13 February 2014

But who's counting?  Grandma is!!!  16 Days (and counting)  until she faints in a heap at the airport with joy (gozo) oozing out of her soul, crying tears of gratitude.  Gratitude for returning to our wonderful family and friends. Gratitude for the glorious 18 months being a part of these special, wonderful people in the Dominican Republic.  

Word cannot adequately tell...   We are going to finish this chapter in our life and go into another one.  We know not what this new chapter will bring.  But we are ready.  

Brenda Benedict (a Relief Society President of ours long ago) once told me that near the release of a calling, often Father in Heaven blesses those being released with "bows."  Or in other words, frosting on the cake.  We are seeing bows and frosting in our mission. 

The director of the institute left for a week, and I was asked to teach his classes, or I was given the privilege of teaching more than I usually do each week. What a joy!  I am certainly going to miss the joy of studying and sharing gospel, scriptures, church history, lives of the prophets, and testimony.  What a blessing we have been given.  

There are many bows coming our way.  I am sure there will be many more bows before we start the next chapter of our life.  It is hard to believe that we have been here one year and a half, but it is not. Crazy huh?  (who's counting?)