On Our Own. Our Trainers Are Leaving!

Our trainers, Elder and Sister Record, left today to return to Ogden, Utah.  Now we are on our own! However, in going about the Lord's missionary work we know we are not alone. We have already experienced the Lord's help many times during the past three weeks, plus have many others who are willing to answer all our questions. We feel things are clicking in and we are up to the task.

As we move forward, we truly appreciate Elder and Sister Record and the wonderful work they have done during their mission as office managers, and in helping us get started.

To get in our morning walk at the West Park Estate, we usually have to be up and out by 6:00 AM.

A view out our flat door.  Don't you love the car we drive?  We may not have it much longer, which is a bit of a concern.

There is a sign for almost everything.  This is in Lingfield, a little town close to the Temple.

Coughlans Bakery in Lingfield.  Mom was checking it out for catering for the missionaries.  I was checking it out for us.

"Sweets and savories" I remember buying from an English bakery when I was here 47 years ago.

The "savories" Mom and I are eating are filled with smashed meat and vegetables. The maple bar-looking dessert is much like a maple bar in the US only flakier, and not maple!  Too much icing for Mom, but not for Dad...

We really haven't been too far from the office just yet - mostly on errands to find things we need.  Dad is getting quite comfortable in his driving on the "wrong" side of the road, and Mom is starting to navigate better with all the round-about exits which are everywhere.  All the missionaries use a GPS so we don't get lost!

We are attending the East Grinstead Ward which is about five miles away. Sister Parker is playing piano for the Primary, and will be on the organ in Sacrament Meeting in a couple of weeks to substitute.  It seems that music people are always needed in the mission field. Elder Parker will be teaching a class of Valient boys soon.

We love the following quote we heard last week in our Sunday School Gospel Doctrine class. It was supposedly given in the 1700's to the great theologian, John Wesley, by his mother. (Bev will check on that when we have time, as Susanna Wesley was a great Christian mother.) It is an excellent piece of wisdom for each of us today. 

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, whatever increases the authority of the body over the mind, that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may seem in itself.”  Susanna Wesley   

Hold fast to the Gospel, and things will be alright in the end.
Proverbs 3: 5-6 - "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

This is a theme for our lives, especially the next few months as we find our way directing this mission office.  It is a good theme for all of us.  May God bless you and give direction to your lives as you acknowledge Him, our Creator and our Father.