Quotes of the Week

The Lord loves to be with us.
--Ronald A. Rasband

Someday, when the whole story of this and previous dispensations is told it will be filled with courageous stories of our women, of their wisdom and their devotion, their courage.
--Spencer. W. Kimball

The Lord promised peace to His disciples as He was about to leave them. He has made the same promise to us.
--Henry B. Eyring

On [God's] holy day, our thoughts, actions, and demeanor are signs we give to God and an indicator of our love for Him.
--David A. Bednar

Quotes of the Week

Remember, what you do, where you go, and what you see will shape who you become.
--Gary E. Stevenson

Our faith can reach beyond the limits of current reason.
--Rosemary M. Wixom

I love our Savior Jesus Christ. I marvel that He loved the Father and us enough to become our Savior and Redeemer.
--Stanley G. Ellis

Fear and faith cannot coexist in our hearts at the same time.
--Neil L. Andersen

Quotes of the Week

There is no middle ground. We are followers of Jesus Christ. Our citizenship is in His Church and His gospel, and we should not use a visa to visit Babylon or act like one on its citizens.
--Dallin H. Oaks

One cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God. Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.
--Thomas S. Monson

Faith never demands an answer to every question but seeks the assurance and courage to move forward.
--Neil L. Andersen

Blessing at the Foot Doctor; Transfer #17; New Missionary Training; MLC

It is surprising how quickly 3 weeks rolls around. I go in to the foot doctor on an average of every 3 weeks. Once again he shot up the neuroma stumps in my feet. He did one injection in the left foot and two in the right foot.

And as usual, my loving attentive husband is ignoring me as he puts all his efforts and energy into reading and answering the missionaries' letters on his iPad.

When we walked out into the lobby, what did we behold but the sight of two of our missionaries who were there waiting to be seen by the doctor.

It seemed a little ironic that they are companions who both have an ingrown toenail on their big toenail on their left foot.

Both of them. Same problem. Same toe. Same foot. How random!!

Turns out those two elders were our blessing from heaven at the moment we needed them.

We had taken our car into the shop and had gotten a shuttle ride to the foot doctor. Glen was going to call Uber to take us back after my appointment, and that's when we saw the missionaries.

Glen was perfectly happy to sit there answering letters while they went back and got their toes worked on and then they gave us a ride back to the Toyota dealership. It worked out magnificently well!! We felt very blessed!!

It was a busy day for us. Glen worked hard on his letters, but was unable to finish them all that day.

We were the entertaining MP and MPW that evening as five missionaries (plus the assistants) came over for dinner, testimony meeting and to spend the night.

Later that evening we had to drive to the airport to pick up this elder who had arrived in town from Switzerland. We had one other elder from Switzerland serving in our mission and turns out they are best friends. That's pretty random.

These two elders came over to pick up the new elder. He was hoping he would be able to sleep despite the big time difference between here and Switzerland.

The next morning we were up early to take the departing missionaries to the temple.

After the session, I had to take a picture of this young couple. She is the sister of Sister Langton, one of our missionaries. They are being good family members and not trying to hook up with Sister Langton while they are here on vacation. 

We were getting such a kick out of her because as soon as she started talking, she looked and sounded just like her sister.

Off to the airport we went to tell these missionaries good-bye.

Then we had a few hours to wait until our batch of incoming missionaries arrived. We went with the assistants to Tom Ham's Lighthouse Restaurant by the water.

We had our lunch out on the deck by the water. The servers are starting to recognize us now as we're there every 6 weeks like clockwork.

Instead of going to the library as we have done before to wait out the time, Glen and I went to Del Mar (the southern-most part of our mission) to meet up with some missionaries who needed to see Glen as soon as possible.

We got back to the airport in time to see these five new sister missionaries descending the escalator all eager to meet us.

Three of them are from the same stake and two of them are from the same ward.

When we arrived at the mission office, Sister Radford had their California burrito dinner all ready for them. Our new elder arrived shortly after so he could eat with them and get in on the interview with Glen and the training done by me and the office couples.

There have been some unique changes this transfer. Elder Lundquist (left) is the new assistant who will be companions with Elder Jordan (dark suit).

Elder Eddins (middle) is no longer an assistant. He will now be companions with Elder Hadfield (red tie) and Elder Hall (right).

These three are now the trio of traveling trainers. This whole transfer they will be traveling around the mission going on exchanges with missionaries. We want to capitalize on their expertise as older missionaries to help train and improve the skills of the newer missionaries. 

The day following transfers we took two missionaries to the airport. They had made some poor choices which resulted in their missions ending early. It is always heart-breaking for us when this happens.

On Thursday the new missionaries and their trainers came back to the mission office building where we did new missionary training with them.

During one part, Glen gives them an assignment and has them walk around the building as they work on the assignment. It is a bit of a wake-up exercise for them.

This particular day, our new assistant decided to walk them around the outside of the building a couple of times rather than walking them around the building. Why not!! It was a BEAUTIFUL day!!

 

 After their training, we fed them lunch--provided by Sister Radford again.

Today was Mission Leadership Council. President and Sister Treadway, recently called as MP and MPW to the Utah Orem Mission and will start serving July 1st, came to our meeting to see what MLC is all about.

It was a great meeting for them to attend. Sister Radford once again provided our meal for the meeting. 

After MLC we had a short meeting with the sister training leaders. 

We love all our leaders and appreciate their willingness to be leaders in the mission.

Date night followed MLC--which consisted of eating our favorite rib meal--and then we went to a baptism in Escondido. One of our former missionaries had flown into town for the baptism.