tender mercies... again

Reading this morning's paper

we saw that in the state that missionary jack is serving in- Alagoa, Brazil- (brazil has states, just like the U.S. His mission is called the Maceio mission because the main city where the mission president lives & the capitol of Alagoa is Maceio) there has been severe flooding. Brett & I scoured the Internet for more information. We knew it was probably a long shot that it was flooding in his town- but just in case- we woke up the kids & knelt in family prayer.

10 minutes later-

we got a phone call from the pediatric Neurology department.

Hailey has an appointment on Monday.

smiles

A couple hours after that missionary Jack wrote & yes- he is fine. Better than fine, his companion is a John Wayne fan too- now they spend a good part of their day talking the talk & quoting the Duke. There is a fifteen year old boy in the local congregation named Michael Jackson & a less active member name Elton John that they have been tracking down.

Again-

I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried people!

Then to top it all off

We had costco pizza for dinner

and I came home to find this picture in my inbox.

Some days are just better than others!