** DAY 29 --- That Was Easy

Before long I will be able to count on my fingers and toes how many days we will be "normal" people, how many days until we are "set apart" from most of the world and become full time missionaries.  It is exciting.

Yesterday, I had a visit from one of my ghosts.  (While working at my bowling alley in Brigham City before we moved to Utah Valley, we had "strange" ghost-like occurrences where things happened.  We attributed them to a ghost who we affectionately named Wanda.)  Well things have happened with no explanation and we just smile at the unseen .... whatever.... who does them.

We were at our storage unit.  Bonnie, Emily-one of my daughters, and I were struggling with this huge box that weighed at least three hundred tons.  We were trying to get it down off of a large pile of boxes.  We were all straining and grunting.  Right in the middle of almost getting it off the pile, we all three heard a voice saying, "That Was Easy."  We all started to laugh and couldn't continue in our work for about twenty minutes.  I had one of those little buttons long ago.  I don't know where it is, but Wanda pushed it yesterday at exactly the exact time that we were struggling with that box.

We got the box safely placed in one of the cars to transport it to the other storage unit.  I shook the box, lifted one end of it and dropped it, trying to make it say it again.  No dice.  I figured by doing that I may be able to get it pushed without Wanda, but I could not repeat that perfectly timed surprise.   But I guess Wanda had left and that was all we heard.  It was quite comical.  That Was Easy.

Yesterday, we went to a reunion again.  Bonnie and I spent our time "playing" with our grand kids, realizing that those types of experiences are limited. It was fun.  We had a great time, but as we realized that they would all be 18 months older, wiser, larger, and all, it was hard.  But we enjoyed it.

We also made a purchase of the some of the clothes we would need.  Then we figured that it is sure expensive to get ready to go on a mission.  We will have spent about 5-6,000 dollars just to get ready.  And that is after getting out of debt that we have been working on for three years.  Don't really know where it came from, other than more and more tender mercies, more blessing from Father, for He wants us down in the DR and we are getting ready to go.  Most of these "tender mercies" and miracles go un-noticed  unless one takes the time to consider, evaluate and carefully view them.  Father is sure good to us.