Alease

Alease with Bro. Brayboy

Our day at the Temple

At the beach - Yes it was windy!
And she was the only one who got to get
in the water.

Enjoying her seafood casserole. I shared my shrimp & grits
with her. It was delicious!

Our guide in Charleston. This is how he guided
the mules most of the time.

On Sept. 1 my sister-in-law, Alease Guymon, came to visit us for a week. (For those who don't know her, she is the wife of my brother, DelRoy who passed away shortly after we left).  It was wonderful having her here.  It gave us our time to grieve together along with her being able to experience mission life, including the middle of night phone calls. She witnessed the poverty, the struggles, and the small miracles we are so involved in.  She was able to meet the "famous" Bro. Brayboy, the one we met at the time we would've been on the plane to attend DelRoy's funeral.  He was excited to meet her and continues to ask about her. Our monthly Temple Trip was while she was here. Along with meeting as many as we could during the time she was here, we took time to go to the beach. The first part of our p-day included a music lesson and being fed a wonderful meal. Since it was our p-day and the young Elders were with us, they got permission to go with us. We had a great time and got them home in time for them to go work for the rest of the evening. We she got to experience the wonderful fire ants, but later discovered she also "enjoyed" poison oak she must've run into at the Weatherford's while we were in the grapes taking pictures. She loved the southern cooking taking pictures of just about everything she ate (and the pork she didn't want to eat such as pig stomach, tails, feet, etc.) The day before we took her to the plane we spent in Charleston. There is a lot of history there as that was where the Civil War started.  A few places were free or little cost but most were very quite expensive.  One plantation charged $25 to get in, then another $14-$18 to take a buggy tour to two different areas.  If you wanted to take the walking self-tour it was still another $7.  We finally decided to have one splurge and take a wagon tour around the city.  It was still $20 each (no extra fees) but we quite enjoyed it. The driver was very talented as he guided the mules down narrow city streets along with the traffic and did most of it talking to us, only glancing at the mules now and then.  He supplied us with historical facts and trivia of the homes and buildings. We also visited the Slave Museum Mart.  This is where the slave auctions took place.  They had stories, pictures, etc. there.  There was a chart showing the average purchase price of a slave according to age at that time along with current value.  All I can say is that we wouldn't be worth much, in fact, they probably couldn't give us away at our current age. It was a great week! (We took so many pictures it was hard to pick which ones to blog.)

Her visit with Sister Stanford and Sister Scott who
regularly feed us great southern cooking as well as
Sister Weatherford.