** DAY 30 -- Miracles Keep Happening

Less than one month.  We will be full time missionaries.  Because of the work we have to do, it muddles the thoughts I have.  We have to purchase this and that.  We have to store this, repackage that.  We have to get rid of our car, etc.  Because my mind is filled with these things, it is hard to imagine being in Dominican Republic serving Our Savior full time, forgetting all these insignificant things.

I guess that is because I have an OLD mind and it doesn't work as it used to when I was much younger.  I used to be able to do four things at once, dream six dreams, and plan the ways to realize them, all at the same time.  Now, I am trying to plan how to do each thing each day, one at a time.

But when I do get a few minutes to think of the DR, and the things we will be doing, the packing, purchasing, and other things are stored in a room in my mind and I float above the DR country and imagine what we are going to be doing.

Bonnie is going to be involved in music, teaching, singing, and directing.  She is going to be loving and giving. I am going to be trying to fit 35 hours into each day doing the three different duties of the mission I mentioned a few days ago.  I would propose that there are probably going to be more than three, for there will be many others, so perhaps I will have to create a 50 hour day to get it all done.

Thursday night we sat with our future boss's wife.  She is here helping her daughter who just had a new grand-person.  (I am sure it was either a boy or girl, but I do not know which.)  She told us a lot about DR and the food, the people, the challenges, the driving, the heat, the bugs, etc.  It was a pleasant afternoon.

This afternoon, we will going to a reunion.  We will miss these activities while away, but will enjoy it while we are here.  A lot of what we have to do is spend sufficient time with our children and grand children.  (Perhaps they won't forget me that way, they will never forget Bonnie.)  That is also on our "required" list.

We are in the process of taking pills as a immunization for typhoid, which will last five years, two missions.
It is such a joy to hear Bonnie talking about our upcoming missions.  That is a blessing to my ears.  Miracles never cease.  She is going to love it so much, she may never want to come home.