Sunrise On a Mission.

Well, here it is, one shock of a mission call and 9 months later, I find myself in Mesa Arizona. It's a suffocating 110 degrees outside.  Kirk and I have inherited nearly 200 young single adult children!  And it is the most wonderfully, yet challenging experience of our lives . . . next to raising our own family in the gospel.  We left the Idaho sunrises behind (as you saw in my previous post) only to discover there are just as beautiful ones here.  See?   The southwest skys and landscapes are spectacular in their own ways, just as in Idaho.  But I am learning about another type of sunrise.  It is the kind that people experience deep within their souls as they discover the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  At first, I thought these experiences of an increase of "truth and light" only ocurred in investigators as they would come to know through the teaching of the missionaries that there is a better way of life, that they have a Heavenly Father who loves them and has a plan for them to return to live with Him in the eternities.   I am learning that missionaries experience sunrises in their own lives as well, as they come to a more clear understanding of the Atonement.
 And I am a missionary.

About 6am while out running.