Hello
Everyone!
We have had a great week and have learned
much! We are enjoying our work in
Watford and loving our missionaries and members!
Wednesday, February 1st was a
cleaning day and a Costco shopping day. We had a very good lesson at
Institute. Bishop Manning does such a
great job! It is a pleasure to attend
and listen to the discussions. After the
lesson, we gathered in the cultural hall for treats and Sister Baron taught an
art lesson to Anthony, Harriet, and Peter who are three awesome young
members! Harriet has her mission papers
ready. Anthony just returned from his
mission in Portugal and Peter returned some years ago. Peter is so talented and just a wonderful
young man! The art lesson went well and
they all produced some interesting good work.
Thursday morning we went into London to see
if we could get tickets for the Harry Potter play. The play is sold out until March 2018! We waited in line and found that there were
no extra tickets available for the day.
They did have two tickets just returned for the next Wednesday’s matinee
and evening performances. They were
seats in a box on the lower level. We
purchased them and were excited that we will be able to go see the play!
After exploring the area, we walked up to
Chinatown and met Stephanie, one of our YSA returned missionaries, for lunch. She
speaks Cantonese and works for the Bank of China. She found a nice Chinese restaurant for
us! She is an amazing young woman! After
lunch, we went to the National Portrait Gallery so Mom could take a last look
at the Picasso exhibit. Dad read a book
and relaxed.
Since the Chinese food did not fill us up,
we stopped at St. Martin’s Crypt (one of Dad’s favorite places) to get a hot
apple crisp with hot custard! Yummy!
Friday, we traveled to Wembley to our
missionary Watford Zone training. We met
with about 20 wonderful young missionaries.
They asked us to speak about Patience.
We did our best and enjoyed spending time with these choice young men
and women!
After the meeting, we walked to the Wembley missionaries’ apartment to
do a “flat inspection”. The church rented a new apartment on the top floor of a
high rise next to the Wembley town center for the missionaries. It was a very nice apartment which they are
keeping neat and clean. One bed frame was
broken but it was a cheap bedframe. Dad
put two screws into it to help it stay together until they can get a new one.
We then drove out to Harrow to visit a
second flat. The Elders who live here
are very humble and excellent workers. A
small black Elder from Africa who is the district leader has great faith and
good street smarts. This Elder was
offered a professional contract playing football for Germany but he decided to
serve a mission instead. What a quiet
powerhouse! His companion is about as
big as our grandson, Parker Cheshire (six foot four, 275 pounds). He is a wonderful cheerful Elder! They live in a small upstairs apartment that
is older than dirt. They are keeping it
clean and neat and working hard in a very rough area. There were even plants growing through the
outside walls onto the stairway in their flat. Wow.
Lastly we drove to the last Wembley Elder’s
apartment across town. Their apartment
is next to a University campus in a nice housing complex. They have a newly remodeled apartment which
was very nice. They had some mold around
a window sill but they knew how to take care of that. We thanked all the missionaries for keeping
their living quarters clean and neat. We
work with some excellent missionaries!
We returned to our nice little home and counted our blessings!! It is so nice to have a standalone home with
a garden and nice neighbors!
Saturday is our Stake YSA Temple day! We drove to the Temple in good time with
minimal traffic in light rain. The
Temple Hospitality people let us use their guest kitchen to set up food for our
YSA. We prepared bagels, croissants, roast
beef, chips, humus, drinks, and lemon cake!
We attended the 11:15 endowment session with six of our friends. After the session, we met many of our YSA in
the kitchen for lunch. We had a good
group from Aylesbury! Later, we met
Bishop Redmond and his family and hurried over to the baptistry. We helped our YSA friends do the baptisms and
confirmations for the names that they brought as well as some of our family
names. It was great to have someone baptized
for William Baron, born 7 May 1769 in Lancashire England! After the temple, we met some of our young
adults to finish off the lunch fixings before taking a walk around the
beautiful temple and heading for home.
It was a great day spent doing good things with wonderful young adults
and their families.
Sunday is always a good day! We taught the YSA Sunday School class and had
a great time! They are such good people
but I wish more would attend church!! We
teach the lessons on the 1st and 3rd Sundays each month
and visit the other wards on the other Sundays.
Monday FHE was a success with a good
group of YSA and Missionaries and one non-member friend. We watched a great movie about Wilford
Woodruff’s conversion! The YSA love to
play the SpyFall game that Camie gave to us!
Tuesday, we visited two more missionary
apartments. We walked to the Sister’s
flat in downtown Watford. It is on the
top floor of a high-rise right in the center of town. The flat was so clean and nice! We helped
them fix a couple of lights and checked on the wardrobe that we fixed a few
months ago. We drove out to the Elder’s
apartment and had trouble finding a parking spot. We finally parked on the sidewalk and went in
and checked it out! They have a nice
apartment with a few problems. We tried
to tighten some bolts on their weight-bench but we did not have the right
tools. They also need to fix one blind
that keeps falling down.
Well, that is about all for now. We will send a second email later to catch up
to today!
We love you all! We are doing well and enjoying our mission
and England.
Read
your scriptures, say your prayers, be nice, and remember who you are!!
Dad and Mum.
Elder and Sister Baron
Grandma Joyce and Grandpa Baron
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