Just Another Day

Our days and weeks have been so different recently. There may be similarities such as waking up early and taking a walk before getting ready for the day at the office. Then there are differences such as taking a few minutes to call to wish a six year old grandson happy birthday. He was pretty excited about all the Star Wars lego sets he has collected, yet he showed us pictures of the sets he still wants to add to his collection.

There was a Asia Area Self-Reliance Missionaries meeting scheduled for this morning. We have had enough trouble connecting to these meetings that we decided we should try to link in early today. It was a good thing, too, because our personal computer simply would not log into the program, requiring our back-up plan to use Sister Oveson's computer and borrow a mic and camera from Sameth. We counted it a success when all the invited participants were able to log in and we were able to hear and see them. These meetings are helpful to our team as each can share what is working in their country, and ask input for how they might resolve things they are struggling with. There is a new Self-Reliance couple in Taiwan, Elder & Sister Chen, that introduced themselves today. This is their fourth mission, their first mission was twenty years ago as a Mission President and his wife.

Today seemed to have more emails to write than usual, and as always there were little things to finish up.  As we left the office we were grateful we didn't  need to pile in to the work "bus" (meaning the back of a truck with side rails with thirty or forty coworkers) for a ride across town to go home. We are happy to have a little mini van and a very short commute. All the extra busy days in recent weeks seem to have caught up with us, or maybe it is just that we slowed down and it caught up with us. We were both very tired today and were happy to be at home this evening with nowhere we needed to go tonight.