The last lunch - l to R Chadburn, Black, Spackman, Ricks, Schick, Hamilton, Ceff and Ceff
Monday 15th February 2023
Apart from an early bike ride/workout in the park/bike ride home, I think today was pretty much an at home day with probably lots of rain. Most days for the last week or two it seems, it has rained an inch or two.
Tuesday 14th February 2023
Today, being the last P-day that we will all be together as a District (most likely anyway) we had all the Elders to our place for lunch.
After lunch we took our new friend Lois to a medical appointment. Lois is indigenous lady, originally from Palm Island, and has lived all around Queensland but has just in the year or so moved to Cairns. She saw an advertisement the Church had on Facebook and has been taught by the young Elders and has been to Church twice. She has also been to dinner at the Ziegelbauers and the Mitchells with us. Both of those families (who are very closely related) are Torres Strait Islanders, so she has felt at home with them, even though the TSI people seem quite different to the aboriginal people, and have different cultures.
Wednesday 15th February
This evening I interviewed Kcee Udonsi who lives in Nigeria. It was a real pleasure to interview this young returned missionary who is a very committed member of The Church.
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This evening we taught the Temple Preparation class, with the Wilferts attending in person at our place and the Eruetis attending via Zoom.
Thursday 16 February 2023
Today we were excited to meet Sue, the Fijian lady that we met while shopping last week. She is not a member of The Church, but she has two children who are, and one of them, her son, is about to serve a mission. We invited Elders Hamilton and Schick along too, and she enjoyed meeting them. We met down at Muddy's Cafe, on the Esplanade, overlooking the Coral Sea. It was really nice until the weather blew up a bit - that's the wet season in Cairns!
Friday 17th February 2023
Early start today with breakfast at the Kimi'ias, then flat inspections with our young Elders, and then a visit with the Atherton Elders, Black and Chadburn, to the Cashmores. It turned out to be that last time we saw Elder Chadburn as he is being transferred down to Brisbane. It was a good visit with them all. One thing that really seemed to impress the Cashmores was that we told them that there is a 92 year old lady that the Elders are teaching who is getting baptised soon. We told them that we will come to Church up in Atherton this coming Sunday, and then they said that they might both come, so they can meet her!
Looking down from the top of the mast of John's yacht, that I was up on last week, helping to fix it. Yes, that's my foot. It's 9 metres high.
Saturday 18th February 2023
Busy day!
Tai Chi class at 8.00am.
10.30am Helping a Church member clean his flat that he and his daughter are moving out of.
3.00pm Deidre's baptism, which was a really special occasion for all involved. We have been helping the young Elders teach Deidre for almost a year. Elders Dollery and Pemberton baptised her son, Gregory, and the family have been taught by every set of missionaries covering the Gordonvale area since then, so it has been a long time coming.
L to R Elders Spackman and Ricks, Deidre.
Sunday 19th February 2023
Attended both Cairns branches today and I spoke in 1st Branch. Only got to give half my talk as there were two previous speakers who took up most of the time, but they were both very good.
Sunday 17th September 2023 As per usual, we attended both the Cairns branches, and as it was our last Sunday in Cairns we were invited to speak briefly at the beginning of the meeting. Sunday evening we had a very nice dinner with some of the other Cairns District senior missionaries, plus the Pattons and the Greenhalghs who were up from Cairns. After dinner at the Carrs. Back row - Elders Greenhalgh and Carr Middle Row - Ekder and Sister Patton, Sister Greenhalgh, Elder and Sister King Front row - Margot and I with Sister Carr Monday 18th September 2023 Early visit to the Taula's today to pick up some beautiful gifts (white crocheted temple bags) that Sr Taula had made for us. Back home to clean and organize stuff - lots to do! But before that we dropped in to see our friends the Wetzels, to say goodbye to them. Quite an elderly couple - he is German and she is a PNG native and they met and married many years ago when he was working for the Australia government in PNG. Our last v...
Monday 11th September 2023 District P-day today with all the young missionaries in our District, as well as the Carrs. We all went up to Hartley's Crocodile Farm. This was my fourth visit and Margot's third visit there. Certain things about it were better this time, certain things not so good, but it was very good to all be there together. Lots of pictures Sisters Boosarn and Hales The Carrs, Jaussi, Lyons, Vest, Dunyon, Rydalch, Nuttall, Long, Barry, Dollery, Hales, Boonsarn and me in front. Tuesday 12th September 2023 We had our last District Council meeting with our amazing Cairns District Eders and Sisters this morning. Elder Dunyon requested that Elder Lyons ask my wife and I to close the meeting with our testimonies. After the meeting I had the young missionaries as well as Elder and Sister Carr, do very brief videos for me, explaining why they have come to the Brisbane Mission to serve. Can't remember much about today, but we did go to an Ethiopian New Years Eve par...
Monday 25th September 2023 This morning we drove from Brisbane down to Toowoomba to visit Margot's cousin Glen and his wife Joan. Glen is one of Margot's Aunty Doris's son. Last time we saw them was when they visited us in Lara over 10 years ago. In the afternoon Glen took us for a drive around Toowoomba to visit a couple of places. The timing of our visit was good as it was the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. I'm not much of a gardener, except if it involves something I can eat, but I must admit this was pretty spectacular. Margot with cousin Glen Margot and I at the Flower Show One of the flower beds- there were heaps of others, I just like these colors. We also stopped by the Toowoomba Ward meetinghouse, which was where Margot was baptised as an eight year old, having flown up there from King Island. Tuesday 26th September 2023 Glen Mohr with his wife Joan and Margot and me. We left Glen and Joans early today so we could drop in a see my old mate Greg Cowan, who m...
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