Dear Family and Friends,
Where did October go? We will
be home in 3 weeks. So excited to come
home but a little sad at the same time.
This has been another really busy week, we are sure that is why the time
is going so fast. Tuesday morning the
Service Center had a morning tea to meet the Social Services group from New
Zealand that are here for a conference for the week. At the end of the tea they (Social Services)
sang a thank you song in Maori. It was
beautiful. There were 6 women and 2 men.
Tuesday night at 5 President and Sister Howes hosted the leavers
dinner with the Feil’s. We had a
delicious dinner of salad, (President said it represented the leafers dinner),
meat, roasted vegetables, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. Sister Howes said it was nice not to have any
meetings so she could fix the dinner. We
enjoyed visiting and took some pictures afterward. Great memories are made in everything we do. When we first got here and started
photographing Sister Howes came in and asked us to look for her maiden name of
BrownJohn. We found about 8 cards and
made copies for her about a year ago.
One of them was her grandparents that were killed in a car accident when
she was about 8, and no one knows where they are buried. When Sister Rogers was here last week I
showed her the cards and asked her what T C met on the bottom of the card and
she said Toowamba Chronicle, the newspaper there. We took the cards over to Sister Howes to
keep, and I told her that was what it met and she was so excited. She said she had never thought of looking
there because although they were both born there they hadn’t lived there for
many years. It was no accident that I
asked Sister Rogers what it met, it was the hand of the Lord putting it all
together for us. A card we found today,
and the last I will report on was, William McLeod, Killed fall of earth,
16-2-1894 – Tableland, Boyne R.
Wednesday we were working away when Elder Smylie came in and said
there were 2 birds in the tree outside the office called Rosella
Parakeet’s. Dad grabbed his camera and
we went out. They were the most colorful
birds ever and he got some great pictures.
We knew when we left that night that we would finish all the cards on
Thursday. We were pretty excited.
Thursday morning around 10 when we went for our walk, we decided to
walk through the kitchen to what Rashika
and Sister Archibald were cooking for the Family Services. They were just putting morning tea out,
homemade crepes, with strawberries, chocolate, lime syrup and warm smashed
banana’s with honey and brown sugar. She
was making the crepes at the table with a crepe maker that her grandmother gave
to her 25 years ago. Dad took some pictures
as the table looked beautiful. They also
had a big tray of fresh fruit. The
people said they were really spoiled with the meals they were putting on. The Social Services asked Dad if he would
take pictures as soon as everyone was there so he said to just call and we
would come back. We had a crepe and some
punch she had made. We know when to pop
in to say hi, good timing!
The Smylies took our car to take the Feils to the airport Thursday
morning about 11. It was hard to tell
them goodbye but we will see them again.
They are touring Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania and are not
getting home until Dec 2nd.
We finished the cards at 3:30, what a relief!! Sister Smylie took pictures and we sent
emails out to Mark
and Danny. Mark is in P and G
for the week. They were both
excited. Now we just have to wait for
the audit that will be back Wednesday or Thursday, then we can pack up the
camera and equipment. The rest of the
time we are going to sort and clean out the desks, etc. Dad told Elder Killebrew he would be
available to go with him and help him so he said he would probably call him.
Thursday night we went over to Rashika’s and put the pictures of the
baptism on her computer. We have been
trying to make connections since then but our schedules have been so we
couldn’t do it. Devmini was working on
an art project and needed some pictures of furniture. We didn’t have anything so we went to the
Archibald’s and all they had was Ensign and New Era, so we went to Killebrew’s
and she had a couple of Better Homes and Garden’s she had brought over from the
States, and she said she did not want them back so we took them up to Devmini
and she was really excited. Rashika told
us to sit down and she served us some pumpkin soup and a yummy chocolate
dessert. That was nice that I didn’t
have to fix dinner. I told Dad I was
through cooking after I made a casserole last night. Now we just eat leftovers or sandwiches.
Friday morning we didn’t go to the office until 8:30. That is the first time the Smylie’s have been
there before us since they came. Sister
Smylie asked why we came in and we said it was Birthday Moring Tea and we never
passed up good food. Legal and Public
Affairs were in charge so that was the Archibald’s and Moore’s, the Allen’s are
out of town. It was really good. We also had to transfer the folders from
Thursday to the Hard Drive and get it in the mail.
After the tea Sister Smylie and I decided to go to the mall and have
a pedicure. Summer has arrived with it
in the 80’s the first of the week, and the 90’s Friday and Saturday. Today it was 68 when we left for Church at
noon, and 75 when we came home. Crazy
weather! It wouldbe nice to have 70-80
for a couple of weeks. It was really hot
yesterday when we were out. Then late
yesterday afternoon we got thunder showers and it rained really hard for about
10 minutes.
Yesterday morning we cleaned, deep cleaned the bathroom, and I was
going to do the laundry room but we decided to go for a ride. It will be the last Saturday to do that. We found a really nice and good Chinese
Restaurant in North Richmond, then came home and went to the store. I am trying to get another afghan finished,
and I should be done tomorrow night after Family Home Evening, our last
one. We are going to try and get some
pictures posted on the blog tomorrow afternoon.
We haven’t done that for a long time.
Church was so good today, we are really going to miss the wonderful
people in Blacktown Ward. There was no
wifi at all in the building and the counselor in the Bishopbric said they have
had problems for a couple of weeks and are trying to get it sorted out. Sister Marcara that took us out to lunch a
few weeks ago fell in her rock garden pulling weeds and has stitches in her
head, and her arm is taped up, she has a big bruise on her forhead, and two
black eyes. She is in her late
80’s. She is such a sweetheart, and she
said she wouldn’t think of missing Church.
Guess we will close for another week, talk to you tomorrow! We send our Love and Prayers to all!
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