Since my last blog not much special has happened, so I decided to just tell a little about things that have happened during the last few weeks.
Conference was of course wonderful. There were so many terrific talks, timely and meaningful. Do you have your favorites? I do, but they are too many to list, but I have a few. I especially love the phrase said by Elder Christofferson; that being reborn is a process not an event; Pres. Uchtorf, “Faith of our fathers, who are they? Also, Elder Bednar telling us young missionaries are full time teachers, we as members are full time finders. Finally, Elder Ballard’s remarks about “Women are beloved of God”, and that we (as women) need to recognize the moments of joy and find satisfaction in our lives, also to find time for ourselves. There was of course much more.
We had a wonderful experience last week walking on our way to work. We often see this older man who sells luggage on the street. He stopped us in our tracks, took Elder W. by his shoulders, and talked about how God has been so good to him and his family. We agreed and somewhat bore our testimony also. He is a good Catholic man who feels the same about the Savior that we do. His grandson is my special friend, David who is two years old. Many times each week I give David sugarless gum. It was a great way to start our workweek.
We were able to have a new young lady join our office. Her name is Paula. She needed to complete an internship for her college degree. Her Stake President works as the Human Resources Director in our office building. She is wonderful. She makes telephone calls and she is very good at it. We are thrilled to have her for a few months.
I am including a photo of our new couple. I have talked about them before, Elder and Hermana Ward. She is our Mission Nurse, and he is the financial secretary for the mission. They are wonderful people.
Conference was of course wonderful. There were so many terrific talks, timely and meaningful. Do you have your favorites? I do, but they are too many to list, but I have a few. I especially love the phrase said by Elder Christofferson; that being reborn is a process not an event; Pres. Uchtorf, “Faith of our fathers, who are they? Also, Elder Bednar telling us young missionaries are full time teachers, we as members are full time finders. Finally, Elder Ballard’s remarks about “Women are beloved of God”, and that we (as women) need to recognize the moments of joy and find satisfaction in our lives, also to find time for ourselves. There was of course much more.
We had a wonderful experience last week walking on our way to work. We often see this older man who sells luggage on the street. He stopped us in our tracks, took Elder W. by his shoulders, and talked about how God has been so good to him and his family. We agreed and somewhat bore our testimony also. He is a good Catholic man who feels the same about the Savior that we do. His grandson is my special friend, David who is two years old. Many times each week I give David sugarless gum. It was a great way to start our workweek.
We were able to have a new young lady join our office. Her name is Paula. She needed to complete an internship for her college degree. Her Stake President works as the Human Resources Director in our office building. She is wonderful. She makes telephone calls and she is very good at it. We are thrilled to have her for a few months.
I am including a photo of our new couple. I have talked about them before, Elder and Hermana Ward. She is our Mission Nurse, and he is the financial secretary for the mission. They are wonderful people.
We have had so much rain, I want my Las Vegas HEAT, I have been told about May the weather my get a little warmer, I am praying.Everywhere in Quito are young and sometimes old “shoe-shine boys” they are everywhere and in English say “shoe shine, si.” It is the only phrase they know in English.
We look each day for positive spiritual times to relish and share with each other and others too.
I need to share a scripture: It has been my favorite for a long time, but now it is more meaningful the longer we are here serving. 2 Nep. 31 & 32. I have underlined so much of it, but my very favorite is chap. 31 vs. 20 and where it says “ye” I have printed my own name. I find there is so much meat!!!!!!!
We were so blest to get a wonderful surprise from the Priests and Laurels in our 7 Hills Ward from Henderson Nev. They are a great group of young people. They have strong testimonies and we pray they will serve missions and hold callings in the future to show their strengths. They come from wonderful families. We were gratful they thought to send us this big card.
We were given ten more stakes this last week. That brings the total number of Stakes to 24 and 525 students. The financial reports alone are enough to keep me busy for two days each week, not to mentions my text messages, which I SO enjoy sending. I send birthday messages, thank them for making their payments, and also remind them not to forget to make their payments. Along with that, I also keep all the files updated and in the correct files.
Each day is a very, very busy day. Now that we have more, it will be even busier. Busy is good, especially away from family and friends. We love our work. Keep it coming, we can do it.
That's it for this time, until my next writing. Hermana W.
