The Rest Of The Story.....

Some of you may remember President Henry Eyring's talk from General Conference this past Sunday. He talked about personal peace and he also related a story about meeting a sister on a trip. He had asked her to tell him a little about her family and she showed him a picture of her adult daughter who was struggling. He was struck with the goodness in the face of that daughter and asked if he could have her email address. Her daughter was lost and was wondering if God had a message for her. Pres. Eyring said he did. The message was the Lord loves her and always has, the Lord wants her to come back. Her promised blessing are still in place. The rest of the story is that during our weekly mission wide meeting on Sunday evening, one of our young missionaries related that as he was listening to this story it sounded very familiar. There was a time when he had a former companion that felt a need to look over a list not quite sure what he was looking for. When he came to a certain name, he said we need to visit her. That visit and others following resulted in the reactivitation of this sister, who related to them that President Eyring had sent her an email previously with that message from God. Our young elder checked to make sure it was indeed her before he related the story to us. President Eyring's story was about a sister living in our mission that our missionaries had worked with, and that is the rest of the story!
Other highlights of our week include taking a sister with us to see the very impressive Lamb of God production held at our Stake Center. They had so many more people attend than anticpated. They had to fill the Relief Society, Primary, and High Councilmen room with people. It was put on by the San Diego Choir and was absolutely amazing.
Some of our young sister missionaries surprised us with delicious treats this week. We met some more members in our visits this week and also took time off for a whale watching P-day.
It has been a good week and as always we have seen the Lord's hand in our lives and those that we love and visit.

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