Bleeding hearts

My "Bleeding Hearts" are blooming! My mom had some of the plants and when they bloom it makes me think of her.

Farewell talks in church

What a great week I’ve had.  Busy, busy, busy.   T-shirts are finally done so I broke out the soap supplies and started on soap.  The Lavender rain gave me fits and I had to make it over again.  I have lots and lots of lavender rain to give away to family, and lots of nice to sell.  The batch became “soap” before I could get it in the molds and became hard as a rock and crumbly  -  grrrrr.   I shredded a lot of it and will take it with us on our mission (the camper will smell really good!  I hope Tim doesn’t mind smelling like lavender!)  and put the shreds in some soap sacks for us to use.

Tim and I spoke in church today; it was our mission farewell talks.  We talked about missions and service.  Because I am in charge of the ward bulletin, I also arranged what songs I wanted (Way on a Mountain Top (because we are going to the mountains), Come, Come Ye Saints, (because my talk talked about it and it is my favorite song) and We are Sowing (because it is about missionary work) and I also had a cute cover that was of senior missionaries!  LOL!   I got quite a kick out of my church program and Sunday morning!  AND Kirk and Jana surprised us and drove down from Augusta to come listen to us!  They had to turn around and go right back after sacrament meeting as Samantha was speaking in their ward.  How sweet of them!

A busy day!

We went to Augusta today to celebrate Eliza’s 4^th birthday.  I got her a pink sparkly cowboy hat and a pink sparkly purse.  She really liked them.  Grandpa put a dollar in the purse, she liked that too!

THEN April took about 100 pictures of Tim and I.  We had taken extra clothes with us so we could have some pre-mission pictures.  She takes such good pictures and I can’t wait to see ours!  We had pictures in church clothes and holding a rake and hoe (service missionaries) and pictures of us in casual clothes sitting on a hay bale and various other places.  It was lots of fun. This is the first time I have ever had pictures like this taken and it was fun. 

We left (after a scrumptious lunch) and headed to Samantha’s soccer game at her middle school.  Their team won and I think Samantha played most of the game.  We then went to their home and they fed us dinner!   What a great day!

I got home to more little league shirts to do and because I have plans for tomorrow, I did them as soon as I got home and they are done and awaiting pickup!

Rain, Rain, Rain

A letter to and from our missions current residents....

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Mitchell Creations! wrote:

Happy Sunday to you!

First thing in the mornings I check Conyers weather, then I check Granite Falls weather.  Today I see you have a flood warning.  How high has the river gotten when you’ve been there.

And… I forget, how long HAVE you been there?

We are finally getting spring.  Daffodils everywhere!  Tulips don’t do well here (our winters are “normally” not cold enough) but we do get crocus and lots of flowering trees.  

6 weeks and 1 day until we leave! 

-          Linda

Cascade Park Camp	Mar 10 (8 days ago)
to Mitchells

We have been here in Cascade park,oh, it was a year in Feb so....

We were down in Camp Nisqually for 3 months, then got transfered  to Cascade Park.  

We have seen the river almost to the grass on the bottom level and it is there again.

Well it is up to the grass, which when you get here you will see that that is a lot of water, but it doesn't really bother us yet. Although the grass everywhere is quite saturated and so we discourage driving on the grass. There is a bit of flooding on roads that are close to a river. 

Our tulips are trying to come up and you will love the Tulip Festival in Mt. Vernon just north of us.  It is so awesome, but so are the daffodils that come up just before the Tulips.  Anyway we enjoyed them. The Tulip Festival starts about April 26 for about a week. 

See ya soon

CP Missionary

   

Sunday

March 9, 2014 – Sunday               

We had a really good stake conference today… our 2^nd already this year!   Elder Quinton L Cook presented one for the missionaries yesterday and I got to go to that one too as I had taken the sisters to it at the Brockett building.  That one was for two whole missions.  I got to see a lot of our former missionaries and it was tons of fun.  Then, our area Seventy, Elder Fred A Parker, was the keynote speaker at our stake conference today. Both of the conferences were well worth the time. 

Ok, ready for the countdown?  We leave six weeks and 1 day from today!    Whooooo Hoooooo.  

It is Little League time again which means I am madly doing little league t-shirts.  I try to turn them around in one day and mostly I can do that.  Eddie Bagwell gets the business, I do the work and turn them back to him and he collects the money then pays me for my work.  We both work hard for the work/money!    PLUS I have one of my big accounts to do (not t-shirts).   Sigh.   When it rains it pours!

Making Belly Balms

Still getting things ready to go.   

Today I made belly balms because I was almost out.    Happily I had enough belly balm tubes to finish up the job, but I am totally out of lip balm tubes so I ordered some and will finish up with the balms when they come in.   I am hoping to take lip balms with me on my mission to pass out at will as kind of an advertisement.    

I ordered some more lye so I can get some soaps made for Tyler to sell for me.   I don’t want my customers to be unhappy with me being gone, so he will have lots of soap for sale!

         Tim is still getting his side of our adventure ready to go by letting renters know we will be gone and where to take their rent (Ryan’s karate studio).