Sunday, August 16, 2015

Another FULL week....don't know how this happens consistently but it does and we love it!  We LOVE our mission!!

We were kind of all over our mission this past week.  We started out on Monday driving down to the Georgia Macon Mission home and meeting with, and helping to train, the new Mission Nurse.  That is part of what Elder/Dr. Allgaier does.  And the Mission President's wife is in on that training because she is ultimately in charge of the medical well-being of all of the missionaries in their mission.  L to R:  Elder/Dr. Allgaier (AMA), Sister Finlinson (Mission Nurse) and Sister Cottle, Mission President's wife.

President and Sister Cottle decided they wanted to provide lunch for us.  They are just the BEST!!!  We surely love them and have become great friends.  President Cottle wanted to make sure he helped out with the lunch.....got a foto of him 'stirring the pot'!!!  He didn't really know what he was doing, but he was so cute trying to figure it out.

The Cottle's had invited the other office couples to join us:  Elder and Sister Westbrook and Elder Finlinson since his wife was already there.

 L to R:  Sister Westbrook, Sister Cottle, myself.  We decided we wanted to take a little selfie!  Sure....why not.  I used my apple watch to do that!  We 'act' like we know what we are doing.

Wednesday was a busy day....we started out by going to the first Transfer Meeting for President and Sister Foote of the Georgia Atlanta Mission.  We have come to love Sister Perky (sister missionary to my right).  She would be going home having completed her mission.  We will miss her.

Elder Dimanche was talking to Elder/Dr. Allgaier.  We have come to love him as well.  He is from Haiti.

L to R:  Elder Norland, J.T. (Jack's son and both recently baptized), Elder Barton, Jack and Elder Facey.  Always good to have a little 'groupie' shot.

When we finished Transfer Meeting we headed over to Dr. Pastor's office for dad to have his regular eye check-up appointment.  It was a quick visit, fortunately, because we had a 5-hour drive ahead of us.

I think I have lost track of how many times in the past week we have seen this PEACH!!!  It is located in Gaffney, S.C.  Not far from the N.C. state line.  We LOVE this peach.  Not sure why Georgia, who claims to be the PEACH STATE, doesn't have a nice peach like this.  South Carolina wins!!!

And YES-SIR-RE, there she is!!  Our beloved NORTH CAROLINA.  Again.....

We are attending Zone Conferences this past week in the North Carolina Charlotte Mission.  This would be the first round for the new mission president and his wife....President and Sister Alexander. It is amazing to us just how varied each of the church buildings are.  All wonderful, some older, some newer....all unique in their own way.

It never stops to amaze us how inspired these mission presidents are.  They are each and every one amazing.  The Lord's work is in GREAT HANDS with these GREAT LEADERS!!  With their great leadership, we have GREAT missionaries.

It is always very reassuring to us when we pull into a church parking lot and see all of the missionary cars lined up and being inspected.  Then, we know we are in the right place at the right time.  That I have not written down wrong information!!!

And there is LINE-UP!!

After Zone Conference on Friday, we headed back down to Atlanta to our apartment.  I REALLY, REALLY DO NOT like the Atlanta traffic.  Have I said that before??  Well, I really do mean it.  NO time is a good time to be driving in, around or through Atlanta!!  Seriously!

Because of 'running into' one of my Jones Cousins 'by coincidence' last Sunday in the Salisbury Ward on our way back to PTC, I have been digging a bit to find more fotos of the family and other relatives.  Here is a foto I found (which I had never seen before) of L to R:  Aunt Virgie, Uncle Wendell and my mother (Esther Charity Marion Johnson)....two of my mother's siblings.  In front in the wheelchair is my great grandmother Susan Esther Dean Jones.

Back to the apartment.  I was determined to finish Rodney's afghan.  Rodney is our neighbor.  We have come to love him and appreciate his help with many things!  He has a spare bedroom and is very kind to let family use it when they come to visit us.  He is so sweet.  And we love his dog, Bella!!!  I made her an afghan as well.

And.....Meet Rodney with his Atlanta Falcon's afghan.  Made just for him the way he wanted it.

We got some GREAT fresh peaches in South Carolina on our way home.  We gave some to Rodney, some to the Elders and we kept a few.  I decided to make a fresh peach sonker.  The Elders came over and ate 2 sonkers!  I made another one for us to enjoy today.  It is a GREAT recipe!!!

And, that, dear family and friends is our week.  This next week or so is shaping up to be a packed one or two or three again!!  Stay tuned.....Stay safe!!!  Love everyone!