Well...today is Sunday and we had a very spiritual meeting. The Charchenkos talked and they were fantastic. They are FM missionaries here on site and they do a great job. They work hard all day and then come out to FHE, and help out with service for Irene victims in the area. These are great people and we are glad to know them.
Yesterday, I had the most difficult experience of all the experiences that I have had. A man by the name of Dave came to the sight and he was a little reclusive and didn't want to be in on a tour. He just wanted to sit and listen. He would walk in and almost sneak around to listen without being in the tour. After the last part of one of my tours he came and asked me why the "LDS church celebrates Easter". I tried to answer him that it was just the time of year that we celebrate the death and resurrection of the Savior. He wanted to argue that it was celebrating "ostara" or "oestara" (he even spelled them out to me). I couldn't get a word in edgewise and finally had to yell at him to stop talking and listen. I told him this was supposed to be a sacred and spiritual place and he was not allowing that to happen. He then started in on why we had an "obelisk" as something we worshiped? I was getting pretty frustrated because he was baptized three years ago!!! We finally took him back to his hotel room in Lebanon...twenty miles of listening to him rant on about how he was so persecuted and hard done by. We love him just the same.
Now...just some of my favorite pictures. Hope you enjoy.
The last picture is one of a burned out electrical socket. It was in the attic of the visitors center and the camera it fed was hit by lightning and this could have caught our entire center on fire. When Elder Charchenko went into the attic to see what the problem was...he found this and it caught on fire again in his hand. Providence.
The second picture is of the sunrise here in Vermont. It is not a forest fire...honest.
The last picture is of the method some have had to use to get the kids to school since Irene.