Lesson in humility...

Okay, so our dryer died for good this time. The motor totally won't work anymore and died on my last load of laundry for the week. Merril said that our OLD, OLD dryer from when we first moved to St. George was still at the shop and he could see if the motor from it would work. So he brought it home and I remembered how much I disliked it. It's gotta be from the 80s with a white body and a black panel up on top. It's smaller than my other dryer but takes 1 1/2 times as long to dry clothes. So I helped Merril unload it and we start walking into the house and I say, "Where are you going with this??"

He says, "Into the house, I thought."

I said, "I don't want that thing in my house. I thought you were going to flip the motor."

He says, "I don't think it'll work but I'll look at it." He proceeds to take it apart a bit and says, "It looks different, I don't think it'll work with our broken dryer."

So I grumble and say, "Fine, let's move it in."

So we move it in and hook it up. I glare at it, hating that this ugly dryer was back in my presence. I had done a load of laundry that morning and had hung up most of the jeans in my bathroom to dry. I went to the bathroom to retrieve the still mostly-wet jeans and throw them in the dryer. I cranked it up and walked away.

And then I started thinking, 'Those clothes were barely any dryer after hanging for 7 hours. I know this dryer is ugly and takes longer but at least it's drying clothes. I know they'll be dry in an hour and a half. I'm being ungrateful'

So I've made peace with the ugly dryer and felt unappreciative for my many blessings. I vowed to be less worldly. So then the next night, I was teaching in Young Womens and talked about my lesson in humility. After the lesson, the YW president game up and said, "You know, I have a dryer that I'm not using and it works great! It's gas though. You can have it if you want! I just got a new set from my Mom."

So I haven't gone and looked at it yet or anything but hey, free dryer. Isn't that nice??

(I've been listening to Christmas music for 2 weeks.) ;)