Week B35 April 4-10
Thanks for the visit!
Preaching: The sobering thought about the 10 virgins is that 50% of the members of the church that are betrothed to the Lord do not have enough oil in their lamps to meet the Savior. We learned that you can tell a lot about what a person worships by what they do or do not do on Sunday. Elder Bednar said that the oil is the stuff you do to fill your lamps with. “Go ye out to meet Him” shows the action to do it and go out of Babylon. We need to let our light shine, that others may see our good works as we read the scriptures daily, attend our Sabbath Day Meetings, say our heartfelt prayers and give service to those we come in contact with. Don’t give up. If life were fair, none of us would be good enough to be saved. It is only by the enabling power of the atonement that we can get back to our Father in Heaven and gain exaltation. How thankful we are for this Easter Season! Let us all have humble hearts!
Monday: It was our p-day so went spent it with Josh and Rachel and the kids in Seattle. We drove to the Space Needle and we bought a city pass so we could go with them and see the sites. The Space needle was pretty cool. The view was incredible and we got some fun pictures. We had been by it many times but never to the top so it was worth the trip. Next stop was the Chihuly Glass Museum next door. This was also nice. The glass displays are very colorful and in each room we picked out our favorite pieces. We were also to listen to two talks about glass making. The museum is inside and outside, so when we went outside, we got to watch a demonstration of glass making, how they got glass out of the fire, shaped it, blew it, shaped it some more, blew it some more, cut it, and then cooled it. Incredible! By now it is time for lunch so we made our way to Pikes Market and found a place to eat. It is a long walk so the kids got to experience downtown Seattle with all of the buildings and different people. On the way home we had some of the going home traffic but missed most of it by taking the longer back roads. This put us going by Seward Park so we stopped there for a while and let the kids play and see all the cherry trees in blossom. We stayed home for our FHE and watched “ Once I was a Beehive”. Pretty good show if you haven’t seen it. It was a busy day so we tried to get to bed early, before 10:00 anyway.
Tuesday: We had zone training from 10:00 to 1:00. Josh and family went to the American Girl Doll store. When we all got together we went to the Museum of Flight. It was very good but Elayna got sick so Rachel and her went home. They closed at 5:00 so we didn’t get to see everything we wanted. There is our reason to go back. After getting home we made supper and had a visit from,Tesloach and his friend, Groberg. Groberg is from is from the islands so we wondered where is name came from because the family are all members of the church and they go to the Tongan Branch. We think that President Groberg’s mission was to Tonga. The two boys stayed and ate supper with us. Casey Smith stopped in and was dressed in his camouflage gear, getting home from work, so the boys wanted pictures taken with him. We tried to tell everyone that Elayna was sick, but no one seemed to care and every one just had a good visit.
Wednesday: We went to Northwest Harvest and Josh’s family went to the Aquarium. We boxed pasta with the Sister Missionaries. After the service we rode the light rail to Seattle to meet the kids. Our next stop was the Harbor Tour. It was pretty fun, with a lot of good history of Seattle. This was the same one AnJ and Beau did when they were here last year. By now it is traffic time so we slowly made our way to the Ballard Locks for a visit there. Elayna was feeling sick again, so Rachel stayed with Elayna in the van while we went to the locks and the fish ladder. Josh left the lights on so the battery was dead when we were ready to go home. He did find someone with cables and they got us going again. We were tired so we got take out from a Vietnamese Restaurant that we like and ate at home. The Bishops meeting was cancelled, happy day, so we called it a day and went to bed.
Thursday: We got a late start for the morning. Everyone is a bit tired. The Zoo was our planned stop for the day, it was a gorgeous day, so half of Seattle was there. Parking was a mess and the zoo was crowded. It is a really nice zoo and we had a good time. The kids really enjoyed all the animals, especially the bears and the otters. We stopped for lunch by the zoo, at a little sandwich shop. It was kind of a yuppy place and the food was good. Josh was going to head home tonight until it got too late so we went back to the Flight Museum (free Thursday) with the other half of Seattle. This time we were able to see the planes that are outside and walk through an old Air Force One plane. We got to see the World War 1 planes and some other things that we had missed the first time; and Rachel and Elayna were able to see the museum this time. After a late supper it was time for bed. We did skip our Thursday missionary meeting.
Friday: Everyone was up early so Josh’s family could get an early start (sorry to see them leave) and we had institute to go to. It has been a fun week with them here so now we can maybe survive the next few months. Institute was good as usual. After we made a run to get Joyce some make-up and to lunch. We all had interviews with President and Sister Eaton in the afternoon. We visit with both of them and the sisters visit each one separately. We had a good visit about some coming events they have for us and Pres. Eaton is going to ask running the ARP class outside of a church building from someone a little higher up. It was our last interview with them before they go home. We dropped off the sisters and went to Joyce Johnson’s home to read with her. She is doing great with reading the Book of Mormon on her own. We read about Gideon because that is her first son’s name and wanted to read the story in the Old Testament. Eric is walking now so that was fun to see. There’s not much improvement with the marriage situation. We were going to do something with Ruth and Rubi but it was to late so we stopped in and made plans for Saturday with them.
Saturday: Pres. Anderson invited us to a meeting where the Renton Stake is being used to pilot a new program in the states. It is on self reliance and has been used in other countries and is now being tried in the USA. A leader from Salt Lake was here to train us and get is going in our stake. We think we were invited because Pres. Eaton wanted us to go and maybe we can use the program mission wide. It was a good meeting and we are excited to try and get it going in the Skyway Ward, as well as help where the stake may use us. After the meeting we picked up Ruth, Rubi and Princes Joy and rode the train to the aquarium and the Big Wheel plus lunch. This is what came from the planning on Friday. We all had a great time. They loved the touching area of anemomes, starfish, cucumbers, and etc. They loved all the fish, the seals, and otters! It was fun to take them. We had to hurry and ride the Great Wheel. There was a huge line, but we did get home in time to make our snickers salad and be to Joshua Acosta’s birthday party by almost 5:00. (The girls insisted that we stop and make a Snicker Salad to take with us so we were a few minutes late.) No problem. We had all kinds of Filipino food. First time for goat and probably the last, we hope. We were pretty happy about going because Jenifer is the one who invited us. Baby steps.
Sunday: We picked up Karen, JoAnna, Ruth and Rubi for church. Tesloach was supposed to come, but he was a no show. Joyce taught primary and Art taught Gospel Principles. There was a bit of a mix up so most of his class went into Gospel Doctrine. (Art ran JoAnnna to the bus stop and they thought he had left). Joyce’s class keeps growing, as Sunshine invites her Filipino friends to attend. So we had Ruth, Rubi, Princes Joy, Donni, Jaida, Estrella, Reymark, Sunshine and her friend. Also, Brother Jackson came in with Reymark, since he is his Priesthood leader, and Evelyn Kemp came in because she is our new achievement day leader and wants to get better acquainted with the girls. After church we had Karen over for lunch and then Karen and Joyce went to Seward Park and walked. Art stayed home. He is still fighting the sore throat and earaches. The rest of the evening was kind of lazy. Thanks for calling us, Jared and Emily; and Jacob and Lara! We also got to talk to Dad. That has been our week. It was a big boost having Josh, Rachel, Maddox, Elayna and Haley here. Love you all, Joyce and Art
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