Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

• Visited Rouchelle
• Visited Aaron Holder
• Visited Linda Joseph 
• Send sister Stephenson to Barbados 
• Interviewed Verona Celise poor Temple recommend 
• Picked up three new missionaries this evening.

Today we got out early and went up to Rouchelle's place for a visit and to try her peanut butter iced Lolly that she makes. I thought it was okay but Tina didn't care for it which isn't surprising. We had a fun visit with Rochelle for about 30 or 40 minutes. I think she enjoys us coming by as she just sits in the chair all day long in their shop. 

After we left Rouchelle's we went to Aarons Holders to check on him. He was out on the front porch when we drove up sitting on a chair with just a towel over him and nothing else on his body. They don't seem to get too excited about stuff like that. Anyway, we pulled up and visited with him for a while. That we found out that he took a fall down his stairs about 2 weeks earlier and had a pretty good gash on his forehead that he had to get stitches for. I told him we had been trying to call him but he never answered and he told us his phone was broke. He made a point to tell us that Elder Hall would have been there the day after he fell to check on him. I don't know if he was pointing out that we weren't quite us responsive as Delbert haha or what. Anyway, we just laughed it off and had a good visit. We told him we would do better next time.

After leaving Aaron's, we went up to visit Linda Joseph who hasn't been to church for a week or two. She seemed happy enough to see us and we had a nice long visit with her. She has been seeing a doctor about some lumps in her breast. She doesn't want to let them operate on her. I told her that we could give her a priesthood lesson if she would like and she said she would. So we need to stop back by and give her a blessing. We also talked about family history and said we would like to come by and have her set up an account and enter in as many family members as she knows. She said she would like to do that.

We went home and got a bite to eat and then went to the airport for sister Stephenson. She has been transferred to Barbados and her flight out is the same time as Elder Burnett 4:30 except a day later. We watched her go through the gate where they check her in so we figured she was good to go. We found out later that her flight was delayed also. But I have seen pictures that they post on the BBM chat. When a missionary leaves or gets to their destination. They take a picture to show they got there or they are leaving.

We ended up with sister Takapu and we took her home with us until it was time to go to the church for literacy classes. We have three new missionaries that were coming in at 7:00 p.m.. 

I interviewed Verona Celise for a temple recommend to go to the temple in October. We had a good visit and she was good with everything but tithing. It's a little hard for them to figure their tithing because they have all these little incomes from shops and other things plus their regular job. We had a long talk about how to make sure she pays a full tithing. We are going to meet again to see how she is doing. 

After the interview we went back to the airport at about 8:00 because the three missionaries replacing the three that left were coming in and were supposed to be there by 7:00 but their flight was delayed. They got in about 8:30. We didn't chat too much. We just jumped in our cars and went home.

This is a picture from the other day when I stopped to pick up a member at a bus stop after work. Noah Avril. When I picked him up all his coworkers jumped in the back of my truck. He ended up taking them downtown and dropping them off even though I'm not supposed to haul people inside the truck and especially not in the bag, but that is how they ride around here.