Monday-Tuesday, 26-27 February 2018

Monday, 26 February 2018

• We worked in the office until 11 am.
• It snowed on and off all day!
• Went shopping with Sister Harkness at Costco for food to feed the missionaries that are arriving tomorrow from the Preston MTC.
• Returned to mission office to catch up on work.
• Made five batches of Enchilada sauce for Enchilada Casserole for Tuesdays dinner.
• Bridgstocks came for dinner and we served Cottage Pie and they brought soup and Apple Crumble Dessert with pudding on top.  Delicious!  
• Lesley would not leave till the dishes were done. Love to be with her.  Found out that they are going to Utah while Nanette and Jeff and Roman will be here.  They volunteered their house for them to stay in while they're gone.  It is another option than sleeping on the floor!
• Dropped off Enchilada sauce to Sister Harkness and we got the van. 
• We picked up Sister Puri and Sister Ratukalou from the Crawley Train Station at 10 pm and took them to Sister Shumway and Sister Lunds' flat in Crawley.  They will stay the night until we pick up Sister Ratukalou at 5:15 am to drive her to Heathrow.  She is going back to Fuji. 
• Arrived home at 11 PM

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

Sister Ratukalou from Fuji.
She has a sweet spirit and is anxious
to get somewhere warm!

Left to right: Sister Lund, Shumway,
Wallace and Puri. 

Today is my Dad's 91st birthday.  We were able to talk with him for a few minutes at 10 pm our time.  I had been thinking of him all day but toooo busy to call.   I could hardly keep my eyes open when we talked to him.  

We had arrive at the sisters flat in Crawley at 5:15 am which meant that we got up at 4 am in the morning.  I told Elder Wallace that it wasn't in the job description to get up so early in the morning!  (LOL) We were pleasantly surprised that traveling to Heathrow went so smoothly.  When I got home I made two large pans of corn bread for the missionaries dinner in Staines.  Elder Wallace went to the office and returned for me.  We returned to the office and Elder Stewart's plane got delayed.  We drove to Crawley to take Sister Puri and Sister Shumway to the Crawley Train Station and took Sister Lund with us to the office.  Elder Wallace went to Gatwick to pickup Elder Stewart, a new missionary.  He came back to the office to take Elder Stewart and Elder Armstrong to Stains but got a call from the Sister Shumway and Sister Puri that the train was cancelled.  Elder Stewart, Armstrong and Wallace went to Crawley to pick up sisters and travelled to Staines.  Meanwhile, Sister Harkness and I packed the car with food and dishes and bowls for the evening dinner.  I got to drive to Staines.  I love driving.

Elder Wallace and I arrived at the Staines chapel within 15 minutes of each other.  Dinner went well and I sent Sister Harkness home early.  You could tell that Sister Harkness was not feeling great and she was driving by herself to the mission office.  We stayed back to do cleanup duty.  We left Staines at 7 pm and drove the van to the mission presidents home.  We arrived at 7:30 pm and stayed to hear the testimonies of the missionaries leaving and President Gubler giving some advice on testimony, duty and marriage.  We finally left the presidents home with Sister Lall and Elder Reamon.  We dropped Elder Reamon of to the Crawley Elders and Sister Lall to the mission office to stay with Sister Harkness.  BUT - we had to weight Sister Lall's luggage.  We spent another hour finding a suitcase and repacking Sister Lall's things.  HOME!!!   And that is when we talked to my dad on his 91st birthday.  Just a few minutes before we literally dropped into bed.