Dear Family,
The weather has been beautiful the past few days. Thursday night we got home early enough to work in the yard. With the rain we had many large weeks in the front garden area. It felt good to be outside with our hand in the dirt.
Wednesday we went to Costco on our lunch break. We needed to get cookies and fruit for the Golden Review on Thursday. The golden review is for all the new missionaries. Amazingly, we had to go to three stores to get the mandrin oranges. We enjoy doing these kind of errands because it gets us out of the office and we can WALK.
Thursday was the Golden Review. It is 3 hours of training from President and Sister Maxwell on what they need to do and know as missionaries in the Australia Melbourne Mission. They have training on driving, how to knock doors, street tracting, health issues, and the list goes on and on.
Friday night we went and saw The Intern movie with Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway. We loved it. We have never seen DeNiro in many films but his character in this movie was charming, funny and he is very handsome for 72.
Saturday we took Sister Maxwell and went to the Tesslaar Tulip Festival. The Tesslaar couple came to Australia in 1945 or so and started this tulip farm and now it is a huge event every September to October. It is located in the Dandenong mountains. Beautiful country. Besides the tulips there were heaps of Iris flowers. The colors were so beautiful and so unique. The gardens also had fun shops and several different food shops. Our first stop was Scotland where we tried blood pudding (pig's blood) and haggis. The haggis was only fair but the blood pudding was terrible, horrible, yucky, disgusting. The lady at the counter said it is very healthy! PICS ON BLOG
The next stop was Dutch food. They were serving tiny pancakes called Poffertjes. They are baked in a cast iron skillet similar to ebelskivers. They had butter, powdered sugar and lemon on top. They were scrumptious. Next was a strawberry ginger and lemon drink. Very refreshing. Our next to last food stop was for Turkish Gozleme. It was a thin tortilla with fresh spinach and feta cheese. They are folded in half and then put on a skillet to melt the cheese. Adrienne and Sister Maxwell loved them. I thought they were good. Thinking we were finished with eating we found a waffle shop. Very very thin waffles are put together with a carmel filling. What can I say Great! We should say we divided each helping into three parts.
When we took Sister Maxwell home President asked how the day went. Our answer was,"We ate our way through the tulip fields." It was a glorious day of exploring for 3 sister missionaries.
Saturday night we went to the church to watch the women's conference. We are a week behind on conferences. The women's conference was so good. The music as always touch our spirits. The talks were so good and blessed those of us attending. We will anxiously wait for next week to see all the conference sessions. We do know about the new apostles. It is an exciting time for the church yet it is the same gospel with the same doctrines and it will continue to grow and move forward!!!!
Sunday we made our hot fudge for the missionary devotional. President and Sister Maxwell do such a great job with this meeting. It always starts with a new convert telling their conversion story. They asked the senior missionaries, six of us to sing the closing hymn and while announcing the song invited anyone else who wanted to come and sing. THANK GOODNESS. We are so blessed each and every day with our amazing and wonderful President and Sister Maxwell. They are the best!!!!!!!!!!!
Our thought for the day,
" When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep and I fall asleep counting my blessings."
Irving Berlin
Sister Maxwell used it in her talk last night.
By the way that song is from WHITE CHRISTMAS, the movie.
Love to you all,
The moms, The grandmas, The sister Sisters
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