No pictures today, nothing fantastic happened - just a post. Today is Monday, June 3rd - we've been on our mission nine months. The time has flown by. Fourteen months to go. If we had signed up for an eighteen month mission as most of our senior missionary friends did we would be half way done - and only have nine months left. That would not be good! It is a great blessing that we will be here as long as we will. I think we will see amazing things happen both in the missionary work here in general and in our area of assignment specifically.
As I have mentioned to a few of you - our mission president and his wife were scheduled to go home July 1. They are now going home August 1 because President Schwab is ill and needs some tests and surgery before he can come to Russia. Not sure when that will be - we may have a temporary mission president, President Schwab may get here by August 1st or we may get an entirely different mission president. Miracles happen so we are waiting and seeing. God bless President and Sister Sartori for their willingness to extend on the spur of the moment. Gob bless their family as well - I know they will now miss a granddaughters wedding. They have been away from home for nearly five years since they were called to serve as mission president while serving in a different mission here in Russia.
The remodeling of our new Activity Center is scheduled to start next week - June tenth. Shouldn't take more than a couple of weeks. We're very excited about having a place to gather - and I am personally very excited about having a ping pong table! We bought some supplies at the direction of President Sartori plates, glasses, electric teapot, etc. It will be well supplied. Every Friday night we plan game night...we'll see how my latent ping pong skills develop. If they do you'll probably hear about it...if you don't hear about it you can make your own assumptions.
Tonight for FHE we plan to clean the Activity Center and play some games. Sherry made brownies for dessert. There is a CCM (Coordinating Council Meeting) at the center this coming Saturday - Area Seventy, Mission President, District Presidency, Branch Presidents all meet and discuss progress on the Area Plan and whatever else the area presidency wants them to discuss. We'll try to stay out of the line of fire! We've got tables and chairs there, food is ordered, water is ordered, and paper products are purchased. We'll have the place as clean as we can as well.
The week after is District Conference - like Stake Conference only smaller. Always good to meet together.
Very happy to meet our new grandson Micah Jeffrey Childers - we have Skyped with him. He is sort of the strong, silent type and exceptional cute. Excited to see where Micah and his family end up living when Jamie decides which job offer to take. We're looking forward to exploring a new part of America. They speak English in America so that will be fun, too!
Brandon has a fun job, Hannah is doing good with her graphic designing, Jared and Denee are settling in to their new home, Christopher and Jen stay busy with work and family - life continues to move forward. We miss everyone but know we are where we are supposed to be - and at the right time, too. Life is good.
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