Quotes of the Week

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take. Life is measured by the moments that take our breath away." 

 -- Hilary Cooper 

"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world." 

 -- Joseph Addison 

"Two things that could measure who we are: The way we manage when we have nothing, and the way we behave when we have everything." 

-- Author Unknown 

"The Eskimos have fifty-two words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love." 

 -- Margaret Atwood 

 

Quotes of the Week

"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer." 

 -- Ed Cunningham 

"We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity." 

-- Barbara de Angelis 

"When you are grateful -- when you can see what you have -- you unlock blessings to flow in your life." 

 -- Suze Orman 

"Don't give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down." 

-- Ann Landers 

 

Quotes of the Week

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me." 

 -- Jim Valvano 

"First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts - they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects." 

-- Kate del Castillo 

"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along." 

-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity." 

 -- Calvin Coolidge 

 

Our Mission Call Has Arrived!

As Glen and I were doing our usual chatting it up on FaceTime Monday evening, December 7th, I noticed a new email show up in my inbox with this subject line: Mission President Assignment Letter. That caught my attention! This is some of the information included in that email.

The next day I heard a delivery truck stop in front of our house and heard a knock at the door. I looked out the window and what did I see...?

The time had finally arrived for us to learn in what part of the world we will be serving for 3 years. But wait!! I was all alone. Glen was in Minnesota for the week. Ben and Haley were on their honeymoon all week. And our children had instructed us that we all had to be together for the opening of the mission call--just like how it was when the boys were opening their mission calls.

I informed the family our call had arrived and that I'd put it under the Christmas tree and we would open it on Christmas. (Haha!)

The honeymooners arrived safely home from Florida a day later than planned since they had missed their flight due to TSA taking forever to move them along in the security line. I was happy to see them and enjoyed watching them open up their stash of wedding gifts and cards.

Ben and Haley are living here until it is time for Ben's new job with Amazon to begin. They were thrilled to learn they got their first choice pick of Kent, Washington, and will move there once Ben's 7-week training course in California is completed. This all begins the second week in January.

I just love looking at the house all decorated for Christmas. One particular day something caught my eye.

Enough already with the waiting!!! It was time to find out where in the world we are going to be living come July 1, 2016!!

Sunday evening we gathered the group together with Jacob's family tuning in on FaceTime from Houston and Abe's family watching and listening from San Francisco.

 

 

Glen was totally shocked to read in the letter that the current mission president is someone he knows. The Kendricks used to live in Georgia. Hal and Glen worked together when Hal was in the stake YM presidency and Glen was the high councilman over the stake YM. Small world!!

We have both spent time on the phone talking individually with President and Sister Kendrick. One of the things she commented on was how beautiful the weather is in Carlsbad, California.

After getting such a major dump-on of snow earlier this week, her mission weather report made me awfully happy!!