Week 25 - What next?!?
Dearest Children, Grandchildren, Family and Friends!!
It has been a good week…busy and tiring….but good!! As the time grows short for our mission and I see the end coming so fast, I have been filled with sadness, even while I have the desire to enjoy every last second that I have left. One thought that has been filling our minds is what we will be doing next. The desire to serve and to be useful is so strong!!! I had an interesting experience on Sunday night. My mind was filled with these thoughts as well as the wonderful Spirit from Conference. I went to bed thinking that we would be in the Temple the next morning and was excited for that. Sometime early in the morning I had a dream. What was unusual about this dream is that I rarely remember dreams beyond a few moments after waking and this one I still remember in great detail. It felt totally different. It was so real that the moment I awoke I felt I should pray for the family in the dream that they would understand and accept the truth. My next thought was, “Oh, it was just a dream.” But then I started thinking about what had just happened in my dream and I felt that I had been given several messages. I was worried that it would leave my memory but the Spirit whispered to me to go back to sleep and that I would remember it in the morning. I fell immediately asleep and as soon as I awoke in the morning, I told Richard that I had to go record the dream before it left me. I wrote down the dream in my journal and then prayed that the Lord would help me understand what He was trying to teach me. I know there are still many things I need to figure out but one thing that is very clear to me is that I can serve without being a full-time missionary. These thoughts continued on Tuesday morning. Things were so peaceful in our little home…the music was playing and both of us were doing our personal study….we had already done our companion study. I mentioned to Richard how I felt and that I wanted to continue to feel this and do these things when we get home and the world crowds in. We made a commitment that we would continue our consecrated service when we came home, complete with continuing our companion and personal study, and strive to have the Spirit in our home at all times.
We had a wonderful FHE Monday night, but Dad is talking about that.
This week in the Temple has been very sweet. I love serving there. I know I say that about every week but it is so true. It is a place where I can truly love people….the patrons and the other workers….and can further the work of the Lord through the service I render. I have such a testimony of the work done within those sacred walls.
Thursday, we went to the Lewiston Mound and Dad will talk about that.
Today, we went to find Grandma Roxie Frink. She is my 3rd great grandmother and she married Gilbert Frink. She is buried in DeRuyter, NY. We finally found the Frink plots after tramping around for about an hour AND after Richard prayed to find her. I had been praying as well, but I didn't have the program on my phone that he did so the Spirit told him what to do. We couldn’t find her headstone but there were two that were broken off in the area that the register said she was buried in, so hers is probably one of those. I was a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find her headstone but I felt close to her and I know that was Heavenly Father's answer to my prayer to find her.
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It is beautiful farmland there, just like the other places in New York that my ancestors settled.
Sorry it's blurred. I had Dad take three pics to make sure I would get one not blurred.....sigh.....
Lots of cousins there!!!
Well, it is late and I am tired. Until next week, my dear ones….
Love you and miss you!!!
Mom/Grandma/Sandy oxoxoxooxoxox
It has been a good week…busy and tiring….but good!! As the time grows short for our mission and I see the end coming so fast, I have been filled with sadness, even while I have the desire to enjoy every last second that I have left. One thought that has been filling our minds is what we will be doing next. The desire to serve and to be useful is so strong!!! I had an interesting experience on Sunday night. My mind was filled with these thoughts as well as the wonderful Spirit from Conference. I went to bed thinking that we would be in the Temple the next morning and was excited for that. Sometime early in the morning I had a dream. What was unusual about this dream is that I rarely remember dreams beyond a few moments after waking and this one I still remember in great detail. It felt totally different. It was so real that the moment I awoke I felt I should pray for the family in the dream that they would understand and accept the truth. My next thought was, “Oh, it was just a dream.” But then I started thinking about what had just happened in my dream and I felt that I had been given several messages. I was worried that it would leave my memory but the Spirit whispered to me to go back to sleep and that I would remember it in the morning. I fell immediately asleep and as soon as I awoke in the morning, I told Richard that I had to go record the dream before it left me. I wrote down the dream in my journal and then prayed that the Lord would help me understand what He was trying to teach me. I know there are still many things I need to figure out but one thing that is very clear to me is that I can serve without being a full-time missionary. These thoughts continued on Tuesday morning. Things were so peaceful in our little home…the music was playing and both of us were doing our personal study….we had already done our companion study. I mentioned to Richard how I felt and that I wanted to continue to feel this and do these things when we get home and the world crowds in. We made a commitment that we would continue our consecrated service when we came home, complete with continuing our companion and personal study, and strive to have the Spirit in our home at all times.
We had a wonderful FHE Monday night, but Dad is talking about that.
This week in the Temple has been very sweet. I love serving there. I know I say that about every week but it is so true. It is a place where I can truly love people….the patrons and the other workers….and can further the work of the Lord through the service I render. I have such a testimony of the work done within those sacred walls.
Thursday, we went to the Lewiston Mound and Dad will talk about that.
Today, we went to find Grandma Roxie Frink. She is my 3rd great grandmother and she married Gilbert Frink. She is buried in DeRuyter, NY. We finally found the Frink plots after tramping around for about an hour AND after Richard prayed to find her. I had been praying as well, but I didn't have the program on my phone that he did so the Spirit told him what to do. We couldn’t find her headstone but there were two that were broken off in the area that the register said she was buried in, so hers is probably one of those. I was a bit disappointed that we couldn’t find her headstone but I felt close to her and I know that was Heavenly Father's answer to my prayer to find her.
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Love you and miss you!!!
Mom/Grandma/Sandy oxoxoxooxoxox
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