Today wasn't the most crowded we've had, but the tours were great. I had only two tours and they were both with members. It's more exciting when we get non-members and give them a referal card.
We are priming up for the storm that is hitting the east coast right now. We are supposed to get 40 mph winds and about 4 to 6 inches of rain during the next two days. We are ready for it, but most likely won't get many...if any visitors to the site. We'll see.
Fantastic news today the elder closest to the camera is Elder Craig. He just found out today that he is a direct descendent of Hiram Smith and therefore his ancestors came over on the Mayflower as did all the Smith's. He is so excited about it and we are expecting he and his comp. to show up later tonight to celebrate with us.

I am finally learning how to do the blog thing. It is fun and I love to let you see what we see everyday and sometimes just on our "P" day. We have seen a lot of the state of Vermont and a little of the state of New Hampshire. Some of the pictures are not too good because the photographer isn't that good. Last P day we went to Manchester, Vermont to the summer home of the son of President Lincoln...Robert Lincoln. His wife used to drive around in this car and Robert, the son, was at one time the CEO of Pullman Co. which was the largest manufacturer in the world. They made train cars. That was in the early 1900's.

Goat farm at the Robert Lincoln estate called Hildene in Vermont. They milk 28 goats a day and get about 20 gallons of milk to make cheese. It was a fun site. Brittney would love it here.

Monument

Joseph Smith Birthplace Monument...where we serve everyday.

How beautiful can it get. This is where we get to be every day!

This is the beautiful monument to Joseph Smith. This is where we serve.

Hard at it!!!!

Hey Family,
We are hard at it and I have just yesterday got the internet. We have had a phone for a few days longer than that and our phone number is 1-802-763-8493. Remember for those of you in Utah there is a two hour difference so if you call at 10:00 pm there it is midnight here and I will call you back at 7:00 in the morning here which will be 5:00 am there. That's not a threat, just a suggestion for when to call. At the latest we will be off work at 7:00 here, so that means a call at 7:30 would be fantastic.
We have been giving a lot of tours and some of them have been very spiritual and fun. A lady called today that had been here a week ago and wanted some more information on Joseph Smith's childhood from what I had told her. It was exciting to tell it again over the phone and I even had her call the apartment where Mom was so she could give her more information.
We have had the Elders over a few times for meals and they have sort of latched on to us and we love it. We took them to a place in the far reaches of the district for them and we went to a cheese making place and maple syrup farm. Fantastic samples and we bought some maple syrup. It is very expensive, but when we learned that it takes over 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.
The cheeses were fantastic and we sampled them all.
Yesterday we went to the Barre Quarry where they got the granite for the monument. I took a few pictures and Elder Craig is coming over tonight to show me how to get the pictures from my Droid to the computer. I will load them on the blog when I learn how to do that.
Mom and I love all of you. Blog to you later.