Monday, September 01, 2014

         Happy Labor Day, everyone.  We hope your picnics and hikes, etc. with your families were fun, and that perhaps there was a hint that the season is changing.

         Of course, there is no Labor Day here; and even if there were, our day would have been spent just the same—housekeeping, grocery shopping and having FHE with our temple missionary friends.

         The Bassetts (they are our 81-year-old friends from Lovell Wyoming) were in charge of the Home Evening and you can’t imagine what they had us do!  They used to be dance directors in their earlier years and taught some of those dances to the Latin Americans in their previous missions as well.  So tonight, it was our turn.  Most of you reading this won’t even know what dance directors  were and won’t remember having them as part of the Mutual program.  Anyway, they had a cassette tape player and played music for us to dance the Hokey Pockey, a “round” dance that I don’t know the name of, and the Virginia Reel!  It was pretty funny and I was pleasantly surprised that it turned out so well.  It made me smile and that was good!  Then we had pizza and sang a farewell song to them that Sister Ocampo had written.

         The new Second Counselor and his wife have not moved in yet although they officially began their new calling on Saturday; so they were not here tonight.  But the new missionary couple who will be replacing the Bassetts arrived today accompanied by a brother and his wife, so they joined us for FHE.  It was a nice evening, but rather sad to be saying goodbye to friends.  It will be hard to see this sweet couple leave.

Brother Gomez, Pres. Ocampo, Sister Gomez
Sister Gomez was raised in California although she was born  in Guatemala.  Brother Gomez is from  Nicaragua.  They met in California where they married and lived for 27 years.  She speaks English, but not fluently.  They seem so nice and we are excited to get to know them and work with them.

Clark and Carol Bassett.  She was born on Christmas Day; hence the name Carol!

Pres. and Sister Amado

Pres. and Sister Ocampo, Temple President and his wife

Brother and Sister Gomez again.

Parting words

Glade and I needed crates to stand on to be seen in this group photo.  We really are in there at the back!
From left:  Brother to the new missionary and his wife; Brother and Sister Cruz who will be leaving in about three weeks; behind them are the Starkeys, then the new couple Gomez; The Bassetts; in the back, the Petersons :) then the Ocampos and on the far right, the Amados.

This is a terrible picture so I'm not going to enlarge it.