Trip to BeerSheva, November 9, 2019

On November 9th, after church and a potluck lunch that we set up and cleaned up, we drove to Beer Sheva to visit Anna, a 70 year old member of the branch who lives in a nursing home and is blind and nearly deaf.  We first picked up Tanya, who speaks Russian, and she communicated with Anna for us.  Lee played church songs on the piano, we read scriptures, and Lee gave Anna a blessing.

Next, we drove to another city to visit Julia and for Lee to give her a blessing before her major surgery the next week.  We had a great time visiting--Julia is a member of 6 months, but very stalwart and faithful.  The next week there was rocket fire between the Gaza Strip and Tel Avivi and Beer Sheva, so her surgery was cancelled until the next week.  In all, we spent 8 hours on this visit and 5 of them were driving.  We were pretty exhausted by the time we got home, but we were so pleased that we could be of service.  We were able to go because the students were in Greece, so we didn't have choir practice on the Sabbath.

The next week at church we celebrated Liviu's birthday and he seemed quite pleased.