Australia Sun May 4, 2014
Dear Family and Friends:
Look at that, another new month!! The time is going by so fast. You are all going into summer and we are
going into winter, and we really felt it the last 3 days. The news Friday night said that this is the
coldest it has been for this time of the year in 6 years. We have not got out of the 50’s for 3
days. We had rain Friday, and yesterday,
and WIND yesterday and today. Oh well,
we don’t have snow, although they did get it at the higher elevations in the
Blue Mountains.
Monday for Dad’s birthday, they announced it at the
devotional in the morning, we ate lunch at the mall, and in the afternoon Elder
Killebrew brought in a birthday cake. We
invited the couples to go to LaBotte’s for pizza at night but only the Smith’s
could go so we had the cake there.
Tuesday at 10:30 Mark, Melinda, and Mark Allen came into our
office with a cake for morning tea to celebrate the birthday. The cake was marble and it was very
good. That night when we got home from
the Temple there was a bag on our door with cookies from Sister Archibald.
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were very quiet because Mark
was out of the office, and he will be in on Monday, tomorrow, and gone the rest
of the week. We did get a lot done this
week, averaging 4,000 cards a day.
Yesterday because the weather was bad we went to Vinny’s and
Salvo’s, and didn’t buy anything except 3 cereal bowls. Then we went shopping because we have the
dinner tomorrow night for Family Home Evening. It is 9:00 and we just finished making 2
batches of cheeseburger soup, and 2 grape salads. Tomorrow afternoon we will put out cheese and
crackers. We will just have to turn the
crockpots on afternoon to heat the soup.
It is going to take us about 4 trips to get everything to the car
though. Good thing we have an elevator
and our car is right next to it.
Yesterday at the store I broke down and bought “Frozen” and
we watched it last night and really enjoyed it.
We took it up to Archibald’s tonight and she said she almost bought it
yesterday also. We came back with apple
crisp and ice cream. They were just
getting ready to bring it down to us. After we put the groceries away we went over
to North Rocks for lunch. We were trying
to find something different. It was
good.
This week we got an email from Mark Allen about President
Lew, President of the Sydney South Mission.
He is from Lehi and had a brain bleed a couple of weeks ago and is still
in intensive care. He was released on
Wednesday night and will return to the US as soon as it is safe for him to
travel on a medical transport plane.
They were very sad to be released.
The interim mission president is Mark Palmer. He is from New Zealand originally, and his
wife from England but they reside in the US.
They were in NZ on business so they came right over. We were all asked to keep President Lew in
our prayers. He and his wife are so
cute, they will really be missed.
Exciting news we got also on Thursday was that Elder Haleck,
first counselor in the district presidency and a Seventy is going to visit all
the missionaries in our mission the week of the 12th and wants to
come to our Family Home Evening. We will
have to change from the 19th and have it 2 weeks in a row. The email said that because of Elder Haleck’s
General Authority status that the men should wear suit coats that night, and we
should act our best. We are really
excited to meet him. The missionaries
are having 2 zone conferences to meet him that week, Tues and Wed. We will be helping with lunch on Tuesday the
13th.
We got a package from Loren and Tami and kids this week with
lots of goodies, package mixes and a scarf for me and a tie for Dad for
Mother’s and Father’s day. We also got a
letter from each one in the family. We also
got a letter and family update from Aunt Mimi, and birthday cards from Ann and
Dan and a letter. Yes Ann, the cards
came on his birthday. Now I have got to
find time to write letters.
Time to go to bed, we have a busy week.
Happy Birthday Lydia on Wednesday.
We love you all and you are all in our Prayers.
Mum and Dad
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