Dear Ones,
The weather is changing. The temperatures are dropping at night and during the day. Dad was worried about our beautiful tomato plant so he brought it into the living room this past week. You can see it is almost to the sealing and the tomatoes are ripening We are hoping that we can keep it healthy and beautiful until Christmas. It will be beautiful with a string of lights, a few ornaments and Christmas presents under it. Maybe it will have red tomatoes still ripening on it, how festive it will be. It has grown a good four inches since we brought it in.
This was a special week for our Brittany. She turned 16 on the 19th. We had a quick visit with her. She was out on a date with her Dad. She was wearing a pretty new dress and high heels(she said that the heels were not to high) They family was meeting the two of them for lunch. It was fun to talk with her on her special day. Happy Birthday again.
This week we have been very busy in the office. This was the week of the Area Review as well as the end of the quarter for finances. We had visitors from all over reviewing our operations here in Frankfurt. We had Martin Gardner from England who is over employment, Mark from SLC in the Welfare department, and Demitri from Moscow who is head of the Welfare department for Eastern Europe Area. This review is done every three years. This team is chosen and they visit all the facilities in the area to see how all is operating. So we spent Thursday morning being interviewed. It was friendly and a great opportunity to share information that might be helpful for future operations. We drove people to hotels and to the airport as well.
It was a great feeling to feel that we had learned enough to be able to participate fully in this review. We know what we are doing now and can really be useful. This week we filled out the paper work to request our replacements. It is hard to think about leaving. We love it here and we are finally feeling confident about our abilities and skills to do this work. But we were told that this is how the cycle goes. So with excitement we look forward to being with our family and friends but sadness to leave this wonderful experience and all of our new friends here
This week has been somewhat of a recovery week. We have tried to go to bed earlier and get a little more rested. Our traveling schedule this summer has been very tiring. We work all day with our couples in the field and then we come back to the hotel and try and keep up with the office work. We have been working Saturdays and Sundays here to catch up.
Friday we spent the day in Wiesbaden taking care of military business....renewed my ID card, renewal of our pink card so we can use the commissary and Px, picked up an Rx from the Pharmacy, shopped at Mains Kastel, and other places in the area, then we went to the Px and Commissary. It was a full day. On our return home we went for a Bike ride. We rode downtown to the city center. It was really fun and we did not get lost and it took us about 10minutes . The weather is beautiful and cool, the leaves are beginning to turn. I love the fall here.
Saturday, Dad stayed here in Frankfurt and worked a while in the office. He went on another bike ride downtown. He had a great time, got a little lost but found his way back home. I went with Reingard to visit Ruth and Milo in their new home. The drive was beautiful and the conversation just great. They live in a small commuity close to Koblenz. Tim has finished his schooling and is now interning at the BAUHAUS. He is going into management there. We had a delightful day playing with Milo,looking at all the baby things that Ruth had collected, shopping at several flea markets for baby clothes for the new baby that will come the 29th of November and a trip to C&A for some maternity clothes. Milo, who is 2, and I hung out together while the two ladies shopped. My german is about on his level so we got along just fine. In fact, he helped me. He is really a cute little guy. A lot like my little Evan. So I enjoyed it very much. I loved being with Ruth and Reingard. We got home about 9 pm and John made soup for us. So we had a little dinner together and Reingard went home and we went to bed. We were really tired.
Today is Sunday and Dad is preparing for his Priesthood lesson and will be at the office to do a little more work to get ready for the coming week. We have our meetings at 2pm in the Frankfurt building. It is so nice to just walk to church.
We love you all and hope this has been a great week for all of you. We are thinking of you.
Love,
Oma and Opa
This was a special week for our Brittany. She turned 16 on the 19th. We had a quick visit with her. She was out on a date with her Dad. She was wearing a pretty new dress and high heels(she said that the heels were not to high) They family was meeting the two of them for lunch. It was fun to talk with her on her special day. Happy Birthday again.
This week we have been very busy in the office. This was the week of the Area Review as well as the end of the quarter for finances. We had visitors from all over reviewing our operations here in Frankfurt. We had Martin Gardner from England who is over employment, Mark from SLC in the Welfare department, and Demitri from Moscow who is head of the Welfare department for Eastern Europe Area. This review is done every three years. This team is chosen and they visit all the facilities in the area to see how all is operating. So we spent Thursday morning being interviewed. It was friendly and a great opportunity to share information that might be helpful for future operations. We drove people to hotels and to the airport as well.
It was a great feeling to feel that we had learned enough to be able to participate fully in this review. We know what we are doing now and can really be useful. This week we filled out the paper work to request our replacements. It is hard to think about leaving. We love it here and we are finally feeling confident about our abilities and skills to do this work. But we were told that this is how the cycle goes. So with excitement we look forward to being with our family and friends but sadness to leave this wonderful experience and all of our new friends here
This week has been somewhat of a recovery week. We have tried to go to bed earlier and get a little more rested. Our traveling schedule this summer has been very tiring. We work all day with our couples in the field and then we come back to the hotel and try and keep up with the office work. We have been working Saturdays and Sundays here to catch up.
Friday we spent the day in Wiesbaden taking care of military business....renewed my ID card, renewal of our pink card so we can use the commissary and Px, picked up an Rx from the Pharmacy, shopped at Mains Kastel, and other places in the area, then we went to the Px and Commissary. It was a full day. On our return home we went for a Bike ride. We rode downtown to the city center. It was really fun and we did not get lost and it took us about 10minutes . The weather is beautiful and cool, the leaves are beginning to turn. I love the fall here.
Saturday, Dad stayed here in Frankfurt and worked a while in the office. He went on another bike ride downtown. He had a great time, got a little lost but found his way back home. I went with Reingard to visit Ruth and Milo in their new home. The drive was beautiful and the conversation just great. They live in a small commuity close to Koblenz. Tim has finished his schooling and is now interning at the BAUHAUS. He is going into management there. We had a delightful day playing with Milo,looking at all the baby things that Ruth had collected, shopping at several flea markets for baby clothes for the new baby that will come the 29th of November and a trip to C&A for some maternity clothes. Milo, who is 2, and I hung out together while the two ladies shopped. My german is about on his level so we got along just fine. In fact, he helped me. He is really a cute little guy. A lot like my little Evan. So I enjoyed it very much. I loved being with Ruth and Reingard. We got home about 9 pm and John made soup for us. So we had a little dinner together and Reingard went home and we went to bed. We were really tired.
Today is Sunday and Dad is preparing for his Priesthood lesson and will be at the office to do a little more work to get ready for the coming week. We have our meetings at 2pm in the Frankfurt building. It is so nice to just walk to church.
We love you all and hope this has been a great week for all of you. We are thinking of you.
Love,
Oma and Opa
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