About a month ago we went to J[...] L[...]'s wedding reception. It was a very nice time seeing everyone. She had an interesting courtship. She was dating two young men, and she was involved in a serious accident. One young man came to visit her, but finally said, “I can't deal with seeing you like this. I'll call you after you're better.” But the other young man stuck by her through the long recovery, and now they're married.
G[...] T[...] and I went to a single sister's home and repaired two coolers. In one of them we needed to replace the bearings. We couldn't get the flywheel off, but we filed down the middle of the shaft, and got the bearings on from the back. After we were done, she served us lunch, which included potstickers. They were really good. I thought if I become homeless, I can hold up a sign by the freeway, “Will work for potstickers.”
A couple of weeks ago, we cleaned the Church, then went to the temple with J[...], then went to the stake dance festival. It was a good day. The stake trained a couple in our ward in the three dances, and then at the Church Ballpark, all the wards did the dances together. It was very nice.
I spoke with our stake president at the dance. Elder Costa, who will be our visiting general authority at stake conference, is from Brazil, and his petpeeve is members in the United States who ask for a temple, since many in his poor nation travel twelve hours to a temple. When Elder Bednar visited our stake many years ago, he asked the president what his his focus was, and he said, “The youth.” Elder Bednar replied that that was a good answer, but the correct answer is “the temple,” and explained why.
I suggested that when Elder Costa asks what their focus is to say, “The temple, but we don't want one.”
I was called to be the ward mission leader. Since my full-time mission, I've never had a specific Church calling in missionary work. I'm enjoying the work. When I was set apart, I was encouraged to be humble enough to listen to people, and to find simple things to ask people to do to help them to be involved in missionary work.
The mission had a booth at the Pima County fair, and our ward worked there one evening. We didn't know where the booth was, and as we were walking out there, I said, “Hopefully, they didn't put us next to the pigs!”
It was a very good location for the booth. Most of the people walked by without seeing us, but some looked at the booth, and a few talked with us. One woman said that she really needed to get back active in Church, and we had a nice talk with her. I feel that our time there was well-spent.
At work, I've finished with my current release responsibilities, and am working on my next line item. This involves support that is closely related to some support that is going in the next client release, so I will be getting very familiar with the session and verb protocols.
I did the training session for our European service people. The training was a Voice Over IP(VOIP) session that I did with my laptop computer. I didn't know that my laptop had a high fidelity microphone built into it until then. Since then I have been using the laptop for business calls thus freeing up my home phone line.
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