SUNDAY PONDERINGS!

It is a cold Sunday afternoon and we are at home for the evening. Sunday was not as spiritual as I would have liked it to be...but that is my fault. The Spirit is always there for anyone who is in the right frame of mind and has come with the spirit. We have only one more month and then our mission is over. We will find it as hard to leave to go home as it was enjoyable to arrive. This is a place where we have come closer to our Father in Heaven than we have ever been. We want to go on another mission if our health permits. Both Sister Fisher and I have worked hard on keeping healthy and losing weight. If we can maintain, we should be in good shape to go again. I am going to throw in a few pictures and they fit in with my "ponderings". (We have learned a great deal about pondering. It is a wonderful way to remember the things we study and pray about.

This is a picture of the nativity taken with my cellphone. Each year on the two days following Thanksgiving, they have have a live nativity with a donkey (Annie), two sheep named 'Two Kisses' and 'Maple Dot'. 'Dot' had to go home and 'Snickers' took her place. This year they had two alpacas for the Nativity performance. They were 'imitation camels' with no humps and they couldn't stay for the season.

Our site director's wife is a wonderful lady with a great sense of humor. She is modeling a nose warmer that she made for one of her grandchildren. She made several of them. She is my "sister".

I have had the good fortune to be able to revive and old talent. I love to draw and the subjects here at the Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial are wonderful. I have drawn a picture of each of the modern day prophets and some of the Lord, and some other church pictures. The Lord has blessed me and I am grateful.

Joseph Smith was called a "Polished Shaft in the quiver of the Lord" The monument is to show that feature and as you can see, the 107 year old obelisk is as shiny as it was the day it was erected. The summer flowers are all gone and the leaves have left the trees, but the spire shines on. You've heard of a "partridge in a pear tree"? Well if you look real closely you will see three of them in this tree...it isn't a real pear tree, but those are partridges.