President Freed started the meeting honoring a few ladies to represent all in the audience. The first was Sister Wallace from the mission office (she is the one I am going to replace) to represent all the mums that are praying for wayward children. Sister Flynn was called up to represent mums who didn’t have their children here with them. Another sister was called for no longer having her mum here on earth. The fourth was for those who still had their children at home. Each of them received a bouquet of flowers. It was very nice and made me feel like it was mum’s day here. Of course Bill bought me a bouquet of pink tulips so I knew it was, it just hadn’t felt like it before. The rest of conference was just as wonderful with the theme being building Zion here.
We had invited Bishop Mitchell and his family over for lunch. He is the one over us at the archives. The family came except for Sister Mitchell. She was not feeling up to it today. We had a wonderful dinner of broiled turkey steaks, potato salad, baked beans, corn, green beans, cantaloupe, banana cream pie, and a chocolate cake that they brought.
After they left, we went out to Fourth Bridge to walk along the shore and get some more shells and beautiful rocks and enjoy this gorgeous sunshiny spring day.
Yesterday was also a wonderful sunshiny day. We spent it going to Gilmerton Cove. It is a maze of rooms and passageways that were carved out of the limestone and lie hidden beneath the town of Gilmerton. There are many ideas of what the cove may have been used for but the latest in the 1700’s was a home for George Paterson and his family. He was a blacksmith and there looks like a forge there but it has never been used. Many have suggested that it was a secret meeting place for people like Masons, Templars, smugglers, Witches, and many more ideas. It was fascinating.
Since it was such a beautiful day you had to do something outdoors and so we visited the Edinburgh Botanical Garden’s and even wandered upon a wedding party as well as many beautiful gardens.
The gardens will be even more beautiful come May and June and the rest of the summer. They even had a tree wrapped in pink for breast cancer awareness.
They also have glass greenhouses but we didn’t go in there because there was a cost for that and we didn’t have the time to see it because we had Saturday evening conference to get to. We will go back many times I am sure.
It is daffodil haven here right now. I have never in my life seen so many of them. They are everywhere, in the normal places, along roadsides, in fields, parks, and everywhere. Trees are getting more leaves and flowers each day now.
At work we have encountered some interesting books we are working on. They are records of deed that are on huge sheets of paper to preserve what is left of them. They may have one, two, three, or four separate images put on in all directions. It is taking Bill about a minute a page to capture them and therefore he is only getting two books done a day. Again I have lots of time, for reading, listening to the Book of Mormon, Ensign, planning our time with Adell and Lee, and other things. Thank goodness he has only had two days of these so far or the day would get boring.It has been a great week. We have visited with a few of you and are trying to reach more of you. Hope you have had a good week. May God be with you. We love you so much.
Love, Sister and Elder Rasmussen
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