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.