After a day home with lots of sleep and huge doses of vitamin C, I woke on Thursday feeling much better. Not anything like 100% but good enough to go in to the office for the morning. Before that I called Elder George to see how the special 2 hour harvesting session went yesterday and found that the district did not quite make it’s goal, overall the mission did great. The goal for the mission was to give bless 200 homes and they blessed 368! That means they got that many new contacts and a good proportion of them will allow the missionaries to come back and teach them. The work is going to really take off here in the Fort Lauderdale mission.

We got some great news yesterday – our dear friends the Barnards who served with us in Indonesia back 2007-08 just got their call to go back to Indonesia and will report the MTC in New Zealand in March. When they get out there will be four couples who we served with in Indonesia back in the mission field – stretching from Florida to Thailand to Indonesia to Botswana. We feel a little jealous of those who get to visit foreign countries but we know that we are serving where the Lord wants us to be. We are not yet sure what special reason – and we know there is one – that we were called to serve here at this time but we know that we will find out if we are diligent in serving.

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I decided that I should put some pictures in each post and I really had no new ones from here so I have included our youngest grandson Colin, two fine missionaries from Durban Elders Richey and Maremela that we served with in Richards Bay, and out Christmas tree from South Africa which we unfortunately had to leave there. Going through mission pictures brings back so many great memories and hopefully ones we take here will do the same when we are on our next mission.