Australia Sunday Mar 30, 2014
Dear Family and Friends:
Wow, where did March go?
The saying goes that when you are busy time flies by, and that is so
true. It is hard to believe we are going
into the 4th month of the year.
First we would like to say Thank You to Deven for putting
the “Roberts Review” together, and for all those who wrote. It was so good to read what everyone is doing
in their lives. We printed it off and
that was the first thing we did when we got home Monday was to read it. Next time hopefully all will write an update
of their family.
Robin, our IT guy came in Monday and was hoping us and
Williams were not in the office as he wanted to install the new firewall in our
building, so we said we would leave at 4.
He said it should take him a couple of hours. When we got to the office Tuesday morning I
opened the door to put our lunch in the refrigerator and saw wires all over
where he was working when we left Monday and said I was sure we had no
internet, and we didn’t. As we walked
through the office at Buckland House to go get the mail, he said there was
something wrong, and he had been on the phone all day with Salt Lake and
Queensland and they couldn’t seem to get it resolved. He came in just before we left on Tuesday, we
had stayed late for Family Home Evening, and said he had patched it up again
and he would not be in for 10 days, he has finals. So far it is working.
Family Home Evening was the farewell party for the Tanners,
they return home to Payson, Utah in the morning. We are sure going to miss them. They are still going to continue with the
articles for the Mormon Newsroom, AU, until the new couple come. They are supposed to be here on the 15th
of April. The Moore’s did the dinner,
all the Tanners favorites, lasagna, spaghetti, pizza and French bread. Their gift was a book on Sydney with history
and beautiful pictures. We then played Pictionary
and that was a hoot. Another really fun
night. I guess you saw the picture dad
took of all the couples that were there.
Next month we will get another one with the Archibald’s there. Elder Archibald was in New Zealand working
and Sister Archibald is in Utah with a new grandson. Hopefully Tina got to meet her.
Dad has been emailing Salt Lake all week about more lights
for our camera. In order to install a
new program they want us to use we need more lights so we ran around on
Wednesday looking for 200 watt bulbs and there are no such thing in our
area. We went to the office at 7:30 on
Friday to call Henry and he was already gone but Darin was there so he got on
team viewer and told Dad to lower our lights and see if that would work, so he
installed the new program on the computer and said he would be in the office
for about another hour. We tried to
calibrate the camera and it wouldn’t calibrate so Dad called him back. He had to uninstall the new program and put
the old one back on and said to just work with it. Dad was still on the phone with him when we
left for the Birthday Morning Tea. The
Physical Facilities team were in charge and they had little sandwiches,
tortilla’s with mayo, ham and lettuce or turkey, then rolled up and cut and
stood up. They looked really cute and
were very good. They also had
strawberries, grapes, watermelon, nuts, cookies, potato chips, crackers, and
dips. It was really good. After Sister Moore had everyone stay for a
picture, missionaries in front with name tags on holding boxes of Sanitarium
Cereals. They are made by the Seventh
Day Adventist, and they have a meeting with them next week, so they are going
to show them that we love their cereal.
On Wednesday we got an email from Mark saying he wanted to
have lunch on Thursday and asked Sister Williams to organize it. Paul Pardin and his wife joined us, he is
over Family History somehow, I don’t know his exact calling. We ate subway sandwiches, chips and
grapes. Mark showed the results of an
online survey about family history given around Australia. It was very interesting. It is good just to visit also.
Yesterday we took the Killebrew’s on the rivercat to the
Quays and walked to the bridge pylon so they could see it. I did not walk up the 200 steps, I just sat
on a bench. They had not been down to
Sydney so they really enjoyed it. We
hadn’t been on the rivercat for a while so it was fun and it was perfect
weather. We had fish and chips when we got
off the cat and then walked. We got home
around 6:30.
Church today was very good.
It is good to be back after missing a week. We missed Ward Conference last week, and a
baptism yesterday because we didn’t know about it. Priesthood and Relief Society combined was on
missionary work. It was good.
Tonight we went to the office for the very first NSW
Multi-Stake Webinar Devotional titled “Sharing the Gospel Online: Good, Better
and Best.” It was really good and very
informative. Steve and Kathi Tanner have
worked on this for several months and this is their last official thing to
do. They leave at 5 in the morning. When you have time look up on YouTube
“Baptist converts to Mormon.” He talked
on the webinar, he was a Baptist missionary in the states and ran into
missionaries in a Southern State. Just
as we were getting ready to leave the office we had thunder and lightning, and
rain. Since we got home we have had
really hard rain. We have had rain off
and on all week and everything is so green and beautiful. There is a tree blooming all over with really
deep beautiful purple flowers. I hope we
get a picture this week. I need to find
out what it is.
We are so glad Ezra and Kaylee and Rowan are together again
as a family and beginning their new life in the Marines in Yuma, Arizona. We will see where Deven and Michelle and
family are tomorrow when we call. They
are going to be loving Skype and the media as we do. Can’t imagine being this far away without
it. When we don’t have Wi-Fi in the
office I am frustrated because I can’t call or text any of the kids. At least when it is out I can bring email and
Facebook up on our work computers that are wired direct.
Friday we sent in 15500 images so we are right on track to
finish in October. We need to stay ahead
for when we have a lot of meetings and activities. We were actually surprised it was that many
when we unhooked the hard drive.
The Killebrew’s brought up some chocolate cake and we had it
when we got home from the office. It was
really good. They wanted to tell us
thanks for taking them yesterday.
In closing I want to quote the 3rd verse of “Let
Us All Press On”
If we do what’s right we have no need to fear,
For the Lord, our helper, will ever be near;
In the days of trial his Saints he will cheer,
And prosper the cause of truth.
Chorus:
Fear not, though the enemy deride;
Courage, for the Lord is on our side.
We will heed not what the wicked my say,
But the Lord alone we will obey.
We Love you and Pray for you all!
Mum and Dad
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