Monday: biked 8.95 ; grocery shopping and made an appointment for next week to have my nails done; laundry
Tuesday: pre prep meeting dressed in whites and in meeting by 6:05. After the temple three couples (Daes, Favero, us) went to Keokuk in Favero nice truck and Daes bought us all dinner at the Hawkeye Restaurant. I had hall rack of ribs, loaded baked potato and house salad—score! (Can’t compare to Raymond’s, Nathan’s, Andrew’s, or Dads but I was so hungry for bbq ribs). Then we went to the Dam Museum (even in print it sounds like I’m swearing) and Favero paid for all of us. We had a good time. The museum was quite interesting and worth our time and the couples are great so…good company. We biked 6.2 miles only. The weather was threatening—thunder and lightening so we ended early. It kept getting worse. It was quite a show in the skies all night.
Wednesday: got mixed up with temple coordinators texts and went early again 6:05 so I slowly prepared for the later meeting. We were endowment leaders in the 8:00 endowment session. Thanks for joining us for a temple session. We so enjoyed thinking about our children joining us this week in the temple. Today was our actual anniversary and I feel like a Queen, so blessed to have been sealed to a man of God, a gentleman. Ray wanted to take me to dinner again so after the temple, we drove to Keokuk, back to the Hawkeye restaurant. We both ended up having soup and salad, Wisconsin cheddar cheese soup mmmm. When we returned to Nauvoo, we went on our bike ride 8.3 miles.
Thursday: today was our last day as a baptistry group because we don’t have patrons coming so the group brought family names and Sister Hunter was baptized for 47 female ancestors of the group and Ray was baptized for 39 males, plus he did the baptizing for the females. We ate lunch in the temple break room and then we’re patrons for an endowment session. I went through for Constance Stokes. I thought that was pretty cool. Then we biked 8.59 miles
Friday: biked 8.94 miles, came home and showered and went as patrons to a 10:00 initiatory session for 7 sisters in our family line. Then an endowment session at 11:15 and another repentance opportunity. There was a female who sat by me that has some weird problems. She was fidgeting and kept looking back at her mother and laughing. It was very distracting. I didn’t want to sit by her but she made an effort to sit by me, so I was actually flattered but each time we changed rooms, it was a different seating arrangement so the next room I had to walk between rows of chairs, which I try to avoid because of my knee. We’ll, ordinarily I would have gone to the next row but (PRIDE!) came up and I thought others in the session would think I didn’t want to sit by her so I went between the rows and caught my foot which twisted my knee. Yes, I hurt it again but I’m hoping ice/heat/time will heal it. Pride can creep in so easily and almost catch us unaware. I’m grateful for these opportunities to become aware of my weaknesses so I can change. After the session, I went to the break room and Ate fresh cucumbers and tomatoes from Carrolls garden that they bring to share and then had preprep meeting at 1:05 so I could serve early, 1:15 pm at floor 1, chair 2😇. I enjoy this position because I get to talk to whomever comes in and tell them how to get where they want to go and find out where they are from😁.
Saturday: my knee is pretty stiff this morning but we still tried to bike. I only made it 2 miles, then iced it, then heat in the shower. Last baptistry as a Saturday team.
Sunday: we taught our class “Jesus is my Foundation”. Great lesson for me to focus on doing the right things for the right reasons and to remind myself to build a foundation on the character traits of Christ. Kevin attended plus some support for Sister Squires and the Maucotels. It’s fast Sunday so we were assigned to host again and our people were the Olsens from Ephraim, Utah, a part of our baptistry teams and President and Sister Church. It was a nice time and we heard some special stories of miracles. I got to practice on my new found recipe from Thurstons, smothered beef burritos. They all loved it and even had seconds! Nice.
We love you and so appreciate your support of our anniversary by joining us in the temple wherever you are. It was such a happy thought all week, knowing you were each joining us. Teresa and Ray
0 comments:
Post a Comment