Robinson Alaska Mission

             We visited Brother and Sister Hobbs in Port McKenzie on Saturday. It was a chilly, rainy day but a lot of fun. Brother Hobbs had a farm with about 500 bison that he sold. He needed to move most of their things from their home into a large storage trailer. They will live in a small cabin while he builds a large addition onto the cabin. He is building with logs that he harvested from his property and trimmed and split. It really will be a handmade cabin. He worked as a contractor and is very smart, plus he has a lot of equipment.      He is about 5'8" and 140 lbs., but has more strength and energy than anyone I have seen. Some of the missionaries came out to help move the larger things. Here is a picture of them getting ready to move a baby grand piano. I thought how many missionaries does it take to move a piano? More than to change a light bulb. (It took six to move it).       After moving he showed us around ...

       We had another road trip this time east to Glenallen. Glenallen is about 10 miles south of Gulkana where a man was mauled by a bear the day after we were there. It is very rugged looking and remote. We took some summer tires to the Elders from Valdez to trade out their winter tires. Glenallen is 120 miles north of Valdez, but it is part of the same ward. The Elders showed us the ward building while the tires were being changed. They Zoom the meeting in Valdez to the ward building in Glenallen.       Elder Curtis who served as housing coordinator when we first came to Alaska loved traveling to Glenallen. He would go with his wife twice a month to attend Sunday meetings there. He was released as a missionary in November, but came back to Alaska last month to spend the summer at Tolsona Lake, outside of Glenallen. The scenery is so beautiful but I don't know if I could live so close to bears.       Coming home we had beauti...

       The highlight this week was hearing Dan (Lisa) and Summer Hall speak in Sacrament meeting via YouTube. Summer will start online MTC on Wednesday, May 18. Three weeks later she will fly to Chicago to start her mission there. We were happy to hear Summer talk about her excitement to serve a mission. Although serving a mission in the Midwest was the last place she was hoping to go (tornadoes). She talked about how you serve is more important than where you serve. I liked the scripture she shared in D&C 80:3. She also talked about planting seeds, like Christ's love, will affect your companions and members as well as those you contact to meet and teach. She gave a quote from President Hinckley about missionary work that I really liked. (I think President Hinckley related a lot to missionaries from his mission experience)      "I cannot promise you fun. I cannot promise you ease and comfort. I cannot promise you freedom from discouragement, f...