Hello everyone,
This week we inspected 8 missionary apartments. One set of Elders bought us a box of warm honey butter rolls and another set invited us for breakfast. Wow. We sure love these missionaries!
We enjoyed a BBQ with the other senior couples in front of the Mission Home, then another night went to see a musical show of “Sister Act” at a beautiful outdoor theater nestled in the redwood trees just above the Oakland Temple.
We’ve been given keys to an empty apartment just an half mile away from the temple. Our new routine is to serve at the Visitor Center until 9:00 p.m. then drive a couple minutes to settle down for the night instead of the 45 minutes back to our apartment. Then the next day we are right close to go to the temple and the Family Search Center for the day. Then we can stay again to be close to go to church somewhere on the peninsula. We have attended all the wards in the outer Bay Area, almost 100 now!
This week we chose four wards in the Palo Alto area to attend. We went to two sacrament meetings and introduced ourselves to four different Sunday school classes. We drove back and forth between two buildings and took a picnic lunch.
The speaker at the first ward we attended was a young missionary home from his mission for surgery and invited to visit this ward to speak to them about his experiences so far. The amazing thing is Roger knew him while they were both serving on a Humanitarian trip in Malawi three summers ago! How cool is that!?! Then when we stood up, the man behind us greeted us as missionaries and we realized we were talking to Steve Young! Pretty cool day at church. We went to a San Francisco 49’ers preseason game.
It’s been another great week.
A quote from my Aunt Sandy, “When we are in the Lord’s service, something wonderful happens every day . . . because the gospel is TRUE!”
And this week . . . We get to fly home to be at the airport when Amy flies home from her mission!
Life is great!
Love Elder and Sister Jerman
P.S. Anyone nearby that would like to see Amy, she will be talking in church this Sunday, August 25th at 9:00 a.m. at the church on the corner of 300 N. 700 E. American Fork. You’re invited to come by our home after to visit and get a bite to eat. We'll be here too, then we go back to serve our last two months.
Outdoor Theater in Redwoods to watch "Sister Act"
With Elder Tommy Butler
With Steve Young
NFL 49'ers game
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