We arrived back in Bandon on Wednesday afternoon and after unpacking and finding new homes for our Christmas treasures, we succumbed to naps for our old bones and then decided we were too pooped to start anything else. Those 6 day parties are brutal on old folks. When can we do it again?!!!! Oh dear, Elder Wels is thinking he might now have Mary’s cold. Yea! I did walk over to Ida Cluff’s to meet her family that came to visit her from Washington. Ida had gone to Washington to have Christmas with her daughter and family and then a granddaughter, her husband and her great-granddaughter followed her home to visit for a few days. Ida was sure a happy Gramma!
Thursday we were back on schedule and headed to Coos Bay for District Meeting. I, personally, looked forward to being with those young Elders who would give me the mission boost that I longed for. Hmmmmm. Guess that “shot in the arm” will have to wait for another week. We arrived at the Coos Bay Stake Center to find not another car in sight in the parking lot. That seemed a bit unusual but we tried to be patient and waited a few minutes. Then we called our Zone Leaders, Elder Plumb and Elder Johnson. Elder Plumb was the lucky one to answer the phone and have the pleasure of telling us; “oops”, they forgot to call us to tell us the meeting had been cancelled. Thanks Elders! Elder Johnson called us later in the day to apologize some more and told us that would repent by taking us to lunch next Thursday when there would, for sure, be a District Meeting. They are just too darn cute for us to stay angry with them! So while in Coos Bay we ran our errands and did our grocery shopping as usual. The last errand on the list is always a salad and root beer float at Wendy’s. That made us happy with the day. But by the time we got back to Bandon and did a couple of visits to check up on some branch members, both Elder Wels and I were not feeling so well. Seems either Mary’s cold or Byron’s has definitely hit us both. We were done for today too!
This is what Elder Wels looked like all day on Friday.
Saturday was a lost day also. Since I am a day behind him, this was my day to just lounge around the trailer. It was a good day to catch up on paper work for mission and the Wels’ finances. You can never be too sick to pay bills, can you?
Ida Cluff stopped by our trailer today and brought us this gift for Christmas.
We were supposed to enjoy a fun New Year’s Eve party with the Olives and a few of their friends. Brother Olive is so cute. He said that when the ball drops in New York, which is 9:00 p.m. our time, it means that the New Year has landed in America and the party is over! He was quite serious and he made me laugh. But the party was over for us before it even started. We stayed home and enjoyed our colds and a quiet time together. We were in bed by 10:00 p.m. and slept right through the New Year celebration. All was quiet here in our RV park so I think all of us went to bed early. We all must be old! HA!
We went to Church today but tried very hard to stay a bit of a distance from everyone. No hugs or shaking hands today. I hate that! But our colds are still hanging in there a bit. We had a great Fast and Testimony meeting so I am glad we made the effort to go. After Church we drove to Coquille to join in the last missionary lesson for Zack. His baptism is set for Friday. Good work Elders Davis and Gamez! We look forward to being part of the baptism!
Since today was the very 1st day of the year, tonight we opened the first of the candies from our inspirational candy jar from our Shumway family. It simply read: “ I love you!, Madi”. What a sweet thought to start our year! That made our day! Thanks Madi! You always bring sunshine into our lives.
Thank you family for all those photo Christmas cards! They are all now wonderfully posted on the mirror in our trailer.
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