Yes,"...the tender mercies of the Lord" 1Nephi 1:20 are certainly present each day of our mission if we but take time to recognize these mini-miracles and thank our Heavenly Father. We know the same is true in each of your lives too, if you but recognize these blessings. We will share a few of [Read more...]
BABY BLESSING: We attend Campus 3rd Ward/married students. Our meeting times are Noon - 3pm. The first Sunday of each month is called FAST SUNDAY. Not because the church service goes fast or quickly but since we come to our Church Meeting fasting (read on). On the first Sunday of the month, if [Read more...]
TUESDAY MORNING DEVOTIONAL - January 20 at 11:00 am We walk along the outdoor covered hallways with Elder and Sister Bott (the missionary couple who are training us at BYUH) making our way to Cannon Activities Center. (This building was named after the first missionary who served in Hawaii, [Read more...]
OUR FOUR STAR* ACCOMODATIONS IN LAIE, HAWAII: Yes, our housing is four star* because-of our son Robb, his wife Kimberly, 5 yr old grandson Samuel and 2 yr old Henry!! We were invited to share their home when we were called to serve our mission. Most BYUH faculty are housed in university owned [Read more...]
Monday December 29 to Friday January 2: our days are long, full and we head to bed by 10:00 pm New Years Eve. We make memories with our distict of three couples and two single sisters; 86 senior missionaries in the big group. Learning to "tag" scriptures on our electronic devices, roleplay/teaching [Read more...]
Sunday, a wonderful "first" day at the MTC. Breakfast is followed by Sacrament Meeting at 8:15 am, all in the Wilford Woodruff Administration Building (19 buildings in complex). Walk to Lorenzo Snow mult-ipurpose building to view broadcast, "Music & the Spoken Word"; then Elder McCollum [Read more...]
Awake at 4:30 am; drove to Medford Oregon. As our luggage tag shows we left Medford Oregon ... Arrive in PDX - Portland. Then to YVR - Vancouver going through Canada Customs, enter USA immigration and get our passports stamped with R1 Religious Visa. Fly to SEA - Seattle. Flu to SLC [Read more...]
DECEMBER December 1-2: Drive to Kamloops; overnight at dear friends' Brian/Linda Arnold. Arrive in Calgary & sons Andrew and Brett unload our goods for storage at Glenda Nixon's home (J's sister). Dec 2-14: Thursday am we focus on getting our inoculations - three different locations [Read more...]
NOVEMBER MISSION PREPARATION: Free ourselves of most furniture & many of our worldly goods. Move out of rental complex in Abbotsford. Farewell dinners and goodbyes. Visit our children and grandchildren and extended family; have phone visits with distant family. Nov 13-15: Travel to [Read more...]
November News! The "official mission call" arrives Wed Nov 12th but we were not home to accept the delivery from Fed Ex. (Then we were away in Oregon for a few days.) Monday November 17 we were home and the envelope was in our hands. Finally, we were able to make the official announcement that [Read more...]