Posts

Showing posts from May 5, 2019

Catching up; Paris Temple grounds, Brive and Bergerac

Image
Our Church week —This week was a smorgasbord of unpacking, catching up and the normal regiment of phone calls, emails, visits and the like.  We finished up loose ends from our trip including some family history. Next week we travel again—We need to go to Carcassonne (3hrs) for a Bishop/Branch President training meeting, so we need to get our ducks in a row to accommodate those days we will be gone.  Didn’t we just get back….from Paris?  Never a dull moment.  It will be definitely be interesting to see how many miles we will have driven come July.  Pierre Poussard —En route to Paris last week we met Pierre Poussard.  He is the father of Denis, Ben, Corrine and Nicole.  Pierre was a Sealer (performs marriages) in the Bern, Swiss Temple for 40 years!  He sealed his 4 children.  “What a privilege!” he said.  He was set apart (authorized) by Spencer W Kimball (previous prophet).  He and his wife would travel 4 times a year and spend 1 week at the Swiss Temple.  Because of the g