Snow,snow,snow

Today the snow came, fortunately it didn't stay for long. Sister Burt was out there with her iPad busy recording the snow to send pictures back to her family in sunny California.

Sister Burt

It was soon gone.....

An Evening Out

We had hardly got our feet under the desk at the Mission Office before we were invited to share an evening out with some of the other senior missionaries to celebrate Sister Jolley's birthday. The Jolleys are the couple working in the Resource Centre and  the other who came,were Elder & Sister Jones from PR at Solihull, Elder & Sister Burt who work with us in the Mission Office, Elder & Sister Buck YSA and Elder & Sister Rooney. Elder Rooney was formerly a Labour MP . We all went to the Thai restaurant in Wylde Green, very enjoyable.
I made small gifts of zipper pouches with hand cream in for Sister Jolley and also for Sister Burt as her birthday is tomorrow.
What a lovely evening.

This is the Jones, Jolleys, us and The Burts



This is the Burt's and us with Sister Rasmussen the next morning celebrating Sister Burt's birthday

Got there

The end of the first week and we have survived ....still lots to do but we are getting there, Michael went back to the flat to wait for the Sky man and the plumber....jobs all done!

We went to the Tigers tonight but had an horrendous time getting to the M6 from the flat, found a car broken down causing all sorts of trouble. We need to find a better way to Leicester. When we go to the skittles next week Michaels friend Heidi will show us a better way.

The Tigers were brilliant and beat the Scarlets 40-23. However I have never been soon cold! Was glad to get back to the flat have a drink and warm up. The bed was really inviting tonight.

Meeting our Landlord

We met our landlord tonight, he seems very friendly and well disposed to the church. Mark fitted towel rail, toilet roll holder and the biggest mirror into the ensuite, he also fixed the light pull. Mark was really sorry about Michael being attacked by the light shade.

Mark has arranged for a plumber to come on Friday, which is useful as Michael will be in as the Sky man is coming to sort out the internet.

Our First Week

We headed to the England Birmingham Mission Office for our first day and found we were the early birds, thank goodness we had a key.

We went early just in case the traffic was really bad but it was ok.

We have spent the week clearing out cupboards ensuring things are all filed and finding letters we needed to  make payments.

We have ordered stationery and had our first meeting with President Rasmussen and all the other office staff ( that would be the AP's and the Burts)

Michael has a new best friend...Robert Brooke to help with info on vehicles....

With a Vengeance

So Sunday morning up and got the chicken and everything prepared for lunch. I invited the Burt's to come when they get back from Tamworth.

So when things go wrong with a vengeance .....Michael was using the bathroom when the glass lampshade  fell, hit him on the head and then shattered against the bath! it took about 15 minutes to clear up and take splinters out of his leg and find a plaster.....
Michael was really distressed especially on top of not feeling well and we are both a bit anxious about Monday...

Took the missionary Sisters Mackay & Leiss  to church this morning and enjoyed the day at church. It felt quite strange having no responsibility other than to be there. We were made very welcome.
After church I got the lunch prepared and we waited for the Burts.
We had a lovely lunch together they are a really nice couple, they come from California

Still no TV....lots of DVD watching or radio.

IT DID

Following on from Friday we got up Saturday and walked to the small parade of shops near us and I found a really good hairdresser called James and he fitted me into his schedule. I was really pleased with my haircut.
When we got back we decided to go to Dunelm to get some rugs as the bedroom felt a bit sparse with the laminate flooring.
We got some lovely cream rugs very nice and cosy.
We managed to sus the central heating but still that TV will not work so a lovely afternoon spent listening to the radio very pleasant.

We went to the baptism at Wylde Green Chapel tonight. It was lovely to be a part of the meeting.  There was a musical item played by Elder Lu which was just wonderful and I could have spent the whole night listening to him. Elder Lu is one of the Assistants to the President.

If It Can Go Wrong.........

We managed to get everything into Bishop and our car. I would like to say that I was upset about leaving home but that wasn't the case, it felt like we could let Rachel settle in without us.
I set off first and Michael travelled with Bishop Bromley. We arrived safely and it took about half an hour to unload  and then.....unpacking began. We are glad that we had made two earlier trips and so it didn't take too long. We cleared the bedroom first and made the bed
Here are some pictures of the afters....

 The kitchen is good but not too much storage but has the essentials including my food processor!

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The entrance to the lounge and the dining area. Family photos look better here than where we had them at home.

Well it was all looking good until we couldn't get the TV to work. We tried all the leads in all the aerial sockets we could but the TV wasn't having it!!!!
At least we could watch DVD's.

Managed to pull in the shopping and called in at Dunelm to get some anti slip fabric to stop the bed skittering over the laminate flooring .By the time we got back realised we hadn't eaten.
We headed off to the Flaming Grill  next to the Premier Inn for much needed sustenance!!

Early night SHATTERED!!!

It begins

On Thursday 8th January 2015 we went to Matthew and Zoe's with Rachel, Rc and Lily-Rose and Bishop Peter Bromley set Michael and me apart as Church Service Missionaries. We both had lovely blessings and were told not to worry about our family as they would be cared for by the Lord. It was quite poignant to see Matthew pin on his dad's missionary badge.
Bishop offered ti help us move on the Friday, which was a real blessing. Zoe took this picture of us just before we went off home