Hegsted Mission

  12-November-2023-Sunday It was an exciting day.  It's a regular trip to Rutland to play the organ and then play for primary with Dede leading, which is always fun.  We looked around Rutland for bulletin boards where we could hang a flyer about the lights at the JSB.  Rutland is a big city with big city stores that do not have bulletin boards like the gas stations and general stores in villages.  Strike out.  However, two people in the ward are supposed to help in the area.  On the way home, we drove down VT-4 toward Woodstock and then over the hill through Pomfret and placed two flyers in places not on our list but near the site.  Who knows if anyone is moved to go to the JSB after reading them, but we can say we tried. I was able to work for an hour on the document.  Much of it transferred from Pages to Word.  However, the footnotes did not work correctly.  They are there, but I will need to copy and paste them in again as footno...

   5-November-2023-Sunday Another time losing daylight savings time.  Falling back is somewhat easier,  but I struggled this morning thinking I was missing my wake up time and so did not benefit as much as I should.  It was nice and light at 8:30 when we left and that is positive.  We had a wonderful Fast and Testimony Meeting.  Our new second counselor bore his testimony.  Not sure how many times he has done this since his mission.  It was sweet as he explained his desire to not be forced to serve, but his willingness to do what the Lord wants.  Primary was just fun.  I love it when Dede does the music.  We sang and sang and then sang some more.  The group was small but they were so good. Had an interesting thought come to me during Testimony Meeting.  My Patriarchal Blessing states, I will be a missionary to the nations of the world.  Having gone to a mission to Germany and then Switzerland, I thought I had ful...