On Our Own!

Well, it was our first week on our own. It was really pretty good. We made some mistakes each day but we are learning from them. Actually I was the one who made most of the mistakes. Rod tried to teach me the cash register & he couldn't figure out why it took me so long. I would think I had it & then there would be people waiting & I would get flustered & push the wrong button. Oh well, at least they were patient with me. Then there were the few times I hung up on people, or transferred them to the wrong extension. I wonder how long I can blame it on being new? We are enjoying it so much & are working hard each day. Saturday was the busiest day we've had so far.

Along with all the work, we are having some special experiences. Saturday, I was told of 3 children that had passed away that week. I felt like I was in the right place at the right time & was able to explain that we had lost Nathan & how the book, "The Gateway We Call Death", by Elder Russell M. Nelson, & the book, "Life Everlasting", had helped me. Each of them asked me to write down the names on a paper so they could give them to their brother & friends. It broke my heart knowing what they are going through & how hard it is at times. I cried on the way home, thinking of them on Mother's Day & missing my kids.

We still haven't been assigned a ward yet so we've decided to travel around & visit different wards. Yesterday morning we checked the gps & found a ward not too far from here. When we got there, there was a big cross on the building. We could tell it was an old LDS building that had been sold to another church. So we got on the freeway & headed toward Boston & then went south. I kept checking the gps & no LDS churches were coming up so we just kept driving. Pretty soon we saw a sign that said, "Rhode Island - 33 miles". We decided that we might as well go to Rhode Island to go to church & as soon as we crossed the border there was a church 3 miles away. When we got there we thought it might be a false alarm again. There were about 25 parking spaces & it didn't look anything like an LDS church. Then we saw the sign so we went in. It turned out to be a Portuguese & English ward. There were headsets, hymnbooks in both languages & a missionary translating into the headsets. We gave the prayers & had a very good Sacrament Mtg. We met a man who is the grandson of Bishop Wilde in the Willow Ward. What a small world.

Last weekend it was so hot & when we watched the news we found out that Lexington had set a record at 91 degrees. Along with the humidity it was miserable. We were beginning to think that if it was this hot this early we were in for a miserable summer. These past few days have been a lot nicer for us but everyone else thinks it's cold & wear their coats.

Saturday night we went to Gloucester (pronounced - Glawster), with our landlords. It is the home of Gorton's fish company, & was where the movie "Perfect Storm" happened in real life. We had a lobster - clam bake. I want to learn to like lobster while I'm here & I actually liked it. It tasted a lot like Alaskan king crab. It tasted different than I have ever had.

A few people have been asking so we want to give you our address. It is:
17 Holland St. Apt. 3, Lexington, Mass. 02421

We hope all the mother's in our lives had a wonderful Mother's Day!

We send our love to everyone.