This has been a great and uneventful week for us. Our folders are in and we have been busy since they have arrived. I am not good at looking busy! I love the weekends but every Monday when we head back to work I am grateful because we have a job to do. The weather here has been lovely for this time of the year and although we have had rain several days this week the temperature has remained in the 50s. It is funny to see everyone all wrapped up right now but so far I have only worn a sweater. I suspect in just a few weeks I will be bemoaning the miserable cold and snow! After our trip to Pennsylvania last weekend we decided we would stay in town and it was a good thing that we did. Scott had some pretty bad vertigo and had to lay down several times during the day because his world was spinning. He seems better this morning but is still a little dizzy. While he rested I decided it was time for a good clean of the apartment so floors were mopped and vacuumed. The bathroom and kitchen were scrubbed and sanitized and the sheets on the bed were changed. Our Christmas wreath is on the door and we have a few decorations scattered throughout the apartment so we are ready for Santa to come! I am really looking forward to the Christmas devotional this afternoon.
This week we worked with the Sisters and Elders several times. We now have three sisters and two elders but they only have one car to share. This means that they have to arrange rides or walk on the days that the other set has the car. In a more localized ward that probably wouldn't be a big problem but here our ward is up to 40 miles in different directions. On Wednesday we drove the sisters to Andover (about 25 minutes away) to exchange missionaries. We got our sister back and gave the Lebanon sister back after they finished their exchanges in which they work with other missionaries and help them with the work. Our particular sister missionaries are the trainers for the district so this is done quite often. On Friday we drove the elders to Boscowen so they could share a message with a senior citizen who lives with his son and grandson and then we took them for dinner at the Gyrro House before driving them over to Pembroke for a teaching appointment. We dropped them off and then went and did some shopping at Walmart before going back to pick them up and bring them back home. It was a long day because we never came home until 8 p.m. that night. The upside to the elders was that when we got home they were there to carry in our groceries. It was a win-win! One of the things I enjoy so much about being around the missionaries is their enthusiasm for the work they do. Sister Davis was telling us about a visit with a less active member of the ward. She said she was so impressed with her companion who she said, "bore a wonderful testimony about the truth of the message they had shared," and when she finished the lady they were teaching stayed quiet for a while (which they thought was good) and then looked at them and said, "you know I think my counted cross stitch has to much yellow in it." Elder Hallstrom told the missionaries at a mission wide conference last year that if the missionaries have only one covert on their mission he wanted that convert to be them. Such wise counsel. This work isn't easy but these missionaries sure make it fun!
This is probably the shortest missionary moment I have shared but it does sum up our week. Next week we are heading to Maine and the following week we will be in Boston. There is never a dull moment when you are a missionary!
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