Pi Day and the Ides of March are now in the past. Winter won't let go. We were disappointed with the return of cold weather this week -30s and 40s- until our fridge died and we could put most things on the balcony. Our food has been out there for 3 days but I got permission today to put it in the fridge at the church for the next week when the temperatures go to the 50s and 60s. Hopefully we will have a new fridge in the next 10 days. Isn’t it amazing how our blessings come!
Pres. and Sr. Poznanski will be our Mission Leaders for only 2 more weeks. We will be working with them on the intake of 18 new missionaries this week and then may never see them again. One of my favorite quotes from him says: “What do we hear when we listen to the silence, when we calm down and power down? Listen to the Spirit. Hear Him. Attach yourself to spiritual things.”
We had another delightful meeting this week with Bro. and Sr. L., who we mentioned last week. We last saw him in great agony Sunday a week ago on the way to the hospital with a bladder infection and an obstructed catheter (from coagulated blood). He was quickly seen at the hospital and had his catheter replaced, but they kept him for two days until he was seen by a urologist and his urine cleared. He is scheduled for prostate surgery in 2 weeks. This time when we visited he was back to his usual jovial self, (despite the continued presence of the catheter).
We also went with the Sr. missionaries to help Sr. B., who lives a half hour away in a small town. She has mobility issues so we moved some boxes around for her, fixed some holes in her wall, and did a bit of work on light fixtures that were too high for her to safely reach. She is always grateful when we can come.
One other high point was that the sisters found a keyboard in their apartment store room which works. They happily loaned it to Sr. M. and her family. I have been teaching her piano lessons using the Church curriculum but her progress has been slow because of the difficulty of practicing. Now that she has a keyboard I expect she will move along quickly. The teaching program uses do-re-mi for the note names instead of the letters (c-d-e) that I learned, so the teacher stumbles sometimes trying to teach, and is very empathetic with the student.
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