Power of prayer works

 I would be remiss if I did not publicly thank the Lord for His generous blessings and protection today. 

In the morning I looked at my day and asked for divine help in achieving my goals. I asked for help in the traffic, driving, getting to my places on time, and just plain merging on to heavy traffic roads. The timing turned out perfectly every time and I could get on and off and into traffic and didn't even come close to the pedestrians. Power of prayer works.

Then I asked for help with the Thanksgiving dinner and being able to time my hot potatoes to stay hot and my banana cream pie to stay cold. How serendipitous was it that Sister Mondragon asked the custodian to leave the door unlocked to a room with a sink and refrigerator (having seen it will now become part of future planning) and then she kindly brought me a bowl to whip my whipping cream in that I had forgotten in my early morning drive to work. Power of prayer works.

The printer. Yes, I prayed over the printer (which doesn't like me). It printed out the bills and work product just fine first thing in the morning. But when I wanted my letters to the grands printed. Nope, it spit out one and half hour later another two of the colored first page. Then I had to run off to help with the Thanksgiving Day lunch. We had a really great lunch with all the senior missionaries and some mission presidents who had stayed over from another meeting, and a few other friends. When I came back to the office there were 5 new copies of my color first page and 5 copies of my black and white fun page! Power of prayer works.

I came home and addressed and stamped all my envelopes to the Grands, and Daniel, and the Later children (whom I have adopted - for at least letter writing). I asked God for the ability to preserver and finish my goals for the day. Sister Whitaker kindly bought me a bottle of water when I was standing in a shop melting. Power of prayer works.

Sister Despain wanted to go see Bernice the lady who has a little shop that she sews in. She is expert at many things and tailoring is one of them. Sherri has some pillows, dresses, and Christmas presents to get and I wanted to get a bag for Lorinda the same shape and size as one she let me have last April when we went to Senegal. Sherri was the navigator and the roads were just as chaotic as usual and she encouraged me when to go. When to go around, and when to wait. Unknown to her my prayer was to have the knowledge of timing to nose in front, wait, or go around. Power of prayer works.

I had such a success that I when I thanked Heavenly Father, I told Him how grateful I was and that the assistance I received must have taken quite a bit of time and that I would be happy to be of help to someone else. Tonight Sister Mondragon needed help to get her share of the stockings for the Accra Mission sewn up. I told her no problem, I would take care of it. Power of prayer works just fine!