July 28, 2015 - Tuesday in Carthage

It was a very warm and humid morning as the day unfolded.  I was able to take a long walk this morning after mom and I had our morning devotional and mom decided to do a super cleaning of the jail.  I got back just a little before 7am and cleaned the attached summer kitchen and set up some schedules before making my final preparations for work.  

I did have an interesting encounter with our FM missionaries.  We had a group of missionaries from Chicago who arrived, unannounced, at the visitors center this morning at around 7:30am.  They apparently had a temple appointment in Nauvoo at 9:00am.  These FM missionaries decided to give them a tour of the jail without working through me.  They had to stop their work of mowing and yard clean-up to do the tour and that caused the yard work to proceed during our busier morning open hours.  

I was understanding about their desire to take care of these missionaries, but they missed the critical point that if you don't make advanced reservations for a tour outside of normal operating hours, you may not get a tour.  That point was made later on with our FM missionaries and I don't think this will be a problem, going forward, with them..  However, the principle of accountability and consequence should never be underestimated or overlooked.

The rest of the day was pleasant, especially my conversation with our CPA back home.  We had a situation come up with a bookkeeping procedure that we were not comfortable with and the problem was addressed and resolved to the point that we were most satisfied with.  We have been so richly blessed as we have been out on this mission to have the business run so smoothly and lovingly as it has with our precious family members.  When it came to this one situation, we discussed the options and came to the conclusion that going in this specific direction  would be in our very best interest.

What a great blessing it is to counsel together and come up with the right decisions!  We can never compromise our standing with our Heavenly Father.  Especially as we pray for His Son's expeditious return!