Sunday, August 31, 2014

A week of much travel.....2 missions for Zone Conferences.  AND in preparation for my having down time while Wayne is taking care of missionaries via texts, phone calls, emails, etc., I purchased some yarn so I could work on yet another afghan as a gift.  Hence, the yarn pictured below.

Travels this week would take us to the Great Kentucky Louisville Mission.  A gas stop one be one way we would be 'forced' to stop and get out and stretch our legs a minute or two.

And, YES, the gas station with the little convenience store would provide our lunch for us.

Wayne has adapted very well to having his 'mobile office' and working hard while I just sit back and drive, drive, drive.  I would get car-sick if I had to do that!

Our travels to Kentucky would take us right through the heart of Tennessee....Nashville.  SO....it was time to get out and stretch our legs again.  We chose to do that in downtown Nashville.  I made a little page lay-out of our stop there.  It was a fun 45 minutes.  Because we don't get a Preparation Day on this mission, our little side-trips become our little P-Hour or whatever we get.  Also in the foto is us at the Abraham Lincoln birthplace log cabin.  We 'happened' upon this sight as we were driving toward Elizabethtown, KY.  Didn't even know it was there until we saw a sign telling about it.

Part of the Kentucky Louisville Mission goes up into Indiana.  Go figure.  SO.....we ended up in Indiana as well.  Beautiful criss-crossing the Ohio River back and forth, in and out of Louisville.  

A tradition in the Zone Conferences is for the missionaries to sing 'Called To Serve' to those sisters who prepare lunch for the Missionaries.  We LOVE it when they do this.  Powerful!!!

This seems to be one of the older church buildings we have seen.  This is adjacent to the Kentucky Louisville Mission Office.

The bridges around Louisville, Kentucky are so cool and very fascinating.  We loved seeing them and taking fotos.

We had NO idea that the SLUGGER BASEBALL BAT FACTORY was right downtown Louisville.  Been there for over 100 years.  We took another P-45minutes to go visit the factory and take a little tour.  Very interesting.  It peaked our interest in baseball.....which we have never really had before.  Loved that life-sized bat out front!

Wayne found himself a bit on the chilly side while in the hotel in Louisville one evening.  He decided to sit outside on a bench since the weather was so nice.  

On Saturday morning we headed out of Louisville and back down to Tennessee.  However, we discovered that we were only 12 minutes from the Kentucky Louisville Temple.  We went and were able to participate in sealings for an hour.  That was so nice!  Beautiful temple.

Bowling Green, Kentucky was our 'stopping grounds' for 2 nights as we headed back down to Tennessee.  What we didn't realize was that our hotel is right next to the CORVETTE PLANT AND MUSEUM.  Who knew that the corvettes were made right here in Bowling Green!!  We felt out of place with our Honda surrounded by all of the corvettes!!

Had a little 'family history moment' with my cousin Adam Hiatt while here in Kentucky.  He sent me a foto of our great-great-grandparents who joined the church in 1872.  James Dickerson Dean and his wife Esther Hiatt Dean.  I don't recall having seen this foto before.  I love it!

One more little stop we made when leaving Louisville, and also another little P-45 minute stop, was at the Churchill Downs.  What a cool place.  We even had lunch there in the cafe.  It was super delicious.

And thus ends yet another week.  We just can't believe how quickly the weeks are flying by.  We love what we are doing.  We feel very blessed to be able to do what we are doing here in the North America Southeast Area!