Tons of Good News

Yesterday was a day of lots of good news. It started out with an email announcing the mission call of my Aunt & Uncle, Janet and Dennis, have been called to serve a mission at Cape Verde. It is a former colony of Portugal off the western coast of Africa. 4 Islands make up the country. They will be missionaries with the Perpetual Education program for the church and will be speaking Portuguese, a language he learned on his mission in Brazil. I'm so thrilled for them and the example they are to the rest of us!

Glory's sister has been trying to have a baby with her husband for several years and we just learned that a recent procedure was successful. She is pregnant after 10 years of trying! Now we wait to find out if it will be a single child, twins, or triplets!! We are so happy for her and her husband who have always been great with children.

We received a text during our family scripture reading last night. Apparently our son who does regular exchanges with the missionaries did some old fashion tracting on one of the nights. He ran into Patricia Sanchez, a 20 year old lady who had just finished praying for answers in her life. Because she was more comfortable speaking Spanish, the La Joya ward missionaries continued to teach her and she was baptized last night. A flurry of texts were exchanged with the missionaries to catch him up on the excitement. What a thrill to know that our kid has had a successful tracting experience before he has even gone on a mission.

Finally, yesterday we visited with the Estrella ward missionaries and they let us know that the folks that we had over to our home on March 5th have continued to receive the missionaries and are enjoying the message that they have to share. We knew we should have this activity at our house and we invited many of our Spanish speaking neighbors and our friends Lucy and Carlos Rivas. We had a great night and the missionaries shared a brief spiritual message in Spanish. We felt a bit left out but we knew our purpose of having the get together was being fulfilled. We hope to hear continued good news and hope the missionaries will take advantage of the natural friendship Lucy and Carlos developed with our neighbors.

I was really amazed that so many amazing things were realized yesterdays and just wanted to leave a quick blurb that life is good.