Monday, 29 Jan - It is decluttering day for Sister Haley. Elder Haley installed a hose holder at the sister's house. Then Elder Haley checked in with the seminary teacher and ran a few errands. Then home to start work on USA 2017 taxes since he had a spare hour. Then worked on the blog to get it caught up. Margaret is squaring up the various fabric lengths for the table runner. We just got one of our daily drama calls, so Sister Haley is off to the hospital to hold a hand and keep anxiety down to a low pitch. We have been promised rain today, but so far all we have gotten are clouds. The wind is really blowing today, but it blows quite vigorously most days here in Junction Hill.
Tuesday, 30 Jan - 0500 comes early. Today is the first day of seminary and we are to be there to help lend moral support. Actually we had to cancel the seminary class today because the one & only seminary student had a migrain, so we will try again tomorrow. We did start the weekly Primary activity today at 3:30 pm. Several of the neighborhood kids came, so we are off to a decent start for the new year.
Wednesday, 31 Jan - 0500 did come again today. Seminary starts at 0630. We get up, shower and put a little food into our stomachs and head out for Church at 0600. Seminary goes from 0630 to 0730. Then we went home and ate a bit more, so we had a full breakfast. Then Mike called his mum on Skype. Margaret played taxi driver again today. We had the Grafton missionaries in for dinner and both the Grafton & Coffs missionaries for DTM at our home. We did find some ice cream in the freezer for dessert after DTM. We had to report the odometer reading on the car since it was the last day of the month - we report our kms at the end of each month since we are only allocated a certain number of kms per month on the car.
Thursday, 1 Feb - Seminary again. The seminary class runs Monday - Thursday. We talked with one of our children when we got home. We reported our monthly fire alarm inspection on the Church website. We held the Branch Presidency meeting early and at our home today, since the President had to make a run to Coffs later that evening.
Friday, 2 Feb - Sleep in day. No seminary, so Mike slept in 45 minutes and Margaret more (not saying how much more). We had some errands and taxi driving to do in the morning and then picked up the RS President at 1 pm and headed for Brisbane. The Branch has a temple trip this weekend at the Brisbane temple. Margaret & I stayed with our friends from Newbury Park, Bob & Susan Errington, who are serving in the Brisbane Mission Offices. It was really good to see them and catch up on what they are doing there.It rained all the way up to Brisbane.
Saturday, 3 Feb - We attended the temple in the morning, doing an endowment session and then some sealings of husband/wife and children to parents. We had lunch after the sessions and then headed back to Grafton about 1 pm. It rained from Brisbane until we got to Maclean. We stopped in Maclean and checked out some of the areas there that the RS want to use for a picnic for the sisters on 17 Feb. There are some nice spots and some pretty scenery.
Sunday, 4 Feb - Fast Sunday. It was a good meeting and the testimonies were good. We worked on several Church projects and then spent the rest of the day at home.
Sunset over the pastures of Grafton
The moon - a few days before the Super Red Blue moon which we were not able to see because of the clouds.
Now, how do you make this thing work??
Well, what do you know. Isn't technology something? Elder & Sister Haley, Elder Ta'ala, Elder Lankford, Elder Rex, Elder Corpany
Mike sneaking out of Hanks Kitchen. What is in those boxes he is carrying?
Choco icing jam filled donuts in this one. Two of the donuts are for the Elders, not Mike
Pink icing jam filled donuts. Wow, these were good. Two for the Elders and one for Mike
On the way back from Brisbane, we found this lane which is named after our son, Ryan (or so we like to believe)
Looking over the mighty Clarence River from a hill top in Maclean. The river curves to the right and then (if you look closely) you will see it curving back to the left in the mid-section of the photo. The river is actually flowing north at this point, so the water is moving from the left to the right of the picture. The river will reach the ocean up north a bit at Iluka
Rain clouds a brewing near Grafton
It is definitely the rainy season & summer here in Grafton. Lots of high cumulus clouds all last week
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