More Clouds

Off our balcony to the north...

and west.

Every day if you look around, you can see something beautiful!
 

Clouds

Last Tuesday (October 19), we took off a bit early from the Church History Library and went down to Orem first to visit our Sister McClure who continues to recover from a brain bleed in August.  She is staying with a daughter.

We then went and got Ben and took him to dinner at the Panda Express in the mall...actually we ended up just grabbing dinner and heading to back to the hospital as Ben was distressed being outside.

The clouds were beautiful as we left the mall...

and headed back to the Utah State Hospital.  The sun was glowing on the mountain except for the clouds in the way...

And on the way to my dad's where we went next, there was this interesting cloud in the sky to the west!

And THEN when we got out of the car at Dad's, the moon was trying to peek through the clouds to the east.  It was also beautiful.

Today was my mom's birthday.  It seems appropriate to share clouds as she taught me to love clouds.  Happy birthday, Mom.  Hope you had a sweet day in heaven although I am not sure you even use the same calendar there!

 

Views From Missionary Life

Jena got a late birthday gift in the mail.  It was sent to another missionary from a former missionary who is Jena's friend.  How sweet is that!

A fall view from the fourth floor of the Church History Library to the south.  You can see the top of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building and then the Zion Bank behind that.

And we moved offices AGAIN--this is mine and Jena's office.....

and here is Gary's...slightly more privacy than our spot next door but inconvenient as well.  Oh, well--we are missionaries and we are here to help--not create problems.

After having lunch at the COB, we had to head through the first floor to visit one of the offices.  I loved the art on the wall along the way...so I took some pictures.

I found this artist's signature interesting.  It is on the painting below.

I love the light on this painting--both the actual light and the light painted by the artist--

and surprise--around the corner, these were on the wall.  

This one is the base for our mission wide zone leader training some of the time.

and I liked this one--we should all learn to build our capability to serve the Lord, improve our talent, draw the best to the cause, and enable ourselves and others to act.

And a look out into the construction area which used to be a foundation and pathways.  This is south of the Church Office Building toward the Administration Building and the JSMB.

I will have to get pictures when everything is completed in a few years.

 

Friend Fun--Dinner and Games

Finding our guest parking is a bit of a trick, so we waited on South Temple near the driveway into the parking lot to guide people in and then walked down to the Blue Lemon in City Creek Mall.

Our guests were: Gregg and Kristy Sparrow, Amy and Newton McNeill, Tami and Steve Slater, and Cindy and Bret Anderson. 

After eating dinner, we walked to our apartment to show them what missionary life is like and then headed down to the game room to play games of all kinds.

Posed on the balcony we couldn't get everyone in one shot----

so here is the rest.

Down in the social room.

It was fun to play and to talk and to be together.  We are grateful for these good friends and grateful that we were able to spend some time with them.

We definitely have to do it again when we can get Pessettos, Woodrows, and Watsons to join us!