Sunday, February 6, 2011

Great Weekend

On Friday we did our usual stuff like school, cleaning house and so on. That evening we grabbed a bite to eat at McDonalds before buying some groceries.
Saturday I got up around 7:30 and began working on the house doing the last minute touches like changing bed sheets and finishing up on laundry before our company arrived. What company, you ask?? Our Regional Overseer and his family arrived Saturday around 5:30. We had decided to grill bbq chicken breast having no idea it was suppose to snow. Dustin said he still wanted too so we grilled in the snow. We had corn on the cob, deviled eggs, baked beans, and chips to go with our chicken. We had cherry and blueberry pie for dessert. It was all very yummy! We just sat around and talked until about 1am. It had continued to snow all night. I woke up at 7am this morning to find all the roads covered. We went back and forth about whether or not we should cancel church because it wasn't letting up and the forcast was for snow until 5pm. We decided to try to get there. Once we started there it wasn't as bad a little further down south so we thought that we would have a short SS lesson and worship and then have the Regional Overseer preach and get back home before it got worse. Just as we was about to start church, a guy named Dave and his wife and three kids came in. Dustin decided to go ahead and have regular service. Dave had been telling Dustin for weeks that he and his wife was going to come some Sunday soon. I couldn't believe out of all Sundays they came today, but PRAISE GOD!! We had a really good SS lesson and worship service. Then, Br. Clarkson preached an EXCELLENT message about God's deliverance for soul and body in the Atonement. It was great. Our visitors really seemed to enjoy the services. It was truly great having them and I pray God will touch their hearts and they will come back. Please pray for this family, Dave and Barb Leary. When church was over the roads had almost completely dried up and the Clarksons and ourselves came home. I had a ham in the oven that was smelling yummy when we got home. We had green beans, salad, rolls, mashed potatoes, and ham for lunch. We visited until around 4pm and then the Clarksons headed back to Brush so Br. Clarkson could work tomorrow. We had a great time visiting with them. They are great people and we love and appreciate them.

3 comments:

  1. You're right--what a great weekend! How EXCITING to have visitors join you today. Aren't you glad you didn't cancel?! God knew best. :-) I'm happy you got to spend some time with the Clarksons, too. Company is always fun (and you're a terrific hostess), but when they're good friends it's even better. Now, please send them home--we're missing them here! Ha!

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  2. Fun and enjoyable weekend! YAY! AND visitors at church to top it all off. Praise the Lord! I'm SOOOO happy to know there's a generation of young women out there who ENJOY sharing hospitality with others; that's a gift that has been nearly obsolete for many years and the Church has suffered for it. I'm so proud of you!

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  3. fun weekend. I am so happy you had a great weekend. God is so faithful when we are faithful. How fast and convenient it could have been to just cancel service. God knew you would have visitors. Praise the Lord.

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