This has been quite the week!!! We knew it was going to be a busy one....we just didn't know exactly HOW busy. We headed to the North Carolina Charlotte Mission by way of HELEN, GA. This is a great little Bavarian town in the mountains of north Georgia! And there was an INDIAN MOUND just outside of town. It surely reminded us of being in the Fussen area of Germany.
The 'red-roof' buildings are very indicative of Germany.
As we traveled on down the road toward our destination of High Point, N.C. today, look what we found.......a really cool BAR-B-QUE SMOKER in the shape of a GUN!!! Who would have thought!
My 12 x 12 layout of our trip through Helen, GA. and on in to N.C.
I just LOVE sunsets! This was a beauty tonight.
Have I said how much we LOVE attending Zone Conferences and mingling with the missionaries. This great elder showed me a pen that my cousins (Polly McNeill) husband (Wayne McNeill) made for him. I told him I had made a couple of pens.....hence, the foto!!!
We absolutely never know who we are going to run into at these Zone Conferences! This is Elder Pottle. He is a great friend to Toni Chase (a gal who works for Becky's company). He was so excited to get a message from someone back home. And Toni was so excited to get this message on instagram! Small world in the church gets even smaller through today's technology!
Nothing like lining up for food at lunchtime. These guys are always hungry!
In downtown High Point is this ginormous DRESSER. I remember this as a child. And fun to see it still around as an adult. The argyle socks have been added since my childhood.
We got to spend one evening with Faye and Ronnie.....including being in their home. Wayne and Faye were having fun doing tech stuff.....not sure who was teaching who. But it was fun to watch and listen. Got to love us Senior Citizens!
Part of what we do at Zone Conferences is teach good health practices......including taking good care of those toenails so as not to get ingrown toenails. We have been seeing quite a few of those.
Kind of fun to visit the many different chapels and see how things look at each one. And the 'line-up' of the mission cars!
I was able to finish two more doilys as gifts. The while one on the bottom if for Polly and Wayne McNeill as a remembrance of their being sealed in the temple this week.
In the meantime, back home.....Steven is ready to run that marathon race in D.C.!!!! And the weather forecast is calling for rain the entire race time! Bless his heart! What a trooper.
And we are having our own rain here in Raleigh as well. Even so, the Raleigh Temple was very cool through the rainy windshield of our car.
What a super special, long awaited day for Polly and Wayne. We are so excited for them.....finally after all these years of Polly patiently waiting for Wayne to join the church so they could be sealed.
We got word that Wayne was needed to accompany a missionary back to his home for medical reasons in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As soon as we finished at the temple we headed to the Charlotte Airport. President and Sister Turner met us there and hand-delivered the missionary to Elder/Dr. I have to say that it was a very tense flight and Wayne said he had never prayed so hard that he could just get him home without any 'incidences'!
Meanwhile, I headed up to Mt. Airy, N.C. to spend the 24-hours Wayne was gone with Elder and Sister Burnside (office couple from the N.C. Raleigh Mission). It was a packed 24 hours too. I never tire of seeing signs of 'MAYBERRY' around Mt. Airy.
Anna even brought some locally made pottery to the Hampton Inn and sat up a card table right in the parking lot so we could 'shop'!! She used to have a store downtown but closed last month because it was just too much for her.
She had some beautiful things too.
And yet another gorgeous sunset. Why do I never tire of seeing them.
I went to the Mt. Airy Ward on Sunday morning with Elder and Sister Burnside. I always love attending church here. It just feels like home here!
I took the Burnsides by the Quarry so they could see it. I always enjoy seeing this place too.
When I left Mt. Airy and headed south to Charlotte to pick Wayne up at the airport again, I ran into some really slow traffic (due to an accident) which gave me a chance to take a foto of the beautiful flowering trees along the highway. Spring is really springing down south already!
Gorgeous shot of the Knob on Pilot Mountain!!!
It was SO GOOD to get Wayne back to Charlotte!!! That was a very quick, but extremely hard, 24-hour turnaround trip.
And I put together another 12 x 12 layout for the 24-hour day of activities!
We are still here in the N.C. Charlotte Mission. We will have a couple of day diversion. You can find out about that next week for my entry. Let it be known that it has been a very CRAMMED week!!! I think we may feel justified in feeling completely pooped!!! :-)
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