Sunday, April 3, 2016

As we headed back to the PTC from Mt. Airy, N.C. on Monday, we stopped by 'Jean's' one more time.....to get some sausage-biscuits for breakfast on the road.  Man, we LOVE this place and their fantastic food.  So nice to have it right here in our mission!!

We LOVE finding the cool signs here in the Bible Belt....even on the trucks.  I really like this one!

The flowers were in full bloom as we drove through the south too.  Love, LOVE them!

We also LOVE driving through the mountains.  We purposely decided to drive through the Great Smoky Mountains back to PTC today.....about an hour longer but we love this route!!!  Dad is really good about getting some great shots while I drive.

We LOVE the Atlanta skyline as well.  We are going to miss our mission.  We will enjoy our travels for the next 7 weeks....that will go by quickly we know.  We have 5 mission 'tours' in that 7 weeks!

 When we are in our apartment and the missionaries go by, they notice that our car is out front and they love to stop by.  We love it when they stop by for a visit too!!!  Sisters Kelly and Hunter are so sweet.  They are half bike/half car.  Today was a bike day.  Both of their bikes are in for repairs so they borrowed bikes from the mission office.  This was all they had to choose from...bless their hearts.  They are real troopers!

Dad got a package this week....from one of his nurses, Sister Romano!  She is a die-hard Precious Moments collector and knows Sam Butcher (creator of Precious Moments) personally.  We sent this 'Doctor Is IN' Precious Moments to him as a reminder of his 'doctoring mission'!!  So sweet of her.  We have some pretty remarkable nurses and we love them all.

I finished 2 more gifts afghans this week.  'Lucy' is protecting them to make sure nobody is going to bother them.  What are we going to do when we go home and have to leave Lucy behind!!!  That will be a sad day for us.....but we will be happy to see Madi again (IF she makes it until we get home).  Bless Madi's heart.  She has been a trooper with us leaving her once again!  And thanks to Steven and Elinn for taking such great care of her while we have been gone.

Sometimes we just need to make a 'house call' because that is what is needed.  Friday was one of those days.  Dad had some concerns with a Elder in one of the Georgia Missions.  He was assigned to a little corner of Alabama.  In talking with the Mission President, it was apparent to us that a house call was in order.  The mission president was most grateful for our doing that.  IF the elder needs to be sent home for treatment, the family will know that everything was done infield that could be done.

We received an invitation to attend the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference at the mission home with President and Sister Foote (center).  We were grateful we were in town so we could do that.  The AP's (Elder Diamache and Elder Leavitt) and the 2 office couples (Elder & Sister Benisch and Elder & Sister Jeffrey) along with the Mission Nurse (Sister Mason) were also there.  It was great to be with them.  After the session we also had a potluck dinner.  Then us sisters went to our homes while the brethren watch General Priesthood Session at the Mission Home.  We LOVE our mission.

How fun that we were all together watching at the Mission Home when up on the T.V. screen we all saw with delight Elder Tanner Robinson (bottom row, 3rd from right)!!!  We love Elder Robinson!!  And there he was singing in the BYU-Idaho Choir for the afternoon session of conference.

The Entire General Conference was SO good!!!  It was especially great to hear from our beloved Prophet, President Thomas S. Monson!  He looked better than he did in October 2015.  He even sounded stronger.  What a blessing to have a Prophet to lead and guide us in these latter-days!

Between sessions of Conference I made a batch of chocolate chip/pecan cookies.  I had promised Don Linton, our accountant, that he would get his annual batch of cookies.  They will be mailed in the morning and be delivered on Wednesday!  Really??  I would do this kind of thing?  Apparently I do.

 We hope y'all all have a GREAT week.  We are off to the GREAT KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE MISSION for the next 2 weeks!!!  You will hear from us while we are there....no doubt!!  Love y'all!!!  We LOVE our mission!!