Sunday, 18 January, 2014

This was a busy week for us - no more slacking and laying around and 'piddling' as I call it.  On Monday, we finally got back down to the beach for a lovely walk.  Well, it turned out be less than 15 minutes since it started to rain, but it was so nice to back down there again.  Since it's been so hot and humid this week, the ocean water felt like bath water, it was so warm.  I love walking along the water's edge.

 On Tuesday, we had the other set of missionaries over for dinner.  We fed them tacos like we did the other missionaries last week.  We enjoyed getting to know this set of missionaries as well.  Elder Josol has been out for a few months and Elder Simon is a 'greenie' (this is his first area).  They came  back on Thursday and Saturday - we are studying a church book called 'Preach My Gospel' - it's a book which those going on a mission study before and during their missions.  Since Dad and I want to go on a mission one day, we thought that we would get a head start on studying it.  We also asked the missionaries if they would come over and show us how they use it when studying on their mission.  We had a really good discussion about how to start talking with people about the gospel and did some role playing (they call it 'real playing').  They are going to come back again this coming Wednesday to do some more studying and discussing with us.  We are learning and enjoying this quite a lot.

Elder Simon and Elder Josol

Wednesday night we had Robyn and a couple, the Turners, from church over for dinner.  We haven't been able to do this for so long with Dad working so much last year and then his hospital visit and recuperation time, so it was nice to start it up again.  Rosine and Dave Turner are from New Zealand, but have been here for a couple of years - he is a psychiastric nurse and she works as a bank teller.  We all had a yummy meatloaf dinner and enjoyed getting to know them a little better.  They are really nice people and we look forward to having them over again to get to know them even better.  Rosine is our Primary President and Robyn is her counsellor, so they know each other quite well.  Robyn's son left earlier that day and so now she is on her own at home - it was good that she could join us for dinner.

Robyn, Dave and Rosine

Robyn and I spent the day together on Friday - I called her on Thursday evening to see if she would like to come and do some errands with me.  We had a really good day together - we did some of her errands, too, and even had a nice 'Subway' lunch.  Dad got a nice surprise in the mail the same day - he had ordered a large remote control helicopter and had been waiting all week to get it in the mail.  When I left him on Friday to meet up with Robyn, he was like a kid opening up a Christmas present.  He couldn't wait to get it out, set it up and fly it.  It turns out that it is not as easy as he thought it would be - I think it's going to take quite a while for him to learn how to get it up in the air and keep it up there. :-)

Dad's first remote control helicopter (the red and black one) and his new one 

On Saturday, Robyn and I went swimming at the beach.  The waves were crazy!  We floated around on our noodles and yakked (and took in quite a bit of salty water as the waves washed over us).  We had such a fun time!

These pictures were drawn for me by my friend, Pauline, who stayed at our house when I was in Canada when Kendall was born - I FINALLY bought some frames to put them in and dad hung them up in our dining room