We are leaving this....
for this!
(Thanks to Elder Scott Zimmerman, serving in the Madrid temple, for this photo he took on Tenerife recently.)
(Thanks to Elder Scott Zimmerman, serving in the Madrid temple, for this photo he took on Tenerife recently.)
We are flying off day after tomorrow. We are 10 days short of 1 year since our first call to Scotland. Our Canary Island call came 5 weeks later. It has been so long that I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that we are actually going. I am scared and excited at the same time. Right now we shuffle stuff in suitcases trying to keep them in the 50 lb. weight limit. The vitamins I am taking weigh a lot.
Our friend Linda Hoffman, serving in the Monterey Mexico temple, sent me the following and I believe it describes our journey. We are looking forward to what is on the other side of the NEW DOOR! And forgetting life on the other side of the door is probably good.
This explains it all--
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.
Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
It's not aging, it's the damn door! Thank goodness for studies like this.
Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was?
Turns out, doors themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next.
Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new locale.
It's not aging, it's the damn door! Thank goodness for studies like this.
LOVE the two photos! And Linda's words made me laugh. God bless you, Mike & Charmaine! May this be a time of joy.
ReplyDeleteWOW-EE-WOW-WOW! What patience you have. YOU ARE PREPARED. Blessed is the mission where you serve. I was looking over your paintings on your blog again and I am truly amazed at how wondrous they are. Thrilling. Life will be much less anxiety-ridden now we know about the damn door.
ReplyDeleteLinda definitely made me laugh. The photo of Tenerife looks like the Garden of Eden don't you think? I know you are nervous, and I would be worried about you if your weren't, but what a fabulous experience you are in for. Now if I can just get Gary to sell some toys so we can serve a mission in a few years as well. Think he's hoping the Church will ask us to sail around from island to island somewhere on a mission. I am going to especially love hearing about the Canaries since we've been there twice.
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ReplyDeleteDoes this mean you actually have an apartment now? Was all that snow in Madrid? You must be glad to get to the island. Is there anything else to wait for? We still have plenty of snow here and cold weather. But they say it will warm up to 50 this weekend for the first time this year. Bob went to the HOA meeting tonight and he heard that they have commitments on all the rest of the lots. The building may be all finished by the time you get back. Isn't that amazing!
Love reading your updates, especially about the wonderful members from around the world that you are meeting.
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