The next day while in church I prayed that God would help me to sell a lot of those seeds. I saw a lot of flowers in church and I think it was the first time I notice how really pretty they were. I even told my mother how pretty they were. She told me that that was what I was doing by selling flower seeds. That I was helping to make the world a prettier place. I really felt good about what I was doing.
We went to see some of my aunts and uncles. And man, I tell you, I sold a lot of seeds. It sure was easy. I didn’t sell enough just like my mother said. She told me that when we got home we were going to start that hard part.
The hard part was that I had sold most of my stock and I only had a few seeds left. It would take time to reorder and I didn’t know how many I should order. She helped me make an order pad. She gave me a change purse with some change and I had a few dollars too. She told me that now comes the hard part because I had to go knocking on doors in the neighborhood and take orders. I should start on our street and should make sure that I went to all of the people that I had shoveled snow for and then go to the rest.
I did exactly that and sure enough the ones that I knew they did order paying in advance. Then just like she said it got hard. It seemed, real hard. The next few people said the did not need any seeds this time of the year. I started to believe them. Next house I went to was a lady that was all alone, she had lost her husband during WWII. She invited me in out of the cold. I showed her what I had to sell. She gave me some hot chocolate She said that she wanted to show me something asking me if I had a minute. She took me to a back porch that she called a Florida room. I had never seen anything like that before. It was like it was being inside the house only not. She had what looked like a wood box with a door on it. She opened it up so I could see inside. She said that it was a starter box for her flowers. She showed me how she planted seeds, just like the kind I sell, late in winter and early spring that way they would be ready to go out to her gardens after they matured. I asked her where she got her seeds before I came along and she told me the hardware store where my father and I go. I got an order from her and I was on my way. The next couple people didn’t order but I just kept on knocking and I didn’t stop until I realized how far I had gone. It was starting to get late I was going to be late for supper.
When I got home my father said that I had better had sold something because I was gone for over 5 hours. He said “time is money and now I was in business and that I had to show something for my time. I showed my folks a list with two pages of orders on it. I was so excited. When we got through adding up the sales I had enough orders and sales for not only the baseball mitt but also a baseball too!
