GREATS...are great!

The week started in the best possible way...with a new great-grandbaby!  Ruger Austin Caldwell was born on Tuesday, July 25 and he is a definite cutie!  Sam and he are doing well and Hesston is loving on him which is a good sign.  We are so blessed and love the growth in our family and look forward to the next "great" coming this fall.

Wednesday evening we left the office a little early to meet our Sisters at the library for a lesson with one of their investigators...John.  John has been investigating a long time and I'm not really sure how serious he is about it.  He comes to church every week and still meets with the Sisters but doesn't follow-through on the assignments they give him.  They've set a tentative baptism date for him but he has to stop smoking before then.  Hopefully...

We had a nice surprise this weekend.  We got a text from a couple that was in the MTC with us...the Davis'.  He is a retired physician who basically has the same calling as I do.  He retired after he got MS and then went on to teach college classes for awhile.  They are in the Cincinnati Mission on a 1 year mission.  Anyway...they were coming to Louisville to go to the temple and wanted to meet up with us afterwards for lunch so we did.  It was great to see them. It was fun to compare notes! Don said, "This is the most fulfilling thing I've ever done!" They are from Idaho.  Their mission has really put them to work...they are in the YSA branch and  working on getting it to ward status plus they teach Institute at Cincinnati University.  He works out of their apartment.  Anyway we enjoyed our visit.

Church yesterday was interesting.  The Sisters brought an African American couple (Terry and Teresa).  They have been to Sacrament Meeting once before, but this time they stayed for Sunday School (Gospel Essentials).  She is quite knowledgeable about several different religions.  She says she's just waiting for one of them to resonate with her husband.  When he says, "This is it" , then they'll get involved.  She actually participated and added a lot to the lesson...along with a few, "I hear ya's and "amens".  It was a great lesson and the Spirit was really there.

I realized yesterday that we have bars on the windows of our church.  I'd never noticed before...but I guess you do what you gotta do!

I feel bad about the condition of our church.  It's a two story building, and has been "remodeled". Those in the know say it was better before they remodeled it!  The chapel also doubles as a meeting room, banquet room, etc. so there are no benches...just stackable chairs (kind of like at the lake branch).  The problem is, it gets "deep cleaned" twice a year by the facilities dept. and that's about it. Since we've been here, Sister Brough got the missionaries to help clean it once and that's all.  They don't enlist families or auxiliaries to sign up and help.  Guess maybe I'll talk to the RS President and see what, if anything they've done in the past.

Well...that's the weekly news from Kentucky!