President and Sister Dyches are such good friends. They always lift our spirits and help us want to be better. We love them.
Taking a break from working on the transfer board, Elder Christensen is working on President's back (too many pull-ups?).
Elder Leet and his wife came by. We had a wonderful visit, just too short.Happy 4th of July. I realize that it may be well past Independence Day when you read this, but we just returned from church and enjoyed singing various patriotic songs and are grateful for the many freedoms we enjoy in this great land. Perhaps the freedom we are most grateful for and focused on right now is the freedom of religion and all that means in helping people find their way back to our Heavenly Father. What a great land this is. I am thankful to our Heavenly Father who has given us such a great land to live in, and that we can live here the way we choose.
For a couple of days I worked with my assistants on transfers, zone conferences, and zone leader’s council. As always we had a calming feeling come over us and we received some specific direction to guide our thoughts and make the changes we felt the Lord would have us make. On the day when we had almost all of the transfer decisions made for next week, there was still one elder whose next area hadn’t been decided upon. I felt a need to keep him on the side lines until clear direction was given later. (As a side note we planned on having several missionaries serve in three-some companionships because next transfer we send home six more missionaries than we have coming in, and it didn’t make sense to open an area for six weeks and then close it when we lost those six. I thought we could just decide later to place him in another three-some.) That next day an elder needed to go home unexpectedly and this elder was able to transfer there a couple of weeks earlier than normal transfers. He was already in a threesome and it was very easy to move him right away. For me it was another sign that the Lord continues to direct this work.
This week we had the former Elder Leet and his wife come to our ward and then come by our home afterwards for lunch and a nice visit. They have been on a whirl wind tour through the area and we were grateful to see them for a few hours. It is great to see these young people grow, mature and make good decisions in their life. We know of one or more of our former missionaries coming through here over each of the next three weeks. We look forward to seeing all of them.
On Saturday Sister Macdonald and I were able to go to Portland and see the play, Lion King along with the mission president and his wife from the Oregon Portland Mission. We have grown to love those two so much and we enjoy any chance to be with them. Getting to know them is just one more of the many blessings we have received in coming to the Oregon Eugene Mission.
For a couple of days I worked with my assistants on transfers, zone conferences, and zone leader’s council. As always we had a calming feeling come over us and we received some specific direction to guide our thoughts and make the changes we felt the Lord would have us make. On the day when we had almost all of the transfer decisions made for next week, there was still one elder whose next area hadn’t been decided upon. I felt a need to keep him on the side lines until clear direction was given later. (As a side note we planned on having several missionaries serve in three-some companionships because next transfer we send home six more missionaries than we have coming in, and it didn’t make sense to open an area for six weeks and then close it when we lost those six. I thought we could just decide later to place him in another three-some.) That next day an elder needed to go home unexpectedly and this elder was able to transfer there a couple of weeks earlier than normal transfers. He was already in a threesome and it was very easy to move him right away. For me it was another sign that the Lord continues to direct this work.
This week we had the former Elder Leet and his wife come to our ward and then come by our home afterwards for lunch and a nice visit. They have been on a whirl wind tour through the area and we were grateful to see them for a few hours. It is great to see these young people grow, mature and make good decisions in their life. We know of one or more of our former missionaries coming through here over each of the next three weeks. We look forward to seeing all of them.
On Saturday Sister Macdonald and I were able to go to Portland and see the play, Lion King along with the mission president and his wife from the Oregon Portland Mission. We have grown to love those two so much and we enjoy any chance to be with them. Getting to know them is just one more of the many blessings we have received in coming to the Oregon Eugene Mission.
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