25 May 2010

25 May 2010 – Tuesday

We were busy all day but we did not really do much as far as the mission is concerned.

Early in the morning I got the car washed and had another opportunity to make a good contact with a working father who has a wife and three children. I gave him an Article of Faith card and my phone number. Maybe something will come of it. I really think that the car wash is one of the best places to meet fathers with jobs and a car. I think 80% of the time I get into a gospel discussion with someone like that. I imagine my gray hair and name tag help a lot. They see Jesus Christ and are often immediately interested in starting a conversation.

Some of the other things I got done was to get my hair cut so my collars stay cleaner, have 100 copies of the sacrament agenda printed for the branches, and buy a lock with four keys for a member’s house. Mary started on the task of putting together all the hospital and doctor bills from her operation.

As she went through she found that she was missing the bills for the last two stays in the hospital and there were no bills for the surgeon. We decided we really needed to get that straightened out so while we were doing other things we stopped into the hospital.

She got the hospital to give her copies of the bills and made sure they were sent to the mission to be paid. We have plenty of money in our mission account to cover them. She then went up to see the doctor and when she asked them for copies of the bill she was told Dr. Kelling had told the nurses not to bill us anything for his work. She was dumbfounded – we guess that the fact that we were Christian Missionaries touched him and he kindly gave us a gift of a few thousand dollars. We doubt if that would happen in the US – even in Provo with an LDS doctor. It is just another of the blessings we have received as missionaries.

In the evening we went to dinner with the B’s. They are having a wonderful time and really needed this visit to let them kind of let go. I imagine they will always have contact with some of the people here but I would guess that the hole in sister B’s heart has started to heal. They are just plain good people.



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