About the Andrews
The Andrews have set out on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to serve the people of Spain in the Canary Islands. Nancy will be providing medical care for the people and missionaries there. Ron will fill needs of the community youth in the areas in which they serve. The Andrews have been called for two years and are eager to get to know the people and areas where the Lord sees fit to place them.
Ron & Nanc
Hi! Hope everything is still going great and your still excited!!! Thank you so much for still loving on me and adding Joe into the mix. We had a great time at your send off. Reydon LOVED being with ALL his cousins and Riley enjoyed himself immensely. I think I already asked you this but I forgot the answer…….How can we financial help you? It won’t be much but maybe where you are it will go further???? Coarse with what is happening to our dollar here, it might take more lol
I wrote a little something on Ron’s picture with his old companion. Be sure and check that out. I don’t know if you have heard from Russ but he seems to be doing better. He said your Mom sent him a bottle of the pycnogenol’s.
Are you allowed to recieve pictures over the net? Can you check out myspace? I keep adding pictures to my album there. At least you could see how much Reydon is growing.
I’m not on-line very often but would love to hear back from you
I know you two are going to have a wonderful mission!……you already have so far (I’m talking about the last 40+ years)
Love to you both
Deb
Ron & Nanc,
I made a couple of replies but not sure they went through. Hope all is well! I will keep checking and if I still think they are not posting, I’ll call Tif
Love
Deb
Deb, I forgot to answer your question about the mission fund. I really appreciate your offer. Money will be tight for us, especially since the dollar is worth less and less here. But I’m hesitant to give out an acct. no to deposit to, as I think anyone can read these blogs. But Mom Andrews has it and she can tell you. Or you can just ask to put it in Ron Andrews actt in Sterling bank. But there are lots of Ron Andrews- so you’d want to stipulate the address. P.O. box 592 Kooskia.
Love you. May the Lord bless you always. Nancy
Hello Ron and Nancy, we are glad that you made it all right. I sent e-mail after we had arrived but apparently it didn’t make it. We arrived safely and I was glad to found your blog. We are doing great in the Dominican Republic and are slowly learning our jobs here.
Driving from one place to another is like bumper cars but it is fun. We are having a good tiime and enjoying life. It was good to meet up with the both of you at the MTC.
Ron and Nancy,
I think we all want ot move to where you are! What a beautiful place!
We are going along as usual. Camille is planning a Harvest Festival for Saturday night at the church and the Relief Society is having a progressive dinner Nov 6 starting at Glenda Erbs. Also the children a practicing for their Sacrament Meeting program for Nov 7. I have heard a little bit in passing and am looking forward to seeing the whole program because they have been sounding really great.
Take care and keep posting to this website. It is fun to see what you are doing.
Sherry
Don’t you think that a senior mission is Heavenly Father’s way of repaying us for all those years of cub scouts or primary? What a beautiful place you have in which to serve. It sounds like you are being useful and busy.
We are enjoying the beauty of this area as well. We love the people we work with and try to keep busy. We are in a ‘Little Zion’. The school campus here is also a little village of about 17 homes of church employees and thier families. Our ward has an average of above 95% attendance so we are not having to search for lost members. This is not the usual case over the island but due to the requirements of church employment. We had the Primary program last Sunday and though they are small in number they are magnificent in voice and spirit.
We wish you well and look forward to comparing notes when we see each other again in two years.
Love, Elder and Sister Montgomery at the LDS Church College in Vaiola, Savaii, Samoa
Hi brother & sister andrews!
This blog is great to see pictures and what is happening daily in your life…..what an adventure and challenge. Have you done much in the nursing aspect yet? Wow, to be busy full time in the Lord’s work…..rewarding but not easy….right? We are all well. Preparing for yw in excellence, working and the usual. thinking of you and sending our love and best wishes. Judy
Judy, thanks for writing. We love to hear from family. We are busy and enjoying all of the activities of msssionary life, but always check for e-mails and word from home. Today was a great day- I met some interesting people while jogging in the park. one fellow who had been walking his dog visited with me for about a half hour( while I rested) and I found that he used to go to our church a few years ago! So he was either an inactive member or was investigating. Anyway I got his name and we will see him more in the future. But the cool thing was that Ron wasn’t with me, and I had actually isied with this man in Spanish all that time and we had understood each other!!! I get pretty frustrated with how slow I am at learning to conjugate sentences properly, But I must be learning some, as he understood me. But you know Raquel still says things funny after 50 years, and we know what she means! I’m sure I sound like a kindergartener- but I’m trying. We love the people here. the Young adult group that they want us to work with, are wonderful. We had english classes and piano lessons tonight and then they had a ping pong tounament afterwards They had a lot of fun and so did we! I was surprised that I could still play ping pong after 40+ years! There was a few medical situations that second week that I was here, but it has been very little really. The mission president is a Dr. so I think sometimes he just takes care of the calls himself. I don’t know, but it does seem that we don’t have near the problems that a lot of places have. The water is good here, bugs are at a minimum. Haven’t had any bites, so people are pretty healthy! So I’m not sure why we were called here as medical missionaries- but the mission president and given us lots of other work to do, and we are finding our nitch in helping to strengthen the branch and help the work go forward. Above all else in Provo they stress that “you are missionaries- you can teach and proselyte”, so we hope to do more of that too. We have a number of nonmembes who we are loving into the gospel through our young adult and institute activities. You and Rob would be such wonderful missionaries! You have so many talents, and so much leadership experience. The Lord would surely use you in many way. Keep it in mind for the near future, while health is good and you are young a vibrant. You would love it!! We send our love. Nancy and Ron
Nancy and Ron We are following your mission whenever we can get help to get to the site.The computor knows I donit kn ow what I am doing, Kind of like a horse that knows that riders doesn,t know what he is doing and heads back to the barn. We love how things are going for you there. We came over to see Peter, on his return from his mission. He has really grown into a great man with a good knowledge of the gospel. He had a great misssion with a lot of success.
We are spending thanksgiving over here in the Seattle area. We Had an offer on our house but we turned it down because it was too low and the counter wasn,t much better. Anyway we didn, t want to be homeless at christmas. We love you and miss you, but the web site is great. Keep it up. Sandi and N yle
Hi mom and dad!
Im sorry we haven’t got the skype up yet, leave it up to us to make a big production out
of something relatively simple. we’ll work it out though, I promise. Before you complain too much just remember, I Didn’t Have A Website!! I really enjoy being able to get on the
site and see the pictures and read what’s going on. It sounds like a real adventure!
Oh, by the way, we have turkeys .40 lb at Wally-World ! We have a new member of the
family. It’s a 5lb 8oz dachsund pup named Brutus! I didn’t want another dog but it’s not like I was consulted! Denise is a sucker for weiner dogs. He seems to be house training
really well though. Denise bought me a screen printer for christmas It will take me a while to learn to use it but I should be able to produce some really good stuff and maybe
even make something of myself. I’ll send you some of my creations. Well I better get the kids to bed . I love you both,
Damon
Hey Mom, You are getting really good at this. Way to go. I just clicked on “about the Andrews and scrolled down to the bottom to send a comment.
Nancy, how are you? I hope I am doing this right and you get it. I love reading all about your mission. It sounds like a neat place to be. Very nice people too. I think of you often. You have always been such a wonderful friend. Thank you. Scott and I are doing well. We have very blessed the last couple months with help from the church and the people. We are so grateful. I got a new job at the Orofino Hospital and I have Sundays off. I told the kids we can start going now. They are not too thrilled right now but hopefully after time that will change. I work nights there. Sometimes it is slow, other times busy. I still work part time over at the rehab, full time at the Hospital. I work a week and have a week off, so on my off week I will work at the rehab. I still clean the bank at night too. Scott works on my off days at the rehab. He took his classes and now he is a CNA too. The kids are doing well in school. Shawn just finished basketball. He loves that so much. His grades are pretty good. Savannah is doing great. People say she is growing a bit. She got her hair cut. Its short and cute. Brandon loves kindergarden. He is doing so well. He is soo smart and taking in everything he is being taught. He has a great teacher. Mrs.Dame. She is new to the area. She is from Utah. Mom is doing alright. She has been away for Thanksgiving and Christmas, visiting her kids. Nothing else hasa changed as far as where she is or what she is doing. She is hoping to move by spring, down to Idaho Falls. She found a place she really likes. Now its just a waiting period. Ken is about the same. Not really any change there. Well I hope you get this. I again enjoy reading what you post. Keep up the good work you do. Hop e to hear back from you when you get some time.
Love ya, Karen