Sunday, July 14, 2019

Lovely walks, a baptism, a miracle meeting and feeding Sisters

It's been a great week!  Even though it's been hot a muggy we've had a few lovely mornings for my walks. The electricians came and finished hooking us up!  Elder Quincy finished the cabinets.  He got curtains and pictures up in the President's office. It's really coming together nicely.  Sister Sanders is getting all the supplies organised. 
Yesterday we got to go to Robert's baptism!   We met him our first Sunday in Iowa City. 
I was out running errands yesterday and went in a Dollar Tree by the office.  As I walked in Elizabeth Fox from Marshalltown was walking out!  Her baby is back in the hospital here and she really wanted a blessing for him.  She'd just been thinking of me and I walked in!  So after church today we met the Zone Leaders to give Lindo a blessing.
We fed all the Iowa City Sisters today!  It's funny how differently they eat than the Elders do! 
Its transfer week!  27 leaving and 20 coming!


The Sanders grandkids visited!









Sunday, July 7, 2019

A Wonderful Crazy Busy Week!

We had our first staff meeting with the Sturms Monday. We love them already!



The Blues Sisters
I had lots of letters to send out that had been waiting weeks for the new President' s signature.  I had the Baptism report to edit and send out.  Miraculously I figured out how to put in the formulas that were missing and got the report complete.  It was the 1st day of a new month so I had to get the 6 baptism records in and submitted. And it was the deadline for pictures from the 28 missionaries leaving in July!  
Tuesday was Zone Conference in Nauvoo which was delightful!


Since we were there we took the time to go to the temple!  I had no names ready for endowments so I did baptisms, confirmations and inititories while Elder Quincy did an endowment!  I had time to sit in the celestial time and read and ponder and pray!  It's been too long since I could do that!  It was hot and humid, but I managed to get some pictures while I waited!








We enjoyed seeing how much taller the corn was! I miss being in farmland all the time!




Wednesday we were back in the office frantically working trying to catch up! I spent lots of time on the phone tracking down baptism records and missionary pictures.  We did manage a morning walk before it got too hot.






We had a beautiful sunset!

Thursday, the 4th we went to the 5 star Jimmy Jack's barbeque Shack with the Sanders and then worked the rest the day at the office.  Elder Quincy worked with the FM guy putting in the cabinets from our old office.


Meanwhile in Texas, 3 of our kids were together!Friday I got all my baptism recorrds and missionary pictures and got my report done and my video ready to record! We picked up a Sister and sent her off for home and got all caught up!  Saturday we had time for Costco shopping, grocery shopping, a visit to the hospital to see the Harringtons, and a couple of hours in the office!
Meanwhile in Utah my dad turned 90 and a bunch of the family celebrated!

Today we enjoyed our English and Spanish meetings, cooked salmon and I had a lovely nap!

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Out with the old in with the new!

Our new Mission President has arrived!  President and Sister Sturm are wonderful! We had them over for dinner tonight and really enjoy them!

Our cute Sister Fisher got married! 

We have loved the Badgers and all they've taught us about Christlike love!

Tammy sent us sweet pictures of her new grandbaby Tinley

Iowa has such beautiful foliage everywhere!

We had these good Elders over to eat Elder Quincys grilled hamburgers!

Kylee and Tinley.
This week will be busy!  Poor President had a 3 inch stack of letters to sign for me.  I'll get to send all them off!  We had a really hot weekend; In the 90's with the humidity it felt like 105!
We went to the Iowa City 4th ward's sacrament meeting  this morning, then Elder Quincy stayed for their combined adult meeting while I went to the Spanish branch's combined meeting. Then we went to the Spanish Branch's sacrament meeting!  Fun stuff! My Spanish should improve!
We are loving life here!