Lessons Learned

I love that as 6o-something-year-old missionaries we are still learning lessons that we somehow missed in all our previous years.  We came here thinking we would be the ones doing the teaching but in reality we are doing the learning.

One thing I never ever wanted to do was to be Primary Chorister.  After watching the sisters here struggling with singing time I felt impressed to call and offer to help a couple of times a month.  Actually, I couldn't believe I was offering.  Of course the Primary President and her counselor jumped at the chance for help.  In fact they were more than happy to have me do it every week.
We may need to negotiate that since they really do need to learn how to do it.  I will say that I was pleasantly surprised at how fun it was.  I realized that the Spirit was prompting me to get past my attitude of "I just need to get through these 2 hours a week" and have more of an attitude of "how can I help these sisters."  We are always told that in order to enjoy our mission we need to forget ourselves.

We had a baptism today of an 9-yr-old girl that is in my class.  The first speaker was a Korean-speaking missionary, speaking in English which was translated into Spanish by a sister in the branch while being translated into Chinese for an investigator by a sister missionary sitting in front of me.  It was amazing and the Spirit was quite strong.  I love this branch!

Yesterday we went to Queens Museum at Flushing Meadows.  Last time I was there was for the '64 World's Fair and I was 11.  Little did I know back then that I would be living here one day.

Speaking of living here, the city of New York has a new driver--yours truly.  I'm getting a little more confident in my ability and, I might add, a little more assertive in my driving.  I like the feeling of freedom it gives me to not be dependent on Marc to take me shopping.  (He likes not having to go wait in dress stores for me.)

We love and miss our family and friends but are so grateful to be living here and learning new life-lessons at our "advanced age."

Flushing Meadows- Unisphere

Elder Williams and Sister Shapiro (aka Aunt Debbie)