Couple Thoughts

 We were back at the storehouse Saturday after two weeks away.  It felt good.  Though I'm more and more comfortable with being done with that little mission of ours once we hit the three year mark - end of September.  I had thought perhaps ending it in July but feel like we should make it to three years.  People were kind and lovely to me.  Though, as usual, I talked too much.  

Pretty this morning.

Last week's heat was miserable.  Yesterday morning at 6 it was 40-something degrees.  I had to put an extra blanket over me for the last two nights in order to sleep.  This morning at 5 it was 51 degrees.  Felt so lovely to put on a long-sleeved sweatshirt for our morning walk.  It was beautiful out and mostly peaceful.  We enjoy the peace when people around us are out-of-town. 

Heard a couple things that struck me.  First:  "If I'm making cookies (and she makes a lot of them) they're gonna have chocolate chips in them.  Doesn't matter what kind the cookies are, they'll have chocolate chips."  She's such a sweetheart.  The second was a recently returned missionary speaking in church yesterday.  Sounded like he grew a lot on his mission.  Sounded also like he grew a wonderfully solid foundational testimony that will serve him well throughout his life. He said we need to learn to let The Savior lead us in our lives.  Not a new concept, nothing we haven't heard before; but the way he said those words (more than once) and the emotion that came through them touched my heart.  I believe he's going to do just fine.

I've been thinking a lot about integrity.  Not only the integrity one hears through someone's words, but the way they lead their lives.  I love knowing people who don't just go through the motions, "go along to get along", follow the latest trends or pretend to be dedicated (that hypocritical thing) but who truly do their best in their daily actions to show their commitment to our Savior and His teachings.  Who not only speak, but dress, act and treat others with kindness, respect and reverence for the sacrifice that was made for every living soul.   I want to see them in the here-after, to be included among those who honored their covenants (didn't ever find them inconvenient) no matter where I was or who I was with.  That's a tall order and one that will take me my entire life (and probably beyond) to achieve.

The Husband is out working on the sprinklers, spot-watering the yellow spots in our lawn.  My efforts to be frugal with our outrageously expensive water has not been a good thing. The heat this last week wasn't helpful either.  But I'm loving this coolness today - already looking forward to fall and the summer has barely begun.

I'm grateful for a kind person who greeted me with a big hug as she declared "it's been so long since I've seen you".  Grateful my three weeks in a row on the organ are done for a couple weeks.  The practicing was good for me but my wrist is suffering. I'm grateful that there are dr.'s to help when things aren't going so well.  And grateful for a hug today.