Spencer Gerken, Vinnie and Teri's grandson,  arrived Monday. He had planned to move down a few months ago, but then the pandemic started. While Matt and Amber are in California, he's staying in their empty house...

Olivia organized a little "welcome party"... here's Margaret waving from the porch as he turned onto Improvement Branch.

The Bernards had been waiting for him in their car at the top of Pound Mountain, then followed him down.

We sat at the bottom of the Kingdom Hall hill and joined the caravan as it came by. 

Then the Spencers arrived to welcome him from their car

Finally, Addi took his order and dropped off his inaugaral Paco's meal

He gave an excellent substitute talk at his first meeting with us. He's already an asset!

When I first logged on to the meeting Thursday, I did a double take when Julian appeared to be "in" our guest room...

Addi had sent him a picture of the wallpaper and he was using it as his background.

 

This photo was sent to our congregation message thread by Cathy...

Her dad was clearing their pond of the turtles that had been eating up all their bluegill. She'd already cleaned one and put it in the freezer, so she was offering the others to any of the friends with a taste for turtle...