Saturday, March 30thWe got up early because we needed a few things in town. The stores weren’t open yesterday and they won’t be open on Monday either. Monday is “Easter Monday” and that is still part of this religious holiday but a few stores are open on Saturday. We had to go or we would have stayed home. It rained hard the whole time we were gone. We needed to buy some basic food to put in the house that the Colson’s will stay in. We will have them to dinner most of the time they are here but they needed to have food for breakfast and lunch.
When I went to put the food in the house I found that the FM group had not made the bed. The sheets were there but I had to make the bed and clean out the sinks in the bathroom and kitchen. Alan swept all the floors and we turned the air on so it wouldn’t be so hot and stuffy when we bring them home from the airport.
I made some chicken crepes for our Easter dinner. We invited Sister Mitchell to come too. We didn’t want her to be all alone on Easter. I also made some chocolate chip cookies and we bought some ice cream so I think we are all set.
We went to the airport with the Szoka’s. They have use of a van and they don’t have to pay for the gas so they offered to take us with them when they went to put Elder Miller on the same flight that the Colson’s are coming in on. He was flying out to New Zealand. He works with the I-Tep teachers here and he has been here for 3 days. It was the first time we had met him and we had a nice visit while he waited for the plane to land. The Colson’s got off and then he got on. It worked out perfect.
The Colson’s are wonderful people, so easy to be around. Alan was a little intimidated at first. Elder Colson is a PHD in chemistry and he taught at Yale. He was on the High Council and in a Stake Presidency with Elder Holland while he was working at Yale. But he is just so down to earth and he kept saying, “You are our bosses, we are here to help you in anyway we can”. I really like them both!
They were exhausted so we just brought them home, showed them their new little house and let them go to bed. They will go to church on Liahona in the morning and we will go to our new ward.
