Thursday, February 5, 2009

Lauren...Lauren Uminski?

So I started to write this on a message that included all my family on Facebook, but the thing was a) it was a thread my little brother started advertising his online mini-series about Utahnian floozies so it wasn't even germane, b) it's an interesting enough story i thought a few people might like reading it, and c) maybe you can even help...

k this has NOTHING to do with this thread, but i figured since the entire family was on it anyway, might as well use it instead of creating my own...so i was working in the temple last week in the baptistry, and this girl who is helping hand out towels is like 'uminski...are you related to...' and while she was saying that, i was trying to anticipate which of my siblings she knows, but then she blurts out 'lauren' and im totally shocked...i must have made a face cause she apparently thought she offended me, but i was like:
'lauren? lauren uminski? spelled u-m-i-n-s-k-i?'
'yep, i knew her from school (byu or byu-i, i can't remember)'
'so she's a member?'
'yeah'
'lauren? i have three sisters, elizabeth, kati, and margie, and it wasn't one of them?'
(keep in mind that just down a few steps from where we're having this conversation, saving ordinances for the deceased are being performed with the priesthood of God)
'no....no it was lauren' now she had the offended look
'wow, as far as i knew, we were the only uminski's in the church. my parents joined, and there's hardly any of us in the country, let alone the church'
'that's what i figured'
'wow, lauren uminski?'

i wanted to find out more about this lauren, who she was, what was her geneology, when did her uminski line come across the great waters, when did they join the church, is she single, how closely related exactly are we (it would make things pretty simple with the whole last name changing over process thing), what was her major, what are her ambitions, life goals, dreams...but then i remembered...right...saving ordinances going on just a few feet away...so i decided that wasn't the place.

alas, i never did get to restart that conversation, so if anyone knows of any other uminski's in the Church, please do share for now I'm genuinely intrigued...not that i wasn't on saturday...but...you know...whatever

3 comments:

  1. So i checked fb, there's only a lauren dyminski, suminski and an ominski. Who would have thought there'd be that many different types of spellings!

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  2. oh believe me, the first thing i did when i got home last week was check facebook. maybe the chick was just messing with me.

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  3. that's something most temple goers like to do--mess with brother uminski!!!

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