This has been an incredible day! Our day began with a trip out to pick up a lady for church, we were within a couple of miles of being there when we got a call saying she was not going. We made a quick left turn and dashed down a highway, caught the belt route, 520, back into town and then up to the church. We were able to make several appointments for the coming week with more of our military families. We were able to make one for this afternoon after our Servicemen's group and before another meeting with a family who has two special needs children and whose husband/father with be deploying in January, but who will be gone a lot between now and then for deployment training.

At our Servicemen's group meeting we had most of our troops there who we know of. It certainly pays to go out and visit them and encourage them to come out. They always have a real good time when they do come out. Elder Gowans taught a new Temple Prep class to 3 of our soldiers who are preparing for the temple. One still has a while to weight, but we are counting them as new member lessons too.

Later in the evening, after we visited the family mentioned above, we dashed up to the stake center to attend our first "Saints-At-War" meeting. Here military personnel have the opportunity to share experiences from their deployments that will hopefully be of help to others who are scheduled to deploy. With these meetings it is hoped that the trauma brought on families due to long time separations will be mitigated. Also, it is hoped that the soldier will be able to better cope with the trauma that comes from being at war. Both of us was able to talk a little bit about our experiences from both the male and female point of view.

While at the meeting we received an emergency text from one of our soldiers asking for a blessing; so after the meeting concluded we drove back to the Post and up to the barracks and gave our friend a priesthood blessing to help him overcome some adversity that has been troubling him. We arrived home a little after 2100 and look forward to a good night's rest.