A visit with Lilly

Neal and I took Carol's car and drove up to Roy, Ut. to visit with Lilly.
Neal's sister Noni said she would take care of her while we are gone.
Lilly was sure happy to see us when we arrived. See, she is even smiling!!
Noni and her kids love Lilly. They have 2 other dogs.
One is Lilly's age and the other is about 3 years old.  They all get along well.
Neal's sister Cherie comes over and takes Lilly for walks.
She loves to go on walks. It was really hard to say good bye to her as she is almost 13 years old.
We hope and pray she will stay healthy and be there when we come home. 

PS: Sometimes I just don't get this whole blog thing, so some of the events are out of order. I hope to get this down all on my own. I just want to thank not only ours kids for helping me but also Christina Tonks in Ridgecrest, she has been Johnny on the spot for me and I just want her to know how much I appreciate her and the help she has given me. Thanks!

PS  How do you like my Bright Sweden shirt.
(As many of you know I love wearing T-shirts from where we have been.)

Alpine Loop: Fall is here

First of all I don't want anyone to think that all we do is sightsee in Utah as we wait for our visas!!!
Believe me when I say by the end of each day during the week that my head is ready to explode!!
We have not only tutors in Swedish but also volunteers from the area who are from Sweden who come in to help us with the language.
We really enjoy each person who helps us.  Neal is coming along really good in getting his Swedish back. My tutor says that I am doing good too!  I think he has to say that so he won't have to see me cry!  ha ha I will say that I have learned alot. I know how to count, I know all the colors, I can say prayers and bear my Testimony all in Swedish. Plus I can give directions in a city. We practice here at the MTC I will tell Neal to "Go Venstar" (left) or Go Hogar (right) or Go rack from (straight) or Go upp trappor (go up the stairs) and don't think for a minute that you can say these words as they look!!! They all have an accent or a roll on the r. Our tutor wants me to conduct a meeting for him and also welcome in the young single adults at the center so I have my work cut out for me.  I will say that even though I have a hard time holding a conversation I can understand when Neal and the tutor are having a conversation!! So I am coming along slowly but surely. So I am glad we have had time here to learn Swedish before going there.

Now for the nice trip to see the fall foliage. 
 We took 2 cars and drove a couple of hours through just beautiful fall foilage.

This was one of many canyons we drove through.

Steve's kids me and Neal and Carol

Some people saw a deer in the woods but we missed it.

I don't think you can get a picture to show the intense colors. But they really were breathtaking.

Steve and Jaime and us with the grandkids.They sure have a nice family. They are a pleasure to travel with.
Gracie likes to take pictures, I gave her my old camera, as I bought a new one for our Mission.  She really gets good shots. Ethan and his dad are Ute fans to the max, they sure have fun going to the games. Elsa is adorable, she melts your heart. She has such cute expressions with her hands when she talks. Anna she is happy go lucky and tries to keep up with everyone. She loves finding shoes and puts them on and tries to walk in them what a crack up. We will sure miss the family when we leave for Sweden.

October Events



Carol got a new cute little kitty. Steve and Jaime's kids just loved it.
Ethan, Carol, Gracie
Elsa, Kitty, Anna



We all went to Pioneer Point in Salt Lake here I am by the cute little lambs. They made me homesick for Lilly!!!




We took a hay ride through the park.



There were all kinds of activities because of Halloween. Here Steve's family made cutouts

 At each historic house the kids could trick or treat. they sure had fun.

Well I can't belive this but I had a picture of This is the Place Monument
and I went to fix a spelling a nd POOF it is gone.
So just pretend it is here. It was a monument where Brigham Young looked over the valley and said
"This is the Place"
and so became Salt Lake City.

Neal auditioned to sing at the MTC.
Their are so many talented people here that Neal said he was just happy to try out.  Well after he auditioned the person in charge went crazy over Neal and fit him in to sing at the opening meeting for the new Sr couples. the room was full and he did a great job. For the next few days people would come up and tell him what a great job he did.  He sang "The Lord's Prayer"
Kathy Lund was his accompanist. That was a real special day for Neal.

Here we are with a group of New Swedish Missionaries. We all sang in the Missionary Choir at a

Devotional. Our good friend, Doug Brenchley was our director.  It was fun to sing with him. There were probably 150 choir members.

Even though I didn't go to the game it was fun to be here during BYU's Homecoming.

there were a lot of festivities going on. BYU won the game so everyone was happy.

 We have been at the MTC so long now that I have made friends with the head of the salad department. I asked if we could have a tour of the kitchen and she had pull so told us a time to come. WOW the kitchen is amazing. They feed about 2,500 missionaries 3 meals a day!! This is a huge pot that they were making scalloped potatoes in for dinner. Each person has a task and each area has their own walk in refrigerators and supplies.

 This is the laundry room. The missionaries are in districts and are assigned a time to go to the laundry. This is only 1/2 of the room. Missionaries study where ever they are. there are some tables but most will sit on the floor or on the washers to the right!!! There is a dry cleaners in here also. To get to the laundry you go down a cement tunnel!!!

 Brother and Sister Buchanen are the couple over all the Sr couples. They are the best.  They are the ones that arranged for Neal's Dr's appointments and also drove us to his appointments.

 Michael's business is growing and he was able to purchase another machine for his Rapid Prototyping.
The company will be coming to set it up and get it running. He still has a job with Flex Pak as the head IT man.

We had dinner at Carol's on Sunday. we had gone to Steve's to see the grand kids be in the Primary program.  there Primary is huge. the kids did a great job. Carol made a fall dinner of soup and then Carmel
apples.  She cut up the apples and melted the carmels in a fondue pot and had cruhed up candy bars. So we dipped the apples in the carmel and then in the candy bars.  Much easier to eat then a whole apple!!!