Big news!! My life is a roller costar since I moved to Flagstaff! For a girl who doesn't like change I’m having a lot of it right now! After talking with the nursing adviser and finding that I can put my application in to nursing I now have have to do a lot!
For one I’ll be studying for the HESI A2 exam, but I also have medical volunteer hours to do. Jeremy works at the Flagstaff Medical Center and told me I should volunteer there with him. I thought that would be totally awesome, but wasn’t sure if I could apply for volunteering there. It’s a really nice hospital with the best of the best doctors. I put my application in on Wednesday night and by Thursday a lady named Sarah Pena e-mailed me:
“Hi! Thank you for your interest in volunteering at FMC. I have received your application and right now I am not able to place you in any of the departments you requested. Do you have any other time/day available that you would like me to check? Please let me know.
thanks, Sarah”
Right away I e-mailed her back and said I could do it after 1pm on Mon/Wed and after 4 on Tue/Thur. Today I got an e-mail stating that I got the position on Tue/Thur from 4-6pm working at the main welcome desk! Sarah also attached a test with 50 questions on it that I have to turn in to her. I have to get at least an 84% correct to be able to volunteer; I told you it’s a really nice hospital!
This all happened at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and when I pull up the available orientation dates and times I saw that the one today at 3’oclock was the only one I could go to since school stats on Monday. So I asked her if I could come to the one today and she said of course…but I didn’t have time to look at the test so I was nervous about that. When I got there she said I could turn it in later. Whew!
At orientation we singed a billion papers and I didn’t really have time to read all that I was agreeing to, bad thing to do, I know, but she was going really fast and I’m sure I wasn’t agreeing to bad stuff. Most of them were about not sharing information you see at the hospital with anyone else. I had to sign stuff for a parking permit, a background check, and other random stuff too. After we finished signing all the papers we went on a tour through the hospital. It was soooo big and sooo confusing. She suggested that we follow along with a map that they gave us but I got totally lost track of where we were. There are 4 floors with so many different hallways and rooms and a billion elevators! My first achievement will be to not get lost! Over all it was amazing and I’m so glad I got in! Yes, I know, it’s only a volunteer job, but I’m going to learn SO much. I should be paying them for all the knowledge I’m going to gain!
So the next step is to get take a TB test and wait for them to get the results before they will give me my parking permit and badge. I made an appointment to take the tb test on Monday at 1:30pm. I’m super duper excited! So crazy!! Never thought all of this would be going on! Anyway I’ll keep you posted. By I can still blog because none of my study guides have come in the mail yet..so I can’t study for the HISE exam even if I wanted to (which I DO).
I walked over that bridge!! Such a nice hospital!
Today was my first time at the university 1st ward here in Flagstaff. It was sure different, but the same as well. I felt very welcomed and loved. I can’t wait to get to know these amazing sisters that I already look up to so much. My bishop, Bishop Walton, is amazing. I felt how much he cared about all of us and he doesn’t even know me. My heart is full, I don’t know why, I’m just so grateful for everything. I hope you can tell through my words how strong my testimony is today. It’s grown. I’m crying, but not because i'm sad, but because I’m so thankful. It’s hard to describe. Change and challenges are so good! Really! It helps you realize how much our heavenly father does in all of our lives. I know he has had a hand in every success in my life. Boy, will he be in the things to come. There’s no way I could do all this new stuff with out knowing that he’s there for me, that he loves me, that he wants me to succeed. When you turn to the Lord, he’s always there. I have a testimony of that.
