3 Feb 2021, Wednesday
3 Feb 2021, Wednesday
Prioritized Daily Task
8 AM - Jani brought Tylee over this morning to help Debbie do some spring cleaning of the house.
9 AM Legacy Center
4 PM Pibcoa Clinic, Debbie's appointment
I got Debbie and my airline tickets to fly back south today after I heard from Beth when she and the children are leaving Orlando on March 10th. We leave the same morning.
I emailed Sister Alexandra McAlpin today:
Things to be thankful for: Early missionaries in the South who went without purse or scrip had a few more challenges than you, your dad, or I had.
The descriptive narration of Elders Horr and Atkins of the Mississippi is typical of the hardships of missionaries in 1898.
"We started out for Jackson county on December 14th. We experienced many hardships on the way, spending Christmas Eve night under a tree, while the rain continued to fall on us. While sleeping here our umbrellas caught on fire. We pushed on holding meetings on the way. Arriving in our county, we failed to get entertainment, so had to sleep out the first night. We then labored in Pascagoula on the spur of the Gulf of Mexico. Here we had to sleep out again, but finish tracking the city, and then went in the country wading through water which at that time was all over the country. It was very thinly settled. On one occasion we went two days and nights without food until we were so weak, we could scarcely travel, but we were blessed with one meal a day for six days, sleeping out five nights in all."
Elder Gordon B Hinckley once summarized missionaries’ treatment in the South. "A few southerners accepted their testimony, but many more rose in bitterness against them. These early missionaries endured much persecution. Some were stripped and beaten, some were murdered by hateful enemies, but with faith, they persevered. Eventually, thousands upon thousands joined the church. This statement reveals one reason so many elders stayed in the South to convert the honest in heart who would accept their message. Theirs was a labor of love and service to perfect strangers. After nearly twenty-five years of intensive missionary work by 1,689 elders, the Church membership in the South reached an all-time high in 1900 of 10,000."
We love you and our prayers are always for you, your companion, and your investigators.
Grandpa and Grandma Debbie
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