Sunday we met for the first time since transfers with our new district.
Elder Petersen on the right is the only carry-over from our old "District Three."
I have a feeling that this is going to be another incomparable District!
Elders Neil, Roberts, Shorthill and Petersen
Saturday Edgar was baptized!
Although it has been just two weeks since his own baptism,
Ashot was asked to speak and did an amazing job.
Sunday Elder Hatch confirmed Edgar, and helped ordain Ashot a priest.
At our Family Home Evening on Monday, Ani presented a beautiful and effective lesson
challanging each of us to discover our own recipe for happiness in the pages of the scriptures.
We spent some time on Tuesday with our good friend, Yana.
We talked of thoughts and ideas from the scriptures.
Yana leaned forward, drinking in the marvelous new ideas that Elder Hatch unrolled for her.
"My goal", she confided, "is to come to really KNOW the scriptures.
Sometimes I want it so badly that it feels like I am hungry . . . for more of those beautiful words."
Yana is reading them in Ukranian, Ani reads them in Armenian, Michael, Paul and Chede prefer English, and we are trying to read them in Russian. The familiar passages we have read many times before are beginning to glow with new, sometimes slightly different meaning when presented through this newly acquired vocabulary. It is an amazing experience to feel the expanse of God's children pull close into family; brothers and sisters drawn together via the vehicle of His word.
I do not get to visit your blog as often as I would like to and it is probably a good thing, both my heart and my eyes swell, fill up, and overflow from the strength of the Spirit that I am able to feel as I scroll through your posts. I enjoy seeing my beautiful mother, but I miss her more than I thought possible. Thank you for insisting on teaching by example and living the gospel. I love you even more for that. Thank you for your experiences, it is true we are strengthened through them. I love your scripture as it applies to us all. Hereunto ye were called... LOVE
ReplyDeleteI have no question you are supposed to be there, right now, reading and testifying and administering and nurturing and carrying upon your shoulders.... NO QUESTION. Your blog posts always confirm that. I mean, the Spirit your posts relay, the Holy Spirit, confirms that.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think Christ has no question about it, either. He knew what the exact circumstances in both places were likely to be, " who leaveth father mother, (children, barns) for my sake..." And he promises BLESSINGS upon both... in EVERY omniscient- intimately known, felt, suffered and empathized- circumstance.
Now my only problem is that both T. and J. have a growing conviction to learn Russian instead of the heretofore planned Spanish for their BYU 2 year language requirement. Now how are we going to do that!
wow . . . I must agree with the two previous comments but I am glad that I read every blog post - it strengthens me. I also LOVE the image of finding my own recipe in the pages of the scriptures!
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