Daily Archives: September 23, 2011

Sufficient for our Needs

When we served in Indonesia we had to buy a car and have a driver. When we went to South Africa we were provided a car and got to drive – even if it was on the wrong side. Now we are going to Florida and so we decided that our poor Maxima with 140,000 miles on it would probably not make it through 18 months so we purchased a nice, new to us Dodge mini-van and we will both be able to drive on the right side of the road.

We count it a tender mercy that we have the health and financial ability to go on missions. It seems that when we decide to put in our papers things just start to happen. This time within days of our sending off our papers our kitchen flooded and it pretty much had to be stripped to the studs. The insurance would have covered replacing things as they were but we decided that since we had the opportunity we should do a few upgrades that we had planned to do after we got home from our mission. Of course that meant we had costs that we had not planned on.

The next thing that happened is the back fence gave up the ghost and we will  need to pay our share of having it replaced either before we go or soon after we leave.

Then of course there is the need to get a decent cell phone. We have been getting along with a cheap little pay as you go phone because we did not want to invest in a smart phone if we were going off to somewhere where we could not get service. The more we think of this the more we are leaning towards keeping our inexpensive phone and save some money.

And it goes on and on but the fact is that we will be able to handle the problems as they come up and will serve our mission in Florida. What ever happens we know that we have been called by a Prophet of God to serve in the Florida Fort Lauderdale mission. With God on our side who can oppose us.

One last thing. We are happy to have the support of our friends throughout the world and of course our family. We will miss a couple more graduations, the birth of at least one new grandchild, and possibly a wedding or two. But we are sure that our children and grandchildren fully support us as we go forth to serve. And of course with modern technology we are as close as the phone or the computer. When I complained to our daughter that we had not heard from her for a couple of weeks while we were in Indonesia, she mentions that we had more contact with her now than when we lived just 50 minutes apart.