How We Do Retirement

  Retired/Missionary Life. Sunday. HAPPY SABBATH!!! HERE! HAVE A JESUS PICTURE!! Church today was awesome! Our Spanish Congregation celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ. Scriptures were read. Hymns were sung. Several folks that we have been teaching participated. It was all really, really good! It doesn't get any better than singing Christmas Hymns in Spanish. The church called today a "family day" so there were no other meetings or lessons. So, I did the one thing I felt I needed the most and haven't done in a long, long time. I took like a two-hour nap! After I rose from my coma, I made up a tuna and tomato salad for lunch, then did the studies, reading, and we prepared a lesson we are to give on Tuesday. In the evening, while dining on leftover Meatloaf, we watched a Christmas Movie. "White Christmas". Hanna's favorite part was the romantic dancing. Mine was the war scene. We hope your Christmas Sabbath was joyful too! And here, in addition to Jesus, ...

  Retired/Missionary Life. Sunday. HAPPY SABBATH!! Here! Have a Jesus Picture! We were up early enough to catch a great sunrise. Then off to the races. Branch Council Meeting where we discussed the needs of members of our congregation with the leadership of the branch (aka congregation). Sacrament Meeting. Men's Meeting. Missionary Correlation Meeting. Lunch was then consumed in the truck in the church parking lot....yummy sandwiches....while the boys watched closely. (While doing lunch, I took the boys for a "go out". There were small red berries everywhere in the parking lot and Gussy wolfed down a bunch of them before I caught him and got him to stop. Poisonous? Harmful to dogs? Hanna soon had it pulled up on Google. Hawthorne berries. Not harmful. But shouldn't eat too much or he could vomit or something. Sigh............ He never did though.) We had two lessons set up for the afternoon, but both fell through. We then trekked to Elk to visit with Del and Ella and...