Color EXCITEMENT

I am so excited to watch all the colors start changing here in New York. We drove all over the Zone, which is all of the north eastern most part of our mission and consider up state New York, yesterday delivering Preach My Gospel Assesment questionaires to all the apartments in our Zone. The Elders are to fill them out and bring them to Mission Conference tomorrow in York Town. As we were traveling along the hi-ways and by-ways the leaves are starting to change their colors. Not a ton but enough to see how beautiful it will be soon. It is so random how a tree in the middle of a grove will be orangish-red on maybe only half of it. Oh, but so vibrant and beautiful.

Church was great today. It was fast and testimony meeting. Carlos was confirmed and his mother Lisa will hopefully be confirmed in a couple of weeks. She is really struggling with with her smoking. We have learned from teaching the Addiction Recovery classes how difficult some people have with giving up their addictions as they turn their life over to the Savior. Giving their will up to the Lord's will. The spirit is strong in these meetings. I love Sundays, I love going to church.

I was blessed to spend the day in our little nursery. We have just one primary leader, sister Fuller. She is the Primary President, and is a one person show. We have about 6 children who come on a regular basis. There were two little ones in the nursery. Johnny and Lizzy. We had a good time. After our 3 hour block we had "Break the Fast" potluck dinner. It is always fun to visit with everyone. Elder Gales birthday is the 9th, so the young women and leaders sang happy birthday to him.

We topped the day off with going for a walk and stopping to visit sister Pyrum. She has been a member for about 18 years. In her former church she was a Pentacostal Evangelist Preacher. She has a lot of great stories to tell, and does all the talking when we visit with her. Her late husband who she is sealed to used to take care of the maintenance and lawn care for about 8 chapels. When he passed away she was left with the contract and we learned all about how she managed it. She is an amazing women with much interesting history. She is raising 3 granddaughters who all seem to have some type of mental handicap. I am sure it is due to their momma doing drugs when pregnant.

Lisa and Carlos came buy so Doug can help Carlos make brownies. Long story, but Doug has the reputation of the yummiest brownies. All my girls would love his brownies. They are all brownie fans. But you'll have to wait for another year or soooooooooooooooooooooooo.