Wonderful June. Birthdays, speaking in church, visit from family members, career worksop and a wedding at the Toronto Temple. Pam and Murray Stovell were here for their son Mark's wedding to Jessica Butkovick from Barrie, Ontario. We had Friday most of the day with Pam and Murray where we drove to Kensington Market, several streets in the older part of Toronto that were filled with small shops of bags, t shirts, hats, and alot of dried fruits and seeds and nuts. We ate lunch of crepes, at a sidewalk cafe. Pam and I tried on many hats and I purchased one, of course, which I wore to the wedding reception the next day. We drove and drove to Parliament street to the bakery we had discovered in April and all had a wonderful chocolate or poppy seed pastry. Delicious!!! No mention of calories.
Friday afternoon and we were downtown on Bloor street - which by the way - we had been on the week before, and it was under construction then and it still is under construction with only one lane moving, so after about an hour in that traffic we returned the Stovells back to their hotel. Saturday noon was the wedding at the temple,where we visited with Grant's nieces and nephews. Photo shoots and a drive in the country to Angus to where the reception was to be held, but before the reception we were invited to a scrumptuous roast beef meal for the families of the bride and groom. The hall was decorated so nice and the tables were set with each guest having a different pattern of china. After the food the family spoke about the bridge and groom and just as the rest of the guests were arriving we said our goodbye's and returned to our apartment in Etobickoe about 37 klms south and east.
Sunday we drove to Oshawa to speak to the Young Adults about the career workshop we would be conducting in their ward on the 26th of June. Sunday evening we gave our fourth temple preparation lesson. A full week.
The senior missionary couples had planned an outing on Centre Island for Saturday. Elder Gehmlich (Grant) and I took the bus, the subway and a streetcar to the ferry dock where we boarded for a 10 minute ride from the centre of Toronto downtown to Centre Island. A beautiful park that completely covered the island. Each couple brought lunch and after some visiting we parted company, to return to put our final finishing touches on our sacrament talks for Sunday. As we were walking to the ferry dock the skies opened and it rained, and rained and rained. By the time we had reversed our transportation travel, streetcar, subway and bus - we were all dry but our shoes. Another nice day!
Sunday June 13th we drove to the Creditview ward- 30 klms west - where we spoke in sacrament meeting. Our temple prep class for this evening is postponed until next Sunday.
We are anxiously awaiting for Kathryn and one of the little children to arrive Tuesday evening for a visit, they will be with us until Saturday evening. I can hardly wait.
I'll write more later as we live each evenful day.
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