No picnics, family gatherings, or fireworks for us. I worked today in the Brigham Young House, must have taken at least four groups of non-members through. I gave away two pass along cards, and my companion gave away a Book of Mormon to a woman whose son was a Methodist preacher! Wahoo! I also broke another rule today but in my defense, it was an instinct that I have refined to a science. Broken, rule #24!
Yes, I got to hold a real live baby!!!!! Oh. how I miss my grandchildren.
Richard brought home the mail today and I got two very sweet cards from sisters here in the mission. One is from my good friend (sister in another life) Jeanne Openshaw. She is so kind, I keep thinking she will get tired of me soon.
Another one was from a sister that is leaving this week! She has been one of my heroes here, always doing her best, smiling, acting and really contributing to the success of the shows in particular. She plays the piano for Rendezvous with vim and vigor. So I am documenting these here in the blog.
Tonight is our last show with the man that plays my “doctor.” He is really so much fun and I hate to see them go. I am trying to think of something cute to do during the show. I think that I am going to put a note under the chair that I pick up to hold him back with so that only he can see it. Wish I was much more creative but ……….
Another thought for the day. There is a man here that has Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is heart breaking. You can watch the effect that it is having on him. I think his doctor gave him 18 months to 2 years. He is the one responsible for my tomatoes! I served with his wife today and she talked about this mission being a gift to them! Who else would say that! In their 37 years of being married she says that they have lived basically parallel lives. He is an old farmer out of Cleveland, Utah. That is way outside of Price in the boonies. Here they get to be together quite a bit, here he has a mission full of friends and angels to support him in whatever may come. Here he has a chance to be surrounded by the Spirit on a daily basis. Here he has the opportunity to make us better people.The mission is moving them into a very nice house, garage, garage door opener, a house like you and I are used to, but that they have never had. You should hear them talk about how lucky and blessed they are. It would make you weep.
This is my little friend from Rigby, Idaho. She is the person that I have talked about earlier in my blog. She is 74 and her husband is 80. They are here on sheer grit and determination. She has had a very HARD life. It would also make you weep if you knew what all she has been through. She once told me that she had had a hard life but that was okay, the Lord knew what he was doing! We have been friends since the MTC. She struggles with Dyslexia. We have practiced dances together until she felt brave enough to go on stage. We have read and gotten scripts down, tonight I was teaching her how to crochet these necklaces that are so famous here in Nauvoo. If she has any trouble mechanically, Richard is the first one she calls. She was at our house using our phone to call her daughter to wish her Happy Birthday. Richard was fixing her phone at the time.
Notice I am in my moo-moo, I wasn’t expecting company.So we made a deal, she had crocheted me a collar, I finished her necklaces. Both happy!
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