HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

We have so much to be thankful for – we are grateful to have a holiday that reminds us to pause and realize just how blessed we are.  If we were to write a list of all the things we are thankful for, you would never have time to read it!  So we are going to just highlight a few things that we are particularly grateful for from this past week:

A car that runs well and hauls a lot of stuff:

“Crossing the plains” in comfort – we passed so many places that are familiar in Church history and thought of our dear ancestors who paved the way for us.  We are so grateful for them.  (And grateful that our lives are not as hard!)

Family to stay with as we headed to Boston:

My brother Mick and his wife, Donna - Grand Island

Waldron Grandchildren - Wichita

 DeFigueiredo Grandsons - Pittsburgh

Family that we didn’t stay with because they’re not on the way to Boston – we love you too!!!

Easy access to great weather forecasts that alerted us that we needed to leave Pittsburgh on Thursday at 5:00 a.m. and not stop till we got to Boston.  We barely missed horrible storms – in Pittsburgh, Boston, and in between!

(Actual news article we woke up to after missing the storms!)

A very lovely, roomy, comfortable missionary apartment!  (With a guest room – ahem…..)

Our Living Room / Dining Area

Our Huge Bedroom (That's a king-sized bed!)

The Internet, which we have had only on our phones for the last three weeks!!!  (And we don't do much on our phones... we need bigger screens!)  We'll get WiFi on Tuesday!

The Book of Mormon challenge that President Nelson issued to the women of the Church, that many men (Craig included) are also doing.  Honestly, until I started marking all references to Christ in this new (as in unmarked) Book of Mormon, I thought “Another Testament of Christ” was mostly found in 3^rd Nephi.  Such a different way to read the Book!

The Red marking isn't visible, but there's way more
than I thought there would be!

The opportunity to serve a mission.  We meet our new Branch on Sunday (which will be “today” by the time I borrow internet and post this) as well as the Stake President (under whose direction we will serve); and our Mission President on Monday.  Anticipation!!!

And above all else, our Savior, Jesus Christ, who Atoned for our sins that we may return to our Heavenly Father; and rose from the dead so that we can be Resurrected.  We are SO blessed to know this!  And we do KNOW it!