Well, now let me tell you about this week and what a week it was.  As we were finishing up tours on Sunday night, I suddenly became sick.  By morning I was looking for a doctor and was able to get into the TLC Clinic here in Garrettsville.  I met the nicest doctor by the name of Annette and was soon on medication.  Great now thing are looking up!  Course I had to go back by Friday and get my meds changed and again things are now much better.  Thank goodness our P-day was Wednesday so that helped.   Friday and Saturday mornings we had training in Kirtland and so had to be on the road at 5:45 a.m.  It was Melanie from the church missionary department.   She is in charge of visitor’s centers and so was here training us on that.  We met for two hours each day and then hurried back to get the Home opened and ready for visitors.  It was great training and she is such a fun person.  She also visited us at sites.   

We were on afternoons and so served from 2:30 -7:00.  However didn’t get off Friday night until after 7:30 so dad went directly to the booth on Main Street for the Rotary.  This was the big community family weekend and there was lots going on for three days.  He sat in the booth, hopefully to encourage new members.  Not too many nibbles but he did his duty both Friday and Saturday from 8-10 p.m.  They had lots and lots of booths, a carnival, a tractor parade, fireworks and even another parade today.  Last night we saw the coolest thing, Chinese lanterns floating in the night sky.  They were so beautiful. It was really a big event for the community and lots and lots of people.  Oh, MY!

We had a bus tour of family members from one of the Seventies one day and then another one came and went through the home also.  So two general authority tours this week!  Also there have been lots of families so it has been a busy week with visitors.  Today as we arrived at the Home there were four cars there waiting for us to open the gates.  As we were opening the doors two more pulled in. It was a family that was out here on a reunion, 37 of them.  They were really fun to visit with. I ended up taking 15 of the kids along with a couple of adults and we did a kid tour while dad did the adults.  I think they both got the best tour.  I know I really had fun with the kids and they were so good.  They were ages 13 – 4 but had been listening to the Doctrine and Covenants as they traveled and were prepared to learn.  It gave the adults time to do the tour and feel the spirit without wondering if the kids were misbehaving or not.  Sooo good!  As they were finishing other cars were pulling in and so we just kept rotating them through and ended up with 48 visitors (6 tours) on our shift with no sit down time.  We were glad to see the Packers pull in so we could go home.

It is really an opportunity to be able to teach these young people as they come.  Many of them have had the lessons  on the D&C this year as well as the parents have taught them and so they truly come to learn and can feel of the spirit.  Hopefully being in the Johnson Home and in the Revelation Room where these revelations and events happened will help them to stay strong, and give them something to always remember. 

It has been a fun week, an exciting week and it truly has been a great week.  We love serving here in the Johnson Home.  We meet so many special friends as they come to visit.  One couple today visited with me for a long time as they were thinking about a mission and wanted to know how we got where we were and all about our mission.  Of course I loved to share and they will keep in contact with us.  That is the neat thing now; we can keep in contact with visitors, both member and non member and help them to grow in the gospel.