Shorter Days and Shorter Nights

I know, it's supposed to be "shorter days and longer nights" but for some reason I am having shorter nights too. I think the general shortness of our time here is creating that. Last night I couldn't sleep because I kept dreaming about moving files in the computer and I couldn't find the right files because the control numbers kept changing and I was putting the wrong data in the wrong folders. I woke up in a sweat!

We have been going to work earlier to see if we can get ahead on some of the projects still left unorganized. Ed continues to work miracles with the Africa records. We are finished with Tonga, Austral and Cook Islands and have Malaysia organized. Western Samoa has some issues but we are moving ahead with those files and should be able to start loading some things by the end of September. New Zealand is also done. Yep! We are moving right along. I am now working to organize what we have from Tahiti, Fiji, Tuamotu, and Tuvalu. It is pretty exciting stuff.

We have had a fun two weeks with all our family together. Needless to say Edison is now the most spoiled child on the planet with doting aunts AND grandparents.

We had a great time together.

Edison enjoyed being with the family at Derrick's graduation,



at Autumn's birthday dinner and celebration,





and just hangin' around the house.





Last week in devotional Elder Brewis (he and his wife are from England) gave the devotional thought and she the scripture and prayer. He began by saying that his thought was one of gratitude for the example set by certain of the young elders in our mission. Elder Brewis (a student Medieval scholar) goes regularly to the public library. To do this he takes the TRAX. Apparently the TRAX route was recently changed slightly so that the train normally taken goes to the County Court House. It is only a matter of 1 block and across the street from the prior stop but it is now out of the zone boundaries for the young elders. He told how he watched several young elders exit the train one stop earlier so they would not go outside the boundaries even though it meant that they had further to walk. They wanted to be obedient to the rules.
Elder Brewis was very impressed with this. (The Brewis's have foster 18 young men) Sister Brewis then read the scripture about the stripling warriors. It was very nicely stated for these sweet elders.

We are the mother's of the stripling warriors of the latter-days. I think of Edison and wonder what his world will be like and pray for him to be valiant. He has certainly started with a family who loves him. I pray he will believe it all; because his mother, too, will teach him and he need not doubt.