Oh my how days turn into months!! Fall is here with cooler days and rain to keep the grass green.
We continue to be busy with the Young Single Adults. We celebrated Halloween with a fun party. Did the old fashioned things like bobbing for apples and donuts on a string.
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| Making a smiley face with smarties and a straw |
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| Bobbing for apples, blindfolded!!! |
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| Make a MUMMY |
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| Eating a doughnut on a string. |
Also a fun game devised by one of the girls called Opposite Reactions
where you have to guess by their reaction if what the person is tasting
is the real thing or something gross that looks the same. Like salt
instead of sugar, Tabasco in stead of ketchup, lemon juice instead of
punch. Lots of laughs were had as the audience tried to guess from the reaction who had tasted what.
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| Catsup or Tabasco? |
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| Lemonade or Lemon Juice? |
We now are teaching two institute classes. Both Book of Mormon but one is mid singles which is for anyone age 25 to 45. This means we usually take a bit different approach depending on the class. I love teaching the Book of Mormon and I am gaining a whole new appreciation for the Isaiah chapters as we dig out the meaning and learn more about the history of the lands of Judah and Ephraim.
Our month also included another trip around Northern Ireland as we again carried out inspecting missionary flats. We had a sunny afternoon as we came back from Londonderry which meant we saw beautiful vistas that on previous trips had been cloud covered.
The highlight of our month was a trip to Dublin for a Mission Couples conference We are the only missionary couple in Northern Ireland but there are six couples in the Republic of Ireland of which four of them made it to the conference along with our mission president, President Brown and his wife.
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| Ireland/ Northern Ireland Couples conference |
This was an uplifting time of sharing experiences and ideas. We were bolstered by each other and realized we all face similar challenges and have the same feelings of inadequacy. I loved it and came away feeling normal and with new vigor.
