¡Feliz Día del Padre! (Happy Father’s Day!)
We have both been blessed by excellent fathers and are
grateful for their wonderful examples to us. And we love to see our sons and
sons-in-law being awesome dads to our grandchildren!
We love seeing the missionaries and their apartments during
our cleaning checks and English tutoring calls. One companionship had come up
with a creative solution to solve the issue of not having enough storage and
kitchen prep space (see pic below).
Hopefully, we’re both done being sick for the year! Neither
of us got sick at all during the whole Covid lock-down time, but a nasty cold
circulated through our household last month and I (LeAnn) struggled with its
remnants all week. This is where doing everything remotely is awesome…we can’t
get anyone else sick, but can still “attend” all our meetings.
On Wednesday evening, we came home from the grocery store to
see a strange car in our driveway and thought we had a door-to-door salesperson
at our door…but…we were pleasantly surprised to see our former next door
neighbors from Idaho – Jennifer and Emily Griffin! They had been at a nearby
park and looked us up. It was so fun to talk with them and catch up for a bit.
I’m mad at myself for not taking a pic!
Well, we passed our four-month mark this week! Our mission
has been a very different experience than what we expected, but we are settling
into a good routine.
This morning while I was reading on the back porch, I heard
my grandson scream, “Mom!” I wasn’t sure where “Mom” was, so I decided to go
check what was going on. I came around the corner of the house to see him
standing frozen on a patch of weedy gravel. “I can’t step,” he cried, and when
I picked him up, I could see several prickly goat-heads stuck in his little bare
feet. In thinking about this experience, I remembered many of the times that I
found myself in situations where I needed help – from friends, family, doctors,
and others who could figuratively help me “pull the goat-heads out of my feet.”
We are especially thankful for our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate
healer. Gary E. Stevenson reminds us that,
“ … each of us is known by Him and under His kind watchcare.
When we confront life’s wind and rainstorms, sickness and injuries, the
Lord—our Shepherd, our Caregiver—will nourish us with love and kindness. He
will heal our hearts and restore our souls.”
¡Que tengan una semana
súper fantástica! (Have a super fantastic week!)
Love,
Lane & LeAnn
LeAnn teaching the weekly English class to the entire mission.
We both continue teaching English one-on-one separately with a few different missionaries.
