Thanksgiving Week…

 Missions are about people and this week we had a great chance to be with some amazing missionaries and members.

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On Tuesday Mary came down with a sore throat so I went to district meeting to take them some mail and the treats. While waiting for a key to arrive some of them found the many acorns on the ground and got into a full out acorn fight. Missionaries will be boys! Sister Jackson came in to the mission a little later so I did not get a picture of her and her trainer Sister Beck before this. They are serving up in Boynton Beach South. On Thanksgiving Mary had a relapse so I went to the Fort Lauderdale chapel to help with the meal that the ward was fixing for anyone who needed a good meal. Elder Hall and Bloom are busy cutting up potatoes for mashed potatoes – they took over from me!

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Bishop Brown drew a crowd as he made gravy and held court with the missionaries. Elders Avila and Rippstein are listening to him in the first picture. The crowd increased when elder Hall joined in – he must have finished his potatoes. Elders Rondo and Patino join the crowd as Bishop Brown gets up on a soap box of a sorts. I love the look on the faces of the children as they look on.

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Brother and sister Slivka seems to have been the people who was in charge of getting everything done. Brother Slivka cooked the turkeys and then carved them. They are kind of a dynamic duo in the ward. Sister Brown joined her husband for  the picture. They are a great couple. In the evening the couples got together at the mission home for dinner. I did not take any pictures except of the Anderson’s beautiful granddaughter who I caught trying to say ‘cheese’ while standing in her rather oversized high heels. The dinner was wonderful and the company even better – it would have been perfect if Mary could have been with me. But the best I could do was to take a nice big plate of turkey with all the fixing home to her. Which included the mashed potatoes that I made at home – so today was my mashed potato thanksgiving.

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Assorted pictures from the week include a huge stag horn fern in the Rampton’s front yard shot when we went there on Tuesday for piano lessons. I bought Mary some flowers on Monday and I took this shot because I thought it was beautiful. On Saturday morning I took this picture of the now almost full sized ducks eating breakfast. They are pretty much full grown so I guess it is time to quit feeding them once the last bag of cracked corn is emptied.



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