This week we held our first self reliance class. We are doing the Health and Well Being class and are going to meet every week for the next 12. We had four students to our first class and there are two more going to join us next week. That is a pretty good turn out for such a small branch. And next week we are going to start a second class that is going to meet on a different night. The Young Woman's president is going to facilitate an education plus finding a job class that has five or six students signed up to take it. We are excited and very happy about the enthusiasm of the members for these classes. The Christmas season is here and one thing that the Irish love is tacky Christmas sweaters. The thing is that they do not view them as tacky, they love them! So the stores are full of displays of these wonderful jumpers. Maurene wants me to buy one but I am resisting. Another thing that they like to do here at Christmas is to put up lights in the city centre. About a week ago they lit the light display here in Omagh in the city centre shopping area. On our way home the other night we drove through there to see the lights and took a few photos. Of course, they don't do it justice, it is so much nicer when you are there in person. But is does make the area look very festive and it is nice to walk around down there. We had two conferences to attend this week, our zone conference and stake conference. So that meant two drives into Belfast and back. Maurene wasn't feeling up to going the day of zone conference so I picked up the Elders and we went there together. It was a good conference although it did last a little longer than usual so we got caught in the evening rush traffic more than we usually do. We have been asked to inspect the young missionaires cars during conference so I did my first one, the sisters in our district's car. I was concerned when I finished as their front tires were getting near bald and they had a couple of codes lighting up their dash. Thankfully, when I saw them at stake conference they had already had their car serviced and had new tires put on. I am glad that we are doing the inspections so we can catch these things before someone has an accident or breaks down. We had stake conference this weekend. For the first time they decided to do a webcast of the two Saturday sessions to Omagh and Londonderry because of the the distance to travel to Belfast. I worked with the stake person and streamed the webcast on my laptop at the church and hooked it up to the TV. It worked well and we had a nice group of members attend the Saturday evening session. We drove to Belfast on Sunday for the last session and took the elders with us. President McCrudden was released as stake president and a new presidency called. So we had Elder Sabin of the Seventy there. It was a good conference and it was nice to drive to Belfast on a Sunday, the traffic was much better. We decided this week to take a little drive when things were slow to a town near here called Castlederg. It was a nice little town in a pretty valley with a good sized river running throught the town. We had a look around the castle and went for a walk along the river and through a bit of the town.
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October 2016
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