Preparation Day For The Fishers

Today, we went on our "P" day up north to a place called Stowe, VT. It is a little like Park City, UT. Some beautiful scenery and we went up in the tram there. It was so cloudy that I couldn't take any pictures so we bought these post card.
Yesterday we were running all shift. We had over 40 people come through our shift alone. I had an older couple from Czechoslovakia who were not LDS and had a hundred questions about the martyrdom, the initial organization, why some of Joseph's family didn't go with Brigham to Utah. Were the members of the mob marshalls or sherrifs? Were they punished for their crimes. It sure kept me on my toes and I loved every minute of it. I wish I had a picture of them, but can't really take their pictures when they are in a tour. I threw in one that showed me doing what I do.

Not many folks around for tours today and we were looking at the local newspaper and found these photos of folks dealing with the aftermath of Irene. The lady is climbing a ladder to get up to the road where she has left a bicycle. Another bicycle is left here at the base of the abutment for use when she gets home. The other picture is of a family that gets driven on a tractor to go to school rather than go on the road that is available and would take a much longer time for them to go. People make do!!!
If I can I will throw in a picture of the monument at sunset. Hope they all come through.

This picture should go with the prose created for the last post...the one below this one.

Yesterday, Sister Fisher and I went shopping and on the way home we stopped to take a picture of South Royalton from the freeway above the little village. This is a wonderful place just for the beauty alone, but when you take into account the great people that live here, it is phenomenal. There are a couple of views because like all villages here in Vermont they seem to spread out a little more than at home. And then I threw in just for fun a little flower the has decided to set up house keeping right in the doorway of a little chipmunk friend of ours...Chippie

I don't have any new pictures to show you today, but we had Elder C. Scott Grow, one of the seventy come to teach us. He is fantastic. President Wilkey started the meeting and gave a little instruction about learning the fundamentals. He asked the 100 plus missionaries there if any of them played high school basketball. Myself and one other person raised our hands. He looked straight at me and said, "Elder Fisher, could you tell us how tall you are?" I knew he wanted me to say 5'24" so I said it and the place just roared with laughter...all but me because I thought he was going to ask me to come up and help him demonstrate something about fundamentals. He didn't and I have never been so relieved. I just knew I would get up there, lose my balance and fall on him and hurt us both. He asked the young elder to come up and told him to pretend to take a shot over him and miss the imaginary shot to show them what he would do when he missed. The elder shot and just stood there. Pres. Wilkey said "You were supposed to get your rebound." The elder said, "I hit the shot." The crowd went wild and Pres. was so funny in the way he instructed the elder to "MISS THE NEXT ONE!" and then taught us some 'fundamentals' on how to block out the shooter from getting the rebound. He went on to teach us some basics of missionary work. It was very good. I loved every minute of the part we could stay for. We had to go relieve the ones that were there for the first half of the meetings. Great day...and I got a referral from one of the tours I had!!!:)

It's Monday 9/19/11. We started the day out with a bang. There were people waiting for a tour when we got there this morning. We had some very spiritual tours, but the best thing was when Elder Craig told us about when he was blessing the sacrament and the deacons ran out of water. The elders filled the trays with the sacrament cups and with a small glass of water that had been blessed started to pour the water into the cups. He knew that there wasn't going to be enough water so he started to pray that there would be enough. He filled the cups and had plenty of water still in the glass...there were fifty cups to fill. A little miracle had happened.
Sister Scott was confirmed yesterday and she told us that the thing that convinced her it was the thing to do was from President Uchdorf's talk about the Road to Damascus. The man who spoke in sacrament later, who had not heard what Sister Scott had said, talked about the same talk from the Ensign. It was a very spiritual meeting. Why do we love it here? Not hard to tell is it!!!

It Sunday and we had a phenomenal meeting today. Sister Scott was confirmed and given the gift of the Holy Ghost by Elder Craig. I was honored to be able to stand in the confirmation. There were ten men in the circle and the only two in the whole thing who weren't missionaries was the Bishop and Sister Scott. It was a very spiritual time. After the meeting, we had to go right to the site and there were several tours that took place. It was a very good day. It went too fast. There was a bus tour from Utah and there were people on there from St. George, but I don't know their names.
We were invited out the the Dunkle's home for dinner along with several others. We had home grown chicken, home grown corn, potatoes, tomatos, and it was fantastic. We have been making some friends that will remain friends for life. It is so great. GREAT DAY!!!!!!:)