Sharing the space...

Marc on our missionary's trail

 

When we got word that our week’s stay at Bear Lake was cancelled, we had no idea where we would go.

But we had to use our week or lose it and the exchange fee we’d paid for it.

The problem was we had three days to make a decision and the options were few.

It was already August.

Everything we looked at was only available in early November or out of the United States which with Coronavirus taking over the planet made that unworkable.

We looked and looked until we found one that fit our timetable.

It was in Pinetop/Lakeside, Arizona, which sounded familiar.

I couldn’t figure out why for a few minutes.

Oh, yeah. That is where our granddaughter was sent to serve her mission.

My heart leapt a little.

I realized we couldn’t and shouldn’t invade her mission space but it would still be interesting to see where she was and had been. (Turned out she was transferred a couple of weeks before we arrived in Pinetop.)

But we could walk in the woods and enjoy the beauty.

We could breathe the same fresh air and revel in the joy she'd found there.

We got a list of places she frequented while she was there, a diner, a soda shop, and a Mexican dinner place.

We found the church and the room she used for a missionary broadcast with her companion.

We walked the trails near to where she told us she lived.

We counted the stars in the sky, 

It was wonderful, sharing the same space.

It was kind of surreal. We'd driven a lot of miles to get where she wasn't anymore, spent a bit of cash and even came close to getting lost a time or two.

I don't regret a minute of it. 

P.S. Samantha was reassigned back to Pinetop/Lakeside shortly after we left. Curious, don't you think?