October 19, 2014

Sunday Shower and Church

October 19, 2014

We were up early Sunday morning to go to the early service at church.  The senior pastor was bringing the message and it was good.  Usually when we go with Stephen, we go to the contemporary service where the associate pastor preaches.  That is the man who will be doing the wedding ceremony.  But we did get to hear the younger pastor, as he taught the Bible Study class that Stephen and Kristina are in.  Both pastors taught from the same passage of scripture but on different aspects of it.  Excellent teaching. 

 

We went to lunch with Stephen and Kristina at a place called Bubba's.  They serve Southern style cooking and it was very good.  We enjoyed our lunch and our time together.  After we ate, we went outside and sat at one of the tables for a long time.  We looked at their engagement photos and were as pleased as they were with the  outcome of the session.

 

Kristina went home to get ready for the shower and we went to Stephen's apartment so  Ron could get things together for his trip home.  We relaxed for a while before getting ready for the shower.  The shower was given by some church friends and the setting could not have been more inviting.

 

Everyone visited for a while and then we ate a Southern style supper.  Yummy!  Supper was around their lovely pool and the weather couldn't have been nicer.  The temperature was perfect.  Ron and I sat at a table with Dr. and Mrs. Cooper who led the archaeological dig that Stephen went on in Israel a couple of years ago.  Among other things, we compared grandchildren photos and stories.

 

Later we all went indoors where the gifts were opened.  You could tell that the guys aren't really comfortable with Bridal Showers.  But they sure did enjoy the food!  Actually I think they enjoyed finding out what goes on at one.

 

The gifts were beautiful, useful, and very thoughtful.  They have some good friends.  We loaded the gifts into Stephen's car and then took Ron to the bus station for his trip home.  I am staying for a while.  After we dropped Ron off, we went to Kristina's house to deliver the gifts.  We stayed a while and then I went outside in the lovely night air that was not filled with mosquitoes and talked on the phone for a bit while they had some alone time to chat about the wonderful gifts and the week ahead.

 

It was late when we got back to Stephen's apartment but we still stayed up and talked a while.  We were planning the shopping we needed to do the next day.