Service

As missionaries, as church members, and as parents, our main focus is to give service. That is what missions are all about. As missionaries we have the opportunity to give service to the members, to the young missionaries and others. We also stay in close communication with our family, and hopefully we give service and a good example for them. One grandson (Taylor) just received his mission call, and another grandson (Jacson) is in the process of submitting his missionary papers. A third grandson (Tyson), is currently serving, so we are amply blessed as a family. 

Cooking is a big part of what we do. We are serving food to others at least three times a week. It has been said that a CES mission means "cooking every second ( CES)". And that is just about right!

Subway riding continues to be a big part of our weekly routine. Sometimes sister Tenney and I get separated on the subway by the mass of people! It is always an adventure to ride subway trains. 

We always invite our district missionaries to our "pad" near the end of the transfer period for a farewell meal, which we did this past Saturday.  We are losing the elders, but the sisters stay in Park slope for this next missionary transfer. Good deal. We will get two new elders later this week. It is sad to let them go, but we look forward to getting to know new missionaries.

We love our families and hope that many of them will be able to share the joy of missionary service.

We are glad to be the Lord servants in this little part of New York City.

Have a spring, everyone!

Visiting the City

One of the joys of serving in New York City is that we have family and friends who want to visit us. There's a lot to see and do in New York. 

We were very happy to welcome her sister Diane visiting us from Phoenix for four days. We took a bus tour of Manhattan and saw some wonderful things.

And, of course, riding the subway trains is always a novelty for someone visiting New York City.

During the week we were able to visit the Manhattan Temple and do temple work for family members. We really enjoy searching for family members needing temple ordinances using the family tree program. It gives special meaning to temple work when you can do proxy work for one of your cousins.

Another highlight of the week was the opportunity to attend the Spring spectacular show of the Rockettes at radio city music Hall. 

Radio City Music Hall is set in a busy part of the theater district in Manhattan.

We all enjoyed the production very much.

Another highlight of this past week was our semiannual stake conference for the Brooklyn stake. We do not have a stake center large enough to hold the congregation. Instead, we meet in the Marriott Hotel in downtown Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Bridge. We have a very diverse steak. There are as many Spanish-speaking members as there are English-speaking members. There is also a large group and Chinese-speaking members. There are also many single adult members and single parents with children.

We enjoyed very much serving with the members in Brooklyn. We enjoy working with Hispanic members too. Hey good number of our students are Hispanic young adults living at home and Brooklyn with their parents. They are very faithful and have good spirits.