It has been an interesting week here in Jonesboro. We started with our Tuesday District Council. We met in Griffins for the first time. It is about 50 minutes away on I-75. The chapel is about the same floor plan as Stockbridge building. We enjoy these opportunities to be trained with the Elders and Sisters.
Tuesday afternoon the Elders and Sister served and visited with the residents of the Golden Crest at their "Tea Party". The manager loves the way the residents are treated by these missionaries each week and how much the seniors love to hear them sing the gospel songs. She gave a special invitation to the missionaries to help. Sister Hammond
played background music as the party went along, but toward the end they asked the Elders and Sisters to sing. Which they did, and it was very much enjoyed.
Wednesday we continued to make contacts with people on the Ward list. We had a less active member show up to our Bible study class. He seemed to enjoy being there and is suppose to be there next week. The exciting news was that we received a call from Sister Arave. She and her husband are the couple that will be replacing us in Jonesboro. It is a small world. They are the parents of the young man who married Darvel and Marilyn Andersen's oldest daughter. They know Darvel and Marilyn well. They are from St. George, Utah and this is their first mission. She had some good questions about the area and the apartment. I gave her a link to this blog and she seemed to appreciate the information there. The Ward is so excited to know that they will continue to have a senior couple, and so are the Elders and Sisters. Thursday, we checked some more addresses and in the evening I picked up Brother Taylor from the ward and we went to give Gerald Hunter a Priesthood blessing. He was having surgery on Friday. Friday we all met at the Golden Crest to sing and the manager met us in the parking lot to let us know that they were having a memorial service for one of the residents in the room we usually sing in. We assured her it was no problem. After all we did get to sing on Tuesday. Later that afternoon after spending some time at the church organizing some new people to visit, we decided to eat at the Truett's (Chick-fil-a) restaurant near us in Stockbridge. There are a number of Truett's in the area. You can go into the fast food side or the restaurant side. We sent to the restaurant side. They had a train circling around us as we ate. (Grandpa Hammond always has me edit the blog and one comment on picture below. The sun was so bright I couldn't even open my eyes and I instructed him to delete the picture. See how well he listens!)
Saturday we visited Gerald Hunter and another Sister from the Ward at the hospital. Gerald's surgery was very complicated and during the night they had moved him to ICU, and during the move he fell. When we got there Uta and his son were there and very concerned. After our visit they took him back to surgery and removed his spleen. We returned Sunday night along with Sister Carrin the Relief Society President and he was still struggling. Uta was heading home and was going to get up at 5 a.m. to come back Monday morning, because she had to ride with Gerald's son on his way to work. We told her to sleep in and we would pick her up at 10 o'clock Monday morning. We picked her up this morning it was a "beautiful morning". We took a picture of their home in Lovejoy.
Gerald was still disoriented but was improving and things were looking up. Sunday was again a big day, our usual 8:00 to 1:30 with Gramma's extra assignments. The big surprise on Sunday was they called a new Bishop. We knew they were going to release Bishop Bourdeau, but we thought it would be closer to March. We will miss Bishop Bourdeau, but he will continue to serve on the Stake High Council. The new Bishop is Bishop Kirkland. He has been in 3 Bishoprics in the past and has recently been the Stake clerk. We fed dinner to the sister missionaries and then made the second visit to Gerald. Tonight we teach a eight year old at Bishop Kirkland's home, a joint family home evening. Not much of a P-Day today, but it is okay. Each day we get to do good things.
We love you all, pray for all of you each day and are thankful to have y'all as part of our family.
Be good and do what is right. Love, Grandpa and Gramma Hammond.
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