Treats!

 What a lovely day!  

We went back to The Covered Market to get a couple of things I had seen the other day.  By the time we get home, we have put in a couple of miles so it is good.  It is such a charming place!  The souvenir shops are closed.  I can't imagine why.  Maybe because only locals are here at this time of the year.











I prepared a little sack of goodies (cookies, fruit snacks and grapes) for our sister missionaries.  We picked them up and drove into London, where we left Sister Falconer.  She will be returning to her home in the U.S. tomorrow.  They have been companions to each other for nearly 4 months, and they were dynamic!  We had a lovely visit in the car as we drove.


We got into the mission home, and then went over to Dave and Deb's apartment where we visited with Deb, Elizabeth (her daughter) and her little boy George.  He is adorable.  Elizabeth's husband was working online.  I think they have rented an apartment somewhere in London for a month or so.  



We had just a few minutes to say hello to Dave over at the mission office before coming home.  He is doing interviews all day with young missionaries who have completed their missions and who will be leaving England this week.  I think he takes at least a half hour with each one.  And they all love him.

We brought our sisters home, wading through heavy traffic in London and on the outskirts of Oxford.  They are both British!  Sister Dundon, who has been serving in Oxford for four months is from up north somewhere, and started out her mission in Ecuador.  She was there for nearly six months and then sent home when COVID hit.  After a couple of months home, she was reassigned to the England London Mission.

Sister Tizard was called to serve in Australia....but never made it there and has been serving in this mission from the start.  They will be cute together.  Dave said that when he began in June of 2018, he had 8 British missionaries out of 260.  Now he has 150 missionaries and 40 of them are British.  

I think they were both tired and the drive back probably seemed very long.  It was very dark by 4:30 and they were squeezed into half the back seat, while the new sister's luggage filled every available space.  We hit bad traffic in a couple of spots, so that a one hour drive (on a really really good day) turned into 2 hours.

By six we were all hungry, so I suggested we stop and get pizza.  We got a large one for them and a large one for us.  We took them to their door, helped them get their luggage out and gave them their pizza, wished them well and came home.  You would have thought we had offered them some grand thing.  They were so grateful for the pizza!

While we were eating, one of our young adults, Adam texted that he was here and come to the window.  He was there with Derek, Madeline and Jenny and they caroled to us!  They sang beautifully.  We stood there with our window open as far as we could get it and listened to their young clear voices in the stillness outside.  It was magical.  I wished that I could bottle those moments up and have them for the future when I would take them out again and listen.  I did the next best thing.  I took some video clips!












I tried for an hour to get a video loaded up.  If this one made it, it is not the best we took, but it will have to do.


Then the last treat for the day was our Bishop's wife.  She delivered a cupcake to each of us.  She is amazing.  I don't know how many she delivered tonight, but I know she visits with each person as she drops them off....and to people living alone....that is a visit from an angel...which she is.


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Lia said…
Those carolers are sweethearts. I loved the covered market! Why is there a giant Peter Rabbit on the ceiling?
December 15, 2020 at 2:31 AM
melissa said…
What a busy, wonderful day!
December 15, 2020 at 11:21 PM
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