Let that be a lesson to you!

I'm pretty behind in this blog because we just recently got internet for the business again, so I have some things to catch up on, but I wanted to share this experience while it was still fresh in my mind.
Yesterday afternoon I kept having these thoughts pop into my head that I needed to take the trash out before it got dark. I thought, my goodness, why am I so worried about this, it's not a big deal. So, I thought, ok I'll just take it out after I'm done highlighting my lady's hair, so I can get all the foils in the trash. Well, by the time I was done with the hair appointment I decided I needed to go to Adam's work and pick up Nolan because he went grocery shopping with him and I needed to get him home to get him dinner and to bed. So, I did that and while I was making dinner, I kept having the same thoughts that I needed to get the trash out, it was starting to get to be evening time. Well, I was running a little late on getting Nolan to bed, so I thought, well, I'll just hurry and get him to bed and than take the trash out. Nolan normally is asleep by 6:30 (he gets so worn out from 5 hours of school) and it was almost 7:30. So, finally I got him down and Annika was now needing my attention. I thought, whatever, I'll just take out the trash after I get her to sleep. Well, by this time it's dark and I'm like, oh well, I really need to get this trash out!! As I was gathering up the trash I had this little vision pop in my head of myself throwing the trash into the dumpster and a bear was in it. I thought to myself, oh boy, now I'm really acting paranoid. There have been bears sighted in our complex several times in the last year, but I didn't think the chances of a bear being in the dumpster tonight would be very high. Well, I go to unlock the door and I was getting these strong warnings, which I now recognize was the Holy Ghost trying to warn me not to go outside. I still did not listen, thinking this was just all in my head and slowly walked to the dumpster. I was very much on my guard though, listening and looking all around me. At about the half way point, I really had a strong feeling that there was in fact a bear in the dumpster, even though I still couldn't hear anything. Well, I was dumb and kept walking over there. As I lifted up my trash to throw it into the dumpster I see somethiing rise up from the dumpster. Sure enough, there stood a big black bear! This was no baby bear, this was a full grown black bear! My trash went flying all over the place and I turned around and ran as fast as I could back to my house, which seemed so far away. I heard all this clattering behind me, which was probably the bear getting out of the dumpster and was sure it was going to be chasing me and get me. I didn't turn around to look. I just kept running and finally made it to my door. WHEWIE!!! That was a close one! I learned my lesson though and won't be going outside when it gets dark again!