I don't walk anywhere NEAR as many km as our young missionaries, but still, I have missionary soles. I have NO IDEA why my right shoes wear out faster than my left ones. Must be the way I walk.
One of our missionary's dad's wrote some new verses to this hymn. I love them! And I love this missionary. He's our current district leader and I've known him for over a year. I've watched him grow which is one of my favorite things about being a senior missionary. He also has this contagious sense of fun that blesses everyone he's around!
I had an interesting thought while listening to a talk by Boyd K Packer this past week called "The Least of These". In Doctrine and Covenants 117:13, the Lord says in reference to Oliver Granger "for his sacrifice shall be more sacred unto me than his increase." Oliver was to stay behind when the saints left Nauvoo and try to sell whatever he could that belonged to the church. He was largely unsuccessful but it wasn't his fault.
I estimate that by the end of my mission I will have spent about 2800 hours sitting in "that chair" at my work station in the archives building. I am also shooting for a very big number of clicks by the end of my mission. It sounds to me like the Lord considers my 2800 hours in the chair (which HAS been a sacrifice for me) to be more sacred than my number of clicks.
And if I expected to be bored every hour of my mission but I have been bored only ONE of those 2800 hours, what do you call that?? I call that a miracle because I cannot explain it any other way. And I am grateful for this miracle. I still don't like clicking and I doubt I ever will. But I have been content during those 2800 hours and for that I am very grateful to my Father in Heaven.
Canada culture. . .
Maple flavored Oreos??? I doubt I'll be seeing any of these in Utah. Maybe Vermont, but not Utah. Or do they only exist in Canada?
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