More Catching Up

 

One of our callings is to work with the YSA's (Young Single Adults).  This was a service project we had a few weeks ago for a member of our bishopric who was terminally ill.  He passed away last 10 days ago and we had his funeral last Friday. His wife didn't want anyone to wear black--she wanted to celebrate his life.  He had suffered long enough.  We spent a few hours cleaning up his "garden" (yard) for his wife and son.  Our bishop is the one in the front with his hands on his knees.  Our missionaries from our ward are the ones in the middle back--Elder Torres has a blue shirt on and has black hair and Elder Palmer is to his right with light hair.  Elder Palmer is right behind the Bishop.  We do quite a few things with these Elders.

This is a view from the back coming up to the house.  It's a nice sized garden

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This is the view from the patio looking down the garden. 

We had a baptism a week ago Saturday for a little 8 year old girl--Odu Bolaji.  Byron was asked to confirm her and he did an excellent job. 

Her parents are from Nigeria.  Her mother gave her a "baptismal party" instead of a birthday party.  She served dinner to a hundred people.  Grace runs her own day care center and invited all her children and their parents, plus Odu's friends and their families.  The ward was supportive as well.  We had Great food--she hired a Nigerian caterer.  It was delicious.  She invited all the little children to come up and sing "Families Can Be Together Forever."  She had words printed out for the older ones.  It was a Great Day!

We are enjoying our mission!!!  We still don't have a car, but because of our "advanced age," we have free bus passes.  We can go anywhere in England on the bus; however, we're not supposed to leave our mission boundaries except for the temple and inside the M25--the London Ring Route.  For the "Elderly" missionaries, we're supposed to be able to walk 3 miles--we've Exceeded that!  But there's always a Rainbow--it's helping the waistline--right now at least.

We're Happy in our flat and very Excited to be working with the YSA's.  We're going to be Institute teachers starting next week--scary!  We have around 10 that we think will support us and we Hope we can make it a wonderful experience for them!  We're teaching the Book of Mormon and we're studying like crazy!!!  I've also been trying out recipes on the Elders to see if I can make Young Adult Food over here.  We've had a few successes.  Well I have to go to bed--I'm breaking "Mission Rules" right now.  (They're mainly for the young missionaries--but I need to get some shut eye.)
Have a Happy Everyone!!!
Bye for now.