We had a great time with Deborah, Ian and family here for a short time. They left Monday afternoon and all was quiet... but not for long.
We hustled to get ready for family home evening. We'd invited the missionaries and a less active couple with a child over. The wife came early... um... so I stopped preparing and started visiting. The husband came a bit late. I was so impressed. He'd gotten lost and wandered up and down roads for about a half hour. I appreciated his perseverance. We had a nice visit, invited them to church, and they came on Sunday.
Tuesday I facilitated the every-other-week AWAI Mastermind meeting for some fellow copywriters. It was a good meeting. I got some articles written. That evening Tom and I drove to Gamaliel-- about 12 miles away, to visit some sisters. I visit taught. He home taught. They were lovely and chatty and we spent the majority of the evening there. Nice people.
Wednesday I did a little more writing work. I also worked on creating invitations for the Women's Retreat in April. And I spent time looking at family names that could be taken to the temple and printing them off. Tom went to meetings that night.
Thursday Tom went down to the prison to visit with one of the prisoners. The week before he'd driven the 45 minutes south to the prison for his parole hearing... only to be turned away. The prison had no records of him applying to come visit. It was disappointing. But on Thursday he learned that parole had been granted for this man. He also talked with the chaplain and they encouraged him to start a study group for LDS or those with an interest.
We both went and voted in the early voting for primary candidates. Then, later, I watched a video on how the electronic voting machines can be manipulated. It was disconcerting to see the possibility to hijack an election with the machines.
Friday we got up at 3:45 to get to the van going to the temple by 4:45 and then go off to the St. Louis Temple. There were 23 people from our ward in attendance at the temple that day. Some did baptisms. I did initiatories, two endowments and several sealings. We had the chance to seal Franz Maximillian Ingas Ferdnand von Donop to his wife and 8 of the nine children. It was a neat experience for many of the ward members to be kneeling together around the alter in this sacred ordinance. I love that it gives them the freedom to choose to accept it or not. We ended up arriving back home a little after 9pm. A long day, but a great time!
On Saturday, I got the posters back from Vistaprint for the Relief Society Retreat. They turned out nicely and got them ready to pass out to the different wards on Sunday. I worked on searching for technologies and prepared for the Ava ward conference I was to attend on Sunday. I had prepared a lesson for the last ward conference (which I could use this time) and a spiritual thought for the stake council that was pushed back to this Sunday (that I could have used from the last time... if I could have found it.) I'm glad the scriptures are full of wonderful teachings and it wasn't hard to come up with a new spiritual thought.
Today I left about 7:15 to drive the hour plus to Ava for their ward conference. They really are a wonderful ward. Very on top of things. I think my lesson went well and they seemed to appreciate the training. They prepared sack lunches and then we went to visit a sweet 80 year old widow and her daughters-- one lives with her. After the visit we had Stake council and I returned home about 5:30. I sent out the missionary letters and now the blog. I'm looking for an early bedtime. It's been a good week.... but I'm tired!
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