I have to apologize for not having posted 2 weeks ago but Google was working on BlogSpot and I never got a chance to get online after that. So last week’s post was actually meant for the week before.
This past week and a half have been good and quiet, but things are picking up again. This past weekend and next kids are graduating, which we have 2 from our hall, which also means parties! The very end of this month we have our c.o. visit, which we just found out will be there last time visiting us as c.o. since they will be starting in September in a neighboring hall as special pioneers. Actually some of you may know them-Glen & Patty Odani from Hawaii. Also there is a wedding we are attending the first of June. The couple has an interesting but not unheard of story here in Guam. The brother is from here and Filipino, the sister he has petitioned from the Philippines to come here. The only issue this causes is that they don’t know when paperwork will go through, like with this couple they were supposed to get married before us, but she didn’t arrive till just a couple of weeks ago and so then they don’t have much time to plan a wedding because things have been on hold and you know with weddings are usually planned far in advance. We also have our district convention the end of July which I believe before that is the pioneer school and elder school, and this means we will have the friends from the other islands visiting us-so encouraging!
Unfortunately my crockpot I broke a week ago and so now it has made life cooking even more interesting. So if any of you have any good recipes (even ones using a crockpot), please don’t hesitate to email them to me or even send via snail-mail (we love see something in our mailbox). For those of you who didn’t know but much of our dating was through snail-mail, but now that we are together, we don’t get much other than my stuff from my parents that they are sending me!
Oh and we did get our wedding pictures! I will post them here and also on our website, which many of you got the link for info on the wedding. If you would like any of them just let us know. For those of you family, we will try to make you a cd so that you can do what you would like with them (print out or what have you). Also if any of you that were able to make it to the wedding have some of your own you took, we would love copies (like via email). We are trying to put them all together to create our collection, which has proved interesting, since some got different angles then others.
Service this week has been very nice. I got to work my first territory out since the invite champagne, and I had a nice call on an older man. It turned out that the man was visiting his family and he listed and responded to my talking about God’s purpose for the earth and took the magazines. He then told me that he had been trying to get his kid’s to go to church and hinted that he wanted me to come back and talk with them. He said he would read the magazines and leave them for his kid’s to read also. So we will see how it turns out. Also I went and tried one of my old studies to see if they would remember me and to check how they were doing. I only got to speak to the wife (it’s an elderly couple), but she said I could come back to see her husband when he wasn’t sleeping. She said he was not studying anymore. I don’t know what happened but I hope to and also maybe resume the study.
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Wow! so nice to find this in my mail this AM. We have been wondering how you two are doing. Think about you every day. This is a busy time here too. We had our Special Assembly Day and Brother Schilling from Wallkill was the guest speaker. He was Uncle Steve's table head until Steve became a table head himself. It was like greeting family to see him and his wife. Nice surprise!
Remember Arline, the study from Yap, she did the second series of questions the other night. She hopes to be baptized at our convention on Evansville, IN in June. We all love her, she is such an encouragement.
Bro and Sr. Jones are moving and we had a big goodbye party for them last week. I made about 30 pounds of a pot roast dinner...came out tasty and tender.....his favorite meal. We are sorry to see them move, but they always go where there is a need.
There is a new house on our street. The Amish put it up in about three weeks, all business builders and it looks very nice! Also the folks to the right of us are putting in a huge swimming pool......YUK! Lots of noise and parties I can see!
Mim and Tim are working hard on their little house....lots of work there.......huge effort!!!!
We are buying a new washer and dryer from Sears.........we left ours in NH and have to replace them now that the kids are moving.
That's all the news I know...Oh, did I tell you Chris and Suzie Coulombe were our CO sub and they stayed with us for the week? They are home now serving Franklin North. Did two stints here for both congregations, then Sunday left after talk and headed to NH to fill in there for three weeks.....one week is in Londonderry! They spend time at Bethel too...Patterson, on the way back to KY.
Much love always from, Grammy and Papaw Hammy
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