The Georgia Macon Mission is continuing the tradition of the South Carolina Mission in having their Senior Couples inspect apartments. So this morning, we drove out to Harlem and then out to Thomson to inspect two apartments. Not only do we make sure that they are keeping their apartments clean, but we also make sure they have everything they need to have comfortable living quarters. One of the Elders was sleeping on a very poor mattress, so we wrote in our report that a new one should be provided. They also do not have enough chairs for the kitchen table, and the ones they do have are in poor condition. It is these sort of things  that we want to make sure get corrected. After returning home Elder Gowans dashed out to meet the Sisters at an appointment, unfortunately it fell through. He asked us to come back in a couple of hours, but we had an other appointment scheduled for then. At 2 pm, we met with the Swartz family; he is deploying in about 2 1/2 weeks for Kuwait. We gave them our predeployment briefing as we had the Towns family the day prior. We are so happy that we learned of these families situation before it was too late. This has been the problem for a while. So many months ago, we asked the stake to ask the wards to assign someone to be a POC for us so that we could keep track of our military families, particularly those who are in such a situation, but it has not been done. We keep asking, but nothing happens. In some cases, it is almost as if we are home teachers to all these families, but that would be impossible. We really love our call, but we need the support of our stake and our ward leadership to be completely effective.

After visiting the Swartz family, we came home for an hour and then went back to Grovetown to a Birthday party for Sister Gardner; at the part was the Towns, Sister Mack and of course, the Gardners. We had an enjoyable time with them, eating hot dogs, and visiting.

 Sister Gardner, she is 35; she does ASL in the Augusta Ward; our ward is designated the ward in the stake to take care of the deaf. 

 Brother Towns, he will deploy Sunday

 Lila, Bella, Josie

 Elenor

 Sister Mack, her husband is currently deployed

 Brother Gardner and Sister Towns. Brother Gardner recently returned from a deployment

Joseph

After the Birthday party, we dashed up to post to visit with Sister Lacy Wessels who is here TDY at the NCO academy. She will be here until October. We had a short, but good visit with her. We try to visit all those who come here TDY, no matter how long or short of a time they will be with us. 

After Sister Wessel's visit, we went to see Elder and Sister Meacham. Elder Meacham celebrated his 69th birthday today. From their we dashed up to see Sister Mitton up in North Augusta. We visit with her from time-to-time to help and support her through a difficult time she has been going through for the past 2 years. 

It has been a long, but wonderful day! Hopefully some good has been done.