August 24

Ellie June

August 24^th was the first day of school for many or our grandkids.  Their parents posted pictures on line for us to see.

Gauge

Nathan went to the doctor today and found out that he has pneumonia so he did not want to go to the Senior Dinner.  We encouraged him to rest and take his medicine.  I was not surprised as he did not act like he felt very good yesterday at church.

Brinlie Blu

Ryker

President had moved MLC up to Tuesday so Sister Spencer and I spent the entire day working on the orders for the zones.  It really went fast with two of us working on it and we were able to finish it before the end of the afternoon and have it ready to pick up the next day.

Elder and Sister DeNile Williams with a friend

Elder and Sister Adair leaving in September

Sister and Elder Sturdevant leaving in September

Elder and Sister Minert

Elder and Sister Ferguson

Elder and Sister Spencer

Sister and Elder Graff

Elder and Sister Zirkle

Elder Presser and Sister Presser talking to Elder Minert

Sister Karen Williams leaving soon, Sister Slaughter, President Slaughter

Elder and Sister DeNile Williams leaving in September

Elder and Sister Greer

President and Sister Slaughter

We worked most of the day at the office but in the evening was the Senior’s dinner for our last time.  We had decided to have it at Mamacita’s in San Marcos and we had five couples that would be leaving the mission this month that were there.  Every Senior in the mission showed up.  President Slaughter came with his wife, probably because of all the Seniors leaving, to see us off. Some people thought that Larry and I had some type of magic to get everyone there but it was because of all the couples leaving. Larry and I were in charge so we had everyone speak and introduce themselves if they were new and the couples that were leaving we had tell about their future plans.  It was a fun night and attended by all the Seniors in the mission so it was very successful in that respect.  We will miss all of these wonderful missionaries and the dinners with them.  Being with Senior missionaries is so positive.

August 23rd and before

August 21^st was Friday and we were working with the replacements when Jake and Kandis Tuft visited the mission office.  They are missionaries that married each other that were here in the mission when we first came.  It was fun to see them in the office even though President had had them speak at transfer meeting.  Sister Tuft is pregnant so everyone was excited about that.

Sister Williams, Jake and Kandis Tuft, Sister Presser

Even though it was Larry’s birthday we did not go out to do anything because we were tired after transfer week.  Misty did post a cute video of their kids singing Happy Birthday to us on Facebook so that was fun.

August 22 was Saturday our Preparation Day so I worked on the quilt in the morning.  It took all of the morning for me to cut the strips on the fleece so that they were even and could be tied together and then we took the quilt down to Nathan’s apartment to tie the quilt with the kids.  I ended up tying most of it but I did show Sammy how to tie one or two and get him to help me with it.

Everyone else was busy with their Ipads or cell phones playing games.  Erik Alonzo and his son were there with Nathan and the kids so I felt good about that.  But there were no girls so Maggie wanted to come home with us to sleep.

August 23^rd, my birthday, was a Sunday this year.  We went to church and helped Maggie and the kids at church.  Some of the kids wanted us to take them home with us to Nathan’s apartment.  When we got there Nathan wanted us to take the kids back to Sara’s as he was tired and not feeling well.  As we could not fit all the kids in the new car with seatbelts then I was voted the one who got to take them and Larry stayed with Nathan. 

 Maggie was wanting chocolate milk to drink but Nathan did not have any chocolate milk mix and I think I had promised her some at the apartment in the morning so I texted Sara asking if I could make chocolate milk for Maggie at Sara’s when we took her home from Nathan’s, but when we got there she wanted her mother to make it so that finished that. 

   

Sammy was upset when he forgot his blanket at Nathan’s so I told him I would get it and bring it to him.  It made me feel good that he wanted his blanket because sometimes he didn’t seem to care about some things.  He did get really excited about sleeping with it when I finished which surprised me because it was a hot day.

August 20th

I don't know why I am looking like I am dying in this picture

August 20^th is transfer day. It was so fun to see so many of the missionaries and have them tell me how much they love me.  Sister Spenser commented that they will never love me like they do you and I told her that I felt the same when Kaspers left.

I was able to get several pictures with the sisters.  It turned out to be a rainy day in Austin.  There were several visitors to the transfer meeting that were returned TSAMERs so there were a lot of talks, especially at the Austin meeting.

Sister Presser and Sister Alexis Clark

Sister Vorwaller and I are third cousins through William Thacker

We went to transfers by ourselves and Spensers rode with Fergusons or Williamses because we had to go pick up the kids at their school before Bingo Night.  Sara was working with us good because last year was such a disaster.  Even though she said that they might not be finished until about 5:45 p.m. or 6:00 p.m when we got there they were already finished so we were able to pick the kids up at the openhouse and meet the teacher night and went to Bingo at 5:30 p.m.

 

Sister Garner was in Woodlake for a while

Nathan and the kids waiting for dinner at Wounded Warriers

Isaac on the monkey bars

Honey Bishop took Nathan to Bingo night.  I guess she is the one that has been taking him although I thought it was Ken Jackson.  It was a little awkward but it worked out okay.  The year before we had made a big deal about our birthdays with the people who run the Bingo night but we had not been for so long that we didn’t make a big deal of it this year.  The kids had fun going to the playground for a few minutes after, it was nice to have it fairly light tonight.

Isaac and me helping Maggie across

Sammy