Australia Sunday Oct 27, 2013
Dear Family and Friends:
We have had another really busy week, and the time just fly’s
by. It is a good thing we can sort of relax in the evenings, even though
we both usually do 4-5 index batches of an evening. We are really
enjoying our flat, and most everything is about the way we want it. We
still have a couple of pictures to hang in the bedroom, but Dad needs to put
wire on the back of them. Hopefully that will happen this week. We
found a place for the last 2 boxes of kitchen things this week. Hope you
all enjoyed the pictures we posted. Ruston, thanks for the email.
We have a bag and a small box to go to Vinny’s or Salvo’s, things we just don’t
need. The problem with a big kitchen at the old flat is that it is filled
up with a lot of things. We have extra dishes on the tops of cupboards,
some day we may need them. The South mission took over the 3 flats we
vacated, and they have 3 sets of sister missionaries in 2 of the flats and
using the Willams for storage. I can’t imagine 6 girls with 1 bathroom
and all those hormones!! We will talk to them next week at
Church and see how things are going. They are so cute, we love talking to
them.
FHE was so much fun. The Williams did a potato bar, and
Sister Sheen brought chili. We played Mormon Trivia from info I found on
the internet. Some of the questions were and don’t cheat by looking up
the answers.
1- Which Prophet noticed that the
Angel Moroni was facing the wrong direction and which Temple was it?
a- Pres. Hinckley
b- Pres.
McKay
c- Pres.
Benson
d- Pres.
Hunter
2- There are currently 5 Temples
with Angel Moroni holding a Trumpet in his right hand, and gold plates in his
left. How many can you name?
3- In 1973, this future Church
leader, then 33 was asked to take a small group of emergency personnel and
follow a hijacked plane, make contact with the terrorists and negotiate for the
release of the plane, the pilots and the hostages. When that was accomplished,
he was to fly the hijacked plane to a safe location. Believe it or not
this man accomplished the mission without incident. Who was he?
4- How tall is the monument
erected of Joseph Smith in Sharon, Vermont and how was this figure calculated?
This is a few of the 13 we asked, and the winner got 11, Sister
Jeffs. Elder Feil got 9 so he also got a box of Australian cookies.
We then gave some chocolate candy to everyone else. The dessert was very
good. All in all, a very good evening.
Tues we drove because we go to the Temple right after
work. Our walk to work is about as far as from Deven’s to Caroline
Green’s. The wind has been blowing most days and the fires are still
burning because we can smell the smoke some day’s and Friday night
the sun was blood red. We will post a picture this week. We had a
luncheon with the staff at Buckland House on Thursday and it was nice not to have to fix a
lunch, and it was very good. There were 2 men there from New Zealand.
They had training in the afternoon but we didn’t have to stay. Friday was
a devotional so we didn’t get as many cards captured as we would like.
Monday’s are always small production day because of the meeting and then we
talk to all of you, and that is the most important part of the week.
The new legal couple came in Monday morning,
they are the Archibald’s from Idaho Falls. He has been an attorney there,
and they have been married 18 months. She has 4 children, and he has
3. They have the flat right next to Williams. The Moore’s are
finally about settled, we went over Wednesday night and Dad helped Elder Moore put
their kitchen table together. All the furniture they get is from
Ikea. The table has 2 drop leaves and 6 drawers. It is great for
the small space that they have. They also have 2 chairs that he put
together.
Friday night we cleaned that flat because of a
big day on Saturday. We left with the
Williams at 8:45 in
the morning to go to the meat market. The meat is about half the price of
the store and very good quality and fresh. We got pork chops, sausages,
steaks, mince (hamburger), chicken breasts, fish fillets, and a couple of
roasts for FHE next week. We have the meal. When we got back we put
it all in the refrigerator and left for Nowra. We got packed on Friday. The drive was simply
spectacular, with lots of grazing country with horses and cows, and hay
being baled. It smelled so good! Part of the drive was right on the
ocean. We took a small road right on the coast that the Williams told us
to take. I just can’t describe the beauty of it. We stopped in a
little town to walk out to the beach, then walked up in the town and got fish
and chips at a little place and sat outside to eat. We could see the
ocean from where we were. Watching the people was also very interesting,
we definitely live different lives than all of them. We drove on a little
while and found a light house that they told us to see. We walked up to
it and took pictures, then walked over to the blow hole by the water. It
was very active and really blew the water in the air. Dad got some good
pictures. We went on to Nowra, a very pretty little town. We
checked into our motel, we took the last room in town, and it was definitely a
budget room. I should have made reservations a couple of weeks ago, but
it was clean. It was about a block from the Church so it was convenient
this morning. We had seen an old cemetery on the way to the motel so we
went back and walked through it. Most of the old graves were from the
early 1800’s, the ones you could read. The weather was beautiful.
We drove out to the ocean, about a half hour drive from town, and it was
beautiful. Lots of country, mainly pasture ground. A funny thing on
the side of the road, a sign that read “cow poop” and there was about 6-50lb
bags stood against the fence. We got a chuckle over that. We went back to
town and ate at a buffet that the motel recommended, and it was probably the
worst meal we have had here and also the most expensive, $24.00 each. We
felt bad but how do you know? We went back to our room and studied our
talks.
This morning we got ready for Church, checked out and went and
waited for the Branch President to open the gate to get in the parking
lot. First Church we have seen with a fence and locked gates. He
didn’t get there until about 15 min until Sacrament meeting started so we
weren’t able to call anyone. Everyone was very friendly and just before
the meeting started one of the 4 Elders serving there came up on the stand to
meet us. He was companion to Tony’s grandson in the MTC. Small
world. He is from Hyde Park, one is from Ogden and looks like he is about
12, one is from Alabama, and one from the Philippines. The talks went
well. They use a recording on a cd for the music as no one plays the piano
or organ in the branch. They had about 45 people in Sacrament
meeting. The talks went as well as they can for us talking. It is
so much fun meeting all the people in the various branches. We will talk
to you in the morning. We left right after the block and came home
through the rain forest. The counselor said the drive was about 45 min
longer and we really enjoyed it. The road was very windy and narrow but
we were really in a forest of lush green trees and plants. Not too much traffic
and it was fun to see new things. We got home about 4:30 and
got everything unpacked and put away. Then we put all the meat in the
freezer, putting it in smaller bags that we will use for just one meal.
We had leftover potato cheese soup I made Thursday night. It was so good, I cleaned
out the freezer and refrigerator so it had potatoes, carrots, onions, celery,
green beans I had cooked, ham and pork roast and cheese. I froze one
container for another couple of meals.
Dad is going to juice oranges tonight because we are out of
juice for breakfast. Our little $5 juicer works great and we love the
fresh juice.
This week we got a box from Tina, and was so excited when Elder
Feil brought it in. We opened it when we got home and was excited to get
some dried apples and peaches, onion soup mix, and gifts wrapped up for my
birthday, and no I didn’t open them, they are on the bookcase waiting.
Tina and Bob sent us the movie “Ephriam’s Rescue” We watched it Friday night
and it is wonderful. T C did a great job and when it was over I said it
couldn’t end already. We wanted it to go on. The Williams have it
now. Hope all of you get a chance to see it, it is well worth it.
It brought back memories of when T C was the photographer for “Split Infinity”.
We got a nice note from Noel and Carol Ann Flint, we sent a
sympathy card when they lost their grandson. It was good to hear from
them.
Guess I had better go for now, I may add some in the
morning. Looking forward to seeing all of you.
Happy Birthday to Logan this week, sorry the card will be a
little late, I have got to get back in the groove, moving put me off my
schedule. We have been thinking of Deven’s family as they are the
speakers in their ward tomorrow, or now it is in a few
hours. We know they will do a great job.
Love you all.
Mum and Pop
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