Visit to Ventura 1st

A funny thing happened on the way to the Hooke's . . . .

After I did my (now) weekly shopping at WinCo in Ventura Saturday morning, I drove over to drop some music off for Sister Hooke. She was going to accompany me to sing in the Ventura 1st Ward on a future Sunday, yet to be determined.  While I was visiting with her, Bishop Hooke came into the room and joined our visit.  He said, "When are you going to sing?"  I said, "Whenever."  He said, "How about tomorrow?" My reply, "Wellll, I guess I could." Sister Hooke said that their program for Sunday had fallen through.  Then Bishop Hooke got this glint in his eye and said, "Hey, how about you and Elder Mecham be the speakers for tomorrow?"  And he went on about how nice it would be for the ward to hear us speak, as we didn't before we left the ward.  And on and on.  I managed to talk my way out of speaking because I agreed to sing.  I said I would ask Elder Mecham if he would do it.  And of course, he did.  And he gave a wonderful talk on the miracles he had witnessed as things fell into place getting apartments set up for all the missionaries last transfer. He always does such a great job!

Sister Hooke and I ran through a couple songs and decided to do Sally Ford's arrangement of "Come Thou Fount," a very nice hymn.  Later Saturday evening, Sister Hooke called to say that this very song had been done a couple weeks previously in their ward (she had forgotten), and she was sure it would be all right and that not very many would remember that it had been done.  I opted not to do it.  So we did "How Great Thou Art" instead - a great Bebee arrangement. And although Sister Hooke would have liked more time to practice it, it went okay.

AND we got to say hello to a bunch of people we love and have been missing!