And baby makes four

The 2019 Challis Baby Club is complete (maybe?) with the arrival of Phillip Jon Nauman on March 30, about 5:00am.  Jaynie was scheduled for an induction on April 11 if he hadn’t shown up by then.  He was a thoughtful little guy and saved his mom twelve-last-days-of-pregnancy-that-seem-like-twenty-four.   It was nice that Elder Challis and I were already close by helping Lindsey with the twins on our p-day as she returned to her teaching job.   So I “moved camp” to Jaynie’s to care for Henley and Hal, Friday night through Sunday.  Then Jaynie and Ki brought Phillip home.  Happy family!   

            It was hard to leave the babies and come back to the library, but I got to help a patron today by tending her baby.  I guess that service would go in the “other” category on our report. The young mother thought her baby boy would be content sitting on her lap while she worked.  He wasn’t.  When I volunteered to “walk him around,”  she didn’t even hesitate.  Baby and I spent quite a lot of time looking out the window at the traffic and people on West Temple.

            Both of us are having to “step it up” a bit at the library.  Elder Challis will take over scheduling--no small task with so many CSMs (Church Service Missionaries.)  I am on the “ten-minute-training team.”   Training is done in our daily zone prayer meetings on a variety of research and technology subjects.  I would much rather be the trainee and not the trainer.  I keep thinking of the Shel Silverstein poem that makes the point, “If you have to do the dishes and you break the dishes, maybe they won’t ask you anymore.” 

Sunshine-for a minute

Hal and Henley meet Phillip at the hospital

Phillip, Elle, Luke--just missing Seeley in the Club 

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            Winter came in with another glancing blow, especially in Salt Lake, where the heavy, wet snow broke tree branches.  The flowers on Temple Square are fighting back, though, insisting that it’s spring.  Beautiful array! 

            I know I’ve mentioned it before, but it is amazing how many missionaries are serving in this mission, all doing their seemingly small parts, to make a large and wonderful whole. We were reminded of that in Monday devotional when some of the missionaries from the office spoke.  Elder and Sister Parks have the primary responsibility for housing—that’s their mission.  Temporal, maybe, but also, apparently, spiritual.  “All are edified together.”