Oops, remembered when we were in bed last night that I had forgotten to write in my blog - sorry about that. :-)
Monday was a busy day as usual. Dad was at the Family History Centre - he spent some time helping a couple of members do indexing. The phone also rang off the hook - Dad said that people had seen the article in the paper and were calling to see where the church was located. He was also able to do some of his own research and was able to find the marriage certificate for Grandma Noble's parents which now gives him some more information about her ancestors. Dad was very excited about this find! I spent the day in the Primary room again, going through more 'stuff'. I also wrote down all the stuff which is in the cupboards so that I can let the teachers know at our meeting on Sunday what's in there. The cupboard looks amazing, if I do say so myself. :-) It's all organized so everything is easily seen and accessible.
We seem to be spending our evenings doing Primary/High Priests work. There is a lot to do when you are the leader of an auxiliary in the church. I make lists of the things I need to do and every time I tick something off a list, it seems like I put two more items back on the list. :-) Dad's job right now is mostly finding out who the people are who are on the list he has been given. A number of the people have stopped coming to church and so, if they move, they don't let us know, and so there tends to be a large number of people on the lists, but the people are not necessarily even still living in Hervey Bay. My time is mostly taken up with getting the Primary running smoothly - and keeping up with all the things which need to be done along the way (like interviews to be organized with the Bishop when a child is going to be baptized or advancing to Young Men/Young Women's). I am so grateful to have an amazing secretary who really keeps things organized.
We took two meals over to our Relief Society President on Tuesday afternoon to be taken to the husband of the woman in our ward who had a heart attack/stroke last week and is in hospital in Brisbane. He is being provided with suppers for every night, but only two sisters are allowed to deliver them - this fellow isn't too keen on having church members come up to his door. So our RS president and the previous RS president are doing the delivering of the meals - one delivers them on Tuesdays and the other makes her delivery on Saturdays. I don't know how long the ward will provide the meals for him - it's going to be hard for him when he's on his own as he didn't even know how to use the toaster or the microwave oven - his wife did everything. I suggested that maybe they should suggest that he get Meals on Wheels to bring him meals - he can get a sandwich, main meal, and dessert for $7.00 a day.
We spent our afternoon yesterday doing cleaning - I was inside the house and Dad was outside. I don't like cleaning, never have and never will, and usually I don't do the main cleaning as Dad does it while I am at school, but since I am on school holidays, I thought that I should help out with the cleaning. :-) Dad was busy trying to clean the bug/spider eggs which were attached to the fans and the ceiling of the patio covering.
I was able to Skype with Char yesterday afternoon which was fun - I love the technology that allows us to keep in touch so easily. While I was talking with her, I showed her my scooter, our car and our new outdoor suite - it was so cool. It's amazing how cheap things have become to do things like this, too. I remember when I was a teenager and we called from Toronto to Wagga to talk with Grandma and Grandpa Dunkley at Christmas time and it cost us $3.00 per minute then.
We had the missionaries over for dinner again and, as usual, they were our 'guinea pigs' with the meal we planned. It was a beef and vegetable pie - basically, hamburger and tons of vegetables in a tomato base and topped with an all purpose biscuit mix (like Bisquick). It was okay, but it's not on the top of my list. I am looking forward to trying some meals with the black beans we bought back from Canada - I am going to cook the dried beans and see how they work in the recipes that I used to make back in Canada - I really like mexican and tex/mex meals, so I am happy that I can now cook them. We told the missionaries that next time they came, we would teach them how to play cribbage - we used to do that with the missionaries before we went to Canada in November. They are looking forward to that. They gave us a spiritual thought based on the scripture 1 Nephi 3:7 which says "And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said unto my father: I will go and do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them." We talked about the fact that we need to have faith in the Lord when we are asked to do something that He will always be with us to help us do whatever he has asked us to do. I love the faith that Nephi had - his brothers thought that what they had been asked to do would be impossible, but Nephi knew that Heavenly Father would help him to complete the task.
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