Sunday, September 20, 2015

I was able to finish up a couple of projects that I had going.  That is always a good feeling.  The 4
'matching' scarves are headed to China......request from David.  I LOVE having a purpose with my crocheting.  I just simply can NOT sit still and do nothing.  I need to keep my fingers busy.

And I was able to finish this afghan that I sent to Becky's office....her company 'colors'!  A little something to brighten up her office.  Anybody else have something they want me to make for them.  I have the yarn for Elder Spencer Allgaier's afghan for him but he won't get it until he gets home.  If I try to mail it to him in Mexico I fear he will never see it!!!

 The first couple of days this past week we were able to be home and catch up on things around the apartment and here in Peachtree City.  Felt good.....when it WAS time to start packing for our trip to Savannah, GA for the last of the Zone Conferences, 'Lucy' decided she wanted to go with us so she hopped into dad's suitcase!!  Nice try putty-kat!!

On Thursday, we had a double date with President and Sister Cottle, the Mission President of the Georgia Macon Mission and his wife.  We went to a great seafood restaurant on the River Walk in Savannah, GA.  What a GREAT, FUN place and a GREAT, FUN evening with them.  They have become our dear, dear friends!!

Dad and President Cottle were having a 'High Priest' scripture discussion sitting in front of our Hampton Inn Hotel.

Part of Zone Conference is 'picture taking time'!!  I called Sister Cottle to look back and I got a cute shot of her!!!

President Cottle was checking out the fotos the elders took on his iPhone.  And a couple of 'selfie's' added to the mix.  I think President Cottle liked them.....

Friday was also a significant day for us.....3 years ago was when Jonathan passed away!  Michelle Kitchens sent this foto of the grave she took when she stopped by.  How sweet that was of her.  We kept ourselves busy on that day so as to not have too much time to 'think'!  We surely love Jonathan so much and miss him terribly.  How grateful we are for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Eternal Family that we have.

On Saturday we headed from Savannah to Brunswick, GA.  We had gotten permission from 2 of our 9 mission presidents.  You see, Brunswick, Georgia is about 20 miles outside our mission boundaries!!!  Even though it is still in Georgia.  And because we are from Brunswick, Maryland, we wanted to visit our 'counterpart'!!  We found the BRUNSWICK FIRE HOUSE right away.  And there were even a few firemen around.  We were talking to a few of them.  This guys name is Freddy.  I told him I wanted to give him a Brunswick Maryland lapel pin.  He said, wait a minute, I will exchange a Brunswick GA Fire Patch with you.  How fun was that!!!

After visiting Brunswick, GA for a little bit, we drove over to St. Simon Island, about 15 minutes away.  We got to walk up the Lighthouse there.  Very cool.  And then we drove around the Island a bit.

On Sunday, September 20th we attend church in the Darien Branch located in Darien, GA.  It is a small branch but they have a very nice building where they meet.  After their Branch Conference on this day they had a GREAT potluck lunch!  GREAT food and we enjoyed visiting with the members.

This is President Padgett.  He was been Branch President in the past, Stake President in the past and is a living history book of the area.  SO, guess who had lots of questions for him??  Yup, Elder/Dr. Allgaier needed to know everything about the area.

After church we started our 5 hours drive back to Peachtree City.  And most of it, by choice, was on back roads.  NO, not this kind of backroads.  This is just so typical of the backroads though.  Once you turn off the main paved road, it turns to clay/dirt.  Reminds me of my 'growing-up' years as a child in North Carolina.

OH YEAH......WE 'FOUND' OUR BELOVED COTTON FIELDS!!!  And a couple of the fields were ready to harvest!!!  LOVE these fields.  We will surely miss seeing them when we finish our mission.

These fields give a new meaning to the scripture in Doctrine & Covenants...."The field is white all ready to harvest...."  We surely LOVE them....

We could not believe our eyes as we came upon this truck pulling 2 trailers.  As we got closer we realized they were full of PEANUTS!!!  Glory-be!!!  How fun to see that.  Not only are we in cotton country, but we are also in peanut country!!!

 

 And as we pulled into Peachtree City, the sun was just setting!!!  How nice to be 'home' for a few days.

 We thought we would just relax a minute and unpack.  But wait.....there was a knock on our door.  It was our wonderful elders.....Elder Facey, Elder Barton and Elder Norlund.  We love our elders.  They take such good care of our mail, etc. when we are out of town.  We gave them a miniature baseball bat with Atlanta Braves logo on it but they were made in the Slugger Bat Factory in Louisville, Kentucky.  We got them when we were up there last time.  They were so excited to get them.  YES, that is dad pitching a ball to them down the hallway.  Elder Barton actually hit this ball.  Elder Norlund was playing catcher.  Never a dull minute around our place.

Just when we think our weeks can not get any busier, some how we manage to do just that.  We are getting pretty good at PACKING A BUNCH in our weeks.....and even days!!  We love our mission and don't even want to think about being finished and having to go home!!!  :-(  Until next week.....