Missions Are Like Babies

Elder Oveson made the observation recently, that missions are like babies.  When a baby is first born, we say how many days old they are. The same is true with missions, the first while is counted in days.  Then with babies we move on to how many weeks old they are, and the same is likewise true about missions.  After a baby is about three months old, then we say they are so many months old. We have not made it to three months yet, but other missionaries who have use either months or transfers (transfers are every six weeks).  Finally when a baby is a year old, we start using years as the gauge, including year and a half, also true about missionaries.

So why the above analogy? Because we have been in our apartment now for a whole month.  That is amazing! In someways it was just yesterday and in others it seems longer.  It is a safe haven for us to return to every evening and a comfortable place to call home for a while.  We have not met many of the other occupants. We have met a young adult male from the Netherlands and another is the building owner, but they are all quiet and respectful of each others privacy.  Our friendly parking attendants are the only ones that we see on a regular basis.

The senior missionary couple in the Mission Office, the Hollenzers, said to us a couple of times that we needed to go have lunch together someday, so today was that someday.  We met them at the Mission Office. They have a tight schedule of when they can be gone, since someone has to be there to cover.  We went to a Mexican Restaurant that we have been to before, it was a good choice and we enjoyed the excellent company.

Just so that you know that we still mainly eat food that we have for years, tonights dinner was pancakes, one of those comfort foods.  Senior Missionaries really can choose what they eat, the only limitations are what is available in the stores.