End of Week Two

Our second week in Dartmouth has ended.  On Monday we did housecleaning and shopping.  Tuesday we went and helped Tara get some fruit ready for the Relief Society Party.  I went to the party in the evening.  Wednesday we were at the Temple in the morning and in the evening Bob got a haircut and we dropped in at Nathan and Tara's.  The boys were at their bagpipe and drum lessons and brought their report cards home and Nathan had bought them a box of donuts.

Thursday and Friday evening and Saturday morning we were at the Temple.  We stayed with Orson, Liam, Keaton and Lochlan in the evening while Tara and Nathan went to the Imperial Oil Christmas party.

There was Church today and after we spent most of the day at Nathan and Tara's. 

It rained much of the week, but today the sun came out.  However there is a storm warning for tonight.  Winds will be up to 90 ks per hour.

Honda Update

Our car is now in Barrie, Ontario.  It is supposed to be loaded on a truck for the Maritimes tonight and it will depend on how many stops the truck has along the way how long it will take to get here.  We could start a pool on how long it will take.

Blue Sky Today

Today is the first day that we have seen blue sky other then just a few glimpses.  The sky was blue when we went to church and is still blue.

Larry and Marge Heppler moved in with us last Monday.  We made a few changes.  The TV room is now a bedroom which works better for both of us.  The second bedroom wasn't very roomy and the bed took up most of the space.

We did family home evening with Nathan and Tara on Monday night and then Nathan, Orson and Liam came over and helped move the bed downstairs and helped take off one of the box springs from our bed as it was too high for us.  The Temple President and his wife had us over for supper on Tuesday evening.  Thursday we were invited to Thanksgiving dinner at the Mission President's home.

We worked at the Temple on Wednesday through Saturday.  There were baptismal sessions on Thursday and Saturday.  I spent a lot of time doing laundry.  After the last session we helped clean the Temple.

Last night we had a teaching appointment with a lady. We had trouble finding the house and by mistake went over the toll bridge and had to turn around and come back so it cost us $1.50.

Today we had church.  Tara stayed home with Lochlan because he had a bad cough.  We drove the boys home and had lunch with Tara and Nathan.

Larry, Marge and Bob

Views from our deck

A Few Pictures of our Rental

Glass Countertop and Sink

Good News

We received a call from the car transport company and our car is somewhere near Toronto.  We should have it in a week or so.

from Lehi to Nova Scotia

Darwin dropped us at the Salt Lake airport shortly after seven on Friday morning.  We had a four hour layover in Detroit and then on to Halifax.  Although we didn't know at the time we had an exciting landing in Halifax.  The fellow in front us wondered why we had gone over the Halifax airport twice and thought something must be wrong but decided maybe there was just too much traffic.  On the third passover, we landed just fine but were greeted with firetrucks and emergency vehicles with their lights flashing.  When we got stopped the pilot announced that the flap on the right wing wouldn't move on the first two passes but worked fine the third time.

Nathan, Keaton, Orson and Liam were there to greet us after we waited a half hour for the luggage to come in.  We have been staying at Nathan's for the weekend.

Saturday morning we were in the Temple for a couple of hours.  The couple we are replacing instructed us on some of our duties.

In the afternoon we went and inspected our housing.  We will be moving in on Monday.

We have been loaned a car from the mission until we are able to make arrangements to get our car here.

We attended the Dartmouth Ward this morning.  It was the Primary Presentation. Linda Broadhead from Welling was visiting in the ward today

Tara has been making a Christmas Quilt.

Nova Scotia Tomorrow

We spent the last four days at the Provo Temple.  We learned about such things  as the Engineering System, the recording system, the laundry system and how to handle medical emergencies.  Even so it was a spiritual four days.  We had great leaders and a good group to train with.  Unfortunately I had a bad cold and wasn't able to concentrate too well.

The last couple of days were sunny and when we arrived at the temple in the morning, the sun was shining on Mount Timpanogos and it was very pretty.

For those of you who know Sylvia Taylor, she was at the temple entrance to greet us this morning.

Amber picked us up this afternoon and now we are at Darwin's and he will drop us at the airport on his was to work tomorrow..

We hadn't heard where our car was so this afternoon Bob phoned Lethbridge and the Kar AutoTransport company had not picked it up.  They won't answer our calls, so we don't know what is happening.  I don't recommend using that company.