Monday: I guess bikes are like cars, they have to be maintained after so many miles. Ray and Elder Blocker changed the tire and took out a broken spoke and balanced the tire. It took a lot of time. Elder Blocker was so nice to stop and assist. They finished what they were doing just in time to go to Keokuk for me a haircut at 11:30. She washed and cut and masssaged my head. And then straightened my hair. 😁. Wow! It lasted that day, then the bangs first curled and then by the end of Tuesday, it was all crazy. Funny what humidity does.After we got home, we rode the bike 8.4 miles and while he was fixing the bike earlier, I had made baked beans and potato salad, peach lemonade with and we went to the park close by and had a picnic with Favero, Whittier, Whitney, Blocker, and Hartvigsen—all are temple missionary couples.
Tuesday: temple time 5:45 am After 2:00 we ran errands, picked up garden tomatoes and potatoes and went to the missionary mail room for a package of hair curlers, water filters (we used our first ones out). And then our bike ride 9.32 miles.
Wednesday: temple at 6:45 am (much better time). We were the endowment leaders for the 8:15 session. After our scheduled time, we went on another endowment session as well as several other worker missionary couples and we all went up for the prayer circle. That was pretty powerful. At 5:00 pm we went for our bike ride 9 miles. We also picked up a package of miracle arthritis. Ordered for Rays hands. It was recommended to us by Sister Osterly, temple matron.
Thursday: no more Arrival Center but we went to the baptistry. Not much happening there but we did our own proxy baptisms along with other workers in our group. Ray was baptized for 42 proxies! After that, our coordinators released us to do an endowment session and I went through for Dorothy B Stokes from Middlesex England. After the temple, biked 9.28. At 6:30 I went to Relief Society simple personal history at the church. At 7:30 we went to Whittiers place above us for game night. We played scum and some other group card game. Wilkersons,
Temple Evans, our neighbor (Marianne’s brother in law) all came.
Friday: biked 5.83 miles and ran out of power. We walked 1/2 mile and went to Lions Drug. It was great. Outside we saw the arbor, the birch umbrella tree, and the buckeye bottle brush bush. The bottle brush looks more like it’s name earlier in the season. We also went to Patty Sessions log cabin and Orion Hyde’s cram home with Miranda Johnson. At 7:30 we attended a music devotional. This community really does a Terri’s job of including all ages of youth. They had primary age children sing, grade school to adult in the orchestra, and older adults with young adults in the choir. They put on a show on new hymns going in the hymn book. They had refreshments out on tables through the whole thing to keep people busy, I guess😀. My grandchildren would have thought it was great!
Saturday: biked 8.79 miles, walked .57 miles, served in the temple and had hoped to get to adult session of stake conference but missed that. We’ll, we got there for the last half hour as we were next to the last persons to leave the temple at 7:30. Conference was from 6:30-8:00.
Sunday: we did get to stake conference 10-12:00. The theme was Jacob 5 dig, nourish, prune—as a stake, as a ward, as a family, personally. When we’re young, we choose friends if they play our same sports or if they are “cool”. Popular. The stake president joined the church when he was 19 and all of a sudden there were so many varieties in his ward and stake. He grew up and chose friends who him to be good like our best Friend, Jesus Christ. He said, in our associations, let the mix of variety simmer like a good stew until the flavor is just right. “Let go” of offenses. Be grateful for each other, “Each life that touches ours for good”.
At 2:00 we attended the new group of performing missionaries, “Our Saviors Love”. It was still wonderful. There were a lot of our friends who had the same idea as us; we temple missionaries were probably 20 of us. Elder Weed from Fallon Nevada fell face down as he tripped going down the stairs. He was bleeding on his forehead, hopefully he doesn’t feel worse today..
We love you and are so grateful for our associations the Lord has blessed us with!
We pray for you each daily. Love Teresa, Mom (Dad).
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