The last of May has come and gone. Way too
fast. I was reading in Jacob 7:26 where Jacob has grown old and he is
reflecting on having kept the record on the plates. He finishes his writing
declaring that he’s done the best he can, and “the time has passed away with
us, and also our lives have passed away like as it were unto us a dream.” That’s
the way I feel, the time is passing us by and we look back as if it were a
dream, wondering how it could get away from us without us realizing it until we
look back. When I compare my time on this earth relative to a hundred years, I
realize I am over half-way there (3/5’s to be more exact). Yet, this is but a
short time in the eternities.
On the 27th of May, we went for Zone
training to the Elkhorn building. It was a nice building (we had been there
before), and we enjoyed meeting with the Elders. We went to talk
about the Pathway program to the Elders and how to encourage them to go out and
talk to their inactives, prospective Elders, and others who want to go back to
college. We are pushing the program big time. We were supposed to have 15
minutes during lunch, but President Cutler forgot and then when we started
talking, he interrupted us and cut us off.
Hahaha Wow, talk about getting
our words out. He finished explaining the program and started getting the
Elders out of the gym and back to their meeting. We didn’t see any reason to
hang around and had a meeting with Denise later that afternoon so decided to go
home. It wasn’t until we got home that Denise texted us that she could not
meet. It’s becoming a pattern.
The next day we got to go to the gym, and then
prepared some things for the Pathway program and for the Polish Festival.
Pathway that night was an interesting program, and these students are really
getting into the writing.
On Friday, we had missionaries in the genealogy
library again, teaching them the basics of Family Search so they could help us
at Polish Festival. All of them have their own accounts, but they have never
really paid much attention to them. It is interesting to listen to them as they
explored their family trees to see who their relatives were and what they could
find out about those relatives.
We were off to the Milwaukee Genealogical
Society meeting downtown to talk about the German Festival coming up. We were a
little early so we had time to ask where the meeting would be held.
Unfortunately, it was the week before. Don’t I hate it when that happens. Haha
The next day was rainy, rainy, rainy, and cold.
We had lunch downtown with Cyndi Duran and the missionaries. She had an
investigator, Janice Price, there. Cyndi is a fabulous missionary. Everyone she
meets, she invites to Church or to talk with the missionaries. Janice is a
unique person. She cleans the building where Cyndi works. We had a great lunch
with them, and Janice has a lot of questions. She has a felony on her record,
and she may not be able to get baptized until she has that cleared up.
Sunday found us back at Parkway. Sometimes I
feel we don’t really have a home unit. I don’t know many of the Sisters, and
they don’t know me. It just isn’t the same as having my own ward. But, they are
good women, and there are some really good leaders among them. There are also
some really good teachers, and I could listen to them all day long.
On Monday, we had to go to Jane Orne’s home to
do some finalizing of the plans for the festival. It looks like everything is
set. We will spend a morning cutting some sheets apart as handouts. Jane has to
copy them first. The video is ready, we even have a new monitor to show it on.
Tuesday morning, Craig had an appointment with
a dermatologist. He had two really ugly places on his back that I saw one
morning several weeks back. I had never noticed them before, and they concerned
both of us. Dr. Lefeber was really a good doctor. He reassured us that the
places where fine. He did remove two spots on his left hand, but other than
that it was all good. He told Craig to go back to Head and Shoulders for his dandruff
and dry skin. He had quit using that years ago because it had dried his skin
out. The doctor said the reason he had dandruff like he does is because his
skin is oily. We just looked at him. He was not afraid to talk about is faith,
and his reliance on the Lord. It is so refreshing to find someone like that in
today’s world.
That afternoon we had to go pick Victor up from
work because he was not feeling good. We missed our District Meeting because of
it. We are really glad we can help him, but worry for the time when we will no
longer be around to do things like this for him.
Our scripture for June is Doctrine and
Covenants 59:9-10 -
And
that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt
go
to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day;
For
verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay
thy
Devotions
unto the Most High;
Elder and
Sister Lenhard
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