Monday - I’m Proud of my G-Bears! - Sheralyn
We love our lazy Mondays, although it is always a day to get our trailer work and laundry done. And, a day to go to town and do any errands we might have. Note to ourselves….. now that it is the winter season we will have to remember that so many businesses in Bandon are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays! A few things on the list are still on the list to be done later this week. But good naps were definitely checked off our list of to-do things! In the evening we went to Tom and Liz Olive’s for a delicious fahita dinner and some good old “Family Home Evening” fun. We love spending time with them.
Tuesday – Remember that we love you! - Madi
This morning was our first day to staff the Family History Library! Oh My Goodness!!
We are seriously lacking in our skills! Not to mention that the computers are not communicating with the printers! Do you think we have bugs yet to iron out? May I say I am grateful no one from the community came in today. The notice about our opening will not appear in the local paper until Thursday, Oh, that is a good thing! Elwin Bissell did come and we spent the first hour just getting his log on and password to work. Luckily, we have an 800 number to call for help. Sweet Elwin already had them but could not remember them. When we were finally successful at getting him into New.familysearch, he was delighted to see how far back he could see in his family tree. Once we get it all straightened out, it is going to be amazing. I just hope the community takes advantage of this wonderful service . Please notice that Elder Wels got to have his picture on the front page of the Bandon paper! We had a lovely meat loaf dinner at the E.A.T Program tonight and very much enjoyed our shift in the dish washing area with Tom and Carol. We are definitely a good team and everyone is so sweet to tell us how much they appreciate us. To us it is a joy to work there!
Wednesday - I’m glad you are serving a mission. - Jenna
I think I used the words “Holy Cow!” with the rain and wind storm we had some time back in December…. Well, today I will use the words “Holy Hippo!” I am just happy I can report that our little home on wheels is still on its wheels! And, we are still in Bandon! But when we opened the blinds this morning, to our horror, we saw that the trunk lid of the car was wide open! A quick trip out there revealed that our big box of Church supplies was drowned! So now we have books and papers drying out all over the couch and chairs and counters! I tried to capture the wind in the picture of the bush and the rain in the picture of the front window of the trailer.
Thursday - Did you remember to pray? - Chloe
Welcome to more wind and more rain! We rocked all night last night and plans for today’s drive to Port Orford to help the members there with a big community dinner have been cancelled. Sister Glemser called and said driving in all this wind and rain is dangerous. The Sixes River down there was flooding and some roads were impassable. Not to mention that part of the highway south of us is under water. This has been a great storm! We are still drying out things from the trunk of the car. And, we tended to the leak in the front window. I had more time to study the scriptures connected to Preach My Gospel. In the afternoon when the winds died down for a while we ventured out to town to run a few errands and check on a couple of branch members. We stopped by the Family History Library to check on things and while we were there a gentlemen, who had read about our library in the paper, came.
Pam Hansen took him under her wing and in no time he had located several great grandparents! It was exciting to see. In the evening we sloughed through the rain to return to the Family History Library for more training. Our little library is really taking shape!
Friday – Proselyte with Pride! - Tanner
Yea! The wind and the rain subsided enough last night that we were finally able to get some sleep. The quiet was so nice! But it was only a brief respite. Today we decided we had better get out there before the next round of winter hit. So we headed out to hand out as many “Family History Library Open House” invitations as we could. First stop was the office of our very own RV Park. We arrived just at “Coffee Time” at the office. So we got to give a little group our great news about how easily they could find their own family history right here in Bandon. We met with some great enthusiasm and we handed out some blank pedigree charts to help them get started. Good start! By afternoon the wind and the rain had returned. Oh the joys! But nothing could dampen the joy that surrounded the party at the Salt’s house late this afternoon where we got to award Patrick with his “Success Certificate”. He has not had a smoke since we met one week ago to start him on the “One Week Stop Smoking” program! He did it! And, he was a different man today! He was so pleased with himself and well he should be! We celebrated with his favorite Little Debbie frosted fudge cakes and swiss rolls. Then we “blew” ourselves home amid the 60 mph wind gusts and rain. Yup, done for the evening! We will just sit tight and enjoy the rocking of our little home on wheels!
Saturday - I’m proud of you, G & G Bear - Jenna
It totally poured this morning. No wind just a big downpour! But then about the time we headed out the door, the sun peaked out and stayed out for the entire day. Yahoo! Love that sunshine! We spent the entire day delivering more Open House invitations to less active members of our branch and a couple of our investigators. We finally found someone at home at the Williams’ house out on Bates Road. Jody Williams is the grown son. He is a crab fisherman and we enjoyed at good visit with him. He told us that his parents, Nancy and Bill Williams, had moved into town on Oregon Ave. A short drive later we were enjoying a sweet visit with Nancy Williams. She and Bill have been married for 59 years. But this is a rough time for them as Bill is in the end stages of COPD. She was so happy that we would come to see her. We promised that we would return tomorrow after Church and bring the Sacrament to her and her husband. Elder Wels will ask Chuck Salt to come along so they can give both Bill and Nancy a Priesthood blessing. This is not an easy time for the Williams family. It breaks our hearts to see so many branch members here in Bandon with such tremendous health problems.
Sunday - Keep working hard! – Josh Moss
It was a long but very enjoyable day at Church today. Branch Council meeting started at 8:45 this morning. There is something so sweet about being in a group of saints as they try their upmost to meet the needs of members of our branch. You can just feel the love in the room. We are honored to be a part of that process. Julie and Elwin Bissell gave the talks in Sacrament. Both of them spoke on “Faith” and both of them gave superb talks. I think I can speak for all of us when I say that we really did have a Spiritual feast today. On a sad note, Nancy Williams called this afternoon to ask us not to come today as this was a really rough day for both she and her husband. Could we come another day this coming week? We told her of course we could. After Church we had a very successful Open House for the Family History Library. 22 people from the community came to learn about doing their family history! There was just a perfect number of patrons who spaced themselves out during the 2 hour Open House so that each one of them got one on one instruction at the computer. Most got the basics of genealogy and left armed with a pedigree chart. They will be back with names and dates so we can tap into the resources available to us. But some of them came prepared with their ancestors’ names and dates and left with an amazing amount of new information about their family. It was sweet to hear of their gratitude for this service we can provide to the community. I do believe our service in the Family History Library will be packed with heart-warming moments and happy patrons! What a marvelous way to end our week. We hope your week was as lovely!
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