I've decided that three days of
traveling outside of our usual routine is too much for this middle aged
woman. I am in awe of how Melvin continues to have energy to go and go
when I am exhausted.
On Friday,
we spent much of the day across the river in La Grange, helping the
elders look for a new house to rent. They were told by President Mehr
to relocate closer to the chapel so they won't have to ride their bikes
for a half hour just to get to the area where they do their tracting.
Then, on Saturday,
we took one of the Elders to the airport because his visa had expired
and we weren't able to get a new one for him. Apparently, neither the
Guyana or the Suriname government has good relations with Mexico, and
the elder was from Mexico.
When we checked him in at the airport, he had too
much luggage and they charged him an extra $70 US for the luggage. It
took over an hour to figure that one out, so it was an all day affair to
get him there, and for us to come home.
Then, today we went on the 1 1/2 hour trip to Linden
to visit that branch. The mission couple who trains branch
presidencies about how to take care of the finances also attended and
had a two hour meeting with the Branch Presidency to train them.
The Branch President has only been called for about 3
months, and he is really discouraged about his calling. He says that
he has lost many friends and some of the members think that he is unfair
because he does not give them Church Welfare whenever they ask. He is
learning about the "loneliness of leadership". Even his Relief Society
President is mad at him and has quit coming to church.
The church is so young there. Only one family in
the branch has been members for more than 4 years, and none of them
have been to the temple, except two young returned missionaries from
that one family.
The highlight of the Linden visit was that we were
able to visit with Brother Featherstone, our good friend who Melvin was
able to baptize a couple of months ago. He is teaching the Gospel
Doctrine class. He read about temple service as he was preparing his
lesson and he had not understood before that he could do the work for
his parents.
He said that he had the most warm feeling about his
own parents when he read that. He realized that he wanted to do their
temple work so that they could be an eternal family. It was great to
see him understanding that concept of the "hearts of the children
turning to their fathers" through the temple ordinances.
Well, as I said, I am pretty worn out from all of
the travel, so I will check out for now. Have a great week, all of you
and thanks again for all the mothers day news.
Love from Melvin and Carol
PS In case you haven't heard yet, Both the boys and the girls West Side Track teams won state this weekend. Go Pirates!
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