WOW! Not a lot has happened this week.
We both taught classes, prepared lessons, ate out a few times, and just did our general "missionary" stuff.
Friday, however, was a lot different. Our Branch has reservations at the Medord, OR temple to do endowments and baptisms. Because it's a 2.5 hour drive from Redding to Medford, Kent and I decided to drive half-way on Friday. We left Redding about 5 p.m. and drove to Mt. Shasta. We had dinner at the Brown Bear - a famous mom-n-pop place here in CA. We stayed at the Alpine Lodge. Now, before you get all happy and feeling great about us staying at an Alpine lodge, let me tell you - it was a clean, small motel with great TV reception and lots of cable channels. Simple but sufficient. We were in heaven. The "Continental Breakfast" offered was cute: small bottles of Sunny-D, prepackaged 'Danish,' fresh fruit, fruit snacks, peanut butter crackers, Activia yogurt, and granola bars. We had some of everything and were quite satisfied.
We attending the 11:30 a.m. endowment session which didn't start until 11:45. We had been scheduled for the 1:30 session but since we got to the Temple at 11:27 we thought we would ask if it was too late to get in the 11:30 endowment. The Temple President at the Recommend Desk told us "If you can be ready in 5 minutes you'll get in." So we hustled off. We probably didn't make it in 5 minutes, but we weren't the last ones to be admitted to the endowment room before the doors to the room were finally closed. I was so surprised to see how small the Temple is. I have never been to one of the smaller temples. It was a very special trip.
We arrived back in Redding in time to help set up for the Back-to-School BBQ the Branch and Institute were sponsoring. Kent cooked huge hot dogs and Polish sausage. Brook made potato salad. I cut up watermelon. And there was lots and lots and lots of sodas. The kids played sand volleyball before and after dinner. Kent and I helped clean up and headed home. It had been a long day.
Ahhhhh, the Sabbath Day. A day of spiritual infusion and rest. And, Happy Rosh Hashanah to us all.
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Nan failed to mention the lunch we prepared for Friday Forum. She made her famous spaghetti with sausage (2lbs) and hamburger (4lbs). We did have a good turn out to this forum, about 20 showed and cleaned up the food pretty well. The apple cobbler (brown betty) was also almost completely wiped out even though she quadrupled the recepite. We are cooking lots for different things. Food is always a draw.
Things are going well. Busy but good.
Kent
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