Children are an heritage of the Lord . . .Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. Psalm 127: 3-5
We are still experiencing mission firsts and imagine that will not come to an end until we have completed our mission. Although there is a six week cycle, very much driven by transfers of missionaries in and out of the mission, each six week cycle is different. Yesterday 21 missionaries departed for either home or to their originally assigned destination. On that same day we received 26 new missionaries, whom we will train tomorrow morning - no better way to spend a Thanksgiving Day! Last month, with the bathrooms finally completed, we had a mission first when four elders spent a couple nights at the mission home to facilitate training. We took the opportunity to take these missionaries on a morning jog up to Mount Helix by way of the "secret" path. On our way back down the mountain, an acquaintance asked if these four companion runners were our children. I explained that they were some of the missionaries we work with. After chatting a bit, as I ran to catch up with Norm a...