Read the Book.

Kay home teaches a woman who is about our age and had a stroke at church.  Kay is her home teacher and has been helping her.  Three of her four children came  to be with her and have been nearby. None have embraced the church. We have observed her children and their love and concern for their mother. We went home teaching and Kay spoke to her children about her love for them and her love for the church and the Book of Mormon.

The youngest daughter was leaving today so we went over to the house and Kay spoke with her and explained to her, her mother's love for the Book of Mormon. Tiffany is a librarian and appreciates books.  Kay showed her one of his collectible Books of Mormon and then, explaining what the book is, and how important it is to him and her mom, gave her and her brother copies of the Book of Mormon with a charge to read it, he also gave her $100. if she promised to read it. She promised. He didn't tell her mom as he didn't want her to get in trouble with her kids.

Sleuth

At church today a Branch Presidency member came up to me and I said "prayer?" he said "no, music" so for the second time in  my life, I lead the music in sacrament meeting. Not too scary in a branch with 35 people at the beginning of Sacrament meeting.  One song was a little tricky but I got  through it.
I noticed one of our primary teachers looking bad... kind of sad?  I just couldn't put my finger on it.

After Sacrament meeting, she was teaching her class and took her class to another one, giving her children to the other teacher and was heading out the building.  Tricia caught her and sat her down and decided she was having a stroke.  She couldn't answer simple questions.

The branch president took her to the emergency room and our job was to drive her car home for her.  We couldn't find the keys but Cathy found them in the car with the car on... but not going.  It was dead.  I jumped it and the oil light came on, the engine sounded horrible and it a puddle of oil under it and  had no oil in it. I Turned it off!  The engine was seized.

She had been in an accident 10 days earlier with damage to the front passenger area.  After sleuthing, under the car, Kay decided she was in another accident, probably that day.  We drove around and around looking for a puddle of oil and found a sign down.  Upon close inspection we found 2 of her car parts there and lots of oil.   We drove back to the car and found two dents where she hit the sign.  It was a little confusing as this accident was on top of the last accident.

We called the police and filed a report showing them the accident site and the car at the parking lot.

We then went to the hospital to visit our teacher and tell her about the car.  She did have a stroke and couldn't remember even going to church let alone running into a sign.  I gave her daughter the insurance information so she could contact the agent.   I am pretty amazed Kay figured it out.  The insurance should cover it with her deductible which is better than the nothing we were thinking.

Simon Peter Anderson is blessed byCaleb Anderson

letter to Janell from Kay

 "We just blessed Caleb's baby Simon Peter Anderson. The audience laughed a little when they heard his name would be Simon Peter.  Not many names get a reaction from people.  Simon is cute and a good baby. everybody likes to hold him.

the blessing was simple, heartfelt, loving and spiritual.  Caleb put me in charge of the binky.  Simon was fussing a little before we started then calmed down as soon as we started.  I opened my eyes during the blessing to see how he was doing and Simon was wide eyed and starring at Caleb.  His stare was so intense that I wondered if it was intentional or just random and would he lose interest and look around at all the others holding him or have his attention drawn to the binky, which was no longer in his mouth.  I was amazed to watch as Simon stayed wide eyed and completely focused on Caleb the entire time. His eyes never left Caleb's face until the blessing was finished."  Dad, Kay

Janae - Bishop Steele was watching from the stand and was amazed at Simon staring at his daddy the whold time, all during the blessing.

New adventure

I received a call on  my cell phone Thursday from the Winter Quarters Temple asking if Kay and I could visit with a member of the Temple Presidency after our next session.  I told him we should just make an appointment now so we did for the very next day, Friday after the 6PM session.  Hummmmm I wonder what he wanted...
After the session we went into his office and he extended a call to be ordinance workers and set us apart single handedly (apparently that is not a word but works for me).  We had several choices (lowoin the totem pole in my book...)
Friday evening
Saturday shift 1
Saturday shift 2
Saturday shift 3

We chose Saturday shift 1 from 7AM to 1PM and that was the very next day so there we went.  It was fun and will be lots of memorizing.  Kay passed off several things... I will need more study time which is built into our schedule.  On our shift there are several people who travel 1-2.5 hours to get there.  We are 10 minutes away.. Lucky us.

I was a bit worried about Kay. He may find it difficult to serve in the temple because of his illness.. he gets sleeping sickness as soon as he sits down in a church or temple but he seemed to be cured today.

cruising

 

We had to stay overnight to hope the water went down, it did and we scraped the bridge going under.  I guess the boat of Americans thought we weren’t allowed on top but all we had to do is promise to duck, it was  crazy up there.

Last day in Prague

We moved hotels to join our group tour.  We are at the Hilton, which is very expensive if you are not on a tour and the internet costs $!  It is free in the lobby (kind of them) so the posts have not been as regular.

We took a tour of the city of Prague with our group visiting the Castle, Charles Bridge and Old Town Square.

After the tour we went to Lennon wall where you can write whatever you want, inspired by John Lennon who never visited Prague.

Then we found the lover’s bridge and put our locks on to “lock our love”  ours had a key so we had to throw it in the river.

After that quickly bought some “take away” hamburgers… Ben’s was a Tower burger (notice the tower behind him) we met Vida, our guide from a few days before and went on a Jewish Quarter tour with Lauren and Ben.

They were having tour fatigue, so insisted we go back to the hotel for an hour to use the sauna.

We took the underground metro and Tram 22 to the fun cafe we found before and spent our remaining money there   .  We were running late so this is snarfing down some yummy crepes.  We left all our Czech money on the table.  The waitress said it was too much but we insisted we needed to get rid of it.  We ended the night at a recommended traditional Black light theater production……. Kay had his apple strudel (flat), flattened when Kay sat on it but I guess it was fine! Very busy day.  Off to Nuremburg Germany!

Monday Terezin with the Hardy’s

We picked up our car and with the bad map, and somehow made it to the airport.  No really, we were in towns we had no clue about, going under one way small overpasses and all of the sudden we see a sign for the airport!  We found Lauren and Ben waiting “not too long”  I went in and bought an expensive map.  We went to Terezin, a Concentration camp that was a holding camp and model concentration camp. the best conditions of all camps.  it was sobering what a few bad men are capable of.

We ate lunch there and drove back to Prague. Our goal was to keep Lauren and Ben awake so we showed them the city by foot, the best way to see Prague.

goulash.   Schnitzel- breaded fried meat.