ANOTHER WEEK

Another week.  Work progresses.  Wednesday afternoon Alisa and I took off work a little early to go be filmed with the local New Zealand choir at a beach at Wenderholm Regional Park.  It is for General Conference in April.  The Church has asked 6 or 7 countries around the world to have a choir to sing “We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet” which they’ll show with the Tab Choir I think at the Sunday morning session.  We previously pre-recorded the music and this was for us to be filmed in a NZ setting, of course a beach.  Don’t expect to see much of Alisa and I, they were more focused on the ones who look Polynesian.  But we had fun participating anyway.

Friday evening for a date, Alisa and I watched the new Lady and the Tramp Disney movie at home, and had a spaghetti dinner as part of the theme.

On Saturday, we had planned to visit a coastal island for the day.  But the day turned cloudy and rainy (the rain is appreciated as it has been a drought filled summer here), so we decided to stay closer in.  For a diversion, we drove again to the Otara farmers market, what I consider the best one in NZ.  As usual, we came away with a good supply of local fruits, vegetables and melons.  Afterwards I took an early afternoon nap, and dropped by the office for a few hours to get on top of a few old legal matters that I hadn’t quite finished up during a busy week of new projects.  Then we had a glutton free dinner for two senior sister missionaries, Ellen Bunker and Kate Lucas, whom we had been intending to invite over for a while but hadn’t due to their dietary restrictions.  Alisa fixed so much of the burrito bowls for them that we had a ton of left overs.  So we have invited over 2 other senior couples today who have similar dietary restrictions to help us eat it all.