1. Do we visit Autumn and family in Knoxville,TN immediately after leaving Illinois? However, that would mean driving further east before setting our sights on the mountain west and Utah for a Cullen family reunion.
2. Do we try to visit the church historic sites in Winter Quarters after leaving Illinois? However, this means driving north of Kansas City where Ephraim plus Ben and family are living. We can't bypass KC on the way home but I don't want to drive north to Nebraska and then south to KC.
3. We must, I repeat MUST visit the 100-ft high mounds in Cahokia, Illinois (east of St. Louis, MO) before leaving the Great Plains of the American mid-west. We either make a side trip soon (please: someone fly into St. Louis to visit us so we can pick you up) or stop by on the way back from visiting Autumn in TN.
4. Do we buy some land in northern Missouri? At nearly 72-yrs I'm not sure I have the physcal strength nor the time to complete that dream. However, something calls me....
5. What do we do with our Windsor, CA home after our renter leaves in June? I mean, other than clean and reduce possessions: rent again, sell, or live out our lives at Oasis (this sounds like the easiest but as Arnold says "No pain, no gain.").
Reflecting on what I just wrote above it sounds more like journal entries that a mission blog. Also, it seems like the President Oaks concept of selecting the best from good and better will come into play; so stop your cryin' you big baby about having all these choices. It's more of a blessing to have the freedome and resources to make these decisions than worry about leaving something undone.
Also, unmentioned above is that the week after General Conference in April Sister Cullen and I will drive and spend a few days visiting my little seen Davis first cousins from Georgia. I feel a visit to the Cahokia Mounds during the front or tail end of that trip in extreme order.
A true mission item: our beloved Mission President Mehr (you know; little Danny who decades ago was in Grandma Maurine Perona's seminary class in Pleasant Hill) recently returned from a week-long conference in Utah. Pres. Mehr related the delight in meeting one-on-one with apostle Elder Soares and Bednar speaking very frankly about how to make this Illinois Historic Sites mission exceedingly successful. Pres. Mehr related two messages to we senior missionaries: Pres. Mehr needs to love us and that we seniors need to be more active in bearing testimonies.
i have learned much about church history in Nauvoo and Carthage and it has been very special to learn weekly from church historians in a BYU Education Week-like structure. I've learned to love our Savoir Jesus Christ for the atoning sacrifice in the Garden of Gethsemene. I've learned to appreciate the prophet and the man Joseph Smith. I've developed a deeper appreciation about the Book of Mormon as a sacred and ancient record written to convince all Jesus is Christ.
Farewell! I hope we see one another soon.
2 comments:
Love your musings. We will be fasting this Sunday for the mission. It reminds us of all the challenges Joseph had getting the Restoration off the ground. And the beat goes on. We can never rest on our laurels. Love you both and look forward to our f
Family reunion this summer.
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