Ladies Magazine Design March-April 2014 | Page 26

Missionary Thank You — Vonda Guidry Thank You, Mothers Memorial! W ithin a couple days of arriving in Spain for our first term as missionaries, we were blessed to find a beautiful fully-furnished apartment. “Fullyfurnished” meant silverware, linens, plates, pictures on the walls—and even toilet paper! A Spaniard couple had bought this apartment then a few months later bought a house in the country; the wife decided she did not want to take anything from the apartment—she wanted all new things in her new home. Most apartments in Spain came furnished with a stove, refrigerator, and washer but no dryer. We had a tiny utility porch off the kitchen with a clothesline strung a few inches from the edge. I inherited my short stature so this was a challenge for me. It never failed that a clothing item or two would slip out of my grasp and flo ]Y