Here is a quote you may like: (actually I don’t know if I have shared it before, but will share now anyway because it is such a good one to keep in mind:)!
Life is what happens when we are making other plans. And the choice is pretty clean-cut. There are two paths: gratitude and despair. Whenever I start wandering off the gratitude path, despair is nipping at my heels relentlessly. ...Diane Hopkins
This woman was an inspiration to me many years ago as I was working on home-schooling, with its many trials and tribulations...and doubts at times. She is still an inspiration to me whenever I read her writings and I am grateful for the opportunity to have my life touched by hers.
OK... a quick review of the week past. Don’t remember much of Monday other than being busy as usual; Tuesday in the late afternoon we learned there would be 6 visa waiters joining our arriving missionaries this coming Wednesday - making a total of 35 elders and sisters in all. Plus we had a senior couple arrive a couple of days later. The numbers are growing amazingly. Lots of work in the office to try to keep up with it...plus I have been trying to make clearer the work that I do and divide it over the others in the office so my leaving this Tuesday will not be such a burden.
Wednesday we were privileged to take the missionary van to the Medford temple with the elders and sisters who are departing this week. The temple was wonderful; we had lunch afterwards at the home of Brother and Sister Wels, who served in the mission office until a few months ago - their home is just a short distance from the temple so that was amazingly convenient...and the food delicious! Then we had the task of driving back to Eugene, dropping off sisters and elders on the way. It was pretty late when we finally arrived home and we were genuinely tired. Really tired.
Thursday was Christi and Taylor’s birthdays...hoping that both of them had good days:). One (small to most people - but BIG to us) thing on Thursday was we were able to get the remaining boxes of pillows we needed for the arriving missionaries. We had been going to Wal Mart just before the arrival day and piling pillows into shopping carts, then purchasing them and taking them to the office. Since we have so many arriving this time I had the thought that Wal Mart probably gets those pillows in some kind of boxes - and I was right. We were able to get three boxes, 15 pillows each, and altogether they take up less space than the usual 12 to 15 we’ve been buying! Soooo much easier to deal with. But - you do have to be careful when you open the boxes, because the pillows start expanding upward:)! We’re just going to take them in the boxes on arrival day and hand them out from the boxes to the elders as they leave for their new assignments. I won’t get to see it this time since I will be at Emily’s...but I am so excited to have made this silly discovery:)!
Friday afternoon we learned of the formation of 58 new missions in the church, including an Oregon Salem mission which will definitely change our boundaries. It is an exciting time and will be fascinating to be a part of all the change. The new mission president won’t be starting until July so we will all have some time to figure this thing out. Friday evening we were privileged to go to a Harlem Globetrotters game here in Eugene, courtesy of Mary Elizabeth and her groupon expertise:)! It was a fun evening together and we had perfect seats. It was interesting to compare the evening to what we remember from a similar experience many years ago; they have obviously become much more adept at marketing and included a number of things not originally done:).
Yesterday and today, since we returned home from church, I’ve been trying very hard to figure out how to pack and leave things ready here for dad while I’m gone. For some reason I thought I was leaving around 6:30 in the evening on Tuesday, and was a little shocked when I found out dad was right and I am leaving at 1:15 instead. Shows how much I remember things...since I was the one who booked the reservation. Ah well, somehow it will all work out. We have to be at the office early tomorrow as Dad is picking up a van and will be driving back and forth for transfers. Hopefully I will be able to accomplish all I have hoped for at the office and then be able to pack tomorrow night. I would ask an interest in your prayers for all of this. Also a prayer for Eli, who has been sick (pneumonia) and Emily as she nears the final days of her pregnancy. May the Lord bless us all...I love you!
Oh yes...
Finally got some pictures from our Senior Saturday excursion...here they are for you to see. All are from our visit to the Clock Shop - a really cool place to visit! -, except for the fifth one down...that's us eating at the BBQ place:)!
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