Have you ever had one of those days where the same song just keeps playing over and over on your mind? Well some may call it a "Senior Moment", I prefer to call it inspiration.
So to get the best out of this posting please hum along with me.....
that is if you are old enough to remember it :)
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
(Cindy Johnson all the way from California on vacation to Disney World)
The Orlando Florida Temple-my favorite place to get away...
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.
Our Temple Preparation Sunday School class, Sister Elizabeth Carter, Brother Tommy Smith, Brother Randy Weiser, Sister Betty Lou Albury, on a field trip to attend a temple tour.
Chips and salsa, ole!
You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.
The Pleasant Hill Ward linger longer!
Last month it was cold cereal, this month it was chips and dips!
This little guy didn't have any problem posing for the picture.
I think he was a little disappointed that he didn't get a treat for his effort.
Just so you know that we don't spend all of our time visiting with old friends, photographing unusual wildlife and eating chips and dips.
This "little hole" was the result of some innocent rough housing by two Elders, who have asked to remain nameless. After making the long drive to their location and examining the hole we then had to make the necessary measurements so that we could get some estimates to have the work done. Fortunately the cost of the repair turned out to be less extensive than the landlord lead us to believe.
Fortunately the wall was sheet rock with plaster textures to add accent to the older home, not just plaster as we had been advised.
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(No we haven't been to the gulf yet, but it is definitely on our list of things to do)
We had to move a queen and king bed out of their very small, very crowded bedroom and replace them with two twin beds.
While e were there they also asked us to affix a white board on their wall. The funny thing was that once Elder Busath had his tool box open Sister Blair grabbed the measuring tape, made some mathematical calculations and instructed him exactly where she wanted it hung. After a few questions we found out that she was an interior design major before coming out on her mission.
Sisters Samson and Allen, currently serving in the DeLand area just being silly.
The Assistants to the Mission President had to take the third seat out of the large van to transport large boxes filled with Book of Mormons and pamphlets to a special training meeting this week.
What better place to store it than the Mission Office lobby, right? You would be surprised how may missionaries sat on the bench seat while waiting for one thing or another and actually buckled up :)
Before
During
After
Saturday was our "P" Day. P stands for preparation and it's the day when we don't have to go into the office and we are suppose to take care of personal business.
Well Elder Busath had mentioned (more than once) that he hadn't had a personal "P" Day for quite some time, sniff, sniff.
So, being a good companion, I put my list of Mission Needs on hold and let him direct the days activities.
Well, he made one major mistake.
He suggested that we go to Lowe's to "look" at paint in case we decide to repaint our front door in the future. The ugly door has been driving him crazy so I knew I wouldn't have to do much persuading. Of course once I got into the paint department I couldn't resist striking while the pan was hot. I just had to pick up some inexpensive paint to touch up our dining room wall. The apartment management had been promising to take care of it for the past 5+ months and it still was not done. Then there were those flowers that needed replacing on our patio, and a fan and light fixture that the Portuguese Elders just had to have.
Before
During
After
Needless to say he was a good sport about all of it and we actually got all the work done in record time. We even had time to walk around the high school track a few times, do some laundry, clean the apartment, go grocery shopping and have lunch at McDonald's.
I am afraid to admit that we have become McDonald cheeseburger junkies, but without an In and Out, or Smashbuger nearby what are you going to do?
We can't afford to go to Five Guys too often, we are starving missionaries after all, so a McDonald's deluxe double cheeseburger and single cheeseburger fit our budget perfectly.
In closing I would just like to share a thought by Dallin H. Oaks that may explain why we are here doing what we are doing;
Two companion qualities evident in the lives of our pioneers, early and modern, are unselfishness and sacrifice. Our Utah pioneers excelled at putting 'the general welfare and community goals over individual gain and personal ambition'. That same quality is evident in the conversion stories of modern pioneers. Upon receiving a testimony of the truth of the restored gospel, they have unhesitatingly sacrificed all that was required to assure that its blessings will be available to their children and to generations unborn.
Or like the plaque on our wall states:
Mis-sion-ary, {noun}, a person who leaves their family for a while,
so others can be with their families for eternity!
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name
You wanna go where people know,
people are all the same,
You wanna go where everybody knows
your name.
Cheers!
Why does the painting not surprise me :) Definately looks better.
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