Saturday, October 8, 2016

  We were at a temple recommend interview with the mission president when it turned into a nice visit, so we offered ourselves to help lighten his load. With a smile and a twinckle in his eye he suggested he may have an idea for it. "Oh good ," we thought, "a new adventure."
   A week later Sister Wilson called and assigned us to transport the going home missionaries to the airport. So on Tuesday we made our journey in our little blue car named Blue Tango to Richmond B.C. Two hours from Hope to the mission home. The mission home and office is attached to the stake center.
   We arrived at 11:00 am and quickly made friends with the office staff because the big van and the mission president were at the temple with the 11 missionaries who would be on their way home tomorrow.
   They put us up in a big hotel that was nearby. In the afternoon l returned to the office to see the big ford van waiting for me, so l connected the trailer to it and backed up to the front door to make it easy
to load all the luggage and we then drove them to the mission president's home for dinner, a cebelatron, and testimony meeting. At 8:00 pm we got the call to transport them to the hotel. I passed out their room keys and instructed them to rondiview at 4:45 am.
    All 11 arrived on time to reload the luggage in the dark and off we went to the airport 15 minutes away. Some went to the international gate and others needed to be at the Canada departure area. Parking was complicated.
   Elder and Sister Wilson were with us to show the way and give instructions. How will we remember everything in 6 weeks when we do it again?
   We returned to the hotel to sleep 2 hours before the drive home. By mid morning we returned the van and trailer.
   Back in Blue Tango for the return trip we spotted a huge Buddah Temple. The sight of was so interesting we went in to see.  A lovely orential lady named Judy warmly greeted us a gave us a nice tour but wouldn't let us photo the monks singing and chanting at the golden Buddah. She invited us
for lunch we hadn't scheduled that much time for it. Next time though we will.
   It turned out to be a fine adventure for us to be with 11 strong and faithful Elders. I was able to sit
with one of them and talk about some of our favorite Book of Mormon stories.
   Today Sister Fisher made 4 loaves of bread that was still warm when we took them to some of our investigators.

                                          Elder and Sister Fisher



1 comment:

  1. It sounds like a good experience! Good job helping transport the missionaries and I'm glad you took the time to see the Buddhist temple.

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