P-Days

I noticed I haven't recorded much about our Preparation Days (P-Days). This is typically on Saturday. Usually we'll get some shopping done early in the morning and then we'll head out to visit a beach. This last weekend we went to Mission Bay. It is about 10 km east of the city of Auckland. We've been here before and it has been a good beach to find sea glass. There actually wasn't too much glass there this weekend, but we got some excellent shells. Here's some pictures with various captions:

Sister B. looking for treasures!

We saw quite a few of these small boats getting ready for a regatta.

This looked like a neat tree!

Playing in the sand.

More playing!

Here's those boats out there ... looks like lots of them!

Running around the lake (4.25 miles) ... I like to do a long run Saturday morning.

Sailing in the lake (3.8 miles) ... I got to go sailing too, so that was fun!

Elder B. on Lake Pupuke!

We had a fun and relaxing weekend!!!  

Just got the shells and glass all washed up . It was a good collection:

Elder Quentin L. Cook's Visit

It was great having Elder Cook visit our Area. In the office, it took quite a bit of work to set up all the meetings and travel plans. There were a few issues along the way, but everything worked out good in the end.

Here's a video from the Missionary meeting. At the 11 to 14 second mark, you can see Patsy on the stand. At that time, I was guiding all the missionaries (over 500 from two missions) in an orderly fashion so they could all shake hands with Elder Cook.

Here we are at the Saturday night devotional (lower left). It looks like maybe I'm writing some notes:

We had dinner together at Elder Pearson's apartment:

Here's our Area Presidency:

Elder Cook provided many wonderful messages. It was great hearing from him. At dinner we learned he lived in the Bay Area for 33 years, so that was fun to find that out. He also knows our stake president, President Teuscher, from our Alameda ward (they are both lawyers).