Changes at the Office

This week we had a change at the office -
Elder Bardsley, one of our Service Missionaries, went home and we now have a full-time missionary serving with us in the office, Elder Willis.  He will be a joy to work with.  He will be a new companion for Elder Ashwell, our other Service Missionary.

Elder Bardsley

Elders Ashwell and Bardsley

Elder Willis 

Saturday - July 8th was our Senior Couples Activity at Gadfield Elm, Castle Frome Church and Benbow Pond.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

I loved the presentation by Simon Gibson, who is a friend of President Garner, about the conditions in England at the time the first LDS missionaries came to England.  There were many people in England that were preparing for the gospel to be restored and accepted at the same time as Joseph Smith.  He used the symbol of the 2 pound coin of "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants".  Issac Newton used this phrase when he said," If I have seen further, it is by Standing on the Shoulders of Giants".  Learning from those before us.




I have certainly stood on the "Shoulders of Giants".

Eating lunch at "The Swan" - good food - great company










I loved President Leppard's comments of the analogy of driving a car and the need to look both through the glass in front of you and in the glass showing a view behind us;.  In order to move forward in our lives we also need to look behind us at those who were before us and ahead at what and who comes next.

Stopped to capture the countryside flowers
on our way home from church
(Toad Flax)