There is not a picture to go along with this story but the story is still worth telling! Learning when and what to feed missionaries has not come as easily as hoped for. There isn't a manual on what meetings they need food, or what to feed them for a meal, and or what to feed them for breaks at the various meetings they attend.
After looking through pictures of past meetings, after asking the assistants multiple times of what, when and where, it came down to crunch time. The missionaries needed lunch for a training meeting to be held in a couple of days. There would be 50 missionaries needing lunch. There seemed to be a shortage of people to help with this lunch. Wanting and thinking it had to be all homemade with a beautiful centerpiece and maybe even a theme, panic set in. The reality was that it had to be simplified, big time.
So swallowing pride, it was necessary at this point to let go of the idea and plans to have a delicious home cooked meal for the wonderful and much loved Elders and Sisters. It was going to have to be the closest Dominoes pizza that would deliver. Ouch. Hopefully the missionaries would survive. Pride was such an issue.
The church address was given to Dominoes and we awaited their arrival. They showed up and the deliverer "just happened" to be a darling woman who used to be an active member of the church but had not been coming for quite awhile due to a rough patch in her life. She said her name was Alexis and that she had been wanting to come back to church and just hadn't done anything about it. She said she wanted her husband to learn about the church and also that her father was recently baptized in Houston. Also, the missionary couple that saved the day in helping out, happened to be in the ward where she now lives. There aren't words to describe what was happening as Alexis was eager to share her phone number and address with the Sr. missionary couple and expressing her desire to come back now.
Coincidence?? Absolutely not. It was meant for her to deliver the pizza that day to the church which she used to go to. Incredible. The Lord knows all and is so very aware of all of us.
From now on Pizza won't be such a bad choice after all. Who knows? The next person to deliver pizza may be someone waiting for an invitation to come or to come back. It was such a gift to be apart of something so small yet something so big.
#Liftandlove
By the way, the pizza was a huge HIT! No more pride....at least regarding feeding missionaries.
Not every day you see an armadillo on the side of the road enjoying the sunlight. :)
Here are some pictures from Sunday.
Pictures from Baptism on Sunday.
After looking through pictures of past meetings, after asking the assistants multiple times of what, when and where, it came down to crunch time. The missionaries needed lunch for a training meeting to be held in a couple of days. There would be 50 missionaries needing lunch. There seemed to be a shortage of people to help with this lunch. Wanting and thinking it had to be all homemade with a beautiful centerpiece and maybe even a theme, panic set in. The reality was that it had to be simplified, big time.
So swallowing pride, it was necessary at this point to let go of the idea and plans to have a delicious home cooked meal for the wonderful and much loved Elders and Sisters. It was going to have to be the closest Dominoes pizza that would deliver. Ouch. Hopefully the missionaries would survive. Pride was such an issue.
The church address was given to Dominoes and we awaited their arrival. They showed up and the deliverer "just happened" to be a darling woman who used to be an active member of the church but had not been coming for quite awhile due to a rough patch in her life. She said her name was Alexis and that she had been wanting to come back to church and just hadn't done anything about it. She said she wanted her husband to learn about the church and also that her father was recently baptized in Houston. Also, the missionary couple that saved the day in helping out, happened to be in the ward where she now lives. There aren't words to describe what was happening as Alexis was eager to share her phone number and address with the Sr. missionary couple and expressing her desire to come back now.
Coincidence?? Absolutely not. It was meant for her to deliver the pizza that day to the church which she used to go to. Incredible. The Lord knows all and is so very aware of all of us.
From now on Pizza won't be such a bad choice after all. Who knows? The next person to deliver pizza may be someone waiting for an invitation to come or to come back. It was such a gift to be apart of something so small yet something so big.
#Liftandlove
By the way, the pizza was a huge HIT! No more pride....at least regarding feeding missionaries.
Here are some pictures from Sunday.
Pictures from Baptism on Sunday.