Closing a Chapter

WE HAVE A NEW NURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are officially retired.  We have Hermana Paul who arrived with the last group of missionaries and she is a RN.  President Cook has asked her to field the calls now.  My, what a blessing for us and the missionaries.  I have felt very inadequate in this job as "nurse".  It was really more Elder Burnett's job because he could communicate better with the missionaries. I did the medical logging and offered weekly email tips for health.

RETIRED!

Friday, July 3, 2015
Mike and I were invited to speak about using Family History as a tool for missionary work.  At first we were given 45 min per session but then they found out that our Area Seventy (Elder Cabrera) would be joining our concilio and they wanted to give him time to talk.  So we prepared for 35 minutes instead.  After Elder Cabrera did talk, we were down to 25 minutes. We taught 3 groups. We wanted each person to be able to upload a photo of themselves, but time hampered us and only 1 person from each group was able to use our iPad, iPhone, and Android to upload a photo.  I conversed in Spanish off the cuff and it was okay.  At least they understood my efforts.  Mike said I did wonderful, but I know better.  It was the Spirit that taught and not my language skills, thank heaven!  This was the outline we tried to follow:

Group Activity: Share a photo and a story       5 min

 I showed them a picture of my Grandpa and Grandma Stephens when they were on their mission in 1950. 

Este es mi abuelo y mi abuela. Ellos fueron algunos de los primeros matrimonios misioneros. Sir-vi-er-on una misión de proselitismo en un mil novecientos cincuenta en el centro de Estados Unidos. Tambien, mis padres sir-vi-er-on una misión juntos y ahora estamos a la tercera generación servir en una misión con usted.

This is my grandpa and grandma. They were some of the first married couples to serve a mission in the church. They served a proselyting mission in 1950 in Central United States. My parents also served a mision together doing family history. Now we are the third generation to serve a mission here with you. 

(Divide into 3 groups) Comparte con nosotros su foto y un recuerdo en un minuto. You now have 1 minute to share your photos and story with your group. 

Group Discussion: Feelings we just received and why    5 min

¿Qué estamos sintiendo?  Por Que?

Las familias son eternas.  Esta es una verdad eterna.

Group Discussion: Define the Spirit of Elijah    5 min

Elder Bednar nos dio la definición del espíritu de Elías. Qué es?

 “una manifestación del Espíritu Santo que da testimonio de la naturaleza divina de la familia”

 ¿Qué más nos enseña Elder Bednar?

El espíritu de Elías es fundamental y esencial en la obra de proclamar el Evangelio.

El Libro de Mormón cambio de corazón, y el del espíritu de Elías en que se vuelvan los corazones.

Group Discussion: How to use this Spirit for missionary work. Elder Burnett  10 min

Hands On: Add photo and story to familysearch.org  10 min

HandOuts: How to create a familysearch account.

                 Oct 2014 Ensign Article from Elder Bednar

Sharing their photos and story.

Our hermana leaders.

Because of our time commitment here, I had the Anderson's come and help in the kitchen. Elder Anderson took this picture of Mary and Ana, who work for the church in cooking and maintaining the mission home. 

Saturday, 4TH of JULY!

We helped the Anderson's with more moving and then at around 4 o'clock we had everyone over to our apartment for a BBQ.  No fireworks though.  We did the traditional hamburgers and chips, and I made PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES!  I splurged and used some of the peanut butter sent to us from home.  We all loved them!  We had all the couples including President and Hermana Cook.
I listened to patriotic music all day via Pandora.  Hola.org will change your IP location so that Pandora thinks I am in the U.S. I even heard ads from Utah!  I loved Johnny Cash's "Ragged Old Flag".  Brought back memories of my Dad who liked to listen to Johnny Cash.  I wore red, white, and blue along with my Tinkerbell sweat shirt (remember it is cold here) and my Tinkerbell earrings.  I thought what could be more American that Walt Disney and Tinkerbell?