Week 24 - A Quiet, Peaceful Week
Dear Children, Grandchildren, Family and Friends,
We are certainly feeling the end of our mission. This weekend has been glorious with Conference. It is so amazing to realize that just 6 months ago at the April Conference we were anxiously anticipating leaving on our mission, not knowing what to expect but excited to begin. Now, we are at another Conference having completed over 5 months of our mission and looking back on the wonderful experiences we have had with joy and gratitude for being able to serve. This last month of our mission will be a time of reflection and looking forward to what the Lord wants us to do next. We love our service here and in so many ways are not ready to leave yet. We miss all of you, though, so it is with bittersweet feelings that we see the end of our time here.
I love this picture of a cloud that we took going to the grocery store one evening. It is kind of like our lives in a way. Single events can be dark, stormy and threatening on the surface but as we rise above the trials, we encounter the beauty and sunlight found in seeking our Father in His heavenly home. We emerge into the light of the Spirit!!
This week we were back in our temple and soooooo glad to be there. On Monday, we puttered around all day and then went to a great FHE. Dad told about a lot of it but one thing that really touched me was that Emma was the first sister in this dispensation to receive her temple endowment from the Prophet. Every other sister has received her endowment from a sister that can trace her reception of those ordinances back to Emma if a record were even kept of that. That filled me with so much love for her, gratitude at the great blessings I have been given and humility as I think of the responsibility I have.
On Tuesday, we couldn’t wait for our scheduled shift on Wednesday so we did an endowment session as patrons in the afternoon after we did our P-day stuff of laundry, cleaning and shopping. It was wonderful to be back in the temple!!
Our shifts this week have been sweet!! Quiet, normal service; nothing spectacular to report. I did do the work for Dad’s 3rd great grandmother and a great, great aunt and we did the sealings. There was a sweet feeling of joy there.
We have been doing quite a bit of family history…not so much research as finding who has roots here in New York. It has been so fun to find out where they lived and to have seen many of the places. We have visited several and are planning a trip this coming Thursday to visit some more cemeteries. We will share our findings with you next week.
On Thursday, we went to visit the Corning Museum of Glass with the group and it was fun. Very interesting to see the things they can do with glass. Here are a few pics that Dad didn’t share.
Interesting....a city scene is around the top complete with tiny windows on the buildings.
Beautiful
All done with tubes of glass
Each fruit is blown. After watching the glass blowing demo, it made these things that much more amazing!!!
I guess you can call anything art. These "trees" were made by putting different colored glass glasses on shelves....really?!? They are all old discarded glasses...some of them I recognized as ones like those that met their demise at the hands of my darling children!!
Well, dear ones, it was a rather uneventful week but quiet and peaceful. I love you all so much and are so grateful for your faithfulness!! If I could offer any counsel it would be to immerse yourselves in the Book of Mormon and to always be found in Holy Places: your homes, churches and the temple. Remember that you can carry a “holy place” with you as you keep the Holy Ghost with you. Remember also that the Lord knows and loves each of you dearly!!!!
Love you and miss you!!
Mom/Grandma/Sandy oxoxoxoxoxoox
We are certainly feeling the end of our mission. This weekend has been glorious with Conference. It is so amazing to realize that just 6 months ago at the April Conference we were anxiously anticipating leaving on our mission, not knowing what to expect but excited to begin. Now, we are at another Conference having completed over 5 months of our mission and looking back on the wonderful experiences we have had with joy and gratitude for being able to serve. This last month of our mission will be a time of reflection and looking forward to what the Lord wants us to do next. We love our service here and in so many ways are not ready to leave yet. We miss all of you, though, so it is with bittersweet feelings that we see the end of our time here.
This week we were back in our temple and soooooo glad to be there. On Monday, we puttered around all day and then went to a great FHE. Dad told about a lot of it but one thing that really touched me was that Emma was the first sister in this dispensation to receive her temple endowment from the Prophet. Every other sister has received her endowment from a sister that can trace her reception of those ordinances back to Emma if a record were even kept of that. That filled me with so much love for her, gratitude at the great blessings I have been given and humility as I think of the responsibility I have.
On Tuesday, we couldn’t wait for our scheduled shift on Wednesday so we did an endowment session as patrons in the afternoon after we did our P-day stuff of laundry, cleaning and shopping. It was wonderful to be back in the temple!!
Our shifts this week have been sweet!! Quiet, normal service; nothing spectacular to report. I did do the work for Dad’s 3rd great grandmother and a great, great aunt and we did the sealings. There was a sweet feeling of joy there.
We have been doing quite a bit of family history…not so much research as finding who has roots here in New York. It has been so fun to find out where they lived and to have seen many of the places. We have visited several and are planning a trip this coming Thursday to visit some more cemeteries. We will share our findings with you next week.
On Thursday, we went to visit the Corning Museum of Glass with the group and it was fun. Very interesting to see the things they can do with glass. Here are a few pics that Dad didn’t share.
Well, dear ones, it was a rather uneventful week but quiet and peaceful. I love you all so much and are so grateful for your faithfulness!! If I could offer any counsel it would be to immerse yourselves in the Book of Mormon and to always be found in Holy Places: your homes, churches and the temple. Remember that you can carry a “holy place” with you as you keep the Holy Ghost with you. Remember also that the Lord knows and loves each of you dearly!!!!
Love you and miss you!!
Mom/Grandma/Sandy oxoxoxoxoxoox
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