I was just talking to Emily about her new baby's blessing, which was today, and she told me Makayla knows her alphabet. That's not such a big deal except for the fact that Makayla is only 2 1/2 years old. Children now days just blow me away!
Here is a picture of Emily's children:
Artie, Makayla (they call her Kayla), Samuel (they call him Sammy)
Cute Vehicles
I cannot believe it has been 3 weeks since I have posted to the blog! Where does the time go??
Everything seems to be going well at home. The babies are growing. Emily is a year old now and I am on my second year of birthday presents. Emma was baptized last month, Audrey will be baptized in November, Kameron and Aric will be ordained to the Aaronic Priesthood this next year and 3 babies have been blessed and one more in on the way. Why did everyone wait until we decided to go on a mission to get pregnant? Life is just not fair!!!
But we love our work. We love the gospel of Jesus Christ and spending our entire time focused on that, except when talking to family, is such a spiritual high. We work hard and are very busy. We each have duties in the local branch. Dad is the branch clerk and I teach a primary class. I also take care of a bulletin board that's theme changes each month. It is really stretching my creativity (and for a "bean-counter like me that is quite a challenge). I use a program called Photoshop Elements. Luckily a sister in the branch, Jennifer Merkley, has been gracious enough to help me learn the program and has been a big influence in a lot of the creative concepts. She is going back to the states in a month and I will miss her smiling jovial personality very much.
We also teach an Institute class on Thursdays nights and Dad volunteers at the Chaplain's office on Tuesday & Friday mornings. I visit the sisters when I can and we will be starting an Italian class, of course taught by our full-time missionaries who are very fluent in the language. That class will be at the home of one of the members.
In this post I wan
ted to share some of the more interesting vehicles we see on the roads here. Notice I did not say cars, because as you will see they are not at all what we would see on our roads in the US.
I loved this car on the left. It was parked at the base. It has character.
The yellow car is owned by our neighbors across the street. We see quite a lot of these cars around. It reminds me of the car Tom Selleck was driving in the movie 3 Men and a Little Girl. It is very, very, very small.
This next vehicle i
s something I would never in my wildest imagination (now remember I am a bean-counter) think could be used for a vehicle. A rototiller???
We have seen several, over 10, of these on the streets. I need to get one of these for Derek.
Well, that's it for now. We hope all is well with our family and friends wherever you are.
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Bye for now,
Mom
