We are so blessed to have this mission call and be here in beautiful South Carolina.  We have a wonderful Mission President, President Holm and his wife to lead the mission and to have the privilege to work with them.  They are truly examples of hard work, patience and love for each of us.  They love our missionaries and do all they can to help them and to lift them to be all that they can be.
Being a mission president is not a job for the weary or the faint of heart.  He travels to the far reaches of the mission on a regular basis, organizes meetings, interviews, firesides, handles all kinds of calls from missionaries and from members, stake presidents, bishops and branch presidents.  He reviews letters from missionaries, signs a plethora a documents and letters and gives instruction and guidance.
We all think he is amazing.  His wife loves the missionaries as if they were her own children and sheds plenty of tears when they go home.  We all love them!

The top picture is from our goodbye luncheon with the Wakefield's who have completed their mission and will be leaving us.  The bottom picture is of our two new temporary senior missionaries who will be replacing the Benedict's who left about a month ago.  They will serve in Goose Creek which is down very close to Charleston.

As always the week vanished with so much on our plates to take care of.  Doyle spent lots of time putting together some of the furniture we purchased for missionary apartments as well as making repairs to some of the donated items.  He really does enjoy it.  He's at his best when he can put in about half a day in the office (mornings) and then do physical stuff in the afternoons.  He's always been like that for as long as I've known him.  So...being the loving wife that I am, I try to make sure that we have those kinds of projects to keep him active.  It's not hard to do when we need so much furniture and other things for our apartments.

Today we met with a street vendor that we found one day in Orangeburg and picked up more furniture from him for our senior apartments.  I have spent time in the regular furniture stores and I'm amazed at the cost of new furniture.  It's simply too overpriced.

Pictured above are our Sisters Assistants, Sister Brand and Sister Lundhom.  They live with Sister Rothman who is our office receptionist and 1st class mail distributor.  All the missionaries love her because she is so diligent in getting their mail and packages to them.

This afternoon we are just hanging out here at the 5th wheel. I'm doing some laundry and writing the blog.  Doyle is relaxing outside in his lounge chair.  He put in a hard week and I suggested that he just go outside and relax.  I didn't have to make that suggestion twice.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day.  I'll be away from my children and grandchildren and my Mom is gone, so it feels strange.  But I'm grateful to have had a mother who loved me and raised me to the very best of her ability.  We always got along very well and I can say without reservation that she was there for me when I needed someone to talk to about anything.  I never felt unloved or unwanted.  In today's society that in itself is a huge accomplishment.

I hope all Mom's reading this have a wonderful day tomorrow and that you are blessed in your role as mothers.

Blessings y'all!!