Two unrelated missionary stories

Our daughter is an avid couponer, yes it takes a fair amount of time and effort goes into doing this well, but it has been a good investment in stretching her budget and allows her to maintain her food storage.

Her next door neighbors are serving a mission as office couple and returned home for a few days to bury their son, they will return to the mission field.  The Elder was telling our the kids how the young missionaries have a limited budget each month for food.  The have to carefully budget to have enough money so they can buy food to feed themselves the entire month.

Our 10 year grandson hearing this missionary comment turned to his mother and said "Mom, I have to learn to coupon"

Examples are powerful teachers at many levels and are always present.



Another missionary story:

Our washing machine is not functioning, I can do laundry by hand (grumble) but I am not washing towels and sheets by hand in my tiny sink.

So I asked our young missionaries if I could use their washing machine to wash two loads of towels.  Of course these good Elders agreed to help us until ours get fixed.   As you may remember the washing machines are small and take about 1.5 hours to do a full cycle.   So I walked to first load back to our apartment to hang them up and while I was there stirred up a batch of Snickerdoodle cookies and returned to await the 2nd load of wash to be completed.   I opened their oven to cook some cookies as a "mission mom" reward and the oven was disgusting.   Now the temperature gauge is not like the ones you enjoy in America.  They are  gas and you have to guess where to place the temperature and I burned the first batch on the bottom.  The tops were ok and no one will throw away snickerdoodles, we ate them.  The second batch was perfect and I left the remainder of the cookies dough with the and told them to clean the oven and even how to clean the oven.

That same day they came to me and told me the oven was clean, it took them a lot of elbow grease a hour and half and steel wool.  They also suggested the cookies weren't burnt only residue from the dirty oven.

What I loved was missionaries who clean an oven that the prior missionaires have left filthy, because I asked them to and for Snickerdoodles.   I told them their reward was another batch of cookies!!!!!!

(My example of Mercy and Justice and Reward) 
When I told them to come collect their reward they showed me the before and after pictures