We are thinking of each of you as Thanksgiving is coming. We will be spending the day and evening in Kirtland at the visitors center where another senior couple (the director of the Kirtland Visitors Center) has organized a turkey dinner for senior missionaries. Each one will contribute something, and our offering will be sweet potato pie. It tastes a lot like pumpkin pie, but actually tastes better. On the day after Thanksgiving (we are off work that day), we will be cooking our own turkey dinner so we can have leftovers--the best part!
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| Thanksgiving dinner favors at Kirtland: oreo cookies, Rolos, candy corn, etc. |
Kirtland is such a wonderful spiritual place--we love to go there. On Sunday evening, Dec. 1, our mission president is giving a fireside in the Kirtland Temple for all missionaries and members and investigators. What a great place for a fireside!
Our work in the courthouse is going fine. Our trainers, Elder and Sister Brumfield from Arkansaw, are very good to help us learn. We prepare the probate packets by smoothing out the paper, sometimes ironing it between two sheets of paper, and putting the documents in chronological order, for photography. It is a lot like microfilming, but is a better image. So far, all we have done has been accepted by the Salt Lake City checkers, meaning that the images we photographed are clear and properly done. We trade off every hour or so between photography and document preparation. We are currently doing probates recorded in the 1920s. Before we came here, we thought the work rooms would be chilly (temperature control environment), but they are not. So we can wear normal "business casual" clothes and be as warm as any other place. At noon after lunch, we often take a brisk walk around the buildings by the courthouse--convention center, shopping arcades, the public library, etc. The air is chilly and often very windy, so we wear our warmest coats,scarves, hats, earmuffs, and gloves.
We leave for work every morning, M-F, at 7:30 and get home about 5:30. We have found a wonderful bread bakery, so we enjoy good bread. It is across the street from another favorite, the pizza place. We decided to do our laundry at a laundromat, and we found a good one that is clean and quiet. Gas prices here are almost always less than $3.00/gallon. That's good because we do a whole lot of driving, and also like to explore around the area.
Today (Saturday, Nov. 23) I went to a Relief Society activity where we made evergreen wreaths. I made a pretty one that hangs now in our apt. and smells so good. Tonight we are going to a neighborhood theatre place to see a play: "Broadway Christmas Carol"--the story of Scrooge with music from familiar Broadway tunes--should be fun. On Sat., Dec. 14, we are having a very special outing to the Concert Hall to hear the famous Cleveland Orchestra and their holiday concert. That is our gift to each other.
We like the ward we are in, the Lakewood Ward, about 15 minutes away. They meet at 9 a.m. We don't have any callings; it is best for the members to do the callings. There is a Family History Center in our ward building, and we have gone there a couple of times in the evening. We also go to the mission office church building on Mondays after work so that I can practice the piano for an hour. It is on the way home from our work and the missionaries in the office enjoy the music. During this time, Larry likes to go grocery shopping nearby. This is my only time to play the piano and I miss doing it often and in church meetings. But I keep telling myself that I can do anything for a year. We are very happy here. We hope each one of you is well and happy wherever you are. Know that we love you and pray for you each day and think of you.
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