This week Sister Dalling saw our sickly tree and found a gecko behind it so Tim had to trap it. She then destroyed the evidence of trimming it. Soon there will be nothing left to it.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Hunting geckos
This week Sister Dalling saw our sickly tree and found a gecko behind it so Tim had to trap it. She then destroyed the evidence of trimming it. Soon there will be nothing left to it.
Sailing along.......
This week has been a very busy one. Tim is finishing up some projects for the President and we are getting ready for transfers in 1 1/2 weeks, which is always a busy time for us. I went to the President's home on Thursday and helped prepare a french dip sandwich luncheon for 40 people that were at the mission council meeting. I was exhausted when I returned back to the office about 2 pm.
We received word this week that the Sister and Brother (Gwin and Ed Goodman) investigators that we have been trying to have for dinner with the missionaries has found out she has a brain lesion. They were at church today and she said she isn't worried. She has opted to wait until November to have another MRI and see if anything is growing. It might be that she has had it a long time. We are going over this evening to take them some cake and visit. I have really connected with her. We are hoping they will choose to be baptized soon.
Tina, our 88 year old friend, brought us lasagna on Tuesday night for dinner. It took her 4 hours to fix it and I felt so bad. She has really taken a liking to us. She calls us almost every evening. We have tried calling her but she doesn't answer.
Yesterday we were able to attend the baptism of a Grandpa, Grandma and their grandson and I played the piano. When our ward missionary committee went out knocking doors about a month ago, the Bishop knocked their door. It was the only referral he got that day. The committee teased him about only getting one. He baptized them and was very emotional as he played a huge part in finding them. He keeps reminding us that he was baptized in the same font only 7 years ago. Amazing!
We are being blessed beyond measure. Our money seems to be stretching a long way. Tim says he is astounded at how far it seems to be going.
We received word this week that the Sister and Brother (Gwin and Ed Goodman) investigators that we have been trying to have for dinner with the missionaries has found out she has a brain lesion. They were at church today and she said she isn't worried. She has opted to wait until November to have another MRI and see if anything is growing. It might be that she has had it a long time. We are going over this evening to take them some cake and visit. I have really connected with her. We are hoping they will choose to be baptized soon.
Tina, our 88 year old friend, brought us lasagna on Tuesday night for dinner. It took her 4 hours to fix it and I felt so bad. She has really taken a liking to us. She calls us almost every evening. We have tried calling her but she doesn't answer.
Yesterday we were able to attend the baptism of a Grandpa, Grandma and their grandson and I played the piano. When our ward missionary committee went out knocking doors about a month ago, the Bishop knocked their door. It was the only referral he got that day. The committee teased him about only getting one. He baptized them and was very emotional as he played a huge part in finding them. He keeps reminding us that he was baptized in the same font only 7 years ago. Amazing!
We are being blessed beyond measure. Our money seems to be stretching a long way. Tim says he is astounded at how far it seems to be going.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Snakes???? What will be moving in next?
We had just finished dinner this evening and Tim got up to go into the bedroom. I saw him grab a tissue and then go outside. I said “What are you doing?” He said, “I just caught a snake!!!! It had come through the crack in our door and was just inside our front door. It was about 6 inches long and about ½ the diameter of a pencil. I’m not so sure I want to go to bed tonight. Night before last he caught a great big Palmetto bug. It is about 1 ¼” long and has a hard shiny back on it sorta like a beetle. They are supposed to be coming and spraying our apartment on Friday. Hope I can make it until then.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Another tender mercy for us......
I have been having trouble getting google to put the street names on the maps I am working on for the ward missionary committee. Yesterday I had one of those tender mercy moments. As I brought up the google program, it had “hints” and there was one about how to put street names on your maps. I have never seen it bring up tips in all the time I have worked on it in the last 6 months. Today it was a tip about something else. I have been waiting for a missionary who is going home on Aug 14 to come into the office to help me figure it out. It was the last thing that I had to do to complete this project for missing members for the ward. The Lord, indeed, shows tender mercies when we need them!
Curry goat for dinner....yum....yum!
We were almost to church today when the Elders called to see if we could go pick Christine up. She was just baptized about a month ago. She was the one baptized in about 2 feet of water and is about 34 years old. Her husband died a year ago. She lived 15 minutes the other direction so we were about 20 minutes late to church and missed the sacrament but it was worth it to get her there.
Relief Society lesson was on the temple and family history and how we had the obligation to take care of our ancestors. It was a beautiful lesson for Christine so I am glad that she could come. Hopefully she will have the desire to have her husband baptized and then sealed to him. I’m not sure how he died. We are having a Relief Society dinner in August with sisters bringing dishes from their country of birth. We have a lot of out of state members. Christine is from Jamaica. She put down that she would bring curry goat!!!
Relief Society lesson was on the temple and family history and how we had the obligation to take care of our ancestors. It was a beautiful lesson for Christine so I am glad that she could come. Hopefully she will have the desire to have her husband baptized and then sealed to him. I’m not sure how he died. We are having a Relief Society dinner in August with sisters bringing dishes from their country of birth. We have a lot of out of state members. Christine is from Jamaica. She put down that she would bring curry goat!!!
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