Be Not Weary in Well Doing

"Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back the Lord comforted us... Alma 26:27
Sep 29, 2013

Yesterday, we were feeling rather discouraged.  But this morning we had a woman and a young man come to church we had been working with.  It was especially sweet to see Peter there.  He had been inactive for some time after coming home from his mission early.  He did attend the pageant this summer and on the bus on the way home he told me he felt the spirit again for the first time in a long time and he felt he should try to come back to church.  At first it was only YSA.  We visited him and told him how much the ward needed him and how we hoped he would return.  When he didn’t come to YSA the next week, we worried that we had offended him.  But seeing him here in church this morning is what makes serving a mission worth it.   I am thankful for the way the Lord is blessing the efforts of two weak and simple people.

            We visited with an elderly sister tonight.  She told us a story about when she was young during World War II.   She and her mother were caught in a bombing raid in Liverpool.  They hurried to get into a bomb shelter, but there was a problem.  There were two areas that had openings for only one person.  Ruth was hurried into one of the areas, but Ruth’s mother refused to enter a shelter without her daughter.  No amount of persuasion could get the mother into a shelter without her daughter.  Finally a woman hearing the problem that was occurring volunteered to take Ruth’s place in her area, so Ruth could join her mother in the shelter.   Just after the exchange was made there was a direct hit on the shelter the woman had volunteered to enter.  Everyone in the shelter was killed.  Ruth, said she never forgot this valiant woman who gave her life for her.  She promised herself at the age of 11 that she would always be someone who took care of people.  She started nursing at age 16 and worked at  until she was in her 80’s and her health gave out.

September 30, 2013

We spent the Preparation day cleaning and running errands.  We were frustrated this morning when we discovered we had no hot water to shower with.  Luckily, a repairman was able to come and fix it,  he also replaced the fan in my bathroom.  It smells cleaner in there now.  I had prayed that we could figure out how to get the smell of smoke out of the bathroom.  I am grateful for that blessing.

Friday night the sister in  our ward had a get together at a Carvery.  It is kind of like a Chuck-a-rama back home, but with much fewer choices of food.  We had a good time.  Elder Whitehead and the young elders were invited to dinner at a new converts house.   This kind man stuffed them full of good food.

I love this bouquet of flowers.  A kind lady in our ward invited us
to dinner last week and gave me these flowers as we were leaving.
It was very thoughtful of her.

Dinner at the Carvery.

It was a fun night for all who attended.