Edison Comes to Work

Yep! The highlight of my week was taking our grandson to work with me on Wednesday. I was the most popular missionary on the floor because Edison is so cute and was such a good baby. Even the young elders enjoyed coming and talking with him and having him grab their fingers and smile at them. I actually had to remind one of them that it was time for him to go back to work. Edison napped a little in the morning but was otherwise very interested in playing with his toys. In the afternoon he took a 2 1/2 hour nap so I really was able to get a lot of work done so I think that I will try it again this week. As he gets more mobile it will probably not work as well, but by that time we will be well on our way with loading Ghana online. We are starting Monday morning and it will be grand!
This is Edison helping me stay hard at work. He is on the floor right next to me and the light shining on him is coming from the window of the JSMB on the east side. I have a picture below to show you the window by which I work each day now. (I put a blue box next to it so you can see which one. It's to the right of the blue box.)

I have moved to another station outside of the row with the other people I work with because we didn't have enough spaces. Our replacement couple started with us last Monday and they will work out great. The both teach beginning computer at Portland Community College and are here for 9 months because they have to go back to work. With the new senior missionary flexibility they decided they could go on a 6 month mission and extend for 3 months and that would work out for them and the school. Great, huh? Now that seniors can do a 6 month mission I suspect the Church will see much more activity. There is so much to be done!

We have had a busy week. There are always things to do and we are way behind on our own personal research because Africa and New Zealand are consuming us. Ed is not sleeping much since he returned from being with his mom back east so she has been going in to work at 4:30 or 5:00am. If anyone in authority knew about this I think we might be called into the President's office, but we are so anxious to have this backlog of records organized and some parts finished before we leave. Your prayers for us would help if you feel so inclined.

Each time we feel that we have it all put together correctly we will test the next stage and then we find something else that needs fixing! Isn't that just the way it goes. But we are not discouraged or deterred! We are on the Lord's errand and we know we can do it.

The mountains have brought such beautiful color this week. I wanted to get a picture, but we haven't been in a place where that would be possible. I'm hoping we can make a trip into a canyon early on Saturday before General Conference. It would be a great way to begin the weekend to see the fall colors changed by God's hand.

One of my sisters and one of my brothers hiked up the Timp trail yesterday and she was telling me of these two young men, mid 20's, who had hiked all the way up and then slid down the glacier to make the descent faster. Both we banged up pretty bad because of the time of year and the glacier melt which exposes rocks, etc. but they were hobbling down slowly and when my sister passed them they had stopped and she heard them say...."look at that tree....that is awesome!...the colors are gorgeous!" They turned to her and said, "We came up in the dark and we didn't see this then. Isn't this amazing?"

Here were two young men who were obviously in pain, but stopped to look at the colors of the leaves on a tree. How often do I take no notice of the beauty of nature and just feel peace in the moment? Shame on me.

I am so grateful for the bits and pieces Heavenly Father gives to us to help us get through the day knowing that He is there and that He wants us to live in a place while we are away from Him that is as beautiful as He can make it. Rainbows, fall colors and of course.....
sunsets. ^_^
Goodnight!