New Beginning

Now we begin again!!! Yes, it is the beginning of the first full month of our mission and the completion of month 23.  Only 22 months of service left. Another new beginning is the first monthly military relations report submitted to the Military Relations Department in Salt Lake City.  It felt great to complete our first report and have good things to report and in record time.  All that was left to do and push the submit button so we did.  Then reality hit as the error message appears on the screen with some message that the report was not submitted and we would need to start over!  THE GOSPEL IS TRUE!  What a wonderful opportunity to get to rewrite and be sure that we reported the right things. Yes, this is the first Monday of December which means it is Wax Your Car Day, according to the calendar we received from the mission home. Elder Sturgis got right on it while I completed the second version of our report. He began looking (hmm, do I really want to use this word?) through the El Paso phone book for a car wash/waxing business close to home (all this while doing our laundry and washing dishes, too).  Another blessing, we found one!  After $25 and much elbow bending trying to get his wallet out of his back pocket, the assignment by our mission president was accomplished!!!  We WILL be shopping around before next month to find a better deal.  The end of another day in the our senior missionary saga.