Not very often does a Mom get to participate in her son's mission. While Josh was gone a very sweet lady wrote me a note telling me how her life had been forever changed when a tall, blonde young man knocked on her door. We began to write to each other and she eventually came to Salt Lake City to be sealed to her husband. She stayed with us for a "fortnight" and it was wonderful. We had the opportunity to watch as Josh was proxy for her husband and she was sealed to the love of her life for time and all eternity.
This year at Christmas we were blessed to have her return and spend an 'American Holiday' with us. She taught us how to make authentic shortbread and enjoyed every single thing we did. I have never had a more gracious guest (and I have had a lot.) I can still picture her sitting at the small table in the apartment kitchen doing crosswords.
Margaret came into my life at a time when I was missing having thought provoking conversations with my own mother. She has provided a loving 'Nana' for all my children, not just Josh, who brought to us this special, eternal friend. Our friendship was 'reborn' of missionary effort and a desire for the same things. C.S. Lewis said "Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling of that something which you were born desiringk and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?"
This is my forever friend Margaret, a beacon of positive light in my life. Thank you Margaret, thank you. I love you forever and always.
