What do senior couples do to keep busy? (anyone who knows us knows better than to ask that!)

                When we received our mission call, our assignment was “Young Single Adult Support”.  Exactly what that was we could sort of imagine.  We now have a pretty clear idea of what that is.  

What we really had no idea about was what other things we could do to support the Belgium/Netherlands mission and missionaries.  About once a month we have an opportunity to do something new to be of help.  I’m going to start keeping a list of those activities for those of you contemplating a senior mission…so you’ll know how many ways there are to serve!

1.  We gave a fireside at the mission wide monthly Young Adult meeting, discussing the scripture 2 Nephi 31:20.

2. We inspect missionary apartments for cleanliness and maintenance……and found this, a “cereal box wall”! 

3. Joe is editing part of a missionary’s life story for him.

4. We taught the missionaries how to sew on a button and mend a seam (Elder Thornock is using his practice seam and button as a tie tack!). 

5. We have cleaned missionary apartments when the lease was up and the missionaries moved out. (not my favorite activity but so fun to spend the day working with our other senior couple friends!)

6. Joe and I replaced all the treads on a narrow, winding staircase in a missionary apartment.  

 

7. I marked Books of Mormon with the answers to “Questions of the Soul” (Preach My Gospel, pg. 107) for distribution by the missionaries.  

  

8. Joe spent 2 days helping build partitions and shelves in the new storage unit for the mission.

9. I spent a day packing 75 bags with missionary office orders and mail from home to be delivered to each missionary at zone conference.  (and had a great time visiting with my sister missionary friends!)

10. We’ve gone joint teaching with the young missionaries.

11. We went to the mission office in Leiden and picked up Christmas packages for the missionaries from home and delivered them Dec. 23.  (an entire car full! Yea for families!)

12.  Monitored a missionary’s thumb which he very neatly sliced the end from while chopping vegetables!  (it’s looking very good now for which we are all grateful!)

 These things we do along with our Young Adult assignments.  We love the variety of the work!  It keeps us challenged and busy. We get to associate with so many wonderful souls.  And most importantly we feel that we have a purpose and a contribution to make.  We are loving our mission!