Week 18--October 25-31

This guy was on the fence around our washing cage. Garnalee thought is was a leaf but when she touched it flew away. It scared her to death! She was fascinated by its resemblence to a leaf and the length of the antennae.  

 The November batch of exiting missionaries after completing their Career Workshop. They proudly display their certificates. The missionaries learn about going to school, entering the workforce, resumes, and interviewing.

On Friday, October 30, Garnalee and Tom spent the morning at the Young Single Adult Conference in Baliuag. We talked about the blessings that come through doing family history, and had them share stories of one of their ancestors. We wanted to have their hearts turned to their fathers. We played Musical Chairs in which the one left standing had to share his or her story with the group. We didn't understand the stories but many of them spoke of Lolo (Grandfather) or Lola (Grandmother). We then invited them to accept the challenge given by Elder Neil Anderson at the Roots Tech Conference in February 2015. He invited the youth of the Church to find a name, take that name to the temple, and then help someone else do the same. Here is one of our groups as we paused the music and the one left standing is sharing his ancestor's story.

The young single adults gather for lunch after a morning of workshops on Family History, Strengthening Testimony, and Dating and Marriage.

Another group of young single adults pose for a picture.

Tom, Elder and Sister Rogers, and Sister and Elder Swift enjoy a delicious lunch.

Sister and Elder Jones and Elder and Sister Brady were all smiles.










This week we discovered little cucumbers on the cucumber plants. Hopefully we will have some nice sized cucumbers by Thanksgiving.

It has been our usual busy week. Tom works on finances, missionary support, apartments, and leases. Garnalee works on entering baptism records, travel for missionaries, letters to new converts from the mission president, and referrals. This next week is transfer week so Garnalee also had letters to send out to missionaries and their parents about leadership changes and new trainers. Plus Garnalee has packets to prepare for exiting missionaries.