Steve & Liz McAllister

  Christmas lights are the Mission Inn in Riverside Heading into Christmas was busier than expected.  The mission president wanted to have the missionaries come to his house for a Christmas Zone Conference.  He had 5 of these conferences, spread over 3 days.  He also wanted to feed all the missionaries without breaking the budget.  How do you feed all these people in about 1 hour?   The plan was to do a baked potato bar.  The senior couples prepared the potatoes and delivered them to the mission home, where they were baked for about 90 minutes.  They turned out very well.  But by the end of the week, I think the mission president, his wife and children, and many of the senior couples were all “potatoed out!” Some of the senior couples attended more than one zone conference, to lend support/help to Sister Watson.  It all went very well.   The mission president gathered all the missionaries into the family room where we sang Chris...

    “You are gorgeous!” I can’t let Liz out of my sight.   This is the second time that someone has “hit” on her. The first was while we were in LA at the French consulate, and I was sitting right there!   The man was elderly, pushing a walker, and was on oxygen.   I wasn’t too worried.   He came right up to her toe to toe and told her she had beautiful eyes.   We had a good laugh after he slowly shuffled off. Unlike the “junior” missionaries who must be always with their companion, seniors are allowed to run errands and do things by themselves.   Last week Liz was walking into a store near the office by herself. As she entered the store, another elderly man who hadn’t aged too well, spread his arms out wide as she approached and said, “You are gorgeous!”   Liz just rolled her eyes, and kept walking, and said to herself, “ya, right!”   You’ll have to read to the end to see how this story turns out. (cliff hanger.)   We’ve ha...