Privileged to Serve

    Today three of the girls were asked, along with others, to help with the singing as part of a choir at a funeral.

"Privilege, huh?"

    Yep! One of our fellow missionary's Grandma passed and today was the funeral mass. Abi, Ellie, and Esther sang very well. The family was grateful to have music. Speaking of family, our being here, living in community, training with other, is a lot like living as a family. Our lives intertwined, their concerns become our concerns.  So we were glad to go and support our sister and her family and serve!

     When Lora and I got married one of our life goals was, and is, that we would be able to love and serve the Lord  and our neighbor as a family. We believe that putting into practice our Lord's words is one of the most important ways of giving others faith in Jesus.  Missionary life brings so many opportunities to serve and we have not even left our training yet, much less the country!!! As part of our training we are learning to integrate certain things into our life routine. They are Prayer, God's Word, Sacraments, Community, and Service.  Each day we try to examine our day and see where we have put them into practice. I will write more about what this list means practically, later on.

Please pray for our sister Andrea who will be delivering a baby any day now.

Heading to Mexico

Hello all,

Well we are about two and half weeks from our first missionary trip out of the United States. Wow, from wondering if we were really called to missions to actually being in training and now our first trip. So the plans are that we are going with our intake group (the other missionaries that are training too) as a caravan of vehicles. This means vehicle preparation. I going to check stuff out. We are going to need new tires and there is another missionary family that will need tires too before we head south. I am going to change the oil and check some other stuff before we head down.

We got Isaacs passport today! So that is one less concern.

I have been working on some old gas heaters, converting them to Propane. They are old enough so it seems like it will be easy. But wow have we been busy, that is why the blog is not updated in a while. I should be typing my Biblical talk right now for a talk I might have to give tomorrow and we have so much we are studying. It is so nice to be studying again. It is a blessing! The scriptures are so rich!

But back to work!

Blessings,

Mark