Dear Family,
It is Sunday and we just
got back from a night walk. FALL is here, dark in the morning and early
dark nights. Summer came and was gone without our experiencing
and Australia hot
summer. Cold January and fall like February. People have said they
don't remember a summer like this so now onto fall. We made a large
pot of tortilla soup for
family home evening tomorrow night. All the senior missionaries are
coming to our FHE because we have asked President Maxwell to talk
about his father,
Apostle Neal A. Maxwell. We want to know what it was like having him as a
father. We also want to know about President Maxwell and his life.
Yesterday, Saturday we
went with a ward member friend, Dianne Bignell, to visit two beautiful mansions
and gardens. They were both built in the 1800's. The
land in 1837 belonged to
5 aboriginal tribes. In 1847, some English people came to Australia
squatted on the land and built a one level home. There is a word
for this SQUATOCRCY.
They came and started raising sheep, became very wealthy and became the
ruling class. The Como house went through several owners and
each added onto the
first level. We ate lunch in the gardens at a very quaint cafe. The food
was very good. All restaurants serve pot pies and sandwiches. When you
ask for a slice of pie
you get pot pie not peach, apple or cherry pie. Afterwards, we went to the
second mansion and it too had beautiful gardens and a very large house.
Each house now has
parties, banquets and weddings.
Our missionary
appointment fell through on Tuesday night. We were sad but will try again
this Tuesday night. Anyway we found ourselves with time on Tuesday
evening so we went and
saw, "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel." We liked it as
well as the first movie.
Today at sacrament
meeting 2 Tongan twin sisters had their farewell. One is going to Seoul,
Korea and the other to the Seoul South, Korea mission. They were
very emotional and also
sang the intermediate song. It was beautiful. They are from the
Tongan family we have written about in previous letters. We have been
to their parties.
They are all very dear to us.
We are looking forward
to this week. Thursday night Erin and Rod are arriving in Melbourne.
They will be with us for 2 1/2 days. We are taking Friday off to
tour
with them. They
are already in Australia visiting Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef. We
are so excited.
Our closing thought to
you is found in Alma 17:3
"But this is not all; they
had given themselves to much prayer and fasting; therefore they had the spirit
of prophecy, and the
spirit
of revelation, and when they taught, they taught with power and authority of
God."
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU
ALWAYS
GRANDMAS, MOMS,
THE SISTER SISTERS
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