Is it really Valentine's Day . . . Looks more like Christmas!

January 9-15

SUNDAY  Regular Church meetings then had to hurry as several visitors who were to Church said they were coming right up to the Memorial. Well we waited, ate our lunch and a little more waiting before anyone arrived.  After that  we had quite a steady stream of visitors for quite a while.  It was nice again to have people to see the monument and to give tours too.  When our shift finished we took a drive and looked over the apartment where Osborn’s had been living.  After that we went home and mainly watched the Olympics on TV.

MONDAY  -- We had the early shift again today.  Things were not really hopping today as far as visitors.  We came home and Rhonda started cooking for the Family Home evening that starts at 5:00pm.  With the FM missionaries gone home and the new ones not having arrived yet, we ended up doing a main dish, a salad and a dessert.  Just before FHE, Roni Johnson called and wanted to talk to us about maybe renting or buying John Lefgren’s house where the Osborn’s had stayed.  We had looked at it previously and had about decided to do nothing but we decided to listen anyway.  When he left, we both said we would stay where we were.  

Sisters:  Tarawhiti & Houston

TUESDAY  -  Roni Johnson called early this morning and said he had an offer that even he couldn’t believe.  He had emailed papers in hand waiting for us to sign to buy for $280,000.00!  I said I would think about it and talk to Rhonda and call him back.  Well, we went for a walk and then Rhonda was back to the stove making some dinner for Joseph since he had been hit by his wife  (in car... not living together) and broke some of his ribs.  He didn’t show either.  Tried to call Roni Johnson but NA so left a voice mail asking for the amount of the utilities and property taxes.  He didn’t respond. At the Memorial the Sister missionaries did the training and they showed us how they did “chat” on the computers.  It was pretty interesting.  I missed part of the presentation as I went to the Visitor Center to talk to Drew (fairly regular investigator/visitor).  I was pretty forceful with him and challenged him to be baptized.  Not much excitement the rest of the day until it was time to go to Institute.  We went through Randolph Town and gave a ride to a girl named Kelsey Preston who doesn’t drive.  Institute went pretty good, we doubled our percentage of attendance from 1 to 2.  We were tired by the time we finally got back to the apartment. 

WEDNESDAY  It was a pretty chilly morning, the car showed -9degrees when we left home.

We spent the full day at the Memorial so Osborn’s could have a day off.  We worked on several projects to help pass the time away as we didn’t have any visitors.  I even de-barked a couple of
sticks that were pretty small to help pass the time away.   After a quick dinner, we went back to the Church as Rhonda is accompanying the Young Women for their Young Women  in Excellence coming up soon.  
THURSDAY    We took an early morning walk before the weather turned cold and snowy.  Soon, the weather was not conducive to doing much traveling (or anything else) so we just stayed at the apartment..  Another Nor-eastern snow storm is predicted so we decided to stay home and clean the apartment, did washing, etc.  The Harman’s (new FM missionaries were expecting to arrive this evening so Rhonda fixed dinner and we invited Osborn’s as well for dinner.  Just before time to eat, Harman’s called and said the Spirit was telling them to stop traveling for the night as it was too dangerous.  Osborn’s still came and we had a nice visit after a delicious dinner of corn-chowder, salad, croissant rolls and Valentine Cookies.

FRIDAY  Pretty much snowed in for a while.  I shoveled to the car and then began cleaning the snow off.  There was about 14 inches on top of the car and it seemed deeper on the ground as the wind was blowing and it all didn’t stay on the car top. I guess we finally got to experience the Nor-Easter that all the TV stations were forecasting.  It was kinda fun and interesting and there really was a lot of snow.  Spent a while shoveling around the door and making a path to the car.  This is a new thing for the car as it is usually parked in a garage.    Rhonda spent more of the morning over to Shefchiks apartment cleaning so it would be ready for the Harman’s.    We had the afternoon shift at the Memorial.  I didn’t expect any visitors and sure enough, it turned out to be right, no one came.  We hurried home and made some candy popcorn, picked up the new FM missionaries, Kent and Tammy Harman, drove to the Village Pizza place (supposed to be the best pizza around) for a pickup order and headed to the Memorial again for a “Valentine Party” with the Osborn’s.  It was an enjoyable evening.  We had planned to play some games but got too busy just visiting.   SATURDAY   We were scheduled to go to the Boston Temple today but with the storm we changed our mind so told Osborn’s we would come put in a shift rather than do nothing. I cleaned a few paths and just watched it lightly snow out the window.  Harman‘s borrowed the steam cleaner while we were gone to give their apartment a better going over.