We are Grateful for Good Health

Craig was sick this week.  After several days of rest a prescription and a blessing,  he is starting to feel better.   It's extra hard to be sick on a mission, because he wanted to be serving.  At the end of the week we got to attend a senior couples dinner.  Everyone brought a salad and a dessert.  We had a lot of good food and it was so nice to visit with everyone.  We got to hear from the senior couple who served as the Missionaries for the pageant.  They were a couple from this area.  They told us of the many special experiences that occurred during the rehearsals and the performances.  We also met a new senior couple.  He has come to do legal work for the church and his wife is a double amputee.  It is a privilege  to meet such dedicated people.

The Senior Couples for the Manchester Mission
Center, is the Mission President and his wife.

We are helping to teach a man who will be baptized soon.  He is a very sweet humble person and very receptive to the Gospel.  He has dyslexia, so it is hard for him to read the scriptures.  He listens to them on CD's faithfully.  I offered to help him with his reading.  We read with him last week.  Writing is hard for him as well.  I suggested that he take some time to write more on a regular basis, because I was taught in my training as a reading teacher there is an important connection between reading and writing, and I always did writing with my students as part of their reading lesson.  I helped him write one sentence.  I could see that it was very stressful for him and I was afraid I had worn him out.  The next day when we went back to see him,  he told us he had something he wanted to show us.  He had written a two and a half page paper about his feelings about the church and the Savior.  It was coherent and meaningful.  He told us that after we left that night of his lesson, he couldn't sleep.  He felt he needed to follow my suggestion, so he stayed up for five hours writing his feelings.  He also said he had never written that much in his life.  We knew that it was a miracle for him.   It was great to see his accomplishment.