Almost the end of November….where did the month go? I sit here and try to think what happened this past week, and can’t even think of anything that stands out! Well, except for yesterday. Our Vietnamese branch had a social yesterday…..Thanksgiving dinner! And it was quite a feast. About everything you would have at a regular Thanksgiving dinner, with also some Vietnamese food and even corn dogs and pizza! Lots and lots of food! I am glad the social began at noon so I had time for the food to settle before bedtime….I was stuffed, and I only took little portions of the food, and I didn’t even take some of everything!
Friday night after work, we came home and dropped off our stuff, got the grocery list, and headed to get groceries. I was assigned to take sweet potatoes and rolls for the social on Saturday, and needed stuff for that. Plus, we hadn’t been shopping for awhile, since our Saturdays have been so busy the last few weeks, and tomorrow was out too. We got home and just had grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner, and that was about 7:30. An hour later and we were getting ready for bed. The hours go way too quickly! When I got up Saturday morning, I started mixing up a batch of rolls to take. I had also bought some, because knew I wouldn’t have the time nor the pans to make enough for the social…..or so I thought! Turns out the Vietnamese people aren’t as big on eating rolls as it would be for a family party! We had lots left over, and I was sending them home with people…starting with the Elders. We had about half a casserole dish left of the sweet potatoes too…..guess they don’t really care for them either. But, we stopped at the Michie’s…..they were going to a Spanish Thanksgiving feast at 7…..and gave them the rest of the sweet potatoes they could take for their dinner.
When we got home from the social, we had to get our chores and laundry done. We pretty much skipped cleaning last week, and I hadn’t washed the sheets for 2 weeks since I didn’t have time last Saturday. And, I hadn’t done the ironing for several weeks…..just been wearing the things that don’t require ironing during that time. I don’t know why so many of my things need to be ironed! But I am glad when I do the ironing so I have a little more variety in my clothing choices!
Saturday morning, we had a call from Sophie…..she wanted to Face Time with us, which we did, to show us her top tooth was out, and the one next to it was loose and would soon come. I told her to learn the song “All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth” so she could sing it to me when the other one comes out.
Saturday was also Christian’s 13th birthday, so we Face Timed with them that late afternoon to wish him a happy birthday. I have 4 teenage grandsons now……crazy to think that they are growing up way too fast!
Just learned from Shelley today that Hunter, who has been in a little kids cross country group in their town (he is only 8, remember), just ran in a regional cross country meet and qualified for nationals, which they will pass on as it is in South Carolina and close to the time they are heading to Texas for Christmas. He ran an 8:15 mile……WAY TO GO HUNTER!!!! Shelley says he outruns her!
After church today, I needed to stay after for a bit……Sister Janette, Sister Shelton and I are doing the 5th Sunday lesson next week together (on music) and needed to coordinate what we are doing.
Last Thursday, Sister Nedreberg left for Louisiana I think it was, where she just got a new grand baby. The mother had to have a C-section, so she will be gone for about 12 days so she can help some. Elder Michie is subbing for her as vehicle coordinator during this time.
Well, I must have the gift of gab, because this has turned out longer than I thought it would be!
Oh, we also hit our 15 month mark this past week….crazy! The end is really in sight now! Oh, we also learned from our branch high councilman that the stake presidency was discussing the fact that we are in need of a replacement couple for us in the office. The stake presidencies in the mission boundaries have been contacted to see if any local people would be willing to serve a mission in the office. We are praying that someone will have a desire to serve. We have told our mission president that we don’t exactly HAVE to leave on Feb. 19th if they don’t have a replacement yet, so he doesn’t have to worry so much about it. But we do hope that we will have replacements so that we can go home as planned. Our mail will no longer be able to be forwarded after the middle of February, and we both need doctor and dentist checkups. So it will be nice to be able to go home and get those things taken care of. So, we could use some prayers going up in our behalf……so that someone will have a desire to fill a mission and turn in their papers in time for our normal release time.
We appreciate all the prayers said on behalf of all the missionaries!
Keep the faith!
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