After a rocky start, Monday turned out to be great. First I was able to get my iPad to find wi-fi sources. Then I went to the office and got to help out with some problems before heading to the Sprint store and get my phone up and running…never thought of taking out the battery to reset the phone, so I learned something for future use.

Then we prepared lunch for some very special guests.

While I was at the office in the morning the APs came in to make their accountability calls. Basically these are stewardship calls to the zone leaders to find out why some people did not get baptized, what they are planning to teach each district leader and share with the districts, and any exchanges they plan to go on for the week. If they feel it is necessary they do some suggesting and training. it is often a spiritual experience listening to these young leaders counsel with other young leaders.

After getting my phone working I came home and helped Mary get lunch ready for our special guests – the APs. Usually we have lunch with them 10 days before transfers but since we will not be here for the next transfer, we decided to have lunch so elder Plowman could share one with us. It has been many months since he came to a last lunch when he transferred out of the Fort Lauderdale zone.

They got lasagna, salad, and garlic bread for lunch which was followed by pumpkin pie and ice cream. At least they look happy.

After lunch they started sharing some stories and one of them completely broke up elder Gust. I can not remember what it was about but all of the elders joined in. I guess the last picture means the other three have to carry elder Plowman until he learns what to do.

We then went to the office and who should show up in their p-day clothes and with their bikes but the fab four…we had to take some pictures and perhaps the last one with these four wonderful friends who are missionaries.

I noticed that elder Gust was wearing a T-shirt that I had not seen before. He inherited it and it seems to be one that the Fort Lauderdale Zone had printed at some time. If anyone knows when I would love to know they were the Kings of Zion. I took the last picture to show a car that was in the right turn lane and when the turn signal turned green she moved over into the middle of the intersection. I thought she was going to just turn right instead of left – I have seen this happen before at this intersection – but instead when the light turned green she went straight across. It is truly interesting driving in Florida.