While the local high
school football team had a difficult year, the basketball team is pretty good
this year, I believe they are leading their league. We went to one of the games
several weeks ago for our Friday night date. We always see people from the
community we know at the games, so it is just another opportunity to meet and
greet people. One of the families that we have been sharing Preach My Gospel
discussions with, have a daughter who is in elementary school but was going to
perform during the half time of the high school basketball game. So we decided
to attend the game to support her performance. It was the same night as a
Relief Society function, so I went to the game and Sister Anderson went to the Relief
Society function and then left early to watch the half time performance.
While at the game, I met
a retired doctor who lives here in town and had a good conversation with him. I
explained to him that we were out here on a mission for eighteen months. He was
an orthopedic surgeon up in the city, but developed a heart condition and so he
now raises quarter horses and cattle on eleven hundred acres just outside of
town.
