Dear families of our Georgia Atlanta North missionaries...
We hope you are all doing well! Along with attaching our missionary newsletter to keep you up-to-date, I thought I'd share a few other things that may interest you:
*Clean-up following the flooding here continues--especially work shoring up bridges and cleaning out basements. Gwinnett and Cherokee counties were the two areas of our mission most affected by flooding. I read that this is being called a flood that you'd only see once in 500-years...no one was prepared for such a thing. Ten people died and the damages total over 250-million dollars. Very sad and difficult for many homeowners in the area--especially in the neighboring Atlanta Mission. We're grateful for any service the missionaries were able to render. (See Mormon Times article below.) There's been so much suffering...with the other natural disasters occurring worldwide this week.
*The "sick calls" are subsiding a bit in the mission. At least 1/3 of the missionaries called me with similiar symptoms...but most are well now. Please encourage them--as I always do--to carry hand sanitizer and to get their seasonal flu shots right away. Thank you for your support! We'll hear soon as to what Missionary Medical wants us to do regarding the H1N1 vaccine...then let you know.
*The weather here is gorgeous! Brisk mornings and evenings...with an average temperature of 75-degrees during the day! "Maybe" it makes up for the hot, humid summer!
*Nancy and Dale Murphy (former Atlanta Braves star) were here to do a fireside for our mission area. They spoke first to the missionaries...then to members and their friends not of our faith--and many wanted to "know more" afterward. The highlight for me was our 131 missionaries singing "We'll Bring the World His Truth"--it was an amazing few moments that brought tears to many eyes. (I attached a write-up on the event from the Mormon Times.) Nancy Murphy told them that their family motto is, "I can do hard things"...and that's true for missionaries, too, as missionary work holds many challenges as well as blessings.
President King is doing something different with the zone interviews this week (Athens, Lilburn East and West, Marietta) and next week (Roswell & Sugar Hill). They're outside--and so is the training! You'll have to ask your missionaries to tell you where they were held...plus what they did and learned... Spanish Council for all Spanish-speaking missionaries is also next week.
We appreciate you writing your missionaries weekly--they love positive, uplifting news from home as much as you love hearing from them!
"The missionaries need our faith and prayers. Pray fervently every day for their safety and protection, for this is one very important way we all can support them in accomplishing their essential assignment of proclaiming the gospel to all the world." ~Elder M. Russell Ballard, Ensign, July 2003. We are grateful for all of your prayers offered in behalf of these fine missionaries whom we love...and their investigators.
Best wishes to you and your families...
Sister King
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