Monday, 11 December 2017
The mission office will be busy the next 9 days. We are hosting missionaries from the London Mission besides our own missionaries to a Christmas Dinner and day at the London Temple. We will be hosting 6 days of dinners for both groups. Tomorrow will be the first day of three for the London South Mission. I spent part of the day helping setting up Christmas decorations and table decorations in the dining room in the accommodations. Sister Harkness spearheaded the decorations and food. (I will take pictures and share tomorrow.) She did a huge mural of pictures of Christ on a wall and had the icicle lights hung around the walls at the top of the ceiling. She had bought an 8 ft pre-lite Christmas tree at Costco. I think most of the ideas came from President and Sister Gubler which had paper cutouts of Christmas tree bulbs and stars. On each star was a missionary picture and on each bulb was a picture of missionaries with their friends that joined the church. On the tree was the bulbs and behind the wall hanging with the lights the stars of the missionaries hung with string. Both sides of the bulbs and stars had pictures on them. It was amazing. Great idea! And then I helped sew runners for a few of the tables. Sister DeArden had sewn most of them. The other half of the day was setting up the dining room for dinner for the missionaries staying overnight. I made green salad, set tables with napkins, forks, and cups. Pizza was bought from Pizza Hut. (No different than from home!) 30 pizzas were bought for 78 people. Sister Parker was in charge of dinner but had to help with rooms for the missionaries.
Elder Wallace spent the day shuttling missionaries from the Gatwick airport and Lingfield train station. All of the missionaries are sleeping at the accommodations. Elder Wallace told of his experiences of parking the van at Gatwick. It was a harrowing (Thank you Dennis Doyle, my personal English expert and friend) experience and he arrived safely home. Elder Wallace took 4-5 trips to Lingfield and the last trip I went with him at 10:20 pm. We were hoping the last four missionaries were on the same train. Only two missionaries arrived. As we were almost to the London Temple we got a phone call from the other two missionaries that they were at Dormans Train stop, one past Lingfield. Soooo...to make a long story short...we picked up the two other missionaries. Everyone had now arrived. We took them to their rooms and also feed them pizza and green salad.
Sleep came quickly after we prepared for bed, prayed and read scriptures.
The mission office will be busy the next 9 days. We are hosting missionaries from the London Mission besides our own missionaries to a Christmas Dinner and day at the London Temple. We will be hosting 6 days of dinners for both groups. Tomorrow will be the first day of three for the London South Mission. I spent part of the day helping setting up Christmas decorations and table decorations in the dining room in the accommodations. Sister Harkness spearheaded the decorations and food. (I will take pictures and share tomorrow.) She did a huge mural of pictures of Christ on a wall and had the icicle lights hung around the walls at the top of the ceiling. She had bought an 8 ft pre-lite Christmas tree at Costco. I think most of the ideas came from President and Sister Gubler which had paper cutouts of Christmas tree bulbs and stars. On each star was a missionary picture and on each bulb was a picture of missionaries with their friends that joined the church. On the tree was the bulbs and behind the wall hanging with the lights the stars of the missionaries hung with string. Both sides of the bulbs and stars had pictures on them. It was amazing. Great idea! And then I helped sew runners for a few of the tables. Sister DeArden had sewn most of them. The other half of the day was setting up the dining room for dinner for the missionaries staying overnight. I made green salad, set tables with napkins, forks, and cups. Pizza was bought from Pizza Hut. (No different than from home!) 30 pizzas were bought for 78 people. Sister Parker was in charge of dinner but had to help with rooms for the missionaries.
Elder Wallace spent the day shuttling missionaries from the Gatwick airport and Lingfield train station. All of the missionaries are sleeping at the accommodations. Elder Wallace told of his experiences of parking the van at Gatwick. It was a harrowing (Thank you Dennis Doyle, my personal English expert and friend) experience and he arrived safely home. Elder Wallace took 4-5 trips to Lingfield and the last trip I went with him at 10:20 pm. We were hoping the last four missionaries were on the same train. Only two missionaries arrived. As we were almost to the London Temple we got a phone call from the other two missionaries that they were at Dormans Train stop, one past Lingfield. Soooo...to make a long story short...we picked up the two other missionaries. Everyone had now arrived. We took them to their rooms and also feed them pizza and green salad.
Sleep came quickly after we prepared for bed, prayed and read scriptures.
Oh my word! What a busy day! I hope your experience was harrowing rather than heroin, though, because we don't want you to get in trouble with the police!
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