Missionary Report No 63

15 months ago, our district was just 4 of us.
We have grown!



Monday, June 12th, 2023

Today we had a lot happening. It started with a pot luck lunch with all the missionaries, seniors included, 16 in total.  The Kings and the missionaries then headed off to the golf driving range and then the missionaries returned to the chapel to play board games. 

We had the Grangers, who served in our mission and visiting Cairns, come for dinner at 5pm. We enjoyed very much catching up with them.

Then at 7pm we had our Seniors FHE for the North which was our turn to host.  The Grangers were keen to join in as well.

Tuesday, June 13th

Murray had District Council Meeting tonight.

Wednesday, June 14th

Rex Lookout, on the way back from Port Douglas

We headed up to Port Douglas as it was June's birthday.  We went out for lunch then back to her place for her delicious cheesecake and then a game of scrabble.

Thursday, June 15th

Took the Subaru in to have the handbrake fixed. In the evening we picked up Lois and Brett for the Gospel Study class which Murray taught.  Those who attended said they really enjoyed the class.

Friday, June 16th

We bumped into Matthew and Patrina who is Deidre's daughter at the supermarket.  We helped them take their groceries home as they were planning on catching a bus.  Coincidentally, they were scheduled to meet with the elders later that day.

In the evening, Yoriko kindly prepared a Japanese meal for us.  Lots of vegetables which we enjoyed.

Saturday, June 17th

Tai Chi in the morning. We noticed that one of the members was cleaning the chapel by himself so after Tai Chi we decided to help him.

In the afternoon was Lucas' baptism which was followed by a Branch activity, food and karaoke. We discovered some talented singers in the Branch and Murray sang Unchained Melody (without the high part) and You've Got a Friend, which doesn't have a high part!

Sunday, June 18th

I spoke in Cairns Branch 1 and then Murray and I both spoke in the Thursday Island Branch by Zoom. They had friends and family from Western Australia and New Zealand also join in.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mission Report No 74

Image
Us with Elder Bergeson.     Monday 28th August 2023 I did my first live interview today with a person who is a Christian of another faith. I met Sam Korinek while on Instagram, after he had made a comment on someone else's post, and it seemed to me that he could learn a bit more about the Church and our beliefs and make some better comments in the future perhaps. We had a preliminary chat a couple of weeks ago, and we got on very well together, so planned ahead for a live chat., which has now been uploaded to YouTube and Facebook and as a podcast. Here's the YouTube video -  Tuesday 29th August 2023 Rode the bike to the Lagoon Esplanade pool this morning to do some laps. Got home in time to do another interview, this time with Tim Cabal, who is the actor playing the part of the lord of the vineyard in the upcoming Book of Mormon movie based on Jacob 5. Really great interview, I thought anyway, although I did waffle a bit at the start. But Tim was great! It is available on...
Read more

Mission Report No 75

Image
Zoe's picnic at Yorkey's Knob This is our second last week here in Cairns. We are getting very busy. As always, not everything we do gets a mention here. It's just too much. And we want to get all our reports up to date before we actually leave, because once we are on the road (in a few days as I write this on Saturday 16th) we won't be able to get much written. Monday 4th September 2023 We arrived back in Cairns this morning, from Brisbane, at about 10.00am. Sister Hales and Sister Boonsarn picked us up, which was very nice of them. We drove Elder and Sister King down to the Carr's place at Mt Peter, where their car was parked. We stopped at Earlville Shopping Centre on the way, and somehow lost a set of car keys for the Carr's car, possibly while there. We had a walk around our usual route in Edge Hill late in the afternoon. Then we got a call from the local police station saying that someone had dropped a set of car keys in there, which was a total surprise t...
Read more

Mission Report No 77 - Going home (first week)

Image
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...
Read more