Australia Sunday May 18, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
This has been a pretty full week. I will start with last Monday. Right after work we went over to Buckland
House and helped set up the tables and help Sister Archibald get dinner
ready. There were 24 of us for dinner
counting Elder and Sister Haleck of the
second quorum of Seventy and 1st counselor in the Area Presidency,
President and Sister Howes, 5 Sr. couples from the city, Elder Dick was not
feeling well so he didn’t come. Sister
Feil is in Arizona with a new grandson so she also was absent. The dinner was sweet and sour chicken over
rice, tossed salad, and rolls. Elder
Haleck and Sister Haleck went around to every couple to find out where they
were serving and their assignments. The
Smith’s had dessert and the lesson. They
served raspberry shortcake and he gave a short lesson on Mother’s and showed
the video the Church put out for Mother’s Day.
Then Sister Haleck spoke, she was raised in Orem and they met at
BYU. He spoke and told about
himself. He was born in Samoa, but was
raised in the states. After they
finished their education at the Y they returned to Samoa where they raised
their family. Dad took a group picture
after it was over. It was a fun evening.
We are moving our office into the other office where the
Williams were and the Smiley’s will be.
Glen called Thursday to tell us they would move us Friday night and
Saturday. Mark was out of the office Wed
on, he went to Tasmania. Thursday we
left for the Normanhurst Chapel at 9:30 to help with the luncheon for zone
conference. They had 3 conferences this
week, Tuesday in Port Macquarie for the missionaries up north, then another one
at Baulkenhills on Wednesday and at Normanhurst on Thursday. Sister Archibald went to the one on Tuesday
with the Killebrews. She had made taco
soup on Monday while she was fixing dinner for FHE. Tuesday night she got sick so the Killebrews
and Terry Cox did the Wednesday lunch, and Terry and us did Thursday. We also fixed salad’s, had rolls, cut up
watermelon and put everything out. We
fed about 70 and it was so fun to see the young missionaries. A table of Sister Missionaries saved Dad and me
a place to eat with them. It was nice
to see the Haleck’s again. We got back
to the office about 2:30 and got 1500 cards captured.
Friday morning we went to the office at 7:30 to call Salt
Lake because we haven’t had an audit and they told Dad the shuttle last week
had arrived on Tuesday. He talked to
Troy Ogden and he looked on the computer and our audit had gone to another
project so he sent it to us. Then he
looked for the 2 shuttles we sent last Friday and he said they were not there
but he would check further and send us an email. We got word from him about an hour later that
they were not in Salt Lake. Now they are
missing 4 shuttles we sent last month and this month. Hopefully they are found or we will have to
do another resend. We told Patrick in
the mail room he could not take any more vacations while we are still here. Before we left on Friday we had moved
everything from our work tables to our desks.
Wednesday I checked my email as we were getting ready to go
home and had an email from Robert McKinley.
He is in our ward in Layton and is going to be in Sydney with a
co-worker on Saturday. We told him we
could meet them at the quays and show them around. We decided on 9 as that would give them time
to get to their hotel to leave their luggage and walk to the quays. We left home at 7:20 and caught the 7:55 ferry. We waited about 10 minutes for them to
come. It was so good to see someone from
home. His co-worker is Ron Hubbard and
he lives in Clinton. We took them over
to the pylon and they went to the top.
We then walked back to the ferry’s and caught the 11:01 rivercat back to
Rydelmere and went to Parametta to see the bats. They were pretty impressed. Then we parked the car and walked to the RSL
Club for lunch. We watched lawn bowling
while we ate. Then we came up to the
Temple so they could get pictures and we showed them our office. Everything is moved so now tomorrow we will
spend the day getting it moved and set up again. We will have Robin come and move our
computers after we have talked to you.
We then took them back to Rydlemere and put them on the 3:55 ferry. It was so fun having them here. They left this morning for Perth to work for
a couple of weeks.
A couple of funny names on cards this week was Christmas
John Owens, born Dec 25, 1901 and lived to 65 years of age. Then a name of a man that was born in Spain,
maybe Loren can pronounce it. The last
name is “Urlonabarranechea”. Then we
found about a 100 4x6 cards that were marriages and baptisms. All of the baptisms were from St Mark’s Church
of England on Darling Point and were all from 1840-1870. The marriages were from St David’s Church of
England at Hobart, Tasmania. The
information was the bridegroom and bride’s names, ages, date of either banns or
marriage, and about half of them had either the groom or bride as free, or
convict, or both convicts. Really
interesting. If they were convicts it
also told which ship they came over on.
The dates on these cards was 1800-1840.
Today at Church there were really a lot of people. The Councilman talked about family history
and it was really good.
Friday we got an email from Lyn about what colors to wear to
the game tomorrow and what not to wear.
Her husband also told the rules of the game so we would know more what
is going on. It is going to be so
fun. Next weekend we travel to Mudgee to
speak, it is a little over 3 hour drive and the Branch President has invited us
to his home for dinner Saturday night.
Happy Birthday this week to Breanna and Thomas on Thursday
the 22nd, and Addison on Saturday the 24th.
Our Love and Prayers are with each of you.
Mum and Dad
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