FORMER FRIENDS CROSSING OUR WAY

We have had some interesting renewed friendships lately.  A couple of months ago while scheduling a trip with LDS travel one of the agents asked me, "how old is your husband....is he from Canada.....did he serve a mission in Scotland??"  Well Dave was a missionary who Allan greatly admired  and has had no contact with for 55 years.  To make a long story short, he has written a story about his life growing up in a polygamist family and escaping entitled Be Still My Son that is really inspiring and well written.  We were able to hook up for dinner this week and had a marvelous time getting to know him and his cute wife.  It is so interesting how our paths intersect with former friends.

And another friend  emerged from India.  Preetha was one of our best Seminary teachers in Bangalore and was trying to make the dream of serving a mission come true when we left.  She accomplished that goal and received her call to Fiji.  Yesterday we got to pick her up and deliver her to the MTC for language training.  She is not only a beautiful young woman, but has overcome much as do all those dear Indian saints and is so eager to serve the Lord.  We had a grand (but short) reunion.

We had a special date with Ame and Kaipo to celebrate the beginning of their new year of school.  Lunch was yummy but  our conversation with those two cuties provided quite the entertaining afternoon.

Our stop at Kohls also proved to be fun and hilarious as they picked out and paraded their new school duds.  We love the individual and personal times we are able to have with our grandchildren and adore each of them for the unique, cute, loving and genuinely GOOD little people they are !