For those of you who regularly read Aaron's blog and saw his recent response to my e-mail, you may have realized that Salem is getting missionaries toward the end of this month. We haven't had missionaries here for over five years. That's 'way to long. The other news is that the elders are going to living in our home! This seems to be something new that the church is doing to try to make better use of mission funds. Not only that, but it gives us an opportunity to help with missionary work and (as the letter we got from the Oklahoma Tulsa Mission said) it is based on the principle of consecration. I really like that idea.
For family members who come to visit, it will complicate things slightly, since we will now only have one extra bedroom and the front bathroom is set aside for the missionaries. Of course that doesn't mean we don't want you to visit. We just have to work around the complications. We think this will bless our family and the Salem Branch area. Yea!!
5 comments:
I'm glad they got the OK to stay there. That will be so neat for you guys. when do they come?
Everyone in our ward who has done this has only raves for missionaries in your home. Good for you guys!
They arrive January 28; that's the transfer date here.
Who are the missionaries in that picture? I think it's exciting that we get missionaries in Salem!
Dad said that I would confuse people. The missionaries in the picture are just off a google search for missionary pictures. I just thought it would be more interesting if I had a picture to go with it. The ones we will get don't even know about it yet.
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