Australia Sunday March 23, 2014
Dear Family & Friends:
Happy Birthday Onalie!
It was good to talk to you for a few minutes after Church today. We just finished eating a bite and it is
after 8 pm. We didn’t get home from
Dubbo until almost 8 and we unpacked, changed clothes and here we are. It has been a long two days but I will tell
you about that later.
Monday morning we got a letter from Ann and Dan and that was
so good. We love having news from
home. She sent us a clipping of Marjorie
Simmons 95th Birthday. She is
quite a lady.
We finished reading the book “A Lion and a Lamb” and it was
really enjoyable. We learned a lot of
Church History by reading it. If anyone
has a chance to read it you should, it is very easy reading.
On Tuesday I had visiting teaching at noon. We ate our lunch and visited, then Sister
Williams gave a lesson on the Light of Christ.
It was very good and we always enjoy getting together.
Friday we got a knock on our door around 10:30 and it was the
Hill’s from Brisbane. They are the
couple that met us at the airport and took us up to Bundaberg to meet Sister
Rogers. They had come down to Sydney for
a funeral, so stopped in to see how we capture the cards. They helped box them up and get them loaded
on the truck to bring to our warehouse.
It was good to visit with them for a little while. We are always happy to show off our
project.
Saturday morning we left the flat around 9, went and got
fuel, then left for Parke to see the Dish.
It was about a 5 hour drive, with one stop to walk around. We got there around 2:30 and went to the café
and got some lunch. We both had the dish
burger which was a hamburger patty, with bacon, pineapple, cheese, beet root, caramelized
onions, fried egg, tomatoes and lettuce.
We had to eat it with a fork as it was so big but really good. We were able to watch to dish move around
while we ate, and that was pretty cool.
It is huge, as we were driving we could see it for 2 miles away. It started working in 1961 and continues to
work today 24/7. The telescope does
major observations in space in studying and detecting new molecules that point
to regions of forming stars. So much
history and we really enjoyed learning all about it. It also played a major part when Neal
Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969 as it was the telescope that sent the
pictures for the television for all of us to watch it. We then drove to Dubbo that is about another
hour and a half away. We checked into
our motel and went and found the Church.
It is very small with a very large lot of grass and trees. As Dad was taking pictures of it, two
missionaries walked out of the Church.
They are both from Utah, Elder Janes from Syracuse, and Elder Randle
from Holladay. They were waiting for some
neighborhood kids to come and play basketball and soccer. They said the branch is very small, and the
Branch President lives about an hour away and hasn’t been there for about 7
weeks. The counselor takes care of
everything.
We went for a ride out to the country and saw lots of
pasture ground and a few kangaroos in a field.
It was a beautiful drive. We then
got fuel, and an ice cream bar because we weren’t hungry and went back to our
room to study our talks. Church started
at 9:30 so we went about 9. We met the
missionaries and the counselor in the parking lot and then went in for
Sacrament Meeting. The District
President was there visiting, he is from Cowra and had about a 3 hour drive to
get there and go back home. With us
there was a total of 11 people. They
have no one to play the piano so we sang to a recording, and a man who has
never led the music did, and he did a good job.
We were the only speakers and they were glad we came as those that are
there just take turns each week. They
had one high school girl and the rest were adults so she just stayed with all
of us for Sunday School and joint Priesthood and Relief Society. There were only 4 women with her, and 6 men
as one man went home after Sacrament Meeting so if us and the District President
hadn’t been there it would have really have been small. They had a wonderful Spirit and we really
enjoyed it. We left around 1 as we
called Onalie for a few minutes. We had
rain part of the way home and we stopped once on the way home. It was just getting dark when we arrived in
town, and so we are not going to enjoy the long trips from now on as the time
changes here next month. We do not like
driving after dark. We had construction
that also slowed us down a bit.
Guess I will close for now as it is getting late. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.
We Love you and Pray for you!!
Love,
Mum and Dad
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