missions

Welp, Grace has gone from her home MTC (missionary training center) days here at home to Austin, Texas, where she is on a steep learning curve but happy as can be. It is so strange to have her gone but it’s so good to know she is tucked safely into…

Isn’t life just filled right up with ends and beginnings? Over and over again? Hopefully we learn from all of them. As I type, Grace is flying through the air en route to Austin. We left for the airport at 5:15 this morning, had to turn around to get our…

Gosh life is coming at us fast these days! Things keep getting in the way of life slowing down but that’s ok. I loved this quote I heard in a meeting the other day: “Christ came not only to comfort the afflicted, but to afflict the comfortable.” What do you…

Welp, so far this little “home Missionary Training Center” isn’t so bad! There were lots of good questions about how this all works in my last post (back HERE), so I figured I better do a post about it now that we’re a week in. Grace was originally supposed to…

It’s strange how life morphs gradually into new phases. And after you’re there, sometimes it’s hard to even remember how it was before. Before that toddler could walk. Before the elementary school kids headed out the door and there are no more toddlers hanging on your legs. Before those children…

Well, we are finally here. Tonight is the night my girl gets set apart as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. That means she gets a special blessing to officially begin her work as a missionary. She will begin to wear her name tag as…

It is a beautiful thing for a mother to watch her child make big decisions. Especially when you get to observe them claim light and guidance from Above in the process. And recently Grace has made a pretty huge one. Well, I shouldn’t say “recently,” because this has been a…

We started our traditional “Thankful Tree” on the first FHE in November. It’s gradually gaining more and more gratitude leaves each day. Hopefully it will be all filled up like it was last year by Thanksgiving. Oh man I love November.  So much to be grateful for! So this Monday…

So my brother helped me figure out how to put Max’s Chinese audio here on the blog. Just had to share as we are waiting for his letter to come in tonight. Here he is: If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element…

I’m trying to do a “Missionary Monday” every now and then, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually written them on a Monday.  Ha!  I just want to label them this way so they are easy to find in the future. On Sunday we attended two missionary “homecomings” (where the…