Busy

Did we mention in the last blog post that we are really busy?  Of course we did.  What we didn’t realize when we said that, is that, what we thought was busy for us, seems to be getting even more busy, especially, as time gets shorter before we leave our mission.

We still have over 6 months left, but then we think about all that we want to accomplish and there’s just not enough time to do it all.

We still have not had our meeting with the Area Presidency.  Hopefully that will come about this next Tuesday.  Then we will share the details of what our pilot program was all about.  In preparation that we will get approval to go forward, we have been busy getting things arranged so that we can start off running.

Wednesday of next week is our Senior Missionary Zone Conference.  We’ve been busy preparing for that - organizing and preparing talks.

I’m flying to the States to attend my son's wedding in a few weeks.  I am so happy for him and for her. What a wonderful married couple they will make.  Their relationship has a firm foundation of trust, matching personalities, similar dispositions and thoughts and a strong, stable desire to be together.  Those qualities are important to have for a strong and enduring marriage.

In preparation for flying home for a few days, I want to take home some things I won’t need for the rest of our mission.  Some of the items are the electronics I need to finish the Oma and Opa Show. We’ve been extremely busy filming the scenes and I've been busy doing the editing.  Almost every free moment is taken up with that.



So, downtime has to be carefully planned.  For instance, one day we left at about 7:00 AM to travel to Hannover, Germany.  Most of the day was spent visiting the Stake Center to see how their technology equipment is set up.  Then another 3 1/2 hour ride back home.  We decided to squeeze in a visit to a local castle.  It was a modern castle built in the mid 1800's.  Interesting history; the owner was not able to live in it much after completion.

On another occasion, we had a fun time in our Zone Family Home Evening.  Family Home Evenings for the zone are scheduled twice a month.  This one had an activity.  It was a form of charades using different groups.

Our team lost but, as you can see in the upper right, Sister van Hoff was really enjoying herself.

So, have we been busy?  Yeah, we've been busy, but it is a good busy.