Mission: One Year Served!

It is hard to believe but we have completed one full year of missionary service!  We have eleven months to go.  Which is also unbelievable!

It has been a great year, with ups and downs like any other year.

Being about to serve the young missionaries and to work with the senior missionaries has been such a joy.  There have been so many different ways to serve, from answering the phone, greeting people in the office, transporting missionaries and others places, finding supplies, knitting hats, sending letters, making pretty colorful envelopes to send humdrum communications in, listening to concerns.  Just so much to do every day.  Just like everyone else where ever you are.

Some of the best times have been when we have gone to Zone Conferences and been spiritually lifted up high.  This last Zone Conference we were  instructed and edified by Elder Kevin Pearson, a member of the Seventy.  He is an amazing holy man.  He spent hours uplifting us and teaching us better ways to act and work.  We had the blessing to meet with him privately at the end of the day.  So sweet.

If anyone wants to get an idea of him, go to YouTube and put in Elder Pearson or Elder Kevin Pearson and you will be able to be instructed by him, too.  Some things might be new but many will just be purely uplifting.

One of the downs of the time passing is that when we left Vermont last July, I had some plans of what I wanted to accomplish while here.  Well, NOT EVEN ONE has been accomplished.  I have actually done other things, but writing The Country Wife Cookbook,  painting Christmas cards, and completing the adding of sources to each member of our family tree on FamilySearch for our direct line ancestors:  well, those are in the pig pile, I am sorry to say, of things that are still just good intentions.

Well, ten months to go.  Maybe....

On the other hand,  one good thing I have been doing is EVERY SINGLE DAY I am reading in the scriptures and listening for personal revelation, which occurs nearly every day on things both small and not so small but which blesses my life.  How I love our Heavenly Father and His kind blessings to me and all those around me.

May everyone who reads this find time to look to the Lord for His listening ear and personal revelation.