This has been a terrific Sabbath Day! The day began early as we began our regular church services at 0900. We are getting to know more people and remembering some of their names :). We had a nice visit with the ward clerk who told us that we would be able to get a map of the ward with the location of all the members mapped out. How nice that would be! We purchased a map shortly after we arrived and have been using it and google maps to locate our members. We actually had one member family whose address was so new that it was not on the map or google maps. After church ended we headed back to the apartment for lunch and then on to Fort Gordon for our servicemen's group meeting. Brother Welch, who was just baptized, was confirmed, shortly after that we spoke. We each took about 10 minutes, introduced ourselves and then gave a short talk. Sister Gowans actually appeared quite comfortable behind the pulpit; she gave a real good talk. Elder Gowans spoke more extensively on the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

After the meetings ended we and the Elders drove back to the apartment for for a quick dinner and then back to Fort Gordon to meet with a family. We had trouble finding their home, but eventually we found it and had a real nice visit with them. Both mom and dad suffer from medical issues. Dad's is army induced and mom's is simply life! They have a great family who love and support one another.

The second family lives well off post. We drove down to the closest gate, but it was closed! We had to drive  nearly 10 miles out of our way to get around to them, we were late, but had a real nice visit with them, too. A beautiful family with loads of talent. We figured since Thursday we have driven 250 miles, but it has all been worth it! We love our work.

We want to add one more thing. On a very personal and spiritual note, something we are very grateful to Heavenly Father for, and that is as we visit all these families, we always want to leave them with a scriptural thought. Each family we have visited have been left with a scriptural thought that has been very personalized just for them. We have never met these families before, yet by the power of the Holy Ghost each family is left with a message intended just for them. No two have been the same. This is a testimony that God knows each of us individually and knows just what each of us needs. As we stay close to our Heavenly Father He is able to inspire us as to what message to leave them.

Happy Father's Day to all you dads who read this blog!