Sunday, September 14, 2014

         It was a great day and Glade felt well enough to go to Sacrament Meeting and finish out the day much improved.  There are great people in our ward and we have come to know many families well and love them.  Today I realized that we will really miss them when we leave.  For so long I have felt like we will be here forever, but now realize how short our time really is.

         Choir practices are in full swing now and it seems like just yesterday that it was last year and we were doing the same thing—except for a year’s experience in between.  The songs we are practicing now are for stake conference sometime in November—the date doesn’t seem set yet—and the Christmas music will start overlapping in the practices before long.  I found the viola and piano music online for Marshall McDonald’s arrangement of Steven Sharp Nelsen and Jon Schmidt’s “O Come, O Come Emmanuel,” and Gina and I are going to play it together.

         On our way to choir practice this evening, we met the new missionary couple who will be replacing the Cruz’s—the couple who manage the housing in our building and work in the temple one shift a week.  Their name is Caceres and they are from San Pedro Sula which is about four hours North of Tegucigalpa.  Of course, they seem so very nice and Sister Caceres was so excited about choir practice!  They just went right to their room, picked up their hymn books, and came with us!

         More thunder enclosed us and showers freshened the evening air giving peaceful closure to our Sunday.

         Good Night!  Hope you all have a wonderful week!  Sending love and hugs!