Last week we were on the road from Tuesday to Saturday interviewing missionaries. Our first stop was Salina, then Manhattan, Topeka and we ended in Lawrence Kansas. Every day was a new day talking to the elders and sisters of this Mission and what a great group of missionaries they are! Once again while Mitch interviewed each missionary I got to sit and visit with them as they waited their turn to go in. I am so grateful for an opportunity like this to get to know each one a little bit individually. I also enjoyed driving to each of these cities and seeing how beautiful and green it is here in Kansas. It was my first trip to Manhattan and Lawrence. Both are college towns and they are really pretty, green and with lots of trees. In Lawrence it was about 10 degrees cooler and that was a nice break from the heat! We got to have dinner with President Knapp and his wife from Manhattan and President Averett and his wife from Topeka. Such wonderful people. We also had dinner with the Brinkerhoffs who are our senior couple out in Junction City and when we were in Lawrence we had dinner with the McBride's who are serving with the CES institute in that area. Because we were already there we stayed Saturday and went to a baptism in Lawrence for Rae and Robert. I'd like to post their pictures but we've been told unless we have written permission from those being baptized we're not supposed to post their pictures. Hopefully I'll have some pictures that I can put up of our new members next week. We got home at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon I was pretty much done and just wanted to do something different. We were able to go to dinner and a movie. The movie we saw was the new Star Trek movie and it was pretty good and entertaining. It was a nice break for us. After the movie when we got home it was cool enough that we took our first walk around the neighborhood. It's been so hot here and doesn't cool off much at night that we haven't taken the opportunity to walk around the block so we really enjoyed being outside again! (Haven't been able to do it since then though....)
Sunday I went to my block of meetings at my ward while Mitch and the assistants drove back to Junction City to meet with some Elders they needed to meet with. While Mitch was gone I went and visited with some sisters that needed a little counseling. Don't know that I helped much but I loved the opportunity to visit with them. Madison, a guy we met when we bought our new mattress for our bed, came to dinner that night along with the assistants He's like our first friend in this area that's not involved in the mission!
Monday morning we always have an office staff meeting from 10 to 12 in the foyer of the church where the mission office is. This Monday it smelled so bad in the foyer that we had to meet in the primary room. We all thought it smelled like a dirty diaper but there was not one to be found. The stench pretty much lingered all day! I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening purchasing food and preparing it for our Mission Leadership Council for Tuesday. It seemed extra hot and I hated going anywhere and being outside. We didn”t get to bed till midnight and we were both pretty exhausted.
Tuesday was MLC. Once again the hallway at the church smelled awful and there were people there trying to figure out what was going on. The Church had been baited to kill mice and rats and so we wondered if there was something dead lying around and rotting. Finally one of the FM workers noticed that a ceiling tile was soft and squishy and figured something was wet up in the ceiling. Look at what they found!
That is a dead possum!!!! And look at the size of it! No wonder half of the building smelled so bad! Hopefully this possum didn't have a family living up there too. That was an exciting start to our day.
MLC went really well I am always amazed that we can have a missionary meeting that starts at 9 in the morning and ends at 4 in the afternoon and the time flys by.
Tomorrow we head out again for the last of our interviews. We will only be gone 2 days this time!
Just a little FYI for any Mesa 15th warders out there. One of our missionaries is from Mesa and as we spoke we figured out that his grandpa was my Sunday school teacher when I was about 14/15, Ken Rowley! I also met the sister of my 9th grade core teacher from Kino Jr. High, Mr. Davidson. She lives here in Kansas and her younger brother married the girl that introduced the gospel to Mitch’s sister which started all of this! SMALL WORLD!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment