Happy New Year!! -- Week 49

Well it's happened.  We made it through 2013 and 2014 is now upon us.  What does it hold?  We guess only time will tell.  One thing is for certain, we are ready to move ahead.

A lot didn't happen this past week.  We continue to try to stay busy with little projects.  These range from helping others with their family history to doing a minimal amount of digitizing, at least until our full time employee, Henry, gets back.  He returned to work on the 2nd, so we'll just finish up what we were doing and then we'll both be back to piecing.

Frankly, the high light of our mission is going to Church on Sunday and working with the members.  Fast and testimony meeting was wonderful.  Sunday School and Priesthood and Relief Society were great too.  We get such a spiritual recharge when we attend our meetings and hope that you at home have a similar experience.

Our mission assignment is another story.  We had a call from our family history supervisor on Friday.  His peer, here in England, is responsible for working with Priesthood Leaders and family history.  He told us that we would be working with him in the future.  He also said that this person over the priesthood leaders would be in touch with us.  We hope that this really happens.

In the mean time we do what ever we can to make things happen

Tuesday was News Years eve.  We decided that we would leave the archives right at quitting time and head to Wimbledon and go to dinner at Chipotle.  Bad decision.  We spent a just over a half hour getting their by train only to find out it was closed.  Who would have thought that a restaurant would be closed on New Years eve?  Anyway, we would like to tell you how much we enjoyed Burger King in Wimbledon.

Everything was closed on Wednesday so we sat home on a very wet and  cool New Year's Day and watch all of the "Love Comes Softly" movies.

Yesterday we said good bye to our friends at the temple visitor's centre, the Carpenters.  They fly home on Monday.  Tonight we said good bye to one set of the missionaries from the family history centre.  They fly home on Thursday.

Ron & Hildred Cobia

Carpenters

Guess that's it for this week.  We still love you all and miss you all.  The Gospel is true and we hope to be able to continue to share it in whatever capacity the Lord has in store for us.

Grandma and Grandpa, mom and dad, Elder and Sister Smart, Paul and Annie