So this post is going to be short as this past week was a little slower than usual and that's OK every now and then.
Monday was our regularly scheduled Institute /Seminary Faculty meeting. The Huntington Stake Seminary graduation is next Sunday night so Pat has been making calls to get attendance and completion information to assist in finalizing the program. I am doing refreshments and Pat is speaking.
Tuesday we planned with the Perry's (stake YSA reps) for summer activities. With our High School seniors and college students out for the summer we hope to have a few more young people available before they head off to missions and college. We have some fun things planned including a trip to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in July. We will not be able to go, Palmyra is a bit out of our area.
Thursday was our Pathway/ Institute classes. We love studying for and teaching these classes. Our dinner was left over BBQ with Cold Slaw, chips and Brownies and Ice Cream. It was nice not to have to plan, make or buy anything this week.
Friday was shopping, errands and lunch at Panera.
While we were out the Sister missionaries called and asked if we could pick up some people they ran across that are inactive members that they have been working with, for church today. OK, Sure.
Church is at 12:00 noon. So we leave the house at 11:10 AM to drive to Milton to pick them up and be back in time for meetings. Yep, you guessed it. No shows. We had called several times yesterday and this morning to let them know what time we were coming. We don't know if we were given the wrong numbers or what but a neighbor said they weren't home and didn't know when they would be back. We now get what our full time Elders and Sisters go through.
The Gospel is true and its to bad we can't help them come and partake.
Love you all. AlmostHeaven, Traynors
Sunday, May 28, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
A successful YSA activity
So our Stake did not have the CES broadcast on May 7th because of the North America North East direct broadcast from Salt Lake but planned to have a dinner and rebroadcast for tonight. So as YSA missionaries we offered to help and were told to plan for 50. Pat and I shopped for and prepared BBQ pulled Pork on buns, with coleslaw ( these folks put Coleslaw on top of everything), baked beans, watermelon, chips and brownies with ice cream and chocolate sauce for 50 people. Our church meetings were over at 3 PM and dinner was at 5PM so we had to hurry to get it all done. We did have some helpers. The dinner and the message from Elder Kim Clark were great. We only had 26 people but those 26 ate really well. After cleaning up and getting home to unpack the car and put stuff away we are tired tonight. But we loved it
We had a great Zone Conference last Tuesday. Our mission President will complete his 3 years at the end of June. It seems like he has a real desire to turn over a well working machine to the new President. President and Sister Salisbury have worked very hard. When they first arrived in WEst Virginia 3 years ago the number of missionaries was 260. That was right when many YW could go out because of the age change. The numbers have slowly dropped this last year as that first wave of sister missionaries have gone home.The mission now has about 170 which is much more manageable. The Salisbury's will be happy for a long, well deserved nap in July.
We love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and are happy the be here in West Virginia. There are great people here with strong testimonies that work hard to help make the wards and branches run smoothly.
We love and miss family and friends but we know we are where we are supposed to be right now.
Almost Heaven, Traynors
We had a great Zone Conference last Tuesday. Our mission President will complete his 3 years at the end of June. It seems like he has a real desire to turn over a well working machine to the new President. President and Sister Salisbury have worked very hard. When they first arrived in WEst Virginia 3 years ago the number of missionaries was 260. That was right when many YW could go out because of the age change. The numbers have slowly dropped this last year as that first wave of sister missionaries have gone home.The mission now has about 170 which is much more manageable. The Salisbury's will be happy for a long, well deserved nap in July.
We love the Gospel of Jesus Christ and are happy the be here in West Virginia. There are great people here with strong testimonies that work hard to help make the wards and branches run smoothly.
We love and miss family and friends but we know we are where we are supposed to be right now.
Almost Heaven, Traynors
Monday, May 15, 2017
Happy Mothers Day
OK, so today is Mother's Day and it sort of feels weird not being where my family members are. But I totally love them and know that they love me.
This week we had our regular meetings and visits to people but our big accomplishment is that we've completed our 11 hour training to be certified literacy tutors for the Tri- State Literacy Council. The training is very good and we enjoyed our time spent there. We will now each be matched up with a "learner" and will begin to work with them to read and write. We still work with the couple in our ward but that is now on hold as the husband is having a gradruple heart bypass this Tuesday. So we will resume when he recovers.
Sunday the 7th was a North America, NorthEast broadcast from SLC. Elder Oaks presided and Elder Garrit Gong conducted. The speakers were Elder Gong, Sister Bonnie H Cordon, Elder Anthony D Perkins and Elder Dallin H Oaks.
Sister Cordon told a really great story of when she was a young girl Elder L Tom Perry stayed with her family while being a Stake conference visiting authority. One evening she was told to go feed the chickens and she was reluctant because it was dark but Elder Wirthlin said he would go with her. She grabbed a flashlight and sort of skipped ahead of him. With the flashlight bouncing around ahead Elder Wirthlin didn't see the small ditch ahead and stepped right in the middle of it. As he pulled his wet foot out he firmly exclaimed,"I must get my own light". Sister Cordon likened that to us needing our own light of Christ to show us the right way. How many times have we made errors because we did not have the light of Christ with us.
Elder Oaks had a few topics. Some that touched my heart were, Stand Ye in Holy Places so that we can be guided by the Holy Ghost and we members need to find friends and neighbors for the missionaries to teach. He also said beware of addictions, especially texting and video gaming that are taking our time away from much more important things. His last message was, we can each know for ourselves the truthful of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we need our own testimony (our own light if you will). We can gain that testimony thru the powerful witness from the Holy Ghost.
We are loving the people and our work. We pray for your good health and safety.
Love you all. Almost Heaven, Elder and Sister Traynor
This week we had our regular meetings and visits to people but our big accomplishment is that we've completed our 11 hour training to be certified literacy tutors for the Tri- State Literacy Council. The training is very good and we enjoyed our time spent there. We will now each be matched up with a "learner" and will begin to work with them to read and write. We still work with the couple in our ward but that is now on hold as the husband is having a gradruple heart bypass this Tuesday. So we will resume when he recovers.
Sunday the 7th was a North America, NorthEast broadcast from SLC. Elder Oaks presided and Elder Garrit Gong conducted. The speakers were Elder Gong, Sister Bonnie H Cordon, Elder Anthony D Perkins and Elder Dallin H Oaks.
Sister Cordon told a really great story of when she was a young girl Elder L Tom Perry stayed with her family while being a Stake conference visiting authority. One evening she was told to go feed the chickens and she was reluctant because it was dark but Elder Wirthlin said he would go with her. She grabbed a flashlight and sort of skipped ahead of him. With the flashlight bouncing around ahead Elder Wirthlin didn't see the small ditch ahead and stepped right in the middle of it. As he pulled his wet foot out he firmly exclaimed,"I must get my own light". Sister Cordon likened that to us needing our own light of Christ to show us the right way. How many times have we made errors because we did not have the light of Christ with us.
Elder Oaks had a few topics. Some that touched my heart were, Stand Ye in Holy Places so that we can be guided by the Holy Ghost and we members need to find friends and neighbors for the missionaries to teach. He also said beware of addictions, especially texting and video gaming that are taking our time away from much more important things. His last message was, we can each know for ourselves the truthful of the gospel of Jesus Christ and we need our own testimony (our own light if you will). We can gain that testimony thru the powerful witness from the Holy Ghost.
We are loving the people and our work. We pray for your good health and safety.
Love you all. Almost Heaven, Elder and Sister Traynor
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
The Rivers
Oh my goodness the Ohio River is stunning. Mother has music to a song called "Beautiful Ohio" and I must look for that when I get home.
This morning Pat and I set the alarm for 4:30 AM so we could make an early morning Seminary class in Ashland, Kentucky. Most of the road we traveled on ran parallel to the Ohio river. In the Tri-State area there is West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky and there are many huge bridges crossing the Ohio many times. In many places the river is about a half mile wide. This area of the country has big Poplar trees that are thick and lush. These trees line the river and it is a beautiful picture everywhere you look. The Ohio river can handle big barges that run up and down.
There are are many other smaller rivers of varying sizes. The Mud River looks like it's name, brown and The Guyandote River both are fairly good size rivers that literally remind me of Christmas ribbon candy. They are that curvy. We see these rivers many times here in Huntington and Barboursville.
Now the rivers are really cool but I must speak of the Seminary class. The class had 6 students and meet in the Ashland Ward building. I am so impressed with these young people and there families that make the effort to get up and come to Early morning Seminary. The students are from 3 different High Schools some as much as 25 minutes from the church. At the beginning of the class the students looked as if they might be sleeping but after the prayer they came alive and were engaged and participated. They will be blessed for making this sacrifice to be in Seminary each day. We that have been blessed with released time certainly take it for granted.
Life is good here in West Virginia, it's Almost Heaven. Traynors
This morning Pat and I set the alarm for 4:30 AM so we could make an early morning Seminary class in Ashland, Kentucky. Most of the road we traveled on ran parallel to the Ohio river. In the Tri-State area there is West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky and there are many huge bridges crossing the Ohio many times. In many places the river is about a half mile wide. This area of the country has big Poplar trees that are thick and lush. These trees line the river and it is a beautiful picture everywhere you look. The Ohio river can handle big barges that run up and down.
There are are many other smaller rivers of varying sizes. The Mud River looks like it's name, brown and The Guyandote River both are fairly good size rivers that literally remind me of Christmas ribbon candy. They are that curvy. We see these rivers many times here in Huntington and Barboursville.
Now the rivers are really cool but I must speak of the Seminary class. The class had 6 students and meet in the Ashland Ward building. I am so impressed with these young people and there families that make the effort to get up and come to Early morning Seminary. The students are from 3 different High Schools some as much as 25 minutes from the church. At the beginning of the class the students looked as if they might be sleeping but after the prayer they came alive and were engaged and participated. They will be blessed for making this sacrifice to be in Seminary each day. We that have been blessed with released time certainly take it for granted.
Life is good here in West Virginia, it's Almost Heaven. Traynors
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