Juggling - Time, Schedules, and Balls

 It is ten days until Erin and Ethan arrive. Ten days!

We spent a LOT of time today packing a large box full of various and sundry items that will be delivered to our home in Gilbert. Shoes, ties, blouses and shirts, a suit, a few puzzles and a few art supplies, worth little, but to buy new would cost a considerable amount.

The lovely thing about it is that it weights 50 pounds and the delivery service will pick it up our door and deliver it to Melissa's door within a week. That leaves us our four fifty-pound suitcases to fill, and one is already full. I can't imagine that we won't be alright, but I may pack at least one more suitcase right away, just to see where we stand on space.

Then there is the ever-present cleaning to do. I want to leave this place looking wonderful. I love this place.

Tonight we had Family Home Evening. We had Madeline and Adam, the sister missionaries and Brad and Andre (both of whom are studying here in Oxford and are Americans - and are not members of the church). It was a great little group. 

SK insisted that we have pizza. I am so glad. It was a big time-saver, and who doesn't like pizza? It was practically all gone by the end of dinner. I made a small green salad, which was gone by supper's end. I made a 9X13 pan of brownies (I put Rolos in them - a whole bunch - and added pecans.) SK pronounced them to be the best brownies he had ever had, and everyone here had a couple - and I cut them in large pieces. I wrapped the remaining ones and sent them home with everyone.

Out of the seven young people here, four of them can juggle, and they entertained us after we ate, by all kinds of fun tricks. They all seemed to enjoy it. We finished the evening by playing a game of Skull-King. Everyone seemed to be thoroughly enjoying themselves, and SK and I certainly did.





We were supposed to go into London tomorrow to be interviewed by the president - along with everyone else in our zone, but happily, they didn't put us on the schedule. That means we won't go in tomorrow and we will stay here and work. He will interview us on Friday when we join all the other missionaries who will be leaving within the next couple of weeks at the temple for a session. It will be soo nice, but by Friday we will have less than a week as the senior missionary couple in Oxford UK.

I am posting SK's pictures from the weekend, first Arundel Castle, and then Hever's Castle (home and burial place of Ann Bolyn).

Very Steep Stairs
















Good Night one and all!

Comments

Erin said…
What a gorgeous castle and grounds! I am just so worried about what you’re going to see when you step off the plane and feel that blast of arid hot air. 😬

Skull-King is such a fun game. And so fun to have so many jugglers! I’m not sure I have any friends who have that skill.

10 days!
August 17, 2021 at 12:24 PM
melissa said…
What a fun FHE! And the package arrived today. 😁
August 23, 2021 at 10:36 PM
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