What a week at the Temple with the Youth of the Stake

It was a wonderful week that I had at the Temple with the Youth. Work must have set a new record - 5 and 1/2 hours before they called me with a problem!!! Any way the youth had a great time. They had a session at the Temple every day to do baptism. They all had a good and uplifting time. They even got to go to Alton Towers (a theme park in the north of England) and while they were doing that I got to be set apart as a Veil Worker. The Stake had the Youth in their own rooms and the leaders in theirs. I was sharing with Daniel, David Richardson (Livingston Ward), and Richard Moon and James Lyddall (both of Edinburgh Ward). Richard was on crutches as he had damaged his Achilles Tendon about 6 weeks prior to this. Every thing was going well, over 1000 baptisms by my calculations. On Friday afternoon, a BBQ with some wide games. Again all was well untill I decided to join the some of youth in playing touch rugby! I slipped and my ankle bent in a dirrection that the Lord hadn't designed! It was painful. The Temple security people found their first aider and he said that I needed to get it check out at the hospital, so off I went. Once there and following an xray, they decided that it was only tissue damage. So I was sent on my way, hubbling along - step, ouch, step, ouch, when the nurse came chasing after me saying she had spoken to a collegue and desided there was something else. She showed me the xray and point to what they felt was a hair line fracture, so the put my leg in plaster and gave me a set of crutches!! I'm not sure what Shirley thought - Daniel sent her a text to let her know what had happened and she sent one back saying "Ok, What have you done now?!" So I got to join Richard with my own set of crutches!

When I finally got home, I managed to go into work for an hour or so on Monday to fix what needed fixing and I then got an appointment with the local fracture clinic where they put a walking cast on or what ever thy call it. I managed to over do it on Wednesday (having let the plaster set) as I was doing a lot of walking around the house with out any crutches! Too much too soon. At least now that I have a walking cast on I can manage the stairs now with out having to go and down on my backside! These are pictures of my new cast and shoe! I have to wear the shoe when ever I go walking, even aroound the house.

If you don't mind the close ups, you can see the bruises!

What colours!

Fame at last!!

Finally, after much waiting, and much editing, Sis Westenskow's article was published in the British Insert of the Ensign. Below is the link to the virtual version found on the lds.org/uk web page:

www.lds.org.uk/liahona_pdf.php

Select the link for July 2020.

All change..... well for one workstation anyway....

After fighting with this workstation and it fighting back, it basically gave up the ghost and no amount of repairs would make it run any better. The Archives found another book cradle made by Ralf in a university in England and were able to purchase it. It had been unused as the university had run out of money and couldn't complete their plans for their own digital operations.

Here Elder O'Neal looks on as the crew dismantles the old, broken book cradle.

This is the new one waiting in the loading bay.

Look Ma, no base!!

Now we have one brand new book cradle, with smooth operations and bright lights.