** DAY 42 -- Becoming One

Since I saved about forty minutes this morning shaving with a new razor, I arrived to work about an hour late.  Doesn't make sense does it?  The "rest of the story" is this:  I woke up at about 3 and couldn't go back to sleep.  I started pacing around the house, since our landlords, or my son and family are at a reunion in Idaho.  So I was pacing, thinking, praying and pondering for the next four hours.  Bonnie came out about 6:30 and we talked for another hour, about  mission, things, and such.  THEN I decided I ought to go to work.

I taught a conference talk yesterday to the Elders and High Priests.  It was a talk about how much our Father in Heaven loves us.  The presenter, (I forgot who it was) mentioned how when he married his wife, he was just in kindergarten in the education of love.  Now, after many years, he feels like he is in college in the love education.

I feel the same way. After forty years of married to my Sweet Bonnie, my love is galaxies beyond where it started forty years ago.  And I find that as we face the next 18 months together serving our Father in the Kingdom of our Savior, I find more and more deeper feelings for her, our love continues to grow, and it shall continue through the eternities.

I can envision  the next months the "work" in the kingdom we shall both do side by side, and I am so grateful for her and her abilities, her testimony, and her support and faith in me.  We are indeed becoming one flesh, more and more daily, and more and more as we plan and prepare for our mission to Dominican Republic.

It is such a joy to be excited about serving with her as missionaries in the Institutes and Seminaries in that country, working with the youth, sharing in their visions and excitement about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday Bonnie was leading the Primary and asked if anyone knew where we had been called to serve.  One young kid raised his hand and said,  "Some where Republican."  I guess that is right. At least in that child's mind, we will be serving the Republicans away from America.