Nov 14Th

These pictures are from a drive that dad and I took after church last Sunday, the 8th with our friends the Carrigans, they also are on a family history mission and making digital documents. They are really fun.

Pictures on the drive up to the falls.

Here it is the middle of Nov. already. The past few weeks have flown by so fast. It is definetly fall here. The leaves have all changed or are just about all fallen. Today the sky is pretty grey and the past two days it has been raining off and on. But what do you expect in the fall????

Life here is moving along quite quickly I would say. We still are working in the temple. We have met with our supervisor, who from now on I will call Tony, which is simpler than spelling out supervisor. He is a great man and so is his wife. We went to lunch at their house two weeks ago with the Carrigans and we found out that we are going to be doing some work in a little town called Elberton.

We have been back and forth to his home the past week and have been preparing our camera and retraining - really need to as we have forgotten what we learned in the MTC. We will go there again on Monday and we probably will work for two days a week. Elberton is 2 hours drive from here in Sandy Springs so we will go on Tueseay and Thursday to break it up and work at the temple the rest of the time. It will be good to have a variety. We are excited to do both. The documents we will be copying begin in the 1700's so that should be pretty challenging.

We have very much enjoyed our time in the temple and are glad to continue doing that.

15 Nov. We just got back from playing cards it was fun. We have some great people that we have gotten to know in this apartment. We have taught them how to play wizard. It is fun but not quite like being with our old friends, but fun.

Nov 16th today was Sunday we had a great meeting. President Parker spoke, he is one of the first Black Stake Presidents in the country. He gave an awesome talk, on his meeting with President Monson. He spoke to the Relief Society. He talked about how we need to be faithful and follow our prophet and read scriptures. You know mostly the usual that you hear but for some reason it really hit me today. He said that we need to focus more on the people and principles not the programs. Because not all of the world has programs like we do it depends on the area. If you think about that it is true. They will not have all the extras that we may have in our area, it is just principles that our ture. He stressed that we teachprinciples, eliminate guilt, allocate our resources, time, energy and income. We need to divide the work so that all can share in the blessings. And best of all he said we need to balance our lives with 1. Faith, 2. Family, 3. Career, 4. Finances. That is a good suggestion especially for my family who are busy with careers, families and all the other things. You need to look at what is most important and then go from there.

I remember at a time when I thought I had to do it all and that is so not true. You need to know what is important. First Jesus Christ then the Family and the rest will come in to proper place.

The gospel is true, Jesus Christ is our brother and knows each of us individually, if we remember that we will never go wrong.

This mission is great.