Except for a two-week stint at Pinnacle Security, I have been virtually unemployed since we got back to Provo in August. I left Pinnacle so quickly because of another job offer I had--transcribing classes for hearing impaired students at Utah Valley University. For the past month I have been training at home for that position. Thanks to Kelly, I also had a bit of work providing Tahitian Noni with some transcriptions (which was a great blessing). I finally cleared training and was able to start transcribing at UVU this week.
The same day I started, I found out that I was hired by Tahitian Noni to work full time in the call center (French speaking). It's amazing the relief that comes with finally being able to work full time, especially when only the week before there didn't seem to be an end in sight to my unemployment.
To top it all off, Ben got the results for his Foreign Service Officer Test, and he passed with flying colors. This means that now he will send in a series of essays, after which they will determine if he is to fly out to Washington D.C. in March for the interview portion of the exam. Passing that means they will perform background and medical checks on him and then place him on a "to-be-hired" list. This sounds like we are still far away from being accepted, and we are. But the fact that he passed this first test is an amazing accomplishment, and we have high hopes.
I think it's safe to say that we owe a lot of our recent blessings to the fact that I have just started working at the temple. It's an amazing way to spend my Saturdays and I am learning so much. Ben just spoke with our bishop about being able to work there too.
