Relationships

As I was thinking about our Mission experiences, and what we have learned, what we have done, and all of that, it came to my mind that one of the  most important things  is the relationships that we form in life, with family, friends, our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I have seen that as we build upon the sure foundation of the Savior and strive to become more like Him each day, all of our relationships will be better

We are just so proud of this little family who continue to work on their  important relationships and have allowed us to be a part of their journey, We love this little girl, Lilly, who gives us hugs and butterfly kisses, and lets Elder Harding take  her into Nursery.

I had to include this picture below because the Ipad regularly cuts off Elder Harding's head in the pictures that I take..... oops!!

I have to remember to to centre it better. Anyways!

Relationships take time and effort, and our relationship with our Companion is so important. One of the advantage of being Senior Missionaries is that we get to go do "stuff", like taking time to eat at this fun restaraunt on the Halifax side of the Harbour. We need these times to connect with each other and just "smell the flowers" once in a while.

Our friend Lesly, has also become dear to our hearts. She likes to have us over for supper, so we can visit and connect.We sure like it as well and stir up some fantastic salads together. I was thrilled to learn that Lelsy  is an art teacher, and she has agreed to give me some  art lessons!  Love it!

The relationships we have made with the young missionaries here is an absolute treasure to us!  One day, Sister Mangelson was teasing Elder Harding and told him he needed to  "get it right", the thing that he was working on in the office... he immediately said, 'Those are fightin' words....we need a planking competition, next transfer, see you then!"

She loved it!  So we had them over for lunch and a friendly little planking competition....  ask Elder Harding next time you see him who won!

As we gathered in the front of the Mission Office for a final picture of our District, the door opened and the mail man came in. We all laughed and encouraged him to join in with us, so he jumped in on the picture. It was pretty funny.

After our last Transfers, we set up the ping pong table and played games....It was great!. Sister Pratt has a fun competitive side! We love her and President Pratt, who was unfortunately sick this week and unable to join in, but he will be back!

We love these departing Missionaries so much and wish them all well.... Sister Shannon, who would drop by the office for a chat and a laugh and to check for mail.

Sister Drew, who loved to call up Elder Harding every day and ask for advice on everything,

 Sister Gochnour, who was always full of smiles and love ...

and Elder Erickson, one of the AP's, a stellar young man who stepped up and stepped in, with a smile and a laugh that was contagious.

Most important is our Relationship with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.  All of these wonderful individuals that we have met here on our Mission have added light and love to our days, and have taught us more about how to Love as Jesus Christ and God do. We may have done some teaching, but we have also done a whole lot of learning!