A Day in the Life of Two Senior Missionaries

We arise before the sun these days and gaze across the way at our office building that beckons our arrival.  Luckily it is literally 100 steps from our front door, which will prove to be a great advantage come December in Germany.

We stroll hand in hand to another day of putting out small and large fires, trying to dodge the 100 emails that spew out when we fire up the computer and seeing what other new things the day will entail.

Each day we are blessed by happy faces, cheerful voices,  stilted humor and words of encouragement from the great employees and fellow missionary couples.  First inside the door we meet Peter at the front desk who always has the biggest smile and attempts to teach us a daily German phrase (to no avail).

Next we meet Queen Esther.  She proudly stands at the top of the fourth floor stairwell where we are gasping for a breath before we reach our office.  She quietly signals that once again, we have survived our climb to the top floor or more common referred to as the celestial kingdom!

Our office is such a busy but fun place, already packed with beautiful memories and lots to learn.  You can see our map with dots for the 143 Centers throughout Europe, pictures of some of the "good news moments" from various YSAs, and of course our family wall of sweet pictures and letters from home.

We are blessed to share our day with incredible people.  Elder and Sister Wells are in Family Services, Elder and Sister Leonard in Humanitarian Projects, Max who is our computer guru, and Elder and Sister Paxton, our best buds,  who work with us and Seminary and Institute.  With friends like this everyday is rewarding.

When it is lunch time we can gaze back across the lot to our apt. building......

or more often than not head for some favorite eatery.

Then back to the office for an afternoon with more excitement and good times.  We are often blessed with inspired meetings with our Area Authority , Elder Teixeira who has such great vision for moving the work forward throughout Europe.  He knows how to keep our feet to the fire in a productive yet gentle way.  We feel so truly blessed with this mission assignment and honestly see miracles in our lives and those around us on a regular basis.  The Lord is forever directing this work and how privileged we feel to be a very small part of His great plan.