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Our Unpredictable Daily Life

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  We wake up every day and wonder what we will do that day. We don’t always know. Last week we helped missionaries by renting a cargo van and driving to the airport to pick up the heavy luggage of the just-arrived new missionaries.  The missionaries themselves took the train to the Eiffel Tower for pictures and lunch, led by some seasoned sisters and elders. Then they took the train to the temple, and they were asked to talk to people on the train on the way there. Since their French is terrible at this point, and they haven’t slept for two days, they were happy to make it to the temple for a picture in front of the Christus. Then they walked to the Versailles chapel (20 minutes) and enjoyed a great dinner and some instructions.  Once Phil and I got the cargo van from the airport to the Versailles chapel, we sliced watermelon, partitioned lasagne, made Caesar salads, and set up chairs and tables with a few other helpers.  But the true tender mercy happened the day be...