Life is good when you're busily engaged and having fun... Lots of comings and goings
It was a beautiful, clear but chilly day. The lake is artificial but perfect for boating, walking around, and for the water fowl.
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In the center is the Spanish coordinator Herbert Moscoso. Coleman Stanger (left) is getting married next week and Alondra is off to study abroad at the BYU Jerusalem Center. She will meet organist Jim and Deanne Welch (music and tour leaders there) just home to Provo for BYU graduation this week of their son Jameson and wife Erika. We miss all those who leave. But wonderful new interpreters will come! The photo below is misplaced! My daughter Emily and her family and their friends had a Jerusalem Center tour conducted by Jim and Deanne at Christmastime, as part of their fabulous Holy Land trip. Jim Welch is in the center back.
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Due to chilly weather we moved our Relief Society and Young Women's brunch from our outdoor pavilion to Cyndi Ellis' home across the street from our chapel. Above are Liz Hansen, Ann Olsen, Whitney Larsen, Stephanie Collette, and Cyndi. About 80 sisters attended.
Our Relief Society (women's organization) presidency: Jana Deucher, Ann Olsen, Stephanie Collette (president), Kathleen Patterson
Stephanie gave a short lesson on mangrove trees symbolic of our need to protect, support, root, enrich, teach, and love one another.
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I really enjoyed seeing a photo sent by my friend Rafaela Toledo (center in blue) on her 60th birthday. I served with most of these wonderful brothers and sisters in 2014-15, in the Guayaquil, Ecuador Temple.
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On the right is Eva Deans, once a little girl in Palo Alto, and now in my ward! In this crazy, confused world we live in, it is inspiring and reassuring to see so many strong, bright, good teenagers and the wonderful parents who are raising them. Our future is in good hands if we can only work out some of the huge challenges we face as a nation and as a world. We mustn't give up hope in each other. May we look to our God and try harder to emulate his attributes and discover the beautiful plan He has for each of His beloved children. I appreciate the role each of you has played in my life and I love to hear from you and see you if you come this way!
It was great to see my friends Ken and Sue Allen from Palo Alto a while ago and again recently. Please come to Provo!!
Every Tuesday I enjoy the Mission Training Center choir, part of the devotional where the missionaries hear inspirational talks from church leaders as part of their training. Most still do 2-weeks online training before they arrive for varying lengths of time depending on language difficulty. I help facilitate the interpreters, some of whom are pictured below, interpreting Tagalog, Cebuano, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Tongan, ASL, Mongolian. We find other languages as needed by the missionaries who arrive without strong English. They are all wonderful! BYU finals ended today so many are leaving for now, at least.
In the center is the Spanish coordinator Herbert Moscoso. Coleman Stanger (left) is getting married next week and Alondra is off to study abroad at the BYU Jerusalem Center. She will meet organist Jim and Deanne Welch (music and tour leaders there) just home to Provo for BYU graduation this week of their son Jameson and wife Erika. We miss all those who leave. But wonderful new interpreters will come! The photo below is misplaced! My daughter Emily and her family and their friends had a Jerusalem Center tour conducted by Jim and Deanne at Christmastime, as part of their fabulous Holy Land trip. Jim Welch is in the center back.
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My grandson Nick and fellow missionaries work hard but still have time for fun (at least on preparation day), in Baltimore, MD. He says the Spanish is coming along poco a poco. They appear to eat well! Elder de Schweinitz on the left (above) and at the top of the pyramid.
I really enjoyed seeing a photo sent by my friend Rafaela Toledo (center in blue) on her 60th birthday. I served with most of these wonderful brothers and sisters in 2014-15, in the Guayaquil, Ecuador Temple.
The talent in Provo is incredible.The very ambitious, beautiful musical
comedy Big Fish, put on by Timpview HS, had an amazing large cast of singers, dancers, actors, very innovative sets and very ambitious beautiful choreography. Big Fish (tales) is about what's real and what's fantastic, what's true and what's not true, what's partially true and how, in the end, it's all true. The reconciliation of the father-son relationship between Edward and William is the key theme in Big Fish.
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