Elder Gowans took some liberty to sleep in this morning after his exhausting evening yesterday. After returning home last night, he hung his perspiration soaked clothes over the shower railing in the extra bathroom to dry over night.When Sister Gowans went in there this morning to use the bathroom, she said the clothes really stunk, so she put them right into the wash. Good thing, because Elder Gowans needed those jeans when we went to help Sister Mack clean house this afternoon.

After a good night's rest, we headed to the library to do our normal Wednesday service. Even though we arrived an hour later than normal, we were still able to accomplish all that we had set out to do. Sister Gowans did her shelf reading in the children's room and Elder Gowans finished inventorying in the same room.With the exception of the fiction books, he has inventoried the entire library twice. We wonder what they will have in store for us next week.

This evening we had two appointments. The first was with a new family; new to the area and newly wedded. He is a Marine, one of only two Marines on Post that we are aware of who is LDS. We had a real nice visit with them. We hope that they enjoy building their new married life here together. It is very different from Arizona and New Mexico where they are from. Since they live right by brother George Dereoun, we dropped in on him to say hi and had a nice little visit with him. Last time we saw him he had severely twisted his ankle; he seems to be doing much better now. After visiting George, we went to our second appointment, Brother Baum, an old companion of Jacob's. He is doing well. He just received his separation from the Army orders today; that put a smile on his face. Afterward, we dropped in on Sister Murray. Her husband just left to return to his deployed location after his midcycle leave. She had been feeling rather blue, but seemed to be doing fine.

A great evening! We thoroughly enjoy these fruitful evenings.