Mission--October 2009

It began to look a little like
fall along City Creek.


Our snowman mascot is decked
out for Halloween (Utah has the
"Greatest Snow on Earth")


The east side of the Conference
Center--facing our building.


On October 15th we flew to
Virginia for a long week-end.

Took a trip to Gettysburg to
see Eric's family.

Rhys (above)
Desi & Ben (below)


We also went to Bill's 50th
high school reunion in
Lancaster.


Sunday, Bryce McArthur Gallahan
was blessed.

Then we partied at Tammy & Ken's

A sleepy Isabella!

Jenni, Rhys & Bryce

Ft. Washington, Maryland

across the beautiful Potomac

River as we drove to the

airport.

When we got back, fall had

arrived!

We said good-bye to one of

our favorite missionaries,

Elder Bake--who has taught

me so much about Idaho

history!

Then winter made a brief

appearance.

The best news--

Mike came home

on October 26th!!!

Mission--September 2009

The first of September might be meterological fall--but the thermometer stayed way up for the whole month.

Mr. Snowman was ready for fall & school.

We went to Antelope Island
with our social group.

Dad & Sandums walking to the Great Salt Lake.

Low water levels--Buffalo Bay

Look closely--there are
antelope in that grass.

Kent & Spencer (S'Dawg)

We took a tour of the church printing plant.

The new Spanish Bible-hot off the press.

Huge rolls of paper!

Fast moving pages!


Saturday, 26th, Foster boys at

The Beehive House.

One of my favorite flower beds--gorgeous!

The coleus gardens!

Indian Presentation,

Sister Bringhurst playing an Indian flute.

Mission August 2009

A hot month--for the most part, made us wish we could be at the beach!

Our daily walks go past City Creek!

The one cool week-end, we did a walking tour around Temple Square.

Brigham Young's gravesite and statues.

Interesting facade on this old building!

Dad in front of the Social Hall Museum, which wasn't open.

We had a branch picnic up Parley's Canyon and a program about raptors, birds of prey.

Hawk

Blue Macaw (not really a raptor--but cool)

An owl

Falcon

Another falcon

About the middle of the month, we went to Cache Valley with Elder and Sister Sandum.

Logan Temple

Set for "Martin Harris Pageant"

Marcia's birthday, August 18th.

JACOB's birthday, August 24th

Mexican themed zone social. Jeff Anderson and his wife provided the entertainment. Jeff is one of the archivists on our floor.




Bill with John Laing, they were mission companions in Germany over 40 years ago. John is the branch president of the other missionary branch.