Australia Sunday September 28, 2014
Dear Family and Friends,
This has been a pretty quiet week with Mark and the Smylie’s
out of the office. Elder Meyers came in
on Monday, but Elder Cummings was sick.
They both worked at Church buildings Tues and Wed and they didn’t come
in the rest of the week. We finished all
the cards except for 2 boxes that Mark wants us to keep for the middle of
October. We are going to do the big
rework when we get back in the office on Thursday. Friday was Birthday morning tea and was
really good as usual.
Saturday morning we went to the office to sign some papers
and get them emailed to Salt Lake and we called Tyson to see how he was doing
with the onion harvest as we knew a big storm was coming in. He said he was leaving to take the kids to
their piano recital, so we ran home, packed to be gone for 4 days, and went
back to the office and saw Aunna, Dixon, and Makenna play, then we left to go
to Martin Harvey’s home about an hour away by The Entrance. He is going to carve me a bone necklace and
Dad wanted to see how he does it. He
showed us his house and the remodeling he has been doing, then worked on the
bone. It is going to be beautiful!
We then drove up to Nelson Bay, and stopped for lunch on the
way. We checked into our motel with an
absolutely stunning view of the harbor.
I took a picture and didn’t know my Ipad was on video. Oh well, I got it off. The Smylie’s picked us up around 5:30, they
were up there to help with a family history fair at the Salt Ash Branch. Elder and Sister Finch followed them so we
could all go out to eat together. They
are assigned to the Salt Ash Branch and they love it there. We ate a really good steak at the Hogs Breath
restaurant. We had lots of fun just
visiting for a couple of hours. The
Finch’s are from Mapleton in Utah County and he retired from teaching at
Springville High School.
This morning we checked out of the Motel and rode around
looking at the beautiful country before going to Salt Ash. They meet at the Civic Center in Medowie, and
the Assembly of God Church meets there in the morning, so the Branch meets at
1-4. There were about 40 people in
attendance today. Ralph Arvidson, who is
Malcom’s older brother is a counselor in the Presidency. Malcolm used to work in the Service Center
and he and Helen had the Sr. missionaries to their home several times. They live in Toukley, where we talk next
month. The young women sang “Come, Comer
Ye Saints”, and they have 1 Laurel who plays the electric keyboard for the
meeting, 1 Mia Maid who leads the music, and 2 beehives. Their advisor also sang with them. A 10 year old Primary Boy read a scripture,
then on e of the Beehive girls gave a talk.
The advisor also went up and helped her.
You could tell she was really nervous and we found out later that she
was baptized in February and this was the first time she had ever given a
talk. There were about 25 primary
children. It was so good to be there
with them.
After Church we drove to Denman and checked into our Motel
and then walked for a couple of blocks, there are really a lot of old buildings
here. We saw beautiful farm ground on
the way here. We also stopped in
Maitland to drop a paper off to the missionaries for the Mission office. Tomorrow we are leaving for a couple of days
and just driving around to look at some new farm ground where we have not been
before.
The weather has been beautiful this week, other than
Thursday when it was cloudy and we got a down pour around noon that dropped 1
inch in 10 minutes. We had a river
running down the driveway. We were so
glad we were in the office, we had just got back from running over to the mall. Yesterday and today the temps were about 5
degrees above average. Hopefully Spring
is finally here. We do have a chance of
rain on Friday.
We are going to miss talking to you all tomorrow, but we
will be in the office Sunday Morning when Priesthood meeting lets out and you
are all eating dinner so we can visit.
Have a good week. We love you
all.
Mum and Dad
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