Every week is eventful and interestering. Nothing is "same old ".  On Tuesday we picked up a hot pizza at the "only pizza place in town" and took it over to our Italian friends, Martin & Amelia. We enjoyed lunch with them as they told us their not falling in love story.  Martin immigrated from Italy to Canada as a young twenty year old. He lived with his brother & wife and worked at the nearby copper mine. When his brother's wife was expecting twins, Martin felt he needed to move out so as not to be a burden. His brother said : "Martin, get married. You need to get married sometime." Martin said he had no one to marry so his brother said Amelia was a good name for a wife. He found a young Italian women named Amelia in Italy. Martin sent her money to come & marry him. She arrived in Canada , they were married that day. That night after the big Italian celebration Martin went to work a 12 hour shift at the copper mine. They have been married 52 years and have four sons. Remember the song from Fiddler on The Roof..."Do you love me "? I will try to take a picture of them this week and post it.
          This week also was a First. After our District meeting on Wednesday , a set of three missionaries came to Hope with us. We spent the rest of the long day visiting our branch members with them. We brought them home for supper before they left to go back to Abbotsford. The mission president has asked them to come & help in Hope for the next four weeks. Every Wednesday.
           Marlene asked me if we're not friends anymore because she skipped church last Sunday. I explained to her a friend is always a friend no matter what. I did tell her she won't get anymore homemade bread until she comes to church. Ha !
            Lucy and I looked through old family pictures from the late 1800's. Her family is royalty from Ireland and owned castles and one of the first cars with a motor. The pictures were funny too.
           Today was "Trash to Tresure " day in Hope. People put all kinds of things out on their curb. People drive by and take what they want. We went out with Betty & Jim but did not find one thing we could use. It's very interesting to see what is put out like a real toilet.
           Tomorrow is church, I am in charge of Sharing Time. I need a new Reverence idea. The Reverence glasses were a hit until one of the Dads ( who has a PH.D. in physiology) told his seven children not to wear the glasses as they were a distraction. These are the kids who bop their head on the pulpit, lay on the Sacrament table, and walk along the padded chairs jumping one to another in the chapel.  And the reverent glasses are a distraction ? Hmmmm. I think tomorrow I will give a gold star to those who are reverent. We shall see what the comments are about that.
         We spent a day on the farm of Hussean & Fetima. Stan helped build a greenhouse while I washed dozens and dozens of fresh brown eggs. It was amazing to me that some of the eggs' shells were all wrinkled. Who would have guessed ? I also learned about beehives & how to gather the honey. Hussean  made a little can of smoke with billows attached. The can was gold colored and looked like the oil can the tin man had in the Wizard of Oz. He would blow a puff of smoke at the bees as he opened their hive. None of them stung him.  It was amazing and very enlightening. I think Stan and I  can have a beehive & make our own honey in the future. I just need to find the oil can smoke blower.
          Oh, this week was our 44th Anniversary. We decided we will celebrate by going on a cruise to the Bahamas when we get home. Yea !
          The gospel is true. It helps us get ourselves and our families back to Heavenly Father where we all want to be. Our Savior's perfect love can do so many things for us that we can't possibly do ourselves. We are forever indebted to him. Joseph Smith saw what he said he saw and sealed his testimony with his blood. The Book of Mormon is true. We are so blessed to have a living prophet  and apostles to guide us today. How truly truly blessed we are. We are part of the Lord's army of missionaries at this time. It is our dream come true to serve the Lord together. We study, we pray, we laugh and cry together. It 's a experience unlike any other in our fourty-four years together. We miss our children & grandchildren but we will gather them all together when we return home . Keep the faith, keep choosing to do right. We love you all so much !
      Elder and Sister Fisher