Elvis



Sister Weatherford and I putting name labels in their books

And here we meet Elvis

Sister Weatherford is a retired teacher and she loves going back to the school to help with special occasions.  When they had the RIF (Reading is fundamental) program, she asked if I'd like to go with her to help.  It was wa lot of fun.  The theme was Rock and Roll and the librarian found Elvis! She had a video of him playing while the children came in.   After they picked out a book which they got to keep, they came to us so we could put their name in the book, then they had a cupcake walk. This elementary was mostly black. They were so cute and I love their unique names.  I am so impressed at the manners the children here have.  They always answer with "Yes, Ma'am" or "Yes, Sir".  They were also very excited that three  of the children came directly from Africa.



Atlanta Temple open house

The Atlanta Georgia Temple had been renovated and the open house was in April. We thought it would be a great opportunity to take some inactives and investigators to the open house so that they would be able to feel the spirit in a temple and encourage them to set a goal to attend for themselves. In order to go out of our mission boundaries, we have to get permission from our mission president.  He told us he could not give us permission to do so but he would call the authority over him.  A couple of days later he called us and told us that he also could not give us permission so he called one of the apostles.  He was told that it was a great idea and so we went. It was a 6 hour trip one way and we had to do it in one day. That's 12 hours traveling time!  It was a beautiful day and well worth the time.  We had 22 in our group - which included 6 active members working towards going for themselves, 7 less active, and 4 non-members (9 of the 22 were youth).  The experience has had a great impact on everyone and we're so glad we were able to go. Time will tell the end result but it will never  be forgotten.

Elder Lovell leading Bro. Moody who is

 legally  blind. He's really making progress

preparing to go to the temple for himself.

Group picture in front of the temple. (2 missing)