Wrecks and Repairs

When we arrived at the mission office on Monday morning, we saw the car that we found out on Sunday had been hit by a drunk driver going 70 mph with two of our sister missionaries inside!  The car was totaled, the airbags deployed, and the sister missionaries walked away without a scratch or any aches and pains.  Can you believe the protection from the Lord that they received?  We were so relieved!  The Lord really loves and protects His sister missionaries.

On Tuesday, it was a downpour of rain in Las Vegas--we just couldn't believe the sheets of rain coming down.  We even heard from some missionaries who were out that it HAILED enough to grab handfuls of huge hailstones  and form them into iceballs!  Of course there was flooding here and damage.  The last big rainstorm we had 6 or so weeks ago caused a flash flood with over 15 feet of water in a gully right in Las Vegas that swept a tractor with a man downstream and killed the man.  So sad and devastating!  Las Vegas has gone to great effort and expense to control flash floods, but the rain was just torrential in both cases.

On Wednesday, it was President Black's birthday.  Here we are celebrating in the back room of the office.  I was pretty excited about the card I found for him.  Earlier in the day, I received a call from a lady who wanted the "volunteers" to come and help her move.  She said that a friend told her that the "volunteers" at this phone number would help her.  I took down all of her information and then asked the elders how they felt about a call like that.  They said, "Of course we would help with that.  We would want to. You never know what can happen."  I was impressed with their attitude, especially after Elder Russell M. Nelson's talk at conference!

On Friday afternoon, Brandon and Lindsey arrived at the mission office to visit us!  There were missionaries here, (Elder Wilkerson, next to me, had brought me m&m's with peanuts because he knew that I loved them) and President and Sister Black were also here so it was fun talking to all of them.  Brandon helped me for over 2 1/2 hours with my computer, restoring programs that had been lost,and helping me with documents that needed to be changed, but I didn't know how to change them.  You can't imagine how much it helped me--I had asked a few others to do this, and they just couldn't do it.  I was looking SO forward to Brandon's help, and he was able to do ALL of it!  I had a list of several items that needed his repairs!  (Thus the title of the blog's entry for this week.) 

That night we celebrated by going to In & Out, Lindsey's choice for dinner.  It was so much fun!

They had gathered all kinds of things at our house to bring with them that we had asked for.  It must have taken them a long time to gather everything from our long list!  They also brought some surprises for us!  It was so awesome!

On Saturday Lindsey and I went to one of the baptisms in the Las Vegas Zone.  Pictured here from left, is Elder Edwards, Elder Oakey, Elder Ririe, the young man who was baptized and is very solid, Elder Bruce, and Lindsey and I.  I love going to baptisms and seeing the elders at work!  While we were at the baptism, Brandon spent a lot of time with Glen helping him with his computer problems too.  Glen was ecstatic over what they were able to accomplish!  Lindsey and I were able to go shopping while they were still working on computers, and it was so fun to go shopping!  

Saturday night we went to P.F. Chang's to eat, and we ordered completely off the gluten free menu.  It was so delicious and so fun for us.  Then we came home and played Aggravation until we were completely tuckered out.  What an awesome day it was!

Brandon helped Glen with his computer at home too, and Glen was thrilled.  It should help relieve some of his stress.  Thank you Brandon and Lindsey for coming and helping us to "repair" so many things!  What would we do without our family?  To see our family two weeks in a row was too good to be true.