October 10, 2011 Trip to Visalia

While we were at the airport David heard someone say, "Elder Sheffer." It was an Elder Clayson from David's mission 35 years ago. He was going to Hong Kong that morning. He was surprised to see that David was again a missionary going to Fresno. We told Clayson that we had been trying to find President Harbertson to tell him that we were going back to Fresno and Clayson said,"I sat by him in Conference last week and I have his cell phone number. The President is in St. George at his winter home." Well with cell phone number in hand we stopped by Grandma and Grandpa Sheffer's and they call Uncle Dan and Aunt Kathy to see if we could spend the night at their home in St. George. We rushed home to finish our packing with Sarah's help and we couldn't  find David's wallet. That didn't stop us. We fed Sarah Cafe Rio and headed down the road.

It was wonderful to see Dan and Kathy. We found David's wallet in Gaile's makeup bag that night. To bad we cancelled the debit card. We are still waiting for the replacement. The next morning we called President Harbertson and went to visit him. It was wonderful to see him and he told us that only three elders had his cell phone number, well four now since David has it, what a miracle, or tender mercy.

Here is President Robert Harbertson and David. The President has just turned eighty years old.

We also visited Tom Pillar. He and Bobbie live in an amazing subdivision in Santa Clara, next to St. George. They use to live in our home ward and Bobbie use to work with Robert Ludwig, Gaile's cousin. We called Robert to see if he had their address. He said he was just at their house two nights ago. He was able to give us wonderful directions. When David was the Elder's quorum president he asked Tom to bring his fancy sports car to an activity. It started to rain so David was sure Tom wouldn't come, but, he did. Tom will do anything to help someone.

We made it to Visalia about 10:00 pm and the elders came to our apartment with the keys. They were so excited to see us. I think it was because they helped to set up the apartment and they were hoping to use the washer and drier.