SOME WEEKS

THERE ARE SOME WEEKS THAT ARE BEYOND BRIM BOTH IN HEART AND SERVICE.....I LOVE WHEN EVERY DAY IS FILLED TO THE TOP WITH ONE GOOD THING AFTER ANOTHER. LIVES OF A MISSIONARY ARE EVER CHANGING FROM MOMENT TO MOMENT. I LOVE HOW THE LORD TAKES THE ORDINARY AND MAKES IT EXTRA ORDINARY IN ANY GIVEN DAY. THIS WEEK I WAS ABLE TO CROSS OVER INTO THE HUMANITARIAN ARM OF THE CHURCH AND WORK WITH AN EYEGLASS SCREENING PROJECT. IT WAS HELD IN THE STAKE CENTER NEXT TO THE TEMPLE, AND THEY CAME BY THE 1,000'S FOR FREE SCREENING AND EYEGLASSES. TO SAY THAT IT WAS CALM IS A TRUE UNDER STATEMENT. I'M ALWAYS HUMBLED WHEN YOU LOOK OUT AND SEE A LINE THAT HAS NO END, THOSE THAT ARE LAME, THOSE THAT CANNOT SEE AND THOSE THAT HAVE SEVERE INJURIES THAT NEED ATTENTION. ON ONE DAY I WAS THE SCRIBE FOR THE DOCTOR TO WRITE SCRIPTS, AND I WAS STRETCHED TO WRITE ALL THE MEDICAL TERMS. HE SHOWED ME OVER AND OVER ON MANY PATIENTS WHAT THE CONDITION LOOKED LIKE, AND I CAN SAY THAT I'M A TINY BIT MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE. I WITNESS THE GENEROSITY OF MANKIND IN THE DOCTORS THAT CAME FROM AMERICA TO DO THE SCREENING, AND THE 1,000'S OF GLASSES THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM. I WITNESSED MANY MIRACLES THAT IF LEFT UNDETECTED COULD OF RESULTED IN BLINDNESS. THE WORLD IS JUST A LITTLE MORE BEAUTIFUL IN THE LIVES OF THOSE THAT CAME AND WEATHERED THE LONG LINES AND WAIT AND LEFT WITH GLASSES TO SEE THE WORLD A LITTLE MORE PERFECTLY.

WAITING AND THANKFUL HER LITTLE ONE IS SLEEPING

THE LINES JUST KEPT FORMING EACH DAY.

A BOY AND HIS MOM HAPPY TO BE SEEN!

MY 3 FRIENDS THAT CAME TOGETHER, SAT A LONG TIME TOGETHER, WERE SEEN TOGETHER AND LEFT SMILING TOGETHER!

PRESIDENT AZUMA WHO CAME WITH A VAN FULL, BUT WE HAD ALREADY MET OUR QUOTA FOR THE DAY. WE WERE ABLE TO BRING HIM IN, AND WORKED ON GETTNG THE REST OF HIS BRANCH SEEN. HE DOESN'T HAVE THE USE OF HIS LEGS, AND DOES MORE THAN 3 MEN CAN DO FOR THE LORD.

THE DOCTOR I WORKED FOR THAT NEVER LET A PATIENT LEAVE WITHOUT PERSONALLY SPEAKING WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR NAMES AND WHERE IN THE BIBLE THEY CAME FROM. HE WAS A TIRELESS SERVANT THE WHOLE WEEK HE WAS HERE.

THOSE THAT WAITED AND WAITED WERE BLESSED BY THE GOOD HANDS OF THE DOCTORS, AND THIS MOTHER WAS SO HAPPY HER LITTLE ONE WAS SLEEPING.

ONE DAY SISTER BODINE AND I ALONG WITH THIS ONE MISSIONARY AND GOOD MEMBER WERE IN CHARGE OF THE STAIRS THAT GAINED ENTRANCE TO THE DOCTORS. WE KEPT THOSE SMILES ON OUR FACES THE WHOLE DAY EVEN THOUGH WE HAD MANY TENSED SITUATIONS.