We have the best job in the world. We get paid for traveling, visiting with people and get to read books, books and more books. We work for Pacific Press Publishing Association on the Intermountain Bookmobile. We travel from Montana to Minnesota down to Texas and back to Idaho. We do this twice a year. We also get to attend one or two campmeetings a year. We find friends that we haven't seen for years. We visit places that we have never been to before. Did I say that we actually get paid for this?
This is definitely the most fun job we have ever had. We have been blessed in so many ways, daily. The people we have met are wonderful. I can't think of a single person that we have met that we haven't liked. God has been with us every mile of these trips and sent His angels to protect us and take us safely.
This is also the hardest work that we have done. We work long hours and are gone from home, family and friends for months at a time. When we get sick, there's no comfortable bed to relax in until we feel better. If we go to the doctor, it's a different one in every town.
Even little things like getting our mail, becomes a big thing since we only get it at the end of the three months. Can you imagine how long it takes to go through your mail then?
But we love it. We are so excited that God saved this experience for us to end our working career. We are blessed daily and even hourly. We don't have any idea of all the blessings that God has given us during the last several years, while serving Him this way.
In 1995 we were able to attend the General Conference session in St Louis, Missouri. One day while we were there, I looked around at the hundreds and hundreds of people that were in the lobby at that time. I realized that every person there was a child of the King and that hopefully someday everyone of us would be in Heaven together. Why wait until Heaven to get to know them? I want to start getting acquainted with as many as possible now. That's what we do on each of these trips. I love it.
When we first started this job, several people told us what a fun job this sounded like and they would like to go with us. Let me tell you, that truck just isn't big enough for all of us, so I have kept this journal to share with you the joys and tribulations of life on the road. This is my story and I'm sticking to it..........
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