Week 34

I guess the best news to report this week is that I'm still here and healthy! There really isn't much to say that hasn't been said a dozen different ways. Sorry!

I did start a fun new indexing project though. I had to get approved to join a project that the Church History Department is doing by indexing church census records. Apparently there are 4.5 million of them! So I guess it will take a while, but because of the sensitive nature of the records they don't open it up to everyone. This helps me to feel like I'm still contributing in a missionary sort of way because I can do my mission assignment in an hour or less most days.

I get out and go for a walk if the weather is nice, and it has been nice most of the week. Here are a couple of pictures of an empty City Creek Mall and Main Street. 

I do wear my mask to be obedient, but it steams up my glasses! So I put my glasses on top of my head. I could actually see better that way - then I realized that my glasses were quite smudged. 🙄

I had a sweet get-together with my cousins this week. It was so good to be able to hug Kathi - she's now virus-free and can't give it to anyone or get it from anyone. Doug (her brother) and Margaret came and we had lunch at Kathi's house. It was wonderful to be together and share memories of Bob as well as other family stories. She is doing remarkably well. I hope you'll all still be connected to your cousins when you're old like me! After the parents are gone, and even some of the cousins, it's good to have memories and family connections that can carry us through tough times and beyond the veil.

There were some pretty great scriptures to study this week for Come Follow Me! Don't we all just love King Benjamin? I had a lot of highlights in mine already, but here is one set I'll share today: 

Mosiah 2: 19-22

"...O how you ought to thank your heavenly King! I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another - I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another - I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants. And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you."

I'm so grateful for your righteous examples to me, and so very grateful that we're all healthy and safe. We have definitely been blessed, and I know we're protected when we keep the commandments!