Australia Sunday Mar 9, 2014
Dear Family and Friends:
Happy 52nd Anniversary to us.
It has been a good week, a little short because I wrote last
Monday night. The weather has been a
combination of cloudy, some rain, and some sunshine, temps ranging between 70
and 80. It is so pretty as some of the
trees are blooming again, and it is really green after rain. There is always something blooming over
here. It smells so good when we walk
outside. On Wednesday Mark came in and
asked us to write an article about Sister Rogers to submit for the Ensign. We spent the afternoon working on it. He just mainly wanted the facts so we had to
read her history and her notes about the project before we could begin to
write. He is going to put what we sent
him into an article. We also sent some
pictures. We had good days capturing the
cards, we are trying to average 4,000 a day and we did 3 days last week.
Yesterday we did some deep cleaning seeing as though we have
been gone for 2 weekends in a row. We
finished about 9 and ran to the office to call Tina and see if she got the hot
water fixed in our house. When there is
no hot water there is no heat, and she has a Relief Society activity up there
this week. Then we went to the Koala
Park Sanctuary about 20 minutes from our flat.
It cost us $27.00 each to go in, but we decided it was well worth
it. We saw Penguin’s, they are warm
water ones that are found only in Australia and New Zealand. They are very small, called fairy or blue
penguins. We were there in time to watch
them being fed. We also saw lots of
birds, cockatoos, cockatiels, kookaburras to name a few. Then we saw wombats, emus, echidna, wallabies,
possums, flying fox’s, peacocks, and we got to pet a Koala and kangaroos. Pretty fun.
They also have sheep and shearing but we have seen that before. It was fun to watch the kids feed the
kangaroos and pet them. We then went
down to the mall just down the street and ate lunch at the food court. It is probably the largest mall and largest
food court we have ever seen. When you
park in the car park you have to remember what color it is and which door you
go into the mall, because they have 4 decks of blue parking and no
numbers. Thank goodness others have told
us that information.
Last night we went to dinner at the Sheen’s home, in
Kellyville, about a half hour away.
Thank goodness Matilida guides us there, (the GPS). They have been Sr. missionaries over housing
for all the missionaries, and were released a couple of weeks ago after 2
years. Arthur is Australian, and Judy is
Chinese. They met at the Temple where
they both work on Tuesday nights so we get to see them. They have been married almost 2 years. She cooked an authentic Chinese dinner and it
was delicious. She had us there for
Arthur’s 70th birthday, so they had his family and some
friends. It was a lot of fun. They have fixed up the back of their house
for 2 sister missionaries. They should
be moving in soon. For dinner she had
Chinese vegetables, honey chicken, sweet and sour chicken, ham fried rice, egg
rolls, pumpkin soup made from a real pumpkin, pork ribs. For dessert she made a layered cake with
pudding in it, cream puffs, pudding, watermelon and grapes. It was a lot of fun, and good to meet his
family.
Today has just been kind of a lazy day until we went to
Church. I try to have dinner almost
ready when we get home about 5 so I put ham in the crock pot, made cheese
potatoes, sweet potatoes, and a corn casserole.
When we got home cars were lined up on the street to get into the
garage, and cars on the inside trying to get out. Yup, the automatic door would not open. When we pull up to it inside to go out it
automatically opens, and to get in we have a clicker, or punch a number in the
key pad, or swipe another thing we have.
Nothing would work, so Dad parked on the street after he went inside to
look at it, along with a bunch of other people.
We went inside and told Elder Killebrew what was going on and he said he
would go look at it with Dad. I came
upstairs so I could get things in the oven for dinner. You can’t leave things in these ovens because
they will only heat with the fan on, and the fan only stays on about 45 min.
before it goes off and the oven gets cold.
Strange!! Dad ran up to the
mission warehouse because our car was out, and got the tool box. They took the bottom bar off the door and was
able to push it open half way to let the cars out and the others go in. There were several that were going to work
and were late. Hopefully it gets fixed
tomorrow. Workman in this country do not
come out on weekends no matter what.
We are going to try and get some more pictures posted this
week before Family Home Evening tomorrow night.
That is about all for this week so I will close. We are going to watch a movie Dad rented the
other day “The Dish”. We are going to
see the dish that it was made from when we go to Dubbo on the 22nd
and 23rd. Dad talked to the
Branch President the other day and he said that he lives an hour away so he
wouldn’t be there, but his counselors would.
He said they love other people to come and talk because they have to
just take turns. In Church today there
was a return missionary who just returned from the Perth Australia
Mission. He joined the Church a year
before he left and is the only member of his family. He gave a wonderful talk. It is really a fun ward. They are going to have a Cultural night on
the 22nd representing the countries they have in the ward with food
and a program. They have Tonga, Samoa,
other islands, Spanish and Russian, to name a few. We would love to go but that is the weekend
we go to Dubbo. It is pronounced Duhbo.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow and talking to you,
and finding out from Deven and Tyson how the Farm Bureau Banquet went. First one we have missed.
We love you and you are all in our prayers!
Mum and Dad
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