Twins.......Really?

Sunday, December 08, 2013

Well, those missionary blessings just keep coming to our family.  Recently, we were so pleased when our daughter Amy announced that she was engaged to be married. Blessing!  A couple of weeks ago, our daughter Kim was feeling ill, but that did not seem unusual because her kids were sick as well. Her illness seemed to linger beyond the short stomach flu that the children experienced so she eventually got checked out and to her amazement she discovered that she was pregnant with TWINS, yes TWINs. We are very excited. I think Kim may still be in shock, but the excitement will come. I guess she is due around the end of June next year. As I said, the missionary blessings just keep coming. I am not sure we were responsible for this, but we will take the credit.

This week we inspected the missionary apartments here in the zone. Sister Heninger gave them the “white glove” treatment. Other than the apartment that had raw sewage in the bathtub because of a recent clog, they were not terrible. Some were actually pretty good……the sisters. Most of the elders have a little work to do, but this was the first inspection for many of them so they now understand the expectations. This next week, a sister missionary is coming down from the mission office to train us on missionary car inspections. That will be our next task related to the missionaries.

We attended two baptisms yesterday. One was a lady about 70 who was baptized by her recently reactivated husband. I expect this was the first time he had exercised his priesthood in a while. It was very touching. She has had member friends for many years. Following her baptism, she bore a very sweet testimony. The ward support for her was incredible as well. The other person baptized was a 9 year old girl baptized by a very proud great grandfather. Her mother was recently reactivated as well.

Last night was the Christmas parade in Sierra Vista. It is really fun to be in a small town and see the town spirit here. The people are very friendly and seem to really like one another. The parade was an hour and 45 minutes long. I believe just about every organization and business in town was represented. After an hour and 15 minutes, RoLayne gave up because she was cold and went home

. The parade passes only about a block from our apartment, so it is an easy walk.

 

One of the unique parade floats

Today, we spent a wonderful day with our favorite soldiers. This is always a fun time and we enjoy talking with them and worshiping with them. They have their ups and downs as they proceed through the training. We have 5 or 6 new soldiers who really have brought a great spirit with them. One of the female soldiers brought a friend and afterwards, I heard her talking about the gospel. A couple of minutes later, she came and asked if I had a Book of Mormon, which she gave her. It was really neat to watch them interact and see the spirit touch her.

New soldiers, Two RMs surrounding our visitor 

More new soldiers, both RMs