Australia Sunday October 12, 2014
Dear Family & Friends,
This has really been a busy week, and a really good
one. At work we finished all the rework
we had to do and now we are down to only 2 boxes to copy, providing all of the
ones we have sent in pass the audit.
Actually the only ones are the ones we sent in on Friday, 9500, that
have not been audited. We do have some
to put away tomorrow. We normally get an
audit on Wednesday or Thursday. We felt
a great relief to have them done, they are the ones that were taken with the
Canon camera that Danny was trying to get the audit cancelled, but we decided
to do them anyway as we are running out of time.
A
card we found that was interesting said;
Robert Pinkerton WILLIAMSON, a
jockey,
Born: 19th Sept 1885
Died: 11 May 1912
Age: 26 years
Husband of Ethel WILLIAMSON, accidentally killed while riding Vibrator on the Albion Park Racecourse.
Last Monday night was Family Home Evening. Sister Moore served roast beef, potatoes and
carrots, and a salad. It was really
good. It was Labor Day, a holiday, so
we were able to get things fixed at home.
We made trifle and it was almost gone.
We played a short Book of Mormon trivia, Elder Feil got 15 out of 19
possible, and Sister Allen got 14. We
had asked everyone to bring a favorite scripture from the Book of Mormon and
tell why it was a favorite. There were
no duplicates which was surprising.
Dave, Rashika, and Devmini were there and Dave gave his favorite from
the Bible. They weren’t asked to bring
one because we hadn’t been able to get a hold of them until late Monday
afternoon.
Tuesday we were working when the door bell rang, and Dad
went to get it. It was Elder and Sister
Finch from the Salt Ash Branch. They had
come down to get a new car and turn their old one in. Elder Killebrew exchanged 7 new cars this
week. We tried to talk Stoo Cox and
Elder Killebrew into letting us have one for a month, but to no avail. We decided to run across the street for lunch
with the Finch’s as they didn't have to meet to get the car until 1:00. We had a very enjoyable lunch with the
Finch’s, Smylie’s, and a couple of young
Sister Missionaries. One was from West
Jordan, and one from Tasmania. It was
her birthday so Sister Smylie went a got her a birthday cake and candles. It was P day and most of the missionaries
attend the Temple in the morning, and then run across the street for lunch, so
they were all around us, so we had them help us sing Happy Birthday. She was really pleased and passed the cake
around for all the Elders. She was
baptized 2 years ago and is the only member of her family in the Church. It was strange to come out of the Temple with
it still light out at night. The moon
was almost full and was beautiful. When
we got home, Dad and Elder Killebrew went to the roof to get some
pictures. Dad actually went out 3 times.
Wednesday night we were invited to dinner at a family’s home
from our ward in Blacktown, the Matiu family.
They wanted to have us over before we go home. They live about 45 minutes away. The mother lost her husband in July from
Diabetes. He was the Ward Mission leader
so we had talked to him before. Their
daughter, son-in-law, and 3 year old daughter live with her. They were born in New Zealand, and the
daughter’s husband was born in Samoa.
His parents are Mission President in Papua New Guinea. They had a pork roast and delicious sweet
potato salad with corn and bacon. I need
to get the recipe. They had brownie
alamode for desert. We sat and visited
for almost 3 hours. The husband is a
security guard and got ready for work as we were leaving. He had a BYU shirt on, and I asked him why he
likes the Y. He said Taysom Hill served
his mission here and had been in their home to eat many times. I gave him the sad news about the broken leg
and that he would be out the rest of the season. We knew he had served his mission here but
hadn't met anyone who knew him, it was only one mission then.
Thursday night we went to the store before coming home. We found out the entire building had no
television all week. That is how much TV
we watch. Friday the Smith’s called and
said the BYU game would be on TV at 10:30 and we could watch it at their
neighbors home. We went over and really
enjoyed the game, other than the final score.
They just had too many stupid penalties in the 2nd half, and
then a no call on the final play. Oh
well, just a game, but it was really fun to watch. We all didn't realize how much we would miss
watching the games.
Friday night was the Baptism and everyone has been so excited. Dad was asked to take pictures so we went
early. They were having a pot luck
dinner after so the Ward and the Sr Missionaries all brought something. We made 2 grape salad’s, the grapes are
beautiful this time of year. It was
Devmini’s 14th birthday so Rashika made a beautiful cake and cupcakes for
her. There were around 60 people there,
Malcolm and Helen even came down from Toukley.
There were 12 Sr Missionaries there, as well as 5 Elders, and 2 sets of
Sister Missionaries.
The program was as follows:
Opening Hymn: I Am A Child Of God
Opening Prayer: Elder Wang
Talk: Sister Archibald
Baptism
of Dave, Rashika and Devmini
Musical Item: Senior Elder Missionaries and Dave,
“How Great Thou Art”
Talk: Josie Mackie
Confirmation
of Dave, Rashika and Devmini
Closing Remarks: Bishop Cox
Closing Hymn: Families Can Be Together Forever
Closing Prayer: Rachel Laugery
It was so wonderful and Dad got some great pictures. Dave and Rashika also bore their testimonies
and did a great job.
There was so much food we thought there would be tons of
leftovers, but everyone just kept going back so most of it was gone, and what
was left we gave to the young missionaries.
They were very excited to take it.
After cleaning up we had a little birthday party for Devmini, and some
people had brought gifts for the Baptism so the Moore’s, Archibald’s, Bishop
Cox and Terri, and Us, just watched them.
We had gotten a CTR ring for Devmini and she really liked it. Dad copied a talk about the CTR ring that we
gave her also. We had so much fun and
then helped load the cars and got home around 10.
Yesterday we cleaned the flat before going to Parklea to get
a few more things, then went on a ride to see some ground we hadn’t been to
before a couple of hours away. Around 2
Dad asked how far away we were from Wiseman’s Ferry, he was in the mood for a
good hamburger. I punched it in “Tilly”
and we were only 45 min away so off we went.
It was very good and worth the wait.
We found some peach and plum orchards on the way home over roads we
hadn’t gone on before. Some were on dirt
roads. We got home around 6.
Today was General Conference here in Australia, so we just
stayed home and watched it on the computer.
Great talks and music. We really
enjoyed it. Before dinner we went over
to Dave and Rashika’s as Dave leaves early in the morning to go back to Sr
Lanka and we wanted to tell him good bye as we will be gone when he comes back
the end of November. He was watching the
hurricane hit India as he has a factory about 4 kilometers from where it
hit. He was really worried about the
people in the area, most are in just thatched houses. The winds were 120 miles per hour.
Mark sent us an email Friday morning that Melinda’s father
had passed away Thursday. We don’t know
anything else but he has been in poor health for some time. Mark and Melinda were on holiday at the Gold
Coast in Queensland, and her sister from here is in Scotland on holiday, and
another sister lives in Draper, Utah.
Hopefully he will let us know tomorrow what the plans are.
It is almost 10 so we had better sign off for now. Talk to you tomorrow. A great scripture about Baptism we all need
to remember:
2 Nephi 31:5 “Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
I know that if ye shall follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no
hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent, repenting of your
sins, witnessing unto the Father that ye are willing to take upon you the name
of Christ, by baptism—yea, by following your Lord and your Savior down into the
water, according to his word, behold, then shall ye receive the Holy Ghost;
yea, then cometh the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost; and then can ye
speak with the tongue of angels, and shout praises unto the Holy One of
Israel.”
We love you all:
Mum and Dad
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