Sunday, 5 November, 2017

Dad was back to the grind this week prepping for his upcoming B777 practical course.  It's been so long since Dad's been around that airplane, so he is a bit rusty.  He spent most of the days this week working on reviewing the tasks the students have to do and preparing paperwork for the course.  His friend, Niles, who has taught this course many times before, shared some of his resources with Dad which I thought was so nice of him - and Dad was so appreciative of that also. 

While Dad was prepping, I was socializing or rather relaxing and socializing:  Wednesday, I had a facial; Thursday, I had a massage (as did Dad) and Friday, I met up with my friend, Bronwyn, for 'afternoon tea' (of course, I had my 'usual' iced chocolate 😊).  It was great to catch up with Bronwyn again - she and her husband had just returned from a trip to Ireland, Scotland and England, so she and I spent most of the time talking about our experiences in those countries (even though it's been 30 years since we all were in the UK and over 10 years since Dad and I travelled to Ireland, I could still remember a lot of our time there and how much I loved travelling in those countries).  I still want to go back to England again - I love London - and I also would love to see the Lake District and Bath and surrounding area.

Me with yet another iced chocolate - so yummy - Bronwyn doesn't like getting her photo taken so I just get her to take a pic of me when we get together 

We had the missionaries over for dinner on Thursday (I forgot to take photos again 😐) - Elder Evans (from Perth) and Elder Choi (from South Korea) - and, as usual, we had a lovely time chatting with them while we ate and then listening to them as they shared their lesson.  The new thing that they do for dinner appointments now is share a message which they will be sharing with one of their investigators later that week - it's kind of like a practice for them.  This week's message was about the ten commandments - it was a good review.  In my Book of Mormon study this week, it was about the ten commandments as well and one of the questions I had to answer was 'which commandment can you work at this week'.  I chose to work on 'keeping the Sabbath Day 'more' holy, so we discussed a bit about that with the missionaries.