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Things to be thankful for...
Dear friends and family,
Thankful! That’s the message of the season and I have truly felt it in abundance. Admittedly, we desperately missed our family, particularly our littlest ones this Thanksgiving but are so incredibly grateful to be serving a mission in this beautiful part of the world! This Thanksgiving I have found some new things to be grateful for:
· Sunrises on the red rocks, streets lined w/ 150 year old trees in full color and the glimmer of the temple just across the street from our
little home.
· $2.29 gas, $2.00 movies and a $500 rent payment J
· Letters from my grandkids, seeing my husband in a suit 6 days a week and diet Dr. Pepper on every menu
· Seeing the sunshine icon on my phone all 7 days of the week even in November!
· Tender, spirit filled teaching moments with young and old
· Our son, Billy’s, new job in Orem, Utah w/ Reflect Scientific
· No slugs, No rain, and No traffic still
· Great friends at home and new friends here in St. George
· Visits from friends and family who’ve come and are planning yet to come.
· Our parents who in part felt some confusion and trepidation at our leaving but ultimately have showered us with their love and support.
· Our 5 children and 14 grandchildren who I know are praying for us and loving us from a far.
· The best mission companion in the world, my dear husband, Denny.
Speaking of Denny…..our mission director gave Denny and I a public relations assignment to promote the resources available within the visitor’s Center to the wards and stakes within the temple district. Denny felt strongly that we should make a video to share in our presentations. The video he made turned out AMAZING! In fact, the director is using it himself as he travels around with similar assignments. He’s now asked Denny to make two more videos, one for Christmas and one specifically for the French tourists that come. The video is just under 4 minutes. I hope you’ll take a look at it. The family who acted for us has become close friends of ours. Amazingly the children’s comments are all spontaneous. I think you’ll really love it. Here it is!!!!
Pictures attached: We’ve given dozens of tours at this point to young and old but never been photographed. Elise Neville, the sweet granddaughter of Dale and Glenda Estes took this picture of me w/ some of her children at the Tabernacle and so I determined to take one of Denny today giving a tour at the pioneer home of Jacob Hamblin. The other two pictures are of our daughter, Rachael’s family who visited us right before Thanksgiving. We hiked Snow Canyon and then went to Glitter mountain and mined some Gypsum
