July 14, 2013 -- Sunday, We were greeted by several people in the
ward when we came into the chapel. We
sat with Brother and Sister Cox whom we met last night at the B-B-Q and visited
with them for quite a while. Brother Cox
in the Executive Secretary of the ward and they are both really nice people. The Bishop introduced us to the ward and had
us stand up so they could see us, welcoming us to the ward.
The Bishop had told us that he wanted to talk to us
during Sunday school time so we followed him to his office after Sacrament
meeting. We started with prayer, and
then he gave us each a ward list to mark and make notes. He told us of about 10 people he wanted us to
try to visit, then told us about them and their inactivity and why. We did ask for a list of people in the ward
with callings so we could refer members to whoever they had a need to visit or
call. He told us he wants to meet with
us regularly as well so he can keep abreast of what we have found out in the
ward, if he hasn’t found out before.
July 15, 2013 – Monday, In our planning this morning
of what we need to do this week we decided to make up a notebook with
alphabetical tabs and add sheets for the families we are going to concentrate
on and write a little about them and results of our visits. We bought a notebook, dividers, lined
paper. We took our pamphlets over to
Staples to have them spiral bound together so they are easier to handle and use
all together. I had made a form to have
copied while at Staples of who we are contacting with their phone numbers and
addresses, plus another form for the key people in the ward if we needed to
contact them. Took us a little while to
find the things we needed. We worked on this project the rest of the day.
July 16, 2013 – Tuesday, Headed out to attend the
10:40AM session at the Temple in Langley.
It is actually called the Vancouver British Columbia Temple. The traffic was going pretty good when it came to a slow, stop and go
traffic for the next 45 minutes, slowing us down for that session so we decided
on the 11:50 session. We walked around the temple taking pictures before going
inside for the session. It is a smaller
building and only 2 Endowment rooms so the sessions are 90 minutes apart and
only 3 in the morning on Tuesdays. We
were thinking of going to the distribution center as well since we were there
but after looking at the schedule the center in not open until Wednesday. We have been told that the distribution
center is pretty small and they don’t carry much other than garments.
While waiting for the session to start we were asked
to be the witness couple, which we gladly did.
There weren’t very many brothers in the session (5) and about 12
sisters, so not a very big group. We had
a feeling that we would be asked because we were the only couple sitting in the
chapel for quite a while before other brethren started to come in.
After the session was over we came downstairs to get
our temple card and met Brother and Sister Irving from the ward. They work in the temple and worked the
session we missed, but there were lots of missionaries that attended that
session so we would have had to sit in the back or have had to bring in some
chairs. They were missionaries serving in the Surrey area. Visited with them a short time
before they left and we collected our temple card. The drive home was
much better; it took us only about 35 minutes to get back home.
Made some phone calls to make visits in Hope on
Thursday, we wanted to check out the area of Hope anyway. We called 3 families and got a commitment from
them starting at 3:00PM, Sister Desiree Rothwell; 4:00PM Betty & Jim Smith;
5:00PM Norm & Bev Lawlor. Didn’t get
a call back from Lynn Smith.
July 17, 2013 – Wednesday, We set up a meeting with
the Collings for 10:00AM to talk about who they are working with in the ward
and who we have been asked to visit as well.
We had a good visit and finding out that they were working with some of the
people in Chilliwack that the bishop had asked us to visit. We will have coordinate with them a little more so we don't duplicate our efforts.
Went to the Visitors Center here in Chilliwack,
which is just next door to us here in the park, to see what kind of street maps
we could get of the 3 cities we will be working in. We want to try to locate where some of the
people we will be meeting tomorrow, that maybe the GPS won’t pick up. (just
kidding) Got a pretty good map of
Chilliwack, but Agassiz and Hope weren’t as good.
To be continued ....
