This week was filled with routine missionary agenda items.
We participated in several Mission Health Councils. They include the mission president and his wife, mission nurse, area medical advisor, area mental health advisor, and church family services. We attend the meeting from our apartment in a video conference call. I just love new technology! What would we do without it. We had to smile when one of the mission presidents thanked his mission nurse for teaching the missionaries to have grit when it comes to some of their minor health issues. She really has been a good nurse and has helped the missionaries become a little more medically self-reliant.
We served at the Mid-West Food Bank this week. During December we made twenty copies of the video, "The Christ Child: A Nativity Story" on thumb drives and gave them as gifts to the people that we have come to know and love at the Food Bank. We hoped they would feel the spirit of the message and also know that our church does believe in Christ. Jim sincerely thanked us for his copy of the video. We could tell that his heart had been touched. Wendy overheard our conversation and joined in by thanking us and also telling us how much she liked it. It was so nice to hear and know that they watched it. We were not sure how it would be received.
Billy (from the food bank) celebrated his 94th birthday this last week. He lifts and packs the food supplies just like everyone else and some of those items are heavy, especially the bottled drinks and spaghetti cases. He is amazing. He likes to always tell me that he is voting for me to become an elder. At first I tried to explain that the women in our church have lots of leadership opportunities without being "elders." Later on I made it a little simpler and just shrugged and said, "Billy, I don't want to be an elder." It's no use. His mind is set. Now I just smile at him and tell him, thank you. I hope that's okay.
We spent our Saturday at the Atlanta temple with the Reads and the Reids. Yes, the new mission secretary and financial clerk are the Reids from Lindon, Utah. In order to eliminate some confusion at the mission office where the Reads also serve as the car man and historian, we call the Reads, the "old Reads" and the Reids, the "new Reids; but the "old Reads" don't seem to like that. We'll have to figure something else out.
Sister Clayton suggested a senior sisters' night out this week. She and President Clayton were doing interviews nearby so she had some free evenings. We all piled into "Hoss." That is the name of our our twelve-seat mission van and Sister Clayton, who has always wanted to drive that big thing, drove us to the Salad Express and then to the movies. She even backed the van into a parking place which impressed us all very much. We watched Little Women and loved it. We giggled about the fact that of all the 40 or so people in the theater who were all women, we naturally sat together in a group in the middle. If men were attending a movie, I'm sure they would have been spread out all over the theater. :) I love being a sister in Zion!
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