Traffic Court

Thursday, September 4, 2014

We just talked with the missionaries who are replacing us and they will be arriving here in Sierra Vista sometime on Monday, September 22nd. We plan to spend Tuesday orienting them and then hope to get an early start on Wednesday heading homeward. They are planning to take some time on their way down to visit with relatives and that is the reason for our delayed departure date. We are fine with spending another week here, although RoLayne is really anxious to see and spend time with our new grand babies. We are actually excited to see everyone and hug all the grand kids.

We have been doing vehicle inspections this week. We went to Willcox yesterday to inspect the Saint David Zone vehicles. Today we did most of the Sierra Vista Zone and tomorrow we will travel to Bisbee and Douglas for the last two vehicles.

Yesterday, I received an interesting call from President Passey. He told me about a missionary who used to be in Sierra Vista who had a date in traffic court this morning. President Passey could not be here so he asked if I would go with the young man as a support and lend any assistance needed.  This young missionary is from New Zealand, is Samoan, (very laid back), but a very nice young man. For some reason, while he was in Sierra Vista and on splits, he was driving the missionary vehicle. They were pulled over for a burned out tail light. Not a problem, except, the missionary does not have a driver's license, in fact he had no ID on him. Being this close to the border, that is a bit of a problem. The officer kept the missionary in custody while his companion ran home, about two blocks, and got the missionary's passport. They then resolved the immigration issue, but today he had a court date for no driver's license. He was given 30 days to either get a driver's license or pay a fine of about $200. I asked the missionary as we were leaving the court house if he had learned any lessons regarding the law of obedience. He just smiled.

Apparently, President Passey was in court yesterday with another missionary for some kind of traffic issue. Pray for the mission presidents! I feel sorry for the poor mission president for the all the things has to deal with. It is really amazing with all these 18- 20 year old drivers out there that there are not more incidents. Since we started doing regular vehicle inspections, the care of vehicles has greatly improved.

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Today at our meeting on post, we had a very small attendance. Despite that, it was a very spiritual meeting.  A soldier that we have not seen often brought a non member battle buddy and he bore a very tender testimony.