Sunday November 6, 2011 trip to Dubbo
2:15 pm– leave Orange for Dubbo
2:25 pm pick up a hitch hiker, you could smell the tobacco on him. I told Elder Tietjen that if he gets shot in the head, well, then? He just said "then you know how to get me to the hospital."
This man was going to Warren. That is past Dubbo farther up NW. His name is Pau. He grew up in Warren and still lives and works there.
He seemed to be quite a nice fella. I am sure he was an Aborigine.
4:10 pm we dropped him off at Dubbo out on the Highway so he could try to get another ride up to Warren. He seemed to really appreciate the ride, especially since it was raining.
4:15 pm we made a pit stop at our summer cabin and then
4:30 pm we went to visit Anne to give her the genealogy that we found of her family. (Denise helped me find it on their Ancestry and their many computer monitors.)
When we got there, Anne was cutting out some photos of her grand daughter to make a couple of scrapbook pages for her. She was in tears. She apologized and said that she was emotional from the photos.
She talked for some time before we were able to talk genealogy. I finally handed her the information that I had found.
She was totally thrilled. She had never seen so much information in her life on her family. She is seriously thinking of going to see her Uncle this week for a 2 week long visit. Now I feel like that is a miracle on the timing. Because he will be able to give her more information now that she has as much as she has. Maybe start gathering records from other family members. She is very much interested right now to start finding her genealogy.
Wow, she loved visiting and she talked and talked and talked.
Elder Tietjen got a phone call and he went to answer it.
Finally she got a phone call. So Elder Tietjen told me that the phone call was LiLi cancelling our visit tonight because she has to go babysit and will not be home.
It was after 6 pm now and I was getting stressed wondering how we were going to get away, she was enjoying talking so much. But now we did not need too so we just sat back and relaxed and enjoyed the rest of our visit.
She had made a remark that she could not get her new ink cartridges into her printer. So Elder Tietjen taught her how to do that. She was so grateful.
I still don't know her whole story. As far as we know, her husband was a member. But she had found a letter that she showed us from some missionaries and it dated back to 1979. She just loved the missionaries coming whether they were couples or single Elders. And they had many through the years. But as far as we know she is not a member.
As long as she is willing to let us come we will keep coming and hopfully help her into the gospel. Her husband was paralized for many years before his death, so he probably did not go to church.
7:50 pm we left Annes home and went back to our apartment
We got dinner of split pea soup, pear, and banana. Mmmm banana. (the price is down to $5.99 per kilo)
Monday we head to Forbes to see Doris Polambo in the assisted living center.
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