Meeting my business partner.
I attended the Bellevue Singles ward for 3 years. I regularly attended the Monday night Family Home Evening (FHE) Activity. The whole time I was there I always drove myself to the activity. Well almost the whole time. One fateful Monday I decided to call new convert and ask him for a ride to FHE, really it was just a ruse to try and get him more involved, but it worked and that one Monday I got a ride.
Now this FHE was a pretty cool FHE. We went onto Mercer Island to one of the public parks and met up with three different boats and we all took turns riding around Lake Washington. I ended up waiting towards the end to go out and found myself on the last trip of the day for one of the boat owners.
Once the ride was over he said "Is there anyone here who got a ride tonight that could help me dock the boat?" Now I knew that he really wanted on of the girls to say yes, and I waited and waited for one of them to do so. However it was not his lucky night, well not at least with the ladies. I offered to help as I had gotten a ride that day and soon we were off together on Lake Washington.
We starting having a conversation on the boat about what we both did for a living. We ended up talking about a millionaire that I was working for and he had met and he asked me "Why don't you have a million dollars in your account right now?" I thought about it for a moment and told him, well I do have one idea..
That conversation started what has become a friendship and business partnership that has lasted over 3 years now. And although I still don't have a million dollars in my account I'm closer now than ever before.
Now this FHE was a pretty cool FHE. We went onto Mercer Island to one of the public parks and met up with three different boats and we all took turns riding around Lake Washington. I ended up waiting towards the end to go out and found myself on the last trip of the day for one of the boat owners.
Once the ride was over he said "Is there anyone here who got a ride tonight that could help me dock the boat?" Now I knew that he really wanted on of the girls to say yes, and I waited and waited for one of them to do so. However it was not his lucky night, well not at least with the ladies. I offered to help as I had gotten a ride that day and soon we were off together on Lake Washington.
We starting having a conversation on the boat about what we both did for a living. We ended up talking about a millionaire that I was working for and he had met and he asked me "Why don't you have a million dollars in your account right now?" I thought about it for a moment and told him, well I do have one idea..
That conversation started what has become a friendship and business partnership that has lasted over 3 years now. And although I still don't have a million dollars in my account I'm closer now than ever before.
posted by Daryl at
5:27 PM
3 Comments:
Interesting you would need a ruse to get someone to go to FHE. It's so uninteresting, people won't go of their own accord?
Now compare this to say, a baseball game, where people will actually pay a ton for the opportunity to go.
FHE must be pretty boring.
By
Anonymous, at 7/23/2008 3:27 PM
Some FHE's are better than others, but I was just trying to get a new member more involved.
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Daryl, at 7/31/2008 12:25 AM
Hello that FHE was great, because I assume based on the details that it was one I planned. Aaron and I decided that you probably owe us dividends based on that fact alone. :)
By
kelsey, at 8/05/2008 9:15 AM
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