Cultural and Spiritual Experiences

June 22, 2014
Last weekend, we attended a ballet to see a young women in our ward perform.  We are her family's home teachers.  We attended the performance of Coppelia in Stockport along with two other sisters in our ward.  It was an ornate old theatre with an old organ in the center belong the stage.  We suppose it was to accompany the silent movies shown there at one time.  We enjoyed the evening, but Dad probably doesn't feel the need to see many more ballets in his lifetime.
Sunday morning, a man was baptized in a service before church started.  This man approached the sisters in Warrington when he was picking up his children from school.  He felt he should talk to them. He has been preparing for baptism for months now and we hope his wife and daughters will be baptized in time as well.  He will be a great asset to the ward.
Monday,  Dad and I visited London and stayed over night.  We took the bus tour, the boat ride on the Thames, saw the National portrait museum,  and visited St. Paul's cathedral.  We climbed the five hundred steps to the top.  It was a great view, but my knees felt like jelly for a while after we got down.     It is a very nice cathedral, though  nothing compares to the beauty and spirit of the Temple.  We also saw a performance of Les Miserabe.
We spent the rest of the week making visits and Friday night we went to dinner with two sisters in our ward.  We had a lovely meal on Sunday at the home of our Relief Society on Sunday.  She has a well kept garden and she likes to grow vegetables as well as flowers.  We liked eating outside in her garden.
The food she prepared for us,  looked like something out of a magazine.  I wish I had taken a picture of it.

Waiting for the ballet to begin.

The Newest Member of our Ward.

London at night.

Parliament

Westminster Abby

St. Pauls Cathedral

A great view from the top!