Lost Wallet

One day when we were on our mission in Tallahassee, Florida, we had been out visiting people in Madison, Florida where we were assigned for our whole mission. On our way home, we decided to buy an ice cream cone. Claude took out his wallet to pay for the ice cream. He decided to leave his wallet out of his pocket. I set it on my lap and forgot about it. As I got out of the car, the wallet fell on the ground. We didn’t realize it was missing until the next morning. We looked and looked for it. When we couldn’t find it we canceled our credit card, but we didn’t know what to do about his Driver’s License.

A member of the church lived a couple of houses away from us. A lady who lived across from us found the wallet outside in her yard. She believed a dog had carried it into her yard. She noticed a paper in the wallet with the church’s name on it (Claude's temple recommend.) She took the wallet over to the church member’s house and he brought it back to us. Everything was in the wallet. We felt the Lord was watching over us. We felt so blessed.
--Joyce

Missionary Service

Dad always wanted to serve a mission. He and mom planned to go after he retired and their children were married. Dad was offered early retirement at the age of 62 and he was very excited about serving a mission. The only problem was that I was not married. When I decided to serve a mission also, dad was thrilled. We all sent in our papers and prepared for a mission at the same time. We went into the Missionary Training Center (MTC) on the same day. I loved being in the MTC with my parents. We saw each other at the devotionals and they would come over from the senior MTC to visit me on p-day's.

I also enjoyed serving at the same time with my parents because, since we were all missionaries, we could empathize with each other--although I did think that it was a little unfair when they got to go to the Epcot Center while they were attending the dedication of the Orlando Florida Temple. I occasionally wondered if they were on a mission or on a vacation. Mom and Dad were wonderful missionaries and they set a great example for me.

--Michelle