Dedicated Flats and Cars

Here in a flat is a license plate indicating that this flat was dedicated. The church requests that we dedicate our church cars and flats to the work of the Lord so the spirit of the Lord can prevail there. We love this idea and it works.

The Brotherhood of the Traveling Tie

At one of our flat inspections this week we met a new Elder from SLC, Utah He has just been out for a month and is awesome. His name is Elder Fairbourn. In his family are 5 boys, all who have served missions. They all have taken this one particular tie with them on their missions--so that tie has been in Argentina, Arizona, France, Brazil and now England!!! Isn't that amazing. Those wonderful parents need to frame that tie when this son returns from his mission. With him in the second picture is Elder Bussell from Maine. He is quite a hockey player and a great missionary! They took us to this little restaurant that served breakfast all day long for a very reasonable price and the food was delicious.

Relief Society Visiting Teaching Training

We had a Visiting Teaching Training session at our home this morning. We prepared American Pancakes and bacon with fresh fruits. It was very tasty and the training put on by the Relief Society Presidency was excellent, well prepared and motivating. I have attended many a Visiting Teaching Convention and this was the BEST ONE yet!! Check out that "cute" face Dianne is pulling. She is so much fun. We all just love her!!! I love the picture of our RS Presidency. They are amazing women who I love dearly. How I will miss them all!!!

Dedicated Elder Stoddard

Here is Elder Stoddard with his companion and us at Don Steel's home. We have had the privilege of working with him for several months in the Llanelli area and he has been instrumental in touching and changing many lives. He is an eternal friend in the gospel and we will never forget our time serving with him. He will probably we transferred this next transfer and we may not see him again on our mission. We love him and will miss him very much.

Scenes from a cold, windy day in Wales

Today, Friday we traveled to Cardigan and Aberystwyth to do our flat inspections and here are scenes from Cardigan on the river and Aberystwyth on the Irish Sea. It was cold, overcast and very windy but still both areas were beautiful and unique. How we have come to love Wales and the beauty found around every corner.

Sweet Eira

We frequently visit Eira Morris with Elder Stoddard and Elder Taylor in Llanelli. Today the elders taught her about counting our many blessings and we sang to Eira the song, "Count Your Many Blessings". Eira seems to enjoy our visits and we keep encouraging her to attend church. One day she will!! We love you Eira!!!

More Fun Flat Inspections with the Best of the Best!!!

This week we did four flat inspections in Swansea, Llanelli, Cardigan and Aberystwyth. Pictured in the upper left are Elder Knecht and Elder Pulsifer both from Utah. What great and fun elders they are. On the right are the sisters, Sister Layton from Alaska, Sister Babbage from England, and Sister Perera from Sri Lanka. There are 5 or 6 missionaries in the entire church from Sri Lanka and our mission has two of them!! The sisters' flat was so beautiful and homey--one day their husbands will be lucky guys!!! They are amazing missionaries also! In the bottom left are Elder Stoddard from Idaho and Elder Taylor from Utah. They are our working buddies one day a week in Llanelli and they simply are the BEST. We have become like family working so closely together to activate our less actives in that area. In the lower right are Elder Dudley from Canada and Elder Mecham from Utah. We ate at a restaurant on the pier out in the Irish sea and the wind was blowing so much the waves were really white capping. These are two dedicated, devoted elders!! We love these days with these special servants of the Lord!!!