Most of this week, I spent with Robyn at her house doing cleaning. She is finding herself quite scattered and can't seem to concentrate on anything. So, I suggested that we start with cleaning her kitchen. She has so much stuff she has collected over the years which she really didn't need. So we started with one cupboard, throwing out what she didn't want/need and then I cleaned it out - and then we moved onto the next. It took us three days to clean the bottom cupboards and the pantry. They all look amazing now and Robyn threw out tons of old food and gave away tons of kitchen stuff. I told her that she should have taken a before and after pic of the pantry to show to her children who had seen it when they were all here over Christmas. :-) We didn't take the before pic, but she did take a pic afterwards.
On Wednesday, we had one set of missionaries over for lunch. It's been really nice getting to know the missionaries and being able to feed them while we are at home in HB. After lunch, we spent some time talking about how they teach people the different principles of the gospel. At the end, they asked us to do some role playing - Dad doesn't like to do that, so it was mostly me, but it was good to see that I was comfortable doing that. The next evening, the other set were invited for dinner - they phoned us before they were about to come and asked if both sets could come (the other set of missionaries didn't have any appointments that night and the weather was awful, so they wouldn't have been able to go out tracting). We were happy to have them come, although I worried that there wouldn't be enough food for all of us, but between Robyn and I, we came up with other things we could add to the meal to stretch things out.
Both Dad and Robyn gave talks in church today - it is Australia Day tomorrow (January 26th) and so the theme for the meeting was on that topic. Dad focused his talk on being patriotic and a good citizen and where those principles were found in the scriptures. He spoke about how being a good citizen can be paralleled to living a righteous life. For instance, being a good citizen means giving service to others in your community and that corresponds with living the gospel. Both Robyn and Dad gave a good talk and others agreed with me telling Dad that they really enjoyed his talk.
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