I realize that I didn't blog about our Thanksgiving and it was so wonderful I need to share it.
I already told about the great Thanksgiving Branch dinner on Saturday. Then the night before Thanksgiving a sister in the branch came by our apartment to bring her son because he needed computer help from Glen to apply for college. It was 7:30p.m. by then so I asked the sister if she was ready for Thanksgiving. She said that she hadn't bought anything. So I told her that we had bought way too much stuff for our Thanksgiving dinner and we would like her to take it because it was extra. We gave her a turkey, rolls, potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Then as soon as she left we ran down to Costco to get the items we needed to feed the missionaries the next day. It happened so smoothly and quickly that I know Heavenly Father sent her to us.
Then on Thanksgiving day we had thirteen missionaries show up for dinner or dessert. That was so fun because two investigators came too! We have some boys that live in the apartment that connects to ours. They are here on football scholarships from Florida. Well, I felt for two weeks that we were supposed to invite them to Thanksgiving dinner. But everyone is much more private here in California so it wasn't easy to run into them. Two days before Thanksgiving there they were standing in the parking area! I had told Glen earlier about inviting them so he went right over to them and did it. And we even warned them ahead of time that although the missionaries were their age, they were nevertheless missionaries. But they said that was OK because they were religious, they were Baptists! It turned out great. They talked to missionaries that will be using their own football scholarships as soon as the missions are over. And they talked some religion. And two of the missionaries went by the next day and made an appointment to teach them.
We were really blessed at this Thanksgiving holiday time!
Thursday, December 12, 2013
A Day in the Life of....
Pick any day. Tuesday this week. We had to be down to Fresno (1 hour and 20 minutes) by 10:00a.m. to help with the Santa project. We have 300 missionaries in this mission and they were all going to get gift bags of treats. So Glen stuffed bags and Renee sewed buttons onto ear muff things for the sister missionaries. It was fun working with the other Senior missionaries and felt like Christmas.
Then we went and visited a Senior missionary that works in the mission office. He slipped on ice and fell and broke his hip. Yep right here in California! I thought I was going to get away from ice here. Anyway he is recovering but not going into the office this week is killing him!
Since we hadn't seen the Mitchells at church for three weeks we stopped at their house on the way home. It turns out that Martha's father had been ill and actually died on Sunday. They had just gotten back into town right before we came and so we talked a little about his death and more about life after death.We were also able to tell their Bishop and the ward, and the Bishop went by that night.
We got back in time to attend our second ward missionary committee meeting! The Branch President, missionaries, and branch leaders are attending and it is so exciting to see the potential growth from doing things the Lord's way!
However, at the meeting we learned of an investigating sister who lives in a studio apartment and her heater broke-five days ago! It gets down in the 20 degrees here at night (oh yeah, record cold wouldn't you know) and so Glen and I got a space heater and took it to her immediately!
Afterwards, we had to gas up the car since we went to Fresno Monday for the Senior Missionary Christmas dinner and Family Night (there are 15 couples in this mission) and we went Tues. and were going to go again Wed. for the Christmas zone conference with 220 of the missionaries in this area. While at the gas station Glen met a young man who he started talking to, showed him a Bible video (they are put out by the church and are absolutely fantastic and found at lds.org) and got his name and address to go by and teach more.
We got home at 11:00pm. That is a day in the life of these missionaries. And we love it.
Then we went and visited a Senior missionary that works in the mission office. He slipped on ice and fell and broke his hip. Yep right here in California! I thought I was going to get away from ice here. Anyway he is recovering but not going into the office this week is killing him!
Since we hadn't seen the Mitchells at church for three weeks we stopped at their house on the way home. It turns out that Martha's father had been ill and actually died on Sunday. They had just gotten back into town right before we came and so we talked a little about his death and more about life after death.We were also able to tell their Bishop and the ward, and the Bishop went by that night.
We got back in time to attend our second ward missionary committee meeting! The Branch President, missionaries, and branch leaders are attending and it is so exciting to see the potential growth from doing things the Lord's way!
However, at the meeting we learned of an investigating sister who lives in a studio apartment and her heater broke-five days ago! It gets down in the 20 degrees here at night (oh yeah, record cold wouldn't you know) and so Glen and I got a space heater and took it to her immediately!
Afterwards, we had to gas up the car since we went to Fresno Monday for the Senior Missionary Christmas dinner and Family Night (there are 15 couples in this mission) and we went Tues. and were going to go again Wed. for the Christmas zone conference with 220 of the missionaries in this area. While at the gas station Glen met a young man who he started talking to, showed him a Bible video (they are put out by the church and are absolutely fantastic and found at lds.org) and got his name and address to go by and teach more.
We got home at 11:00pm. That is a day in the life of these missionaries. And we love it.
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