There are missions in Latvia and in other areas in the African area. I heard this morning of a mission where every city gets four missionaries. Two to track and two to find. They trade off responsibilities every day. One day one couple tracts out interested people to hear the gospel, or activation of members who are not going to church. The other couple of missionaries has the responsibilities of finding food. They spend the whole day searching for the food for the day. It is available, but must be found. It is expensive, but the alternative is not eating.
THAT would be a very interesting mission. Another mission I heard about today is one in a country where they just opened the country to missionary work. You can imagine how difficult it would be to try to get the populace to want to hear the gospel when they have never heard of anything about Christ. Fun. It would be an "interesting" mission.
So many ask where we want to go. Don't know if my companion would love to be in a place where we had to search for tomorrow's and even today's food. But we both still feel we will go where the Lord needs us, even to Africa or anywhere.
Speaking of my companion, today is the day when we should pause and consider our sweetheart. I do that often. She does so many things for me daily, especially things that I do not know about, or I choose not to know about them. I mean there seems always to be clothes in my closet and drawer. I choose to assume that they wash themselves, fold themselves and appear in my top drawer all the time. I choose to assume that the bed makes itself, and my food appears magically.
Too often the things that she does are taken for granted and seldom do I offer appreciation for her sacrifice in my behalf. Often when we pray with each other, I offer gratitude to Father for all she does for me, but if I specified all the things she does, I would be praying for many hours, like Enos of the Book of Mormon. Maybe I ought to be more appreciative and offer that appreciation to her. Another goal, right?
Happy Valentines Day my sweet companion.
Happy Valentine's Day to you too, sweet Billy! I am looking forward to 18 months of full-time missionary service with you! Finding food each day would be a great adventure! Maybe we'd shrink our waistlines...hmmm...when do we leave?
ReplyDeleteAre you suggesting that I need to shrink my wasteline, or waistline? I agree, guess, but I may kill the fatted cake? Or the over weight pumpkin pie, or the fruit cake, or the snake lizard goblets? Whow knows? But I am excited also, 18 months for looking for food, or maybe better said, feeling others Eternal Food!
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