Tuesday, March 26, 2024: Snow, Rain, Hail, Lightning & Thunder, J Cancels Dr. Memo appt - 2 flat tires, Willy & Janna, Sister missionaries, Chicken, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad, Crescent cheesecakes, croissants, Easter videos

 

Kona, Hawaii

70th operating temple

Dedicated 23-24 Jan 2000

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Book of Mormon

Easter - Mosiah 15:5-9

Come Follow Me

Jesus Christ took upon Himself my sins, pains, and infirmities.

"A Living Witness of the Living Christ" by Bishop Gerald Causse

"We can be transformed by Jesus Christ

through the power of the Holy Ghost."

October General Conference

"Divine Parenting Lessons" by Elder Valeri V. Cordon

Let Tom out at 5 a.m. and back in at 6:30 a.m. 

The weather was strange and extreme today. It snowed, hailed, rained and there was lightning and thunder during the snowstorms. 

The snow was light little "pellets" kind of like styrofoam. Sister Lassen, one of our sister missionaries called the snow, hail, rain - "snailing." 

James had a doctor's appointment this afternoon with Dr. Memon in Globe at 2 p.m. He left in my car around 11:30 with stops to make. He was back in less than five minutes saying there was a flat tire on the car and one on the truck too. He tried airing the tire on the car up but it immediately lost air and went flat. Same with the truck.  He had to call the doctor's office and tell them he wouldn't be coming in today. I was a little bit relieved because he was leaving in the middle of a big snow storm. The last time he went the Globe way in a snow storm it didn't end well. Huge boulders came down in front of his truck and he ran over them and totaled his truck and he ended up getting a new one.

James is going to the valley tomorrow so he has to fix the tires today. I mentioned on my Bunco thread on Facebook about our flat tires. Janna Grombach asked if we needed help and I told her I thought James had a couple of plugs to fix the tires with. 

James fixed the tire on the car first. Right after he was finished, Janna and Willy showed up. Willy brought a plug. Janna came into the kitchen where I was working on dinner. She helped me finish up the salad I was working on while I started the chicken cutlets. In the meantime Willy was outside helping James with the tire on the truck. We are so grateful for such good friends who will drop everything they are doing to help someone else. 

James and Willy finished up a few minutes before the missionaries arrived and left for home. 

I finished up the chicken and went into the bedroom to get ready. As I was coming out the doorbell rang and James answered the door. He had set the table and had prepared a pitcher of ice water. 

Sister Lassen and Sister Johnson are my favorite missionaries. Sister Lassen is from West Virginia and Sister Johnson is from Oregon. 

I said the blessing on the food and we filled our plates, buffet style with chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, Texas Roadhouse green beans, salad and croissants. One of the sisters said it looked like a feast. The food did taste really good. 

After dinner we went into the family room and watched Easter videos on the Church's YouTube channel. The sisters asked if we knew anyone they could visit. We told them about Alice Brown living in the MacArthur's home and how she was John and Sandra Wilhelm's daughter. Also we told them that the MacArthur's would be back the end of June and they could use a visit. They thanked us and after a prayer they went on their way.

I forgot to mention the Crescent lemon cheesecake tarts. They were good but for some reason I decided not to offer them to the sisters. Last time they said they were trying to go off sugar and I kept thinking of that, even though the tarts are small.

In spite of the fact that James is leaving early in the morning for the valley he went in and cleaned the kitchen for me while I rested on the family room recliner and watched a new GAC movie, "Just in Time" with Tom on my lap.