Week 62--August 28-September 3, 2016
Tom has been busy making book safes in the evening for the recent batch of arrival missionaries. He is making them from copies of the Book of Mormon that were printed incorrectly with the covers attached upside down. He does that cutting out the centers of each page and then when the cavity is through all of the pages, He glues the pages together. The result is a what looks a regular book but upon the front cover one sees a space for budgeting envelopes of other valuables. The whole process take about five hours.To receive a book safe the missionary has to be faithful in keeping a budget for a month and knowing where the money from each support has been spent. When Tom does his finance presentation on arrival day he gives each missionary a set of labeled envelopes to put the money in which teaches them how to budget available resources and realize that each category has limits. The missionary gets to choose how much goes into each envelope but they quickly understand that once decided the goal is live within their means. Each missionary needs to report to Tom a couple of times during the month to let him know how they are doing.
Garnalee has been asked to teach Sharing Time once a month in Primary. Sunday was her turn. The theme this month has been "My Body is Temple of God." She was to teach about keeping the mind clean. She did some online searching and found a great lesson using a quote from President Thomas S. Monson, "Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness. (2005)" She then had different cans of food labeled with each of those traits and discussed them with the children, and then the can was placed in a pretend cupboard.
On Tuesday we went to the Fairview Zone and attended the Elijah District meeting. Elder Antonio gave a workshop on ponderizing scriptures using the talk from last General Conference by Elder Durrant. Tom and Garnalee left the meeting with a renewed commitment to start again selecting a weekly scripture to ponderize.
Tom gave the spiritual thought at our weekly office meeting on Friday. He used the thought a week ago when he was asked to be the concluding speaker in Sacrament meeting as we arrived at Church. He was grateful that he had prepared the thought early.
When we went shopping on Saturday, Christmas decorations were being put up at the entrance of the mall and Christmas music was being played over the speaker system. Only in the Philippines.
Tom has been busy making book safes in the evening for the recent batch of arrival missionaries. He is making them from copies of the Book of Mormon that were printed incorrectly with the covers attached upside down. He does that cutting out the centers of each page and then when the cavity is through all of the pages, He glues the pages together. The result is a what looks a regular book but upon the front cover one sees a space for budgeting envelopes of other valuables. The whole process take about five hours.To receive a book safe the missionary has to be faithful in keeping a budget for a month and knowing where the money from each support has been spent. When Tom does his finance presentation on arrival day he gives each missionary a set of labeled envelopes to put the money in which teaches them how to budget available resources and realize that each category has limits. The missionary gets to choose how much goes into each envelope but they quickly understand that once decided the goal is live within their means. Each missionary needs to report to Tom a couple of times during the month to let him know how they are doing.
Garnalee has been asked to teach Sharing Time once a month in Primary. Sunday was her turn. The theme this month has been "My Body is Temple of God." She was to teach about keeping the mind clean. She did some online searching and found a great lesson using a quote from President Thomas S. Monson, "Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness. (2005)" She then had different cans of food labeled with each of those traits and discussed them with the children, and then the can was placed in a pretend cupboard.
On Tuesday we went to the Fairview Zone and attended the Elijah District meeting. Elder Antonio gave a workshop on ponderizing scriptures using the talk from last General Conference by Elder Durrant. Tom and Garnalee left the meeting with a renewed commitment to start again selecting a weekly scripture to ponderize.
Tom gave the spiritual thought at our weekly office meeting on Friday. He used the thought a week ago when he was asked to be the concluding speaker in Sacrament meeting as we arrived at Church. He was grateful that he had prepared the thought early.
When we went shopping on Saturday, Christmas decorations were being put up at the entrance of the mall and Christmas music was being played over the speaker system. Only in the Philippines.
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