Aren't the leaves beautiful. This is the Portland Temple, but the leaves are beautiful everywhere we go. This is Elder Hall - one of the assistants who trained us.
The last couple of weeks have been fairly busy as we had to change our zone conference week from week # 5 to week # 3 in order to accommodate a member of the 2nd quorum who toured our mission from November 12th to the 15th. His name is Elder Clate Mask. In truth it worked out better for us too since two of our children and their families will be here during Thanksgiving. That week would normally be scheduled for our zone conferences. We would have moved the conferences anyway, but the changed schedule sure kept us busy the last two weeks. So in the last two weeks - on top of the normal scheduled interview travels we also held three multi-zone conferences, went to two coordinating council meetings and we spoke in the Florence ward sacrament meeting on the 16th.
We have traveled a lot in the last two weeks in order to fit in everything with two trips back and forth to Medford for interviews and the zone conferences as well as trips to Bend and Klamath Falls. We also interviewed all of the Eugene missionaries. We just love visiting with our missionaries!
The Rogersons from our stake in Orem visited us November 8th to the 10th. He had served a mission here 47 years ago and they came here for two days on their way to visit various temples. While they were here Sister Macdonald drove them by the apartment he lived in while in Eugene. It is still standing and is still an apartment. The owner let them walk through it and take pictures. He really enjoyed that. She wants copies of his pictures and copies of his old pictures too. He promised to send them to her.
We picked up Elder and Sister Mask in Medford on the evening of the 12th. They had been touring the Portland mission the 1st of the week and flew from Portland down to Medford. We had been in Bend and Klamath Falls Monday thru Wednesday and then came over to Medford to meet them. If you don’t know much about him – which is easy enough since there are a few seventy these days - here is a brief bio: He served as a mission president in Barcelona Spain from 1997 to 2000. He taught seminary for about 30 years before going out as a MP. After his mission he served as a Bishop of an Arizona State University singles ward for a couple of years and retired from teaching seminary before being called into the 2nd quorum of the 70 in 2003. He is full of energy – as is his wife – and they seemed fresh at every conference we were at with them.
We held multi-zone conferences in Medford, Eugene and Corvallis on Thursday, Friday and Saturday respectively. The Elders were happy to be taught by him. I asked Elder Mask to visit with two of the Elders who have been contemplating going home and he seemed to boost their spirits a bit. It is good to have them visit with another person for a change, and hear him council them the same way.
On Friday night we had a dinner with the three local stake presidents and their wives at the home of President and Sister Martin. It was nice to visit with them socially on top of the more formal church meetings I have with them.
After the final zone conference on Saturday we drove the Masks to Portland where they had another day or two of church business to do up there.
Sunday, the 16th, we spoke at sacrament meeting in the Florence ward and we really enjoyed it. A nonmember came up and told us he felt the spirit stronger than he ever had and then he hugged Sister Macdonald. I found him afterwards in Sunday school class and told him (in front of the missionaries and others attending the class) to let me know when he was going to be baptized and we would come back out. He told me he would. The missionaries then told me that they hadn’t invited him to be baptized yet. I said you have now. It felt right and I trust that he will go thru with it. It felt great to be involved in that level of missionary work on a personal level.
We have traveled a lot in the last two weeks in order to fit in everything with two trips back and forth to Medford for interviews and the zone conferences as well as trips to Bend and Klamath Falls. We also interviewed all of the Eugene missionaries. We just love visiting with our missionaries!
The Rogersons from our stake in Orem visited us November 8th to the 10th. He had served a mission here 47 years ago and they came here for two days on their way to visit various temples. While they were here Sister Macdonald drove them by the apartment he lived in while in Eugene. It is still standing and is still an apartment. The owner let them walk through it and take pictures. He really enjoyed that. She wants copies of his pictures and copies of his old pictures too. He promised to send them to her.
We picked up Elder and Sister Mask in Medford on the evening of the 12th. They had been touring the Portland mission the 1st of the week and flew from Portland down to Medford. We had been in Bend and Klamath Falls Monday thru Wednesday and then came over to Medford to meet them. If you don’t know much about him – which is easy enough since there are a few seventy these days - here is a brief bio: He served as a mission president in Barcelona Spain from 1997 to 2000. He taught seminary for about 30 years before going out as a MP. After his mission he served as a Bishop of an Arizona State University singles ward for a couple of years and retired from teaching seminary before being called into the 2nd quorum of the 70 in 2003. He is full of energy – as is his wife – and they seemed fresh at every conference we were at with them.
We held multi-zone conferences in Medford, Eugene and Corvallis on Thursday, Friday and Saturday respectively. The Elders were happy to be taught by him. I asked Elder Mask to visit with two of the Elders who have been contemplating going home and he seemed to boost their spirits a bit. It is good to have them visit with another person for a change, and hear him council them the same way.
On Friday night we had a dinner with the three local stake presidents and their wives at the home of President and Sister Martin. It was nice to visit with them socially on top of the more formal church meetings I have with them.
After the final zone conference on Saturday we drove the Masks to Portland where they had another day or two of church business to do up there.
Sunday, the 16th, we spoke at sacrament meeting in the Florence ward and we really enjoyed it. A nonmember came up and told us he felt the spirit stronger than he ever had and then he hugged Sister Macdonald. I found him afterwards in Sunday school class and told him (in front of the missionaries and others attending the class) to let me know when he was going to be baptized and we would come back out. He told me he would. The missionaries then told me that they hadn’t invited him to be baptized yet. I said you have now. It felt right and I trust that he will go thru with it. It felt great to be involved in that level of missionary work on a personal level.
1 comments:
Tom and Kaye:
I sure enjoy reading about your mission experience. What a wonderful work you are doing!
It was nice to hear you were visited by Elder and Sister Mask. He lived in our ward when we first moved to Mesa and taught some of our children in Seminary.
I exchanged email this morning. with Brian Cooper who worked at Eyring several years ago and passed on the address to your blog.
Happy New Year!
Mark
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