Australia Sunday August 31, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
The last day of another month, the time is going by so
fast. The past 2 weeks have been very
rainy and cold, in the 50’s most days.
The news last night said it is the coldest and rainiest August in 16
years. Last August was the driest and
warmest in 10 years. We have experienced
both extremes. Today was sunny and in
the 60’s, and beautiful. It was so nice
going to Church with sun, and having the air conditioning on to come home
because the car had been in the sun. We
are hoping for better weather especially on weekends.
Last Monday was Family Home Evening at the Feil’s because
Buckland House was being used by the missionaries. Sister Smith had lasagna, salad and bread,
and the Smylie’s had desert, chocolate cheesecake and pavalova from the
Cheesecake Store. It was all very
good. Elder Smylie gave the lesson. He is an art history major, so he gave us
boards to write on as a table, and art paper and a piece of lead and an
eraser. After each of us taking turns
drawing what he told us to, the women were to draw our husband’s head. He would draw on the board the shape to use,
and then we were to look at our husbands and draw. It turned out amazingly well seeing as though
I have no art ability. It was a fun
activity.
Tuesday night after going to the Temple and eating, we ran
downstairs to the Killebrew’s to take a light bulb that had burned out. When we got there the Archibald’s were there,
and we tried to stay at the door and Elder Killebrew insisted we went in as he
needed Dad’s help. I was in my sweats
and sweatshirt, and dad in p j bottoms and we had our slippers on. Elder Killebrew has been having severe migraines
since he fell a couple of months ago and dislocated his jaw. Elder Archibald was there to give him a
blessing and wanted dad’s help. I guess
we were supposed to go down at that time.
When he came in our office the next morning to bring a bulb, we told him
to go over across the street to the clinic and get a referral to a
specialist. He did and they gave him
something for the pain and he said it was helping a little when he came
back. He goes to a specialist in a
month.
On Wednesday we had a devotional at 12:30, piped in from New
Zealand to announce the release of Terry Oaks as the Director of Temporal
Affairs for the Pacific Area and put in the new one, Brent Buckner from South
Weber. It let out about 1:30 and then we
had pizza and garlic bread, and ice cream bars.
It was nice they had lunch for us.
New favorite pizza flavor, they said it is true Aussie, bacon and
egg. It was really good, looked weird
though with scrambled egg on it.
Wednesday night after we had dinner, Chris Archibald came
with peanut butter fingers. They were so
good, and we had enough to take for lunch on Thursday. We ran across the street for lunch, it wasn’t
raining, but rained hard while we were in the mall, then had stopped when we
came out. Good thing too, because I
didn’t take the umbrella. We are really
getting tired of taking lunches every day, but can’t afford to eat out too
often, about once every two weeks.
Mark was in the office on Monday, then was gone to Tasmania
the rest of the week. On Monday he told
us to email or call the Hill’s in Brisbane and see if they still wanted to
bring Sister Rogers down in October. I
got an email from them on Wednesday that said she was planning on coming and
very surprised we are close to being done.
It will be good to see them all again.
Sister Rogers in going on a bus trip in September. She is amazing for almost 88 years old. We are on track to finish the cards by the
middle of October. We are doing at least
one box a week and have 7 left. We just
finished a difficult box on Friday, lots of glued on articles and at least half
with info on both sides. The box this
week is a very easy one so we will have no problem finishing it, and no
meetings that we know of.
Yesterday when we woke up it had been raining all night, and
was still raining. We were trying to
decide what to do when the Smith’s called and asked if we wanted to go to
Parklea with them and then to lunch. We
said sure so they came and got us around 9.
We got a couple of things we have wanted, and found some really good
looking green beans. It is still a
little early for them but these were really good. We were hoping we could find some good
grapes, but not yet. The apples and
oranges are still really good. We then
went to a really good Chinese restaurant at the Baulkham Hills mall. We each got a dish and shared. Dad even tried the Moroccan lamb. The chicken and corn soup was really
good. It is definitely a place to go
back too, pretty expensive though.
It was good to get back to Blacktown Ward after a 2 week
break, we went to Oatlands Ward with
Dave and Rashika 2 weeks ago, and last week we were in Ulladulla. We were just getting dinner on when the
Smith’s called and said they were bringing desert over. She had bought some rhubarb at Parklea and
made a crisp with it and strawberries, and they brought ice cream. It was really good and we enjoyed
visiting. They are looking for places to
go see in one day, as they are taking one Monday off a month because they have
activities all day Saturday. We showed
them pictures of some of the places we have been to and we had our map book to
show them where they could go.
A very Happy Birthday to Violet on Friday. She is getting so big. It is fun to see the pictures from the kid’s
activities. Keep them coming. All of the kids are in school now, Dallen in
High School, Grason in Middle School, Aunna in her 3rd year of
Chinese Immersion, and Anaston started 1st grade in Portuguese
Immersion. Mylie is also in 1st
grade. Henry started Kindergarten. They are all growing up so fast.
Ruston is back in the classroom teaching 5th
grade in Ogden. The students in his
class are so lucky to have him as a teacher.
It will be fun when we get home to see his classroom and school. Hope all of you have a wonder school year.
May the Lord bless and keep you in his care. We Love You All!
Mum and Dad
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