This is May 1st and I must get back to my blog -- don't you agree? I can't believe that it has been since December. Time is going so fast. I have a lot recorded in other places, But this is where I can share and remember and put with pictures. So shame on me!!!! I will do better and will take time here and there to RECONNECT WITH THE PAST -- and share that on here too. For in D.C. 21:1 it says....."there shall be a record kept among you...."
One of my assignments in the mission office is to go online to our JUSTSERVE website where service is needed in the community. I find opportunities for our missionaries and then assign them to companionships, districts and even a zone. It's a great thing and is bringing a burst of excitement and gratitude to our missionaries. And I love putting on my jeans and going out to serve with them. Some of the places are: food banks, pantries, the clothes closet for refugees, charity warehouses, helping abused women back on their feet with helping them put together new outfits, a senior citizen rehabilitation center, cleaning parks and trails and sooo much more. Twice a week our missionaries serve at the Heartland Hope Mission. This center provides many services for the less privileged. We serve in the food pantry and re-stock the food shelves, help unload the trucks, and help clients fill their food orders. This week were invited to a Fiesta volunteer luncheon and was recognized as LDS Missionaries volunteers. They love us there. Our missionaries also helped set up and take down on that event. Below are three pictures from that event.
Council Bluff Zone and Spanish Elders
Council Bluff Zone and Spanish Elders and Sisters
I drive around the city and surrounding cities of Omaha alot -- to service opportunities and teaching appointments. It is crazy. I still can't figure out the layout of this city. I sometimes can't tell north from south or east from west -- what's behind me or in front of me. Maybe in 10 more months I will have it all figured out. But for now I depend totally on my phone GPS. It is truly something that I am sooooo grateful for. It gets me where I need to go. A GPS tells you where to go and redirects you when you've turned wrong or are a wrong street.
This week I had to drive downtown -- 7:30am to the city storage shed to pick up equipment for two service projects for park clean-ups. The roads and interstates are absolutely busy that time of day. We all know that -- so are the freeways where you all live. Everyone is going to work. I have been down there once from my home. Still didn't know the way completely. But I wasn't worried, I have a GPS - right!!!!! So I got in my car, put the address into the CPS, from my saved list and this appeared 'NO ROUTE FOUND" -- "what????" I put it in three more times with the same message appearing "No route found". I was confused, worried, how was I going to get there without my trusted GPS. All of a sudden a warm, peaceful feeling surrounded me and I heard a small voice say "you need to trust me more". Seriously, that was absolutely correct. We depend way toooooo much on our modern devices and not enough on our Savior -- who wants so badly to help us find our way, wants so badly to help us, wants so badly for us to talk to him and trust him. I put my phone down and prayed for help and guidance to the city shed. I made it there without any problem --- before I left my car to meet Kaye to pick up the equipment, I thanked my Savior for his help and most of all for his reminder. Well finding the mission office is even harder for me that finding the city shed. There are several roads you have to turn on even before the interstate and then several interstate exchanges. I typed in the address guess what? --- you guessed it--ROUTE NOT FOUND -- unbelievable. So once again I told the Lord that he was in charge. And I made it to the mission office. The next day I used the GPS to get to a park for clean up. But leaving the park I needed to go to the mission office which was a totally different direction from when I went to the park. I didn't come from the mission office. I had no idea how to get back. I put the address in my GPS and the new message that I was becoming acquainted with popped up "NO ROUTE FOUND. Once again I turned to the Lord for his guidance and found my way to the office.
So what is my message --- what did I learn? We depend way tooo much on other things to help us along the paths of life. When waiting right by us is our Savior who wants so badly to guide us, to teach us to put of our trust in him. He is there to guide us.......he is there to teach us..... he is there to help us in any of our afflictions, worries or even just in the simple things. I am soooo grateful for his love, for his constant lessons to be learned and for his everyday miracles in my life.
"When you go to comfort and serve anyone for the Savior. He prepares the way before you."
Henry B. Eyring
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