A week in the life of a Senior Couple

It was a relatively quiet normal week.

Except for a daughter and family in the path of last week tornado's

 Plus others experiencing...

accidents, illness, snow...

But the Lord is in control and many many miracles have been experienced.

There is a great need for our family to express gratitude.

 There is a war in Afghanistan.

But life must happen.

Joe looks right at home.

  Tawny and Ceilidha are not well...

Our prayers are with them.

We are so grateful for a family who can depend on the Lord for strength guidance direction 

AND

PEACE.

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Preparation day...

 Elder White singing a rap song for missionaries...

Elder Wood (above)and Brown (below) are making the rhythmic sounds with their mouths hand and legs.

A new hair cut...

 Elder Bennett.

Picnic in the office...

 Sister Kaaa and Fernandez.

Anything goes for Preparation day...

 He is very self conscious about his attire...

most guys don't care.

(Elder Jensen)

Elder Fox and Fielding...

Elder Fielding says...

Hi mom.

(his mom Amy Heaton Fielding grew up with our girls.)

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We can see anything while driving around.

Some of it we can't look let a lone take pictures of it.

 Extermination is the game here.

Not Micky.

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Elder Steinman (Blake) came back to visit...

with a 'prospective' wife.

 Haily has not said yes yet,

She has set her mission call to the Ukraine aside...

taken an extension till she decides.

She is smart and will make the right decision.

Elder Wood and Shelley.

 Where is our area? (mission maps on google)

 They are disputing their area boundaries.  They have been tracting out side their area..

oops.

The sisters had a training meeting at the church then lunch at the Mission Home.

 President and Sister Hall invited the 'Senior Sisters to the lunch'

They have such a sincere interest and concern for the sisters.

They are an amazing couple.

('Davis, Jensen Perry, Lovejoy, Villalobos, Allen, Raney, Peterson, Christensen, Higginson, Millyard, Kaaa,  Walborn, Ried, Worwood, Fernandex
 Durr,Gervais, Holladay,Homer, Sister James, Sister Hall, and President Hall Sister Campbell, Messer, Miller)

What was left over from last weeks tornado's.

 We got a sprinkle through the night.

Elder Capps left a file...

 I actually clicked on it...

I clicked on each of the following messages separately till...

Don't go any further 

It's a trap

I warned you

Just kidding

...but seriously stop

Why do you persist

It's hopeless

Gaaaaahhh

That's it...I'm sick of this

Please stop

Fine

Ghost of Doxey...

Good to see the kid again.

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 Stan and I went to the temple Saturday morning.

Peace.

Then on the way home we got a phone call...

Sisters Raney and Perry couldn't start their car.

Their battery was dead and all the other missionaries were at the National Service Day project.

So we gathered up a bike to deliver out on the coast and headed to Cocoa.

 They are the Rockledge sisters...

 and dead car.

 Of course Elder Campbell to the rescue...

We took a battery booster that got the car started.

We had quite a wait for the car to be fixed so we had lunch.

Our waitress

at a locally family owned restaurant.

'Old Fish House'

The LDS family who owns the restaurant..

They are from Scandinavia.

 All missionaries get 50% off.

 Sister Raney and Perry and our Hero.

From there we went to the Palm Bay Elders

Still on the coast.

 Elder Campbell delivered a now repaired bike to Elder Folkerson.

Elder Kimpel...

 This looks like something Joe would do...

 Elder Folkerson and Kimpel

One more deed for our hero.

The last license plate to be delivered for one of the new cars.

 Front seat Elders Casayuran and Snyder

 back seat-Elders Hunting and Grant (Spanish)

While traveling to Rockledge and Sister Raney and Perry..
Sisters Reid and Worwood called to say their battery was dead.
They were able to find someone to jump their car so they could drive it in and get it fixed.

We went through so many love bugs...

Stan said they were three deep...

Then he said..

wait there are two hooked together...

they are four deep.

(we couldn't see out the windshield)

He took the car through a car wash and he vacuumed it-- after we got home...

Then he took the garbage out and folded the clothes.

Yes he is certainly the hero of the day.

This week was also the Royal Wedding.
I am a succor for 'Princess' weddings.
So I bypassed exercise and personal scripture time (I did it later)
To watch...
It was amazing.
There was so much said about having a family centered on the Lord.
There was a choir that sang beautiful hymns and praised the Lord.
It was magnificent.
BUT THEN...
The Archbishop of Canterburry performing the ceremony said...
'Till Death do ye part'
It hit me in the stomach so hard.
The temple ceremony is so simple...
BUT
Done with the Authority from God
There we are sealed together for 'Time' AND 'Eternity'
Yes it was fun to watch
yet in the end the Lord has given us the way.
We are do blessed as a family to have this blessing in our lives.