How Blessed We Are

Justin spent most of the day with another member of the church putting cement board around an older lady's trailer home. He said he house was mismatched furniture from garage sales. He felt terrible when he took her to Lowe's to buy supplies. He doesn't think it made it quite in her budget.

Tonight was our ward Christmas party. It was good, but because it is such a new ward, I don't think have quite fallen into the "traditional" everyone comes Christmas party. It will get there. They did let anyone who wanted to participate be apart of the Nativity. Coda didn't want anything to do with it, but Gracie jumped right in. She ended up being an donkey...or something that crawled on it's hands and knees and had ears. It was cute.

At dinner we sat with some friends of ours. He is currently looking for a job, but the family is full of spirit.

After dinner we went to Walmart, where we ran into another member who wasn't able to make it to the party because her kids were all sick. She looked like she hadn't slept in days. When we were checking out, I saw that she didn't have any bags. She said she must have taken her card out of her wallet and would have to go all the way home and come back into town. As she walked away, Justin and I quickly discussed whether or not to pay for her stuff and then she could reimburse us. She disappeared quickly out the doors. As we were walking towards our car, I saw her wondering around. I caught up to her and told her we would be willing to loan her the money if she didn't want to make the late night trip. She then informed us that she couldn't do that because they had no money and would be paying with a credit card. She kept looking around so I finally asked if she was lost. She said she couldn't find her car. Thinking she was maybe just an isle or so off I let her be. After Justin loaded our few things in the trunk I noticed she still hadn't found her car. We watched her weave between the aisles and finally caught up with her. We drove her around the parking lot until she found her car.

After that we went to pick up the new license plates from a friend of ours. He had just lost his brother to suicide and would be flying out of state to attend the funeral, leaving his wife who cannot drive and baby girl for four days.

I just don't know realize how blessed we are.