Murray Ceff's Blog

I started the day yesterday with the old Falcon breaking down on the way to work down at Torquay. It's a forty minute drive to Torquay and I had to walk home. Fortunately I was only about 1 klm from home when it broke down! So I walked home, grabbed the Subaru and drove to the tennis courts where Margot was with Miriam. we had to wait for Miriam to finish her game, but then we drove home and Margot came to the where the Falcon was on Watt St, and we towed it home. So I ended up not getting down to Torquay until about midday. In a very short time I had sold one mini-mal and one SUP Board, and then the phone rang. It was Margot calling to tell me a tree had come down across our driveway and it needed to be moved. This was not that surprising as we were being hit with very strong winds and there were trees down all along the Surfcoast Highway to Torquay. So in the car, back to Lara, out with the chainsaw, and the Mormon Aussie Bloke was in action! And then I was at work down on

Twice in the last four days I have been to visit my new (my first) grandson, Jiah William Crimmins. First visit was on Sunday afternoon when Margot, Miriam and I drove up with my Dad and his wife Norma, to visit the Crimmins family while they were still at the Angliss Hospital in Ferntree Gully. The second visit was yesterday when Margot and I drove up my Mum to see them, in their home at Croydon. This is hard to write about in some ways. I have to really explore and express my feelings, and like many Aussie Blokes, I am not terribly good at doing this. Here is one simple regret. We did not get a picture, in either visit, of Jiah with his father, Leahannah's husband, Zane. We were so involved in getting photos of him with all of us, that we forgot about Zane. I am getting a bit teary as I write this, which I think shows that this really was a bad thing, that in a small way we didn't really acknowledge Zane. Zane is a good husband and father. In saying that, I am very conf

Now I know you're all thinking I am way to young, but yes, its true, I have just become a grand-dad! The phone rang while I was talking to a customer here in the shop at Torquay and everything went a but crazy for me on the emotional side of things when I saw the call coming from Leahannah. I had to take the call of course as I thought it might be something a bit serious with her being so close to being due. So anyway mother and baby are well. It's a boy and I think his name is Jayah or something like that!

This is an attempt to re-write a post I wrote. I wrote it on my mobile phone and I was sure that I hit the publish button, but if I did it didn't work and I lost everything I wrote. I know I wrote about Miriam's last day of her school holidays. I took her surfing in the bay at Pt Addis. It was the second time we had surfed there. We have surfed a few different places over the holidays and it has been a lot of fun and good one-on-one time together.

A few weeks ago, the 2nd Counsellor in our Stake Presidency called me aside for a private chat. I assumed he was going to be giving me some assignment as I was serving on the High Council, and since our new Stake Presidency had been called, there was some juggling of responsibilities happening. To my surprise he released me and said that our new Bishop had something important for me to do in Geelong. So later that morning Bishop Sandford called me in to his office and called me as the Young Men President. A bit of a surprise I must say, but I am enjoying the calling already. It is now the last week of the school holidays and on Monday I took all the active deacons surfing at Raafs, near Barwon Heads. Tiui, Epati, Jean-Paul, and Josh all enjoyed themselves immensely , and Jean-Paul showed great potential. Today I took Tristan on a service project at Bob L's place in Newcomb. Tristan is the only active Priest in the Ward, so it was good one-on-one time for us. It's a much