This afternoon I got a text message from my favorite brother saying that Elder Rasband, from the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, had tweeted a picture featuring our daughter Heather who is currently living in Mumbai, India. So, I went to Twitter and there it was! I’ve no idea if she knows that she’s gotten world-wide exposure or not as it’s just getting daylight in Mumbai as I write this. She has been very active in charity / NGO work the past couple of years she’s in India. She’s worked with the migrant children on a weekly basis. She’s helped with teaching the blind boys how to swim. She’s helped distribute sanitary hygiene products to rural women in India. And those are just the things that come immediately to mind. Thanks, Heather, and congratulations for your great work in India. She’s returning to the US in early December, somewhat reluctantly.

We’ve checked out of our hotel in Greenwood, South Carolina and checked into our hotel in Greenville, South Carolina, up close to the Greenville – Spartanburg Airport (GSP) where we will board an airplane to fly to Atlanta tomorrow morning. The flight leaves at 7:44am, so we need to be at the airport by about 5:45am to drop off the rental car and check in for our flight. It’s a short flight to Atlanta followed by about a three-hour layover. Then we’re off to Honolulu on a ten-hour flight. That’s about two hours longer than the flight from Honolulu to Atlanta, probably because we’re flying against the jet stream and prevailing winds. As evidenced by the picture to the right, the weather has been spectacular for this time of the year. It’s been cold in the mornings, warming up comfortably by late morning, and then cooling of at night.

Nina and I got together with Marsha’s children, daughter Robin and son Brett, along with Nina’s (and Marsha’s) sister Pam and Marsha’s husband Billy for dinner before driving to Greenville. Robin, Brett, and Billy are in the throes of figuring out the obituary, mortuary and crematorium services, the life celebration, handling all of the governmental paperwork, and everything else that has to be done when someone dies. Some of this can become quite overwhelming for Billy and the others. Our prayers are with them. The hour or so we were at dinner seemed to provide a nice respite from all of that stuff.

So, in the morning we go back to our real world, get back to work on our Visitors’ Center schedule (and our diets … I’m sure I’ve gained five pounds in the five days we’ve been here), and concentrate on finishing up the last two months of our mission. ‘Til next time, ta ta for now!