Donna's Journey

Monday, I received a call to serve as a part-time missionary as a patron assistant. The call is for one year, starting 1 July, two Sundays a month, at the BYU Family History Center. What an awesome opportunity!

Today, I went to the Sister Missionary store and bought a pair of Dansko Lotus Mary Jane shoes.

After my last conference, I hurt for days after standing 12 hours in my dress shoes, though I had comfortable shoes, Easy Spirit shoes. However, the long hours just tilted my back enough to cause me pain and suffering. Since I will be working as patron assistant for long hours, and all the conferences I do, I decided that I needed to purchase some good sensible shoes that I can stand in for a long time.

Last night, seven families gathered to celebrate the Hope Chest Journey of their mothers and daughters, thirty-nine people in all, complete with daughters, mothers and their invited guests: fathers, brothers, a grandfather, a few grandmothers, an aunt, and a great grandmother. We had a family night potluck dinner, followed by the program of each set of daughters and their mothers sharing their experiences and displaying their works. There were cookies, cakes, button pies, crochet items, handmade dolls, baby quilts, cross stitch, a new web site, hand made greeting cards, a home sewn dress, a pot with gardening tools, a drawing, a poem recitation, and pot of soil with seeds in it. One mom shared that her newly diagnosed diabetic five year old daughter was learning to test her own blood sugar and had learned to be a good sport dealing with her disease. That same family even graced us with mother and daughters all singing the preamble to the Constitution of the United States to end the program. They all looked so lovely.