We did a lot of walking today....this has been such a busy week that we didn't walk as much as usual and I have missed it. It just makes everything better to expend that energy, and around here it is particularly fun.
SK wore a scarf if that tells you anything. The giant thermometer on the side of a building registered 5 degrees below zero! ...centigrade. I know...that is not so impressive. I believe Salt Lake and Connecticut and Wyoming are a lot colder than we are, but we are cold enough. I think the computer registers the temperature here at 22 degrees F. The wind is ever with us though and that is a significant factor.
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| You may think these birds are walking on water, but in fact they are walking on ice, while their friend out front is swimming. This is the middle of the lake and I have no idea how or why this little slab of ice appeared. |
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| I also have no idea why they want to be ON the ice...don't they know it's cold out there! |
Plus, we are walking. We carry bags with us where ever we go to bring our purchases home in. So if we end up going inside of 9 different stores and make a purchase in 5 of them, that has to be carried with us everywhere. If we walk a mile and a half from home, then we have to carry our parcels with us a mile and a half to get home!
I haven't felt great this week. I have prayed asking for help and strength. The first time I prayed ... I looked up and a quote Lia sent to us came into focus:
It had great significance to me, and has been a comfort. I know that is a tender little mercy. I have also been reminded of a blessing I received several months ago. I was told that we would both be well and safe throughout our mission. I have great faith that it is true.
Our good friends the Hansens and Sister Swena and Sister Hamblin are also very encouraging and so dear.
I am grateful to be serving in this little corner of the Lord's vineyard. There is work to do everywhere and there are workers laboring away everywhere, but I am grateful to be here doing what we are doing. And I am grateful for all of the sweet help we receive in the form of prayers, letters and notes of encouragement, and wonderful little gifts like potato peelers, lemon zesters and packets of seasonings, and a crock pot. You are all so amazing and I appreciate and love you all so much!
But I feel bad that you are enriching the postal department so much! Your prayers, encouragement and love are what we most need and that is enough.
Sabbath tomorrow....have a beautiful day!
SO - you are NOT better! Slow down and get more rest, lots of liquid - and keep the good food going - AND - rely on the Lord!!!
ReplyDeleteWe had stake conference today and the new temple pres. and matron spoke. The mission pres. & wife also spoke (the Nattresses (sp).. Pres. Nattress gave a wonderful story about his great grandmother - the only one in her family to join the church - then came over to Garden City< Ut - all alone - and helped the local bishop with his 8 children. (His wife had passed away.). Then he married her - and they had 8 more children. He died right after the last was born. She later married a neighbor man who had 7 (8?) children and had lost his wife. They had 2 more children - and one of those two was his grandmother. He had such a sweet missionary spirit.
Another YOUNG sister (leaving for a Mex. mission in a month) told of her conversion. She is of Mexican descent & her family is all Catholic. She received a soccer scholarship to a school in Texas - had an injury- & decided to serve after she healed. She put her papers in, got her call, called her dad - and he told her not to come home. She has been dis-owned - but knows the church is true and still wants to serve. She went to Gilbert High - and never knew what a Mormon was - until one of her friends talked to her about it. She studied, went to church & activities - but when she asked her dad if she could be baptized - he said, "NO". When she came of age - she did it anyway. How strong is that? It happens a lot, I know.
Well - it was a good day! Prayers are still coming your way. Keep warm!! L&P
Great advice...and I am acting on it! I have a fresh burst of "can do" this evening, and will start being a little more responsible about all that.
ReplyDeleteYour stake conference sounded wonderful! But your stake president's great grandmother boggles my mind. She must have been amazing.
And the young sister of Mexican descent must be a very strong young woman...to have that kind of opposition would be so difficult.
Love you.