29 September 2018 - Saturday - Happy 95th Birthday PopPop!

29 September 2018 - Saturday

It is not everyday you celebrate a 95th birthday!  But this week I have had several older visitors come to Martin's Cove, and the Visitors' Center, when mom and I were there.  But none of them have had the energy that PopPop has!  Granny called him this morning and we hope he had a wonderful day!

We had the assignment of opening the Visitors Center this morning.  Our shift was 8:00am until 12:30pm.  It was cold, this morning, when we left Missionary Village, but then the Homestead was another 10 degrees colder at 37 degrees!  Unusual to have Martin's Cove colder than Missionary Village.  As we were leaving for our assignment this morning, there was a meeting outside our front window.  Mom caught this picture;

Which way do we go for the breakfast burrito?

I wonder if they have a walk-in window?

I had a sweet couple from Seattle, Washington, come to the Visitors' Center this morning.  They are both temple workers, at the Seattle Temple, and they just got released from a church service mission.  I suggested that they would come to Martin's Cove for their next mission.  She told me that they would probably not qualify to come here because of her cancer.  He asked me how far it was to walk to the cove after telling me his great grandmother, Isabella Bradshaw, was in the Martin Company.  

It was then that the Spirit told me they needed a Rover ride to the Cove.  So we jumped into the Rover and took it up to an area where we could park.  They were able to walk the one mile trek and felt the Spirit of the area.  I am grateful we could make that little trip.

Then at just a few minutes after 4:00pm, we had our precious Sathre Family drive up to our trailer.  We have been looking forward to this visit all week!  Once we got everyone in and settled, we were able to catch up on the last two months since we were together.  By the way, I love pictures like this;

We've got family!!!  Yeah!!!

We had so much fun just hugging each other and visiting.  Mom made dinner for the family and we got to go over to the Pavilion for some games.  We had a shuffle board game and an Apples to Apples game that the kids love.  We popped some pop corn and had a fun hour playing the games.  We then had family prayer together and settled in for the night.  It is 8:15pm and the temperature is dropping rapidly, and is now at 43 degrees.

Pop corn and Apples to Apples and grandchildren!  Best day ever!

Zac and Tom and I get to prepare the Sacrament for tomorrow.  We will need to get to bed early and Granny has already led the way!  Granny took a nap so that she could stay up until 7:15pm tonight.  It was a great sacrifice for her since she never takes a nap!  This has been a great day!