This area has more yellow cars than any where I have ever seen. In the past two days I have seen 6 took pictures of 4. Dad thinks I am crazy but I think it is funny that there are so many. Besides it is about the only color we've seen since we got here. Other than some lovely deep purple front porches. This is just an example. One of the ones we've seen belongs to our landlords property manager.
We think they choose yellow is so they can find the car in the snow bank. We are getting a snow storm now, turns to an ice storm, they are e xpecting about 18 inches. with a hope that the power doesn't go out.

We 'll dig out later and update the blog when we can. Otherwise we are hole up in our apt. preparing to teach our 1st discussion on Sat. night.

And should you think we forgot your other sweethearts. Here are you 2 wonderful little children. They are both delightful .

Happy Birthday Lynn

Happy Birthday to my baby.!!! Lynn you have always been a joy to me and your Dad. The smile on you face and your spontaneous personality. We are glad you came to our home .

Here you are with your Sweetheart.

I swear that every picture that we post has snow in it. We went out yesterday visited one family and turned around and came home. It was getting too slick. We have has some very interesting experiences. Some of them very depressing. So far we have had 2 people asked and give us a letter having their names removed from the church records. One man died and 2 of the letters we sent out came back so they are no longer in the area. by the time we finish there will be only a branch here. THe numbers will go down rather than up. jk

Sister Slade and the Sister Missionaries,
Sister Humphries, and Sister Mat
The Elders in our Ward: Elder Crouch and Elder Eames. the Lady in the blue shirt is 89, abeen less active all of her life but never denied that she was a member.


This house is a real red-neck house. and yard... I was praying that we were in the wrong place and these people were not members. Guess all prayers are not answered as I would wish.

Ok , We are back online today. So there is much to update. To Begin with on Sunday we were scheduled to talk, we got up to no "NO" water. We called the property manager and she said someone left the laundry door open and the pipes froze. Who knew we had a laundry, we certainly did not. We used a laundry mat last week. By the time we got home from church the water was back on. We had heated the water in the microwave to wash our hair, and faces. Good thing we had 2 gallons of water under the sink to work out with.
On Monday we arose to the fridge not working, so again the prop manager was called, then we realized that if he was coming he could fix the water pressure in the shower. We had water but it was more like a squirt gun fight, where you get wet but it takes awhile. Then I discovered that the disposal wouldn't even grind up an orange peel that I had put in there that morning. So Big Ed (tall but very Skinny) ( a typical Red Neck), came to work his magic. We got a new fridge, disposal and he made a lot of noise and banging in the bathroom, today we have what we are calling "soft" water in the shower. It is better than a squirt gun fight, now it is more like a very soft rain. We'll take it.
We made cinnamon rolls Monday also... to take to the district meeting today, so we could get to know the missionaries better. We have 2 sisters in our district. They are wonderful, one is from Los Angeles , and the other is from Utah, but is a professor at BYU I teaching Physics. Wow!!!!

We have been out meeting people. Driving about 100 miles per day. Finding few home, and approaching the doors with a little trepidation, because the people inside are labeled DNC. Overall, they have been very friendly and very pleasant. It will be nice to get past the preliminaries and down to the nitty gritty.

However we have been assigned a family that has more problems than you can to shake a stick at. The Dad is mentally handicapped, 3rd grade education, diabetes, going blind and did I say very handicapped. The child is autistic and has cerebral Palsy. 6 1/2 and very big for his age and strong.
they have an income of about 1200 a month, if they are lucky. and more bills coming in than money. The Dad has bought 2 cars so far gets tired of them and lets them go, then has to make the payoff payments anyway. His logic is very flawed. She is talking about having his declared incompetant , so she can control the $$$$$$$. The problem is she is a nurturer and wants to fix things, so if he asked shse would be weak and give inhe is almost as large as the Dad is.

Here are some pictures to show some of the area we have been in.
We went to Rochester yesterday to have our car looked out, the guy that worked on it (actually) looked at it told us it was clean , clean, clean. Was very reassuring

Here is our apt updated
we got some nice furniture from the mission and then
added some of our own touches. the dressers that are in the living room are really antique.
In nice shape.