Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018 Good-bye 2018 This will be the last post for the year 2018 !! How quickly it has gone and so many things have happened! Now, I really do not have any pictures to post but that doesn't mean that we haven't been busy. First of all, we worked Christmas Eve until noon and got alot done in each of our areas because there were not visitors around that we had to work around. Later, that evening a bunch of us missionaries got together and had a meal at the FM compound conference room where we laughed and visited, then played the white elelphant gift pass game and did a couple of minute to win it type games. It was a fun evening. Of course, we ended the evening with the Christmas story from Luke and wished each other a Merry Christmas. Christmas morning, Jim and I got up and after exploring our stockings we gave each other our gifts. Then we sat and looked at the gift in our laps and then at each other and started to laugh. The...
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Sunday, Dec. 23, 2018 It has been a busy, productive week. I have spent the week in one of the temple missionary apartments. It needed some major work....I have learned how to do mudding and taping of drywall as well as texturing of walls and ceiling. This upcoming week will see me getting the painting done (I hope!) The prep work takes alot longer and is much more painstaking!! Jim has spent the week alone, as his service elder has been gone due to illness and a sprained ankle. He has been working on getting the pickets ready for all of the new trees that they are planning on planting this spring. They have taken down several old ash trees that have been affected with a beetle. When they take them down, the entire center is hollow. There may be about 6 inches of wood around the outside edge but the entire center is hollow and rotten. Kind of scary to see a tree that size and know that at any time, it could have...
Sunday, Dec. 16, 2018 Be prepared.....this might be alot of pictures !! We needed to run to Keokuk after work one afternoon and (of course) it was dark when we were ready to head for home. We had heard that Keokuk has an amazing light display in their town park and so we found it. It was amazing!! They have you drive through the park in a marked direction. Here are a couple of pics. Next, we have a very talented carpenter that works in the same shop as Jim and this is a nativity set that he made with a scroll saw and pieces of wood. He is very talented. I love it !! Jim was working at putting the fence back up at the John Taylor historic home after they had taken down two old trees and replaced them with new ones Then, the next day, he was repairing a gate and a fence that surrounded the garbage cans and an air conditioning unit at the Coolidge historic home. They don't like having the modern conv...
Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018 It has been a great week ! We have done alot of work in our different areas and feel like we have accomplished a few things. My focus this past week has been getting the apartments ready for the temple missionaries to go into as they will be returning this upcoming week with the temple re-opening on the 18th. The apartments needed some wall patching and painting touch-ups done. Jim has been working on fences....surprise !! We have had some cold weather but no more snow. I'm going to show you something that we did on Nov. 29. It was the old-fashion Christmas evening in Carthage and lots of the missionaries went over to the Visitors Center and then were divided into small groups and we walked around the central square carolling. It was interesting. As we came back into the Visitors Center we had our picture taken along with Elder & Sister Howard from Wyoming. As we walked along, we saw so...
Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018 Unexpected trip home As you may have noticed, I haven't posted in a couple of weeks. We made an unexpected trip home to Canada on Monday, Nov. 12 and returned here to Nauvoo on Tuesday, Nov. 27. President Lusvardi recommended that we return home with Megan & Chris so that we could get some medical attention for Jim so it was a quick decision and trip. We saw the doctors that we needed to and received the help that was necessary. Must say that we are so grateful for kind, competent doctors and for the medical system that we enjoy and take for granted in Canada. Jim's heart is fine and , as he suspected, he was reacting to the medication that he was put on down here after he had the A-fib incident in July. Apparently it can linger in the system for 15-45 days and so we are finding that he still has headaches but not as severe or quite as often. We are confident that it will continue to improve. I saw the eye spe...