A good day

Last Sunday we had such a good day. Our new stake president, Pres. Ormsby, came to Ashburton (his first Sunday as stake president) and said he wanted to talk to our branch presidency and Elder and Sister Neider, after church. In our little meeting, he first read some scriptures about how the Lord can use us to cause miracles to happen in His work. He praised the branch presidency on the wonderful work that they are doing, and then he challenged the branch presidency to go the second mile, and increase their numbers to 150+ on a consistant basis, so that they can become a ward, within 1 year. He then ask, who had called Elder and Sister Neider on a mission? Everyone agreed, the Lord. Then, who has called them to Ashburton? Again, everyone agreed, the Lord. Then he said, the Lord has sent them to Ashburton to help you become a ward, and you need to utilize and let them help you - they aren't here to in anyway diminish or take away from what you are doing, but are here to help you. It gave us such a wonderful feeling, and helped us know more clearly what it is we are to be doing here.
When we were through, we invited Pres. Ormsby over to our house, to have a bite to eat before he started back to Christchurch. I had put a big roast in, and invited the DeOcampo family(from the Philippines), and Tomas (from Argentina), for dinner too. When we opened the door to our house - you could tell that the roast was burned - house smelled awful! Roast was shrunk up to nothing and nearly unedible! But we had plenty of new peas and potatoes and rolls and fruit salad, and they all insisted that the roast was cooked "just the way they like it"!! Pres. Ormsby's wife and children had gone up to Auckland, so he didn't have to rush, and he stayed and visited till 5:00. It was such a nice time, to have him here, along with our other guests! Then we were off to teach the temple prep class, which went very well also. A great day! I forgot to take pictures.