Ceff Mission Blog

 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...

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...