Thanks so very much...for so very much...


We are thankful and reminded daily of the details and beauty of Heavenly Father's Plan. I love that He sends love-notes in the form of Flowers, Sunshine, Water, Snow, Scriptures, Prophets, Air, Eyes, Hands, Food, and beautiful Thoughts throughout the day.  Wonder-filled we wander through our days.



Elder Bogdanov (from Italy), Elder Nascimento (from Brasil), and Paulo Jorge (Azorian, and our Mission leader in the branch) are all good to work with.  Paulo Jorge has quite a sense of humor and knows some english.  Whenever someone is talking in the meetings, he will call out in his English: 
"Shut Up!"  And everyone does...(after a little bit of mostly contained laugher).

Every Saturday from 3-5 pm, we open the family history center at the church.  Some weeks lots of people come and some Saturdays we have time to work on our own or try to do social media contacts.
 

We took Laura and Mariah to dinner to celebrate Grandpa's Un-Birthday and Mariah's Birthday (hers was on Saturday), Grandpa's real Birthday comes next year (leap year)...earlier in the day we took Elder Nascimento and Elder Bogdanov to lunch to celebrate Grandpa's Un-Birthday!  (We missed you!)

We looked and looked for a member without success one day...but grandpa turned down a remote lane and it seemed we were knocking on doors to no avail...when finally a window opened and a man who knew the member stuck his head out the window.  There is great help in this work that we see so often.  


 Neusa and Paulo brought 2 week old Matilde to church for the first time.  When I saw some of the sisters gather around after the meeting yesterday, I grabbed my phone (camera).  Welcome to earthlfe Matilde...it's Heavenly having you here and you are much loved by all of us already!  


In just 2 months, we will become great grandparents! So amazing!  Life is good and goes by so fast.  Not everyday...but most days pass by in turn as a dream and it makes us so thankful for the time we have been given and especially for the love of Heavenly Parents, Our Savior, Family, and good friends.  We love and miss you. Make a great week & celebrate every moment possible for the blessing it is!

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