Saturday and Sunday were pretty normal. We tried to visit some people on Saturday who we had not been able to find home during the week. But no one was home again Sat. Sunday was a good meeting. Sister Henry talked about what we were doing and what the Ward needs to do to help. She did reall well. She was followed by a really neat 80 year old Sister. Sister Mary Hurd has been a member for a long time. Maybe 30 or more years. She has a great testimony and a good knowledge of the gospel. She is very hard or hearing and doesn't see real well. In Sunday School class she only hears half of what is said. So she is always asking what was said or answering something unrelated to what was being discussed. It is really funny sometimes. Anyway she talked about Testimonies on Sunday. She made some real good points including understanding having a burning in your bosom. She pointed out that very few people have a real burning. That is saved for something special. It is only mentioned twice in the Scriptures. Once when Oliver Cowdry was taught how to translate and the other time was when some deciples saw the resurrected Christ. Both rather special and unusual. When her time was up she kind of turned from the pulpit and said well I am going to pack it in now in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. This was almost mid sentence. The finale speaker was the 2nd Councilor in the Bishopric. on Hello, how are you doing. Except his point was that we should be asking ourselves that question. He did real well also. He finnished by saying the Bishop asked him to talk about giving a testimony. He read from a talk by Pres. Hinkley and another by a Seventy. The point was how should we bear our testimony. Again Well done.

Today we traveled to Swindon. I received a call from Sister Long in the Mission Home. She is in charge of the missionary flats. One of the sets of elders in Swindon had their bikes stolen and they needed a bike rack installed so they could lock up there bikes. So we combined that repair with flat inspections. We did the four Elders in Swindon and the two Sisters in Stroud. We left at 7 AM and got home about 6:30 PM. So my skills (?) developed messing around in the garage paid off. I just wish I had my tools available. I had bought an inexpensive electric Drill and a set of screw drivers. There were some misc. wrenches and a small hammer that we inherited with a desk the Mission Office gave to us. So with these and a little Yankee ingenuity I was able to do the job. Each of the other missionaries had small repairs they needed which I was able to fix.
Sister Henry made some chocolate chip cookies to take to them. All of the flats were really clean. They must have spent a couple of hours cleaning up before we got there. Any way it was fun. On our way over we went through Cirencester which was my first area on my first mission. We did not have time to stop and look at all. We will do it on a later trip. On the way home we took an indirect route to see a different area. We went through a neat little town called Ross on Wye. It had a great downtown area which we drove through. We took some pictures today. If any turn out we will post some. Well I am going to pack it in. See ya latter.