Friday was 'Show Day' here in Hervey Bay and it was a holiday. I can't believe that everyone gets a day off to go to 'the Show'. 'The Show' was held in Maryborough which is about a half hour from here and sounds like it was a combination of a very small CNE plus the Royal Winter Fair. Dad and I were thinking of going, but the price of $20. per person to look at rides, games, crafts and animals just didn't seem worth it. Instead, we decided to spend the day outside. First, we went to the beach and took a walk along the water's edge - it was such a perfect day to do it - blue sky, shining sun, lovely breeze (what's new in HB, eh? :-) The water was lovely, but we weren't dressed for a swim so we just enjoyed walking in it. Then, we came home and had lunch outside on our patio, read books on our chaise loungers and had a lovely nap in the warm sun. Can life get much better than that? :-)
Saturday was cloudy and the perfect day to be so - we spent most of our time in the car yesterday. We picked up our friends, Denise and Sue (from church) and Dad drove us to a place called Kawana Waters for a Stake Relief Society activity. Kawana Waters is about 2 1/2 hours from HB - I wasn't game to drive there myself as I had no clue where I was going. I asked Dad if he would drive and he said 'sure'. We got there with about an hour to spare and so we drove down to the beach to eat our lunch. It was in a city called Maroochydore - they had a great park by the beach and I said to Dad that I thought that the boys would love playing there - especially on the climbing ropes apparatus. I wish that I had taken a camera with me to take a pic of it - next time we go there, I will make sure to do that.
The Relief Society activity was really well organized. It started off with a really nice powerpoint presentation of pictures and songs. There were a couple of those kinds of presentations over the three hours and whoever did them was really technologically savvy. After the introduction, we were divided into three groups and we rotated through three workshops: 'By the Sweat of my Brow' was about getting back to nature to make meals - I didn't try any of the ideas because they either sounded icky or they smelled icky. :-) I know, I am very fussy! :-); 'Life's Like That' was about creating balance in your life - we spent some time honing our socialing skills by meeting new sisters in our Stake - we had 30 seconds to speak with a sister and share something about each other with each other before moving on to someone else; and the last workshop was called 'Soul Savers' which focused on making sure that we feed ourselves spiritually every day. After that, we all got together for a presentation about Visiting Teaching. The sister who gave it was trying to get us pumped up and excited about doing our visiting teaching each month. She had a very busy display with all sorts of poems and lists about visiting teaching. Our closing exercises included a wonderful song sung by a young woman with a beautiful voice after which we had a light snack (sandwiches, crackers, bars, etc.) which was a lovely way to end the day. After Dad dropped us off, he drove over to the beach and spent about 45 minutes there watching the freighters and people who were walking their dogs on the beach. He then drove to a nearby mall and checked out a store called JB Hi-Fi - an electronics store. He then spent about 1 1/2 hours doing some indexing of shipping records for Family History (passenger lists of ships bound for Canada).
We got to Skype with Terri-Ann and the boys this morning, although not for long. Our internet was acting up and so our connection wasn't that good. We also had to get to church early so we didn't have much time to talk. We did find out that Colin and Caleb starting t-ball this past Tuesday and they really like it. Caleb even told me that he hit two home runs. Colin seemed disappointed that he didn't hit any home runs, but I told him that what counted was that he had fun and he said that he did have fun. Their coach is a friend of theirs (Adam) and James is the assistant coach - I am sure that with those two coaches, the boys are going to have a great experience playing t-ball this summer.
Sacrament today was really good - the theme was about 'forgiveness' - our three speakers were Jordan (a 15 year old young man), Sandy and Lyn (two older women) and they all did a really good job. Something really touched me today when Lyn was talking. Sometimes, we hear things many times at church, but then sometimes it just hits us differently. Today Lyn mentioned a scripture and it really made me think - it was from Matthew 6:15 -- But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. I told Lyn how that really made me think about how seriously Heavenly Father takes forgiveness. If we aren't forgiving to others, then Heavenly Father isn't going to forgive us. That's pretty serious stuff to me. I told Lyn that I wasn't at a place at this moment in my life where I was having difficulty forgiving someone, but who knows what the future holds.
My first counsellor was back today and I was really happy to have her back with us - we have missed her. I didn't work much on Primary this week and it really showed today. I had everything organized, but I just felt like I was running from here to there and back again. I managed to get everything done that I needed to get done, but I realized at the end of the day, I need to work on Primary a little every day so that I am able to feel less stressed on Sundays. It will help having my counsellor back now - I will meet with her this week to go over what we have been doing since she's been gone (six weeks). I will start doing more delegating as well - I won't be able to keep running things the way I have been once I start working full-time. Things are really starting to come together, though - I am pleased about that. :-)
After church, we got to Skype with Grandma and Grandpa Martin. They told us all about their trip to Alberta with Uncle Bob to see Kathleen, Rob, Dominik, Isabella, Jackie and Curtis. Everyone out there is doing well and looking forward to coming out to Grandma and Grandpa's in July for Trish's wedding and Isabella's baptism. Grandpa did not look well - he is losing weight and his skin has gone red from the chemo. The doctors are still conferring about what to do re: the chemo and the blood clotting side effect. It was good to talk with them/see them - we are going to do it again next week. Grandpa likes to plan times to Skype - he does that with Uncle Bob as well. When we were at their place earlier this year, he and Uncle Bob were Skyping every Wednesday or Thursday. It's great to have this kind of technology - it's almost like we are there in the room with them.
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