Saturday, October 14, 2017

Busy, busy day, but it was a great one.  We walked our three miles, stopped at Safeway to get little chocolate treats for the sisters after my Relief Society lesson tomorrow so that they might overlook my inadequacies, went to the Farmer's Market to get Great Harvest bread and a fresh tomato, had a long organ practice at the Church, reviewed my lesson, and then worked the night shift at the temple.  

We are just loving our work here in the temple.  They needed me to help with Spanish ordinances and I loved it.  Then Glade and I helped in a session together again.  Last night, we were patrons and were able to do endowments for two of our family names.  We meet so many people from Utah and Idaho and often have a connection to people we both know.

It is amazing to me that so many people know the endowment session process so well and need very little help to finish it.  That, to me, means they are regular attenders and many are young couples!  I am impressed that they take time to travel great distances in awful traffic to come often.  One sister last night said that it took her over an hour and a half in the traffic to get to the temple.  Then, when she was finished, she had to return home late; and I so hoped that the traffic was lighter and she made better time.  Many of the district workers travel great distances to serve.  And sometimes it is not the distance that is the issue so much as it is the crazy traffic.  Scott is right.  It is unbelievable.  Many take their turn being late--ordinance workers, temple presidency members, patrons, and everyone else except the temple missionaries.

We see a few young kids on our walks as parents accompany them to bus stops, and I realized that we don’t see kids very often and haven’t for quite a while, and I miss them!  But there must be a few around who are going to celebrate Halloween as evidenced by a few decorated yards.  So I took a couple of pictures for kids.  There are also a few from the Farmer's Market.

This is a little corner strip mall with a garden shop that we pass everyday.  

I'll be so sad when fall turns to winter and the pumpkins and gorgeous fall flowers are gone!