April 10, 2016
Only 10 more days until my birthday!! I’ll be 37.
Weird because I don’t feel that old.
I don’t mind getting old, but I am not looking forward to the aches and
pains that often accompany old age.
This week has gone well. There are two particular things I would like
to record today. The first happened in
the Temple on Tuesday when I went to do sealings while Tilly was playing with
her friend Emma Wamsley. When I got to
the sealing office they decided to put me in a sealing session with a group
that was already in progress. As I was
waiting in the hallway waiting for the sealing in progress to finish up and the
door to open up, I imagined the people who were about to have their work done
waiting in a similar room in heaven. I
imagined that they would be very excited that it was almost there turn to have
their work done. I started to feel their
excitement. The rest of the session I
felt as if the spirits of those we were sealing were very close. It was a neat experience.
The second thing happened on Wednesday. While I was walking on the treadmill I
listened to some talks from the General Women’s broadcast. In Sister Burton’s talk “I
Was a Stranger”, she said, “‘What you
have done is a very good thing. Now go home, walk across the street, and serve
your neighbor!’” While listening to
that part I remembered that when I heard that part of the talk a couple weeks
ago I had the prompting that I should go over to the care home where Puring
used to live and visit with some of the residents there. I decided I would do it that day. Tilly and I went later that afternoon. After awkwardly visiting for about 10-15
minutes (I never know what to say or do while I’m there) Tilly and I left to go
home. One of the employees there walked
me out and she asked, “Are you LDS?” I
said yes. She told me that she was LDS
and wanted to go to church again. She
spoke mainly Spanish and asked if I knew of a Spanish branch very close since
she doesn’t have a car. Her brother who
works there came to talk to me too and help translate for her. He is also a member and speaks English
better. I told them the closest Spanish
branch I knew about was in Queen Creek, but that she was welcome to come to our
ward with our family. He couldn’t get
off work, but she had already arranged her schedule to get off. She was very excited. He said that she has missed church so much
and was just happy to go to take the sacrament even if she couldn’t understand
everything. I really felt that Heavenly
Father led me to that house to meet that Miguel and Norma.
I don’t not share these things to boast, I just
feel very excited to have been part of the Lord’s work and to feel Heavenly
Father directing me. Norma came to have
dinner with us last night. We were
supposed to feed the missionaries too, but they had to cancel. Norma let us know that she ended up having to
work today and couldn’t go to church with us, but she hopes to be able to go
next week.
Well other than that I only have a couple of other
things to report. Karalee got her ears
pierced. We got it done after women’s
conference on March 26th.
Heather and Braelee came with us. Karalee was pretty scared, but was
brave after her cousin Emma Plastow told her about her experience getting her
ear’s pierced.
This week I got my hair cut pretty short. It was getting so long and heavy. I haven’t had time to fix it and wear it down
but one or two times a month and with the hot weather coming on I knew that I
wouldn’t want to wear it down at all so I decided to chop it off. When I made that decision I wanted it done
that day so I ran over to great clips to get it cut. That wasn’t the best idea. There are a few spots that need to be fixed
because they look funky. Luckily when I
wear it curly you can’t tell. My friend
Carli Patterson will come and fix the parts they messed up on Wednesday
morning. I should have been patient and
waited for her in the first place.
I’ll conclude with another quote from Sister
Burton’s talk “I Was a Stranger”. “As we consider the ‘pressing calls’ of those
who need our help, let’s ask ourselves, ‘What if their story
were my story?’ May we then seek inspiration, act on impressions we
receive, and reach out in unity to help those in need as we are able and
inspired to do so.”
Love,
Mindy
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