You may recall that last week Sister Johnson said that she was sick. She ended up not going to church. It also happened that we had pretty good rain/sleet/snow on Saturday. Consequently, the people in the Anderson Ward who live in the east end of Macdonald county could not get to church on Sunday either. As it turned out there was really no one who could really play the piano a church. So our wonderful Relief Society President played for Sacrament Meeting; one finger; maybe two at times. After the prelude she hurried down to me and asked if Sister Johnson was coming to church. I said, "No." Dummy me, I didn't even think to volunteer to play. Anyway, it was sweet and a real example of humility and willingness to give what you can give.

So the families that couldn't get to church were the same ones I put in my little diagram a while back who are really the backbone of the ward. So we did Primary A Capella with only seven children. Needless to say it was great to have everyone back today. I don't know what they'll do when we leave. Primary was always without piano when we got here. Today the Bishop told Sister Johnson that he got a letter from the First Presidency saying that we would not be allowed to return home!

This is our new Mission Nurse, Sister Davison. She is from North Carolina and so nice and cute. We love her already. She loves red and black checks. Most things she owns are red and black checks. It's pretty cute.

She has been such a blessing. She is willing to do anything we need done. So she has now become the Referral Secretary as well. She'll take over recording baptisms and ordering supplies and a couple of other miscellaneous tasks.

The other day we rearranged the office. We are getting rid of all the junk that we know no one has used since we got there. It needs to be done and the people who are coming won't know what is junk and what is not.

These are our assistants. Someone gave them these blankets for Christmas and they brought them to the office the other day. Sister Davison tried really hard to talk Elder Yeates out of his.

This is Sister (Hermana) Zhingre and Sister Walton. Hermana Zhingre got here last week from the Temple Square Mission. She's here for two transfers (3 months). Sister Walton was assigned by the president to be her companion. When they met at the office Hermana Zhingre told Sister Walton that she seemed familiar to her. Turns out they sat by each other in missionary prep class at BYU. Little things like this mean a lot to us.

Saturday morning (yesterday) we had a missionary go home. The president was out of town doing interviews all day so he came and stayed with us. The president said he'd call us around nine Friday night so that he could meet with Elder Wheeler. We waited and waited. Finally at 10:00 Sister Strong called and wondered when we were coming over to their house. So we hurried over there and got back home around 11:00. This would all be Ok except we had to leave for the airport at 4:30 AM.

I think we look pretty good considering the time and the amount of sleep.

 MISSIONARY EXPERIENCE