babysit (after we had
already left to head up to his parents' house) and so we left them there
overnight and went home to grab a few hours of sleep before we left early in the
morning.
The test actually started at 10:00 and were all multiple choice
or true and false. Erick didn't even have to open his Bible. Some of the other
candidates were disappointed with how easy it was since they had studied so hard
and memorized so much. The District Superentident said they are going to have to
change it to make it harder because he's not happy with it all. Erick got a 94
without even studying.
The interview was also great--much less intensive
than the last interview. He'll be ordained in May at the next District Council
meeting. I'm so glad we made it on time.
Oh, and btw, Erick just got a
call a little bit ago from Service Master--he's got a job!
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