Week 30... Still alive and kicking!

Life is very busy for us, but not a lot of new things to share.
We were invited to dinner on Monday  night with one of the single sisters that took the Temple Prep class.  We were a little concerned about this appointment, but all turned out very well.  We spent two 1/2 hours traveling to her home via 3 buses.  She was such a great hostess when we arrived.  She seemed so glad to have us visit.  We love it when people think we are someone special. ( If only she really knew.)  We call her Sister Dee.  Her real name is Indumathie Gunasingha.  Maybe that explains why she goes by Sister Dee. Here is a picture of her in her lovely home with the two missionary sisters that serve in our ward.

Tuesday we worked all day in the London Family History Centre.   Even when our shift was finished at 5:30 p.m. we stayed to work on our genealogy until 7 p.m.  Friday we were scheduled to work 1/2 of the day in the London Family History Center, but the computers were down so we continued to digitize downstairs.  We are half way through with the Royal Air Force records of World War I.  We started them in June and  will probably finish them about November. Each digital operator averages between 1,000 to 2,000 images per day.

Saturday we had plans to find the nearest ASDA store.  This  is a Walmart sister store.  We planned the trip with two bus rides and one train ride to reach the store, but all day Saturday it poured and poured.  We were forced to stay home. This was disappointing to Annie but just the opposite for Paul.  It is a "bank holiday" tomorrow (Monday) so we will try doing the trip again.

Saturday we made history.  A first trip to the complex (where we live) swimming pool for Paul.  We figured everything was wet, why not "join the party" and get wet.  It was fun and good exercise.  Please be aware that swimming is not off limits for Senior Missionaries.

Today (Sunday) we found lots of our ward gone away for the holiday.  Annie taught primary and had only 2  children in her class.  The other CTR class had only 1 student and the Sunbeams had only 1. That was the whole of the Junior Primary. The primary is normally small, but today was one of the smallest.  The only reason we had even that many, is because we had two families with children visiting.  Paul's priesthood wasn't much different -- no leaders for either the high priests or the elders and no one with a prepared lesson from either group.  We had a volunteer lead us in a lesson from the manual. 

We are looking forward to this week.  Two from our Temple preparation class got their temple recommends today and we may be attending the temple with them later this week.  We will let you know how it goes.

The ducklings are growing, but one has disappeared.

We continue to watch the Swans and Ducks in the water outside The National Archives.  The Cygnets are as big as their parents, but have not turned white, yet.  We see more white spots daily, but they have a long way to go.

Residential street in Kew.

This is a typical residential street where we live.  They are two way streets,  but it is ok to park on both sides of the street and usually all parking spots are taken on both sides.  This barely leaves room for one car.  We took this picture on a day that the street was quite abnormally empty.  The two cars on the sides are parked and the one in the middle is moving. It takes a lot of cooperation for two cars to pass going opposite directions.




For any of you that know our friends from Florida, this is the week that Laura Diebel became Mrs. Ty Keith.

For any of you that may not be aware, Andrew turned 26 on Friday and Carter turns 11 on 29 August.  We've put up a picture of Carter, but we have heard that Blogger has rejected any and all pictures of Andrew.  So we obviously don't have one posted of Andrew.  



We send our love and look forward to pictures and skype times.  We love the Lord and are happy to be serving.  The Church is TRUE!!




Grandma and Grandpa, Mom and Dad, Elder and Sister Smart, Paul and Annie