It is Sunday night and have just talked to the Marriott's everyone wishing their grandpa a Happy Father's day.It was fun to talk on face time with them all at once. Spencer our grandson was trying to catch on some sleep after having a few seizures this past week, so we did not have a chance to talk to him. Hopefully next week will be better. They are all doing good, the girls are recovering from school, Steve is working hard, and Tricia is taking care of the home front and surgery on her hand. We love them a lot.
The Judd girls are up visiting their dad for a few days and will go camping at Lava Hot Springs next weekend--what a vacation that will be. Baylee and Megan went on a LDS trek to the Grand Canyon and had a great time cold but fun... We love them alot.
This last week was a busy week. We prepared lessons and dinners and on top of that we went to a zone meeting. It was the first one that I had been to. Elder Clark from the Seventies took most of the time teaching the missionaries how important mission work is. It was a great time to be in the middle of all those young spirits. We listened to Sister Cusick's talk about prayer and that was really good, and President Cusick's talk about faith--starting from a particle of faith to exceeding faith it was very good also.
Elder Judd's lesson was wonderful, I know this because I listened out side of the room in the hall. He is trying to build the number of students to come, and of course, in the summer it is hard with all of the students coming and going, but apparently, more students are coming than the usual amount for this time of year.
We had another lightening/thunder storm the other day. The rain comes down in every direction - hard. I hope that I get used to it. It is very intense.
Our little apartment is keeping us dry from the storms and cool from the heat, so we are OK. We do have a challenge getting around in the kitchen. We have to make sure we are syncopated when we move. That is an experience and we laugh about it.
Elder Judd:
Wednesday was a combination of preparing for the Mission Prep class and Proctoring an exam for Cindy Comacho. Cindy came to take her exam for her BYU Independent study course. When she finished her exam I had arranged for the sister missionaries to take her on a tour of the building. The sisters came back to our office when they were finished and they were excited. Cindy was very interested and touched by the Spirit. She said that she and her husband would attend church this next Sunday. We do hope that they will.
Thursday I finished up my prep for Mission Prep class and helped Sister Judd with her final preparations for the evening meal which we have every Thursday after classes. This week she fixed a Hawaiian dinner with rice and cinnamon roles. We were a little concerned how it might be received because we didn’t care for how it turned out, but the YSA finished it off and raved about it. We are learning that they will eat about anything and like it.
On Friday we spent the time together at the Institute preparing for Monday’s Isaiah class and Sister Judd worked on keeping the books for her shopping and cooking as well as the attendance work she does. I also do some more with planning and preparing for putting up banners to better identify our institute program and the missionary effort. Later we went shopping for groceries for the coming week.
Saturday is our P-day. After cleaning up the apartment, we left to head south to see what is billed as the best beach in the world. It is called Siesta Key Beach. It is about 70 miles south of here and just west of Sarasota, Florida. If numbers of people present at the beach is any measure of the best, Siesta Key Beach is certainly the best. It took us about 20 minutes to find a parking place and then we were blessed to just stumble onto one. As we walked to the shore, we could see thousands of people spread over a shore line of perhaps one and a half miles. The sand is pure white and the consistency of powered sugar. The beach is very clean and the water the color of blue-green and 85 degrees in temperature. There are several life guard stations spread along the shore close to the water and hundreds of multi-colored sun canopies protecting the hoardes from the sun. Everywhere we saw volley ball games, sand castle builders, bathers sitting in the water, letting the waves wash over them, keeping them cool. And of course, we had to keep our eyes focused on the water and the sand, the para-sailors, and kids running up and down the beach so that we would not see too much skin. After about an hour taking in all the sights and sounds, we headed for the car. On the way we stopped to take a picture of one of the Life Guards. He was a full timer and was copper tanned with blond-sun bleached hair of about 40 years old. He was very friendly and full of information about this people magnate attraction. He encouraged us to come back with our swim suits the next time. On the way home, we stopped for a nice dinner at an Applebees. It was a nice day that allowed us to have a needed change of pace.
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