Wednesday, October 18, 2017 – District Training Meeting, Elder Duvall’s Trailer & Fence Repair, Planting in the Women’s Garden, Tonight’s Rendezvous Show

Every Wednesday morning we have a training meeting. This morning it was a District Training meeting on a much smaller scale than the usual Mission-wide meeting. Elder & Sis. Gibson are our District Leaders and their meeting and training was excellent. When you add in the comments by the Elders and Sisters in our district with their wealth of experience, the meeting and the training was full of the Spirit. One of the best training meetings I’ve been to.

This morning we had to take our trailer in for a repair to the tail gate. Elder Duvall is a Cracker Jack repairman. In only 15 minutes with his torch, he had the tailgate working better than it did when it was new. Good Job Elder Duvall.

Next I happened upon Elder Duvall repairing one of the gates to FM’s storage yard. It was accidently hit and bent over. Elder Duvall worked his magic and he had the fence and post back in place and closeable in a short time. The corner post will still need to be reset in concrete but for the moment it is temporarily fixed enough so it can be closed and locked overnight., Good Job Elder Duvall, you really are a miracle worker.

Today was another full day of planting bulbs in the Women’s Garden. And what made today special was the results. By this afternoon we finished the very last flowerbed in the Women’s Garden. Yes, the whole Women’s Garden is finished; we finished planting each and every flowerbed there. We even had enough time to completely plant the William Weeks flowerbed too. Richard commented how well this fall’s bulb planting is going. We are on schedule or even ahead of schedule if you consider the extra flowerbeds we’ve gotten done. 

Tonight’s Rendezvous show was a great success. Sis.Johnson and I got to play “George and Agatha” again. The whole cast was spot on and we had a wonderful audience. They applauded, cheered and laughed a lot. At the end of the show they even gave us a standing ovation. It really was a good show tonight.

Sis. Johnson and I go home in only a week and a half. Next week will be the last time we get to perform as “George and Agatha” before we go home. We would have never guessed before our mission that we would enjoy performing on stage this much.

We also had special guest in the audience, Sis. Kerri Trost and two of her daughters came to see Sis. Johnson perform as Agatha. After the show they surprised us with gifts. They presented Sis. Johnson with an arm bouquet of fresh flowers. Wow, that was an amazing, thoughtful gift. Sis. Johnson said she has never been given flowers for a performance on stage before. She was very touched. And that wasn’t all, they presented me with a large box of Belgian Hazelnut chocolates, Mmmm-Goood! Thank you Sis. Trost, you made our evening very special.