It has been a crazy busy week! I was still working on tasks Friday that I had saved from Monday. We have been getting couples from missions in different areas of Asia (and soon one from Italy). Those coming back from missions have been isolated for at least two weeks. Some find out in the MTC that they can't go to their assignment; others get a little more advance notice. I'm making files and adding to the spreadsheets and databases. The one who is really struggling is the housing coordinator who is working with the missionary department to find housing for them all. So far we're all healthy here and taking extra precautions to stay that way!
Pictures for the week:
Some pretty cool ones of the construction zone - The bare place where the south visitor's center used to be. You can see the doors to some tunnel under the sidewalk.
The door of the temple being removed by about eight workers.
And the beginnings of the 40-foot-deep trench being dug around the temple.
The other pictures are of the swap meet that is held in the parking lot once a month. It's where departing missionaries can get rid of all the stuff they don't want to take home, and the new missionaries can pick up treasures they didn't bring with them. It's pretty fun, but mostly a miniature version of DI. I picked up a new puzzle. 😊
I've mentioned my mission president before. He's an amazing man, and I don't want to sound unkind or ungrateful, but he really is mostly focused on the young elders. Rightly so, I guess. They really need him to be. Every week there is a newsletter for the missionaries with an article from one of the presidency or their wives, plus other inspirational messages from missionaries and other news. I just have to share these paragraphs from the president. They are good for us all. He wrote:
"I shared with our young elders the final words my father-in-law [Bruce R. McConkie] ever spoke in mortality. As he was dying of liver cancer, the last thing he ever said was the simple direction to his family 'Carry On.' The older I get, the more I think I understand what he meant. We must never, ever weary by the way. In one of Joseph Smith’s great inspired contributions to the Bible, we read: 'And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Wherefore, settle this in your hearts that ye will do the things which I shall teach, and command you' (JST Luke 14:27 additions in italics). We should have settled it in our minds and hearts that we will carry on and do the things the Lord expects.
"We do the best we can, and somehow, sometime, the Lord will make up for all that is unfair, all that is difficult, all that is painful, all that beats upon us and tears us down. The adversities and trials of a mortal existence will in due course give us powerful perspective in our eternal journey and our sorrows will be swallowed up in the joy of Christ. All that the fall of Adam makes wrong, the Atonement of Jesus Christ will make right. The doctrine of compensation will be invoked, and the Lord in a coming day will make recompense for all. As long as we can carry on, strive to continue true and faithful, do our duty, serve the Lord and endure to the end, we can be at peace, and put our confidence and hope in the Lord that all will be well in the end."
The Lord will know that we are doing our best if we truly do our best. That's all He expects - One Day at a Time - Carry on. ❤
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