Grandma's Journal 10/26/08

Sunday 10/26/08
We hadn’t been to church in a couple of weeks and were really missing it. Mike was told that the smelter start up would be Sunday, so I figured we wouldn’t be going again. (He had to work last Sunday too.) Then late Saturday night he got a phone call saying that they were going to wait until Monday (Mike’s B-Day) to start. Sooooo yeah! We got to go. They have RS and PH first, then Sun School and then Sacrament meeting, starting the block at 10:00 a.m. The senior missionaries were there and we got to meet them after having only talked on the phone previously. They are from Vernal and very nice people. She is only about 4’10”. They brought their son with them; he is Down’s syndrome, but functions really well and is assigned to this one brother who has trouble walking. He helps him from room to room, etc.
Every sister in RS “greets” you. The say hello and shake your hand before and after the meeting. The minute the RS started singing the opening song I felt the spirit. Their singing (without accompaniment by the way) is so beautiful. The sing harmony on the hymns and everything. They make up their own harmony. It’s just beautiful. RS president gave a good lesson. She is so nice and bubbly and she was telling some of us after church that she used to be so shy she wouldn’t talk to anyone, especially strangers and since she joined the church she now gives talks, lessons, talks to everyone she meets in the street, etc.
We sat next to a young man who lives in Chingola and offered him a ride home. He mentioned that his family didn’t have any food. We stopped at our house and picked up some Millie Meal and water and stuff and took him home. We went in and met his wife and two daughters. One toddler, so cute, and a 2 wk old baby. I held the baby while she slept. Their whole house was only slightly larger than my dinning room, and so clean. Very old paint, furniture, etc., but scrubbed clean every where.
We came home and we were lazy the rest of the day!