My life is pretty boring, same job and the same calling which is how I like it, however the rest of the gang are busy
Vern is still teaching music at a couple of different schools. She also helps
teach a singing group on Thursday evenings that has made it onto the television program Australia’s Got Talent. This month they were on TV and got into the semi-finals. She also still runs the basketball club and teaches seminary.For Mother’s day Ellen Skyped us and told us that she has just moved into Carlsbad which is north of San Diego an area that her mission has just taken over and for the moment is in an English speaking ward. She told us she is living in a member’s home which she describes as a mansion.
Dylan also called on Mothers Day and is currently serving as a District leader in Manurewa South Auckland. Not that he told us he was a District Leader we had to find out from a letter we got from the mission President. He is having a great time and is complaining that his mission is going too fast.
Marion is still enjoying her course Exercise and Health Science at the Australian Catholic University. She is always off doing some sort of activity or other. She was off riding a tandem bike the other day around the place and came home pretty sore. Then she was off camping for a couple of days, well not really camping since they were in cabins. She just got her first calling as the YSA Rep in the Ward.
Calvin is in his last year of school. He got his year twelve hoodie that has all the names of the year twelve students and his nic name along the bottom. The nic name he chose was “More-Man”. He is still doing Neighbours now and then and has also been asked to audition for a film student’s short film.
Carmen is playing representative basketball on Friday nights. I picked her up the other night and she told me that she had played the whole game with her shorts back to front. She told me that she thought they felt a bit funny. She has also been chosen for one of the lead rolls for this year’s school production of Bugsy Malone.
Austin is learning the Saxophone this year and we went to see the first school concert the other night at the Ivanhoe City Hall. It is a very big hall and we couldn’t really see him. He is also making a stop motion video that looks pretty good, but takes so much time.
Ellen and Dylan would be proud of me, I told the missionaries that I was avail
able on Tuesday nights to go out with them while the children were at mutual. So they gave me a call and we saw lady they are teaching and a less active family. It bought back memories from my mission and of course I was thinking about Ellen and Dylan.On the thirteenth I took Carmen down to Werribee to a dance. Calvin isn’t into dances so he stayed home. It was a really cold night which was good since it kept all the youth indoors. I am required to stay there for the duration in case there are any issues with our youth but they are a good bunch at the moment so I just chat with the other leaders on the foyer all evening.
We had a special sacrament meeting on the twenty-second at the Stake Centre with the Meadow Heights, Epping, Fairfield and Eltham Wards. The sacrament was quite a production with eleven deacons and eight priests. We thought there would be about five hundred there but the place was full with almost seven hundred. They ran out of water and had to say the blessing again. Austin helped pass and Calvin blessed the bread. Calvin’s friend Alex came to the meeting, he had asked Calvin if he could come. The reason for the meeting was a change in boundaries between the four wards. Some members from Meadow Heights move to Epping and from Epping Ward into Fairfield and Eltham. It all went well and for the most part people seemed to be happy.
The Canberra Howes organised a mini reunion at the end of the month. Marion flew up on Thursday the twenty-sixth. Since Vern had to work that night we dro
ve up early the next day. It was a beautiful sunny day with patches of fog that the children found quite novel. We got into Canberra mid afternoon and went straight to the Woden chapel to have some pictures taken. That evening we went back to the chapel for dinner and a talent show. Austin played his Saxophone, Carmen sung a song and Marion danced. Natalie showed a video that Tana took when Natalie dropped Dylan’s scriptures. It was really nice to see him, Vern didn’t know it was coming and of course there were tears. As always the Howes are very entertaining and we had a good time.Saturday morning we had games then the day was ours. It was another lovely day, Carmen stayed at Les and Moana’s and did some homework. Vern went and watched the Abel boys play rugby and I took Calvin and Austin to the War Museum to look at guns and bullets. When we finished there we went and watched AJ play rugby.
That evening well all meet in the City and went to see the comedy show ‘Laughing with Samoans’. There was about thirty of us and we took up the two front rows. They are very funny and we were all sore from laughing at the end of the night and we weren’t even Samoans. They hung around afterwards and got their photo’s taken with both of them.
Sunday was church at Woden. It was Charlie’s last Sunday before heading off on his mission to Brisbane. He spoke and did a good job in his own way, I think he will be a great missionary. AJ will get his call soon so they will have three out at once. After lunch at Les and Moana’s place we headed back down to Melbourne. Marion came with us and Vern stayed back and flew home on Tuesday.
Photos; 1. Ellen's place. 2.Yass NSW on the way to Canberra 27-5-11. 3. Marion and Carmen, Woden Canberra 27-5-11. 4. At the back of Les & Moana's place Canberra 28-5-11.
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