Australia Sun Aug 17 2013
Dear Family and Friends
Another busy week has gone, we said on Friday where had the week gone. Monday when we got to the office we had an email from SL that they were cancelling the retakes because the cards were easy to read, duh, we knew that. Mark and Danny said they wanted us to talk to the IT guys in SL so they knew how we were focusing the camera. We sent an email off to say we would come in early on Wed, your Tues, so we could talk to them before they went home for the day. Tuesday we got an email to call them as soon as we got in and they would stay late. We left the flat at 6:30 so we could get the computer and camera on before we called them. They looked at what we were doing, said it was good and gave a couple of other suggestions for focusing which we have already been doing. They said they have to convince the guys upstairs that we are using a Canon $1500 camera with a #150 lens, compared to $30,000 cameras with $3000 lens that the records preservations missions are using world wide. They also said they are experimenting with a Nikon camera. Dad told them that is what he uses and likes.
Monday night was FHE and the Fiels had dinner, enchilada’s, salad, chips and salsa. We gave the lesson on Elder L Tom Perry’s talk “The Past Way of Facing the Future” (thanks Tina for the suggestion), then most everyone shared an inspiring story of an ancestor. Dad told the one about Israel Barlow and the Buggy Whip. We served the dessert, 7 layer dip dessert. It was Choc and Vanilla puddings layered with sliced banana’s, sliced strawberries, crushed pretzels (they actually have them here), almonds, and whipped cream on top. It was yummy. Next week we have dinner, and we will be gone for the weekend, so we need to figure out what to do. We may see if Mark will let us come in a little late and make it Monday morning. We go to Coffs Harbor to speak which is a 6 hr drive. The Branch President said to call him when we get there so he can show us around. They have banana plantations up there. He wants to have us for dinner, and said the RS is having a linger longer after Church.
Tues night at the Temple there were 4 sisters and 5 brothers in the session. When Sister Williams and I came out the guys were talking to Sister Barr, the Temple Matron. She is also in our FHE group. She was born in Poland and raised in Germany so she told us stories of her mother being in Poland when she had her and then went to camps. She was able to go back and visit with her husband a couple of years ago and see where she was born and talk to people who remembered her mother. Dad told her to write those stories down for her children and grandchildren and she said she would. The Barr’s are coming to Utah in October, they have a son and family in Morgan, (their children are home-taught) or Ruston, you may have known the children. They said they would try to come to the Murray market on Friday.
Yesterday morning at 8 we walked about 6 blocks to a boot sale (the trunk of a car is the boot here). It was at an old Church, Dad got pictures hopefully we can post this week. He found a little plastic greenhouse for $4 and I got a blender for $8. We found the greenhouse in Bunnings yesterday and they sale for $15. We are excited about the blender, now we can have smoothie’s. We walked back and got the cars, the Williams and Jorgensen’s, went to the mission home and picked up the Fiels and went to Auburn, about a 15 min drive to the Botanic Gardens for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Wow, it was beautiful There was a rose garden, we need to go back in about a month to see them in bloom. We saw a peacock, he wouldn’t put his tail up, Japenese Gardens, waterfall, relection pool, Australian Native Garden, a Rainforest and ponds all over. There was also a fauna reserve where there was a white kangaroo and other kangaroo’s, birds, etc. Then we asked the man directing traffic where to go for lunch and he said walk up to the corner and go down to the Tennis Club. We did and it was really good food and very reasonable. On the way home we stopped at Bunnings to get the part we needed to get our grill working. Jerry knew what we needed so we got it and came home. Dad cleaned the grill good and I had a couple of sausages in the freezer, they are really good, so we decided to have them for dinner. We went to the store and got supplies for the week and baked potatoes to go with the sausages, with sliced tomatoes. It is going to be fun to grill. I put a chicken breast in to marinade last night and today we had grilled chicken, ranch potatoes (thanks Tina for the ranch packets) and fresh beans with onion, garlic and bacon. I just took an apple cinnamon loaf cake out of the oven and it is yummy. I might share it with the neighbors. It is really good so we took some over and told them we didn’t want to keep the calories all to ourselves. It is so fun to be neighbors. We are going to miss the Jorgensen’s when they go home in Oct.
Tomorrow night we have a barbecue at the Mission Presidents home for 2 couples going home this week, the Bakers to Moses Lake, and the Kohlers to SL area. We are going to miss them. I am going to make grape salad, thank goodness they have good sour cream and cream cheese and the grapes are wonderful. We take some for lunch every day. The Williams came to Church with us today because they didn’t have a teaching assignment. The Kohlers spoke because it is their last week. In RS there was 22, 3 sets of sister missionaries and 3 sr missionaries.
The other night Sister Feil told us of an experience they had at the mission home a couple of weeks ago. She answered the phone and a young man introduced himself and said he is Jewish and had some questions because he was unsure of some of his teachings, and wanted to know if there was a God and who could answer his questions. Sister Fiel asked him to wait a moment while she got someone and the Zone Leader was in the office. He answered the questions and asked him if he would like to have the missionaries come by. He was very excited and has been talking to the missionaries and he and his girlfriends baptism is set. That was an exciting story.
We got exciting news this week, Mark is sending us to Tasmania next month to work with the McDonalds in the archives for a day. We are flying up on a Thur morning, going to the archives and then they are going to take us site seeing Fri-Mon and we fly home Mon afternoon. We are really excited. They said it is cold up there so dress warmer than here.
Hope Michelle and Danna had good birthdays this week and Camryn has one next week. Danna, write and tell us about the Ragnar. One more thing we can’t get here Ascini Macaroni!!
I emailed Cheryl this week and asked her if she had names to go to the Temple and she sent some our way. We went right over to the Temple and had the cards made up. Thank You Cheryl. Guess I rambled on long enough.
Love you All, Mum and Dad
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