Our Experience At Goodbyes

One of the things that is kind of unique in Mound City, Kansas is they have a thrift store where almost everything in the store is priced at 50 cents. Actually when we first came out here, everything was priced at 25 cents and then last summer they raised the prices to 50 cents. I’ve  bought several ties there for 25 cents. I figured that was a pretty good buy since ties can cost 25 dollars now. Goodbyes has them priced at one hundredth of the going rate. 

Out here I wear a tie every day, sometimes doing things that are not conducive to keeping a tie clean. But when I am wearing a tie I only paid 25 cents for, I don’t get overly concerned.

We decided to take Shaylor and Erica to Goodbyes just to see if they had anything that was of interest to them. When we walked into Goodbyes, I introduced them to a couple of ladies who volunteer there. These two ladies are sisters and I had done some family history work for one of the sisters as a birthday gift. Actually it turned out that we share a common ancestor with them, a Warren as I recall and so I had mentioned to them that we are distant cousins. When we introduced Erica and Shaylor it was fun because they made a big deal about us being related.

As we are looking around at Goodbyes, the lady from the store next door who owns a flower shop comes into the store and talks with Sister Anderson. Sister Anderson has invited her to several Relief Society functions. She did come once and enjoyed it. So Sister Anderson has gotten to know her somewhat and she asks Sister Anderson if she would like to take some bouquets to some people in the Church who need a lift. She gave us the bouquets and we took them to some of the people we visit. Shaylor and Erica went with us to deliver the flowers and were able to meet several of these good people. Three of the ladies we visited were converts and one was an investigator. These ladies all have very interesting life stories and can be fairly entertaining to talk to. Erica and Shaylor both enjoyed those visits.