"I Never Met a Meeting I Didn't Like" - SK

We have had a full day of meetings and every one was great.

We started out with our regular sacrament meeting and then relief society.  Our branch president announced at the beginning of the meetings that starting next week, we will have a 2 1/2 hour block and will have relief society/priesthood and Sunday school weekly from now on.  That is great news.  It will be an excellent schedule.

You might be wondering now why we have had only 2 hours up to now.  The answer is that the branch is so small that it is too much of a tax on everyone.  With only about 20 or so active adult members, everyone speaks in sacrament meeting every few months, everyone teaches often and everyone gets all kinds of opportunities to participate, which can be good.  On the other hand, it can be a little too much.  I am looking forward to seeing how it all goes.

After our block, we came home for five minutes to deliver the Thornes and Sister Hamblin to their respective apartments.  We went back onto Amager (the island our church is on) to the home of our fairy tale prince and princess, where SK met with him and the others in the Elder's Quorum Presidency (SK is a counselor to the President).  While they were doing that, I helped peel potatoes and visited with Christine and her mother and father (her father is the branch president).

They are a wonderful wonderful family (coincidentally, Morten - our YSA President - is Christine's brother and President Olsen's son.)  You probably won't follow this, but our relief society president was just released....she is President Olsen's wife....so that he could be put in as the branch president.  Visiting with them was very enjoyable.

After the Elder's meeting, the young full-time missionaries came and the 10 of us sat down to a feast....salmon, potatoes and gravy and broccoli (doesn't that qualify for one of the healthiest meals?) and homemade bread.  Sebastian, Christine's husband is on a bread-making kick, and like everything else he does....is going at it with flair.  The bread was GREAT.

We attended the student council meeting with the committee chairmen at the center, followed by sacrament meeting.  Two young people who have received their mission calls spoke, as well as a counselor in the stake presidency.

The really great thing about today was talking to Lauren, our granddaughter.  This is her 14th birthday and she is a lovely young woman.  She came with a very compassionate heart and the desire to do what is right.

It was all good.....a lovely day.  The "day" however seemed even shorter than usual....very little sunlight, and now that we have gone off Daylight Savings Time, the day seemed to end halfway through!

A side note:  Sister Swena, our friend, neighbor and fellow missionary has been sick for a week and will be getting testing tomorrow.  We only hope the doctors will be able to help her get back to feeling well and back to her work at the mission office....I don't know what they have done this last week without her!