The Wind Has Been Blowing

At least all the snow blew away and the sidewalks and roads are clear.  We hear this is the last day of wind and we will be having snow for several days again.  I went out today and did a bunch of shopping in hopes that I can stay in for a while.

I attended super Saturday a week ago Saturday and had lunch and did some quilting. 

On my way home from Family Home Evening at Pratts I slipped and just about fell, and had a sore knee for a few days.

Wednesday Nancy and I went out visiting teaching.

Bob and I  inspected apartments on Thursday.  There was still ice in some places.

Saturday we attended the Temple.   Later on Sue-anne, Darryl and Carter came for a visit.

Sunday morning we drove up to Calgary and went to Edward's ward.  Lincoln gave a talk and was advanced in the priesthood.  There was a pot luck after the meetings.  We stayed overnight and visited Tara, Matt and Lochlan and saw Orson for a minute or so on Monday before we headed back home..

Too Frozen to Write

Here it is - the middle of November already.  I am already looking forward to spring.

It has been below freezing for a week and will continue on for next week. 

Although, I would love to stay in the house, we have been busy.  The past three Thursdays we haven been traveling around inspecting missionary apartments - Coaldale, Barnwell, Taber, Milk River and West Lethbridge.  We still have the Lethbridge Stake to do.  We have been out buying bedding for the apartments as well.

We stopped in and visited Joan on the way home from Milk River.

Last Sunday we drove out to Taber for Remembrance Day dinner.  It was snowing and the visibility was poor.  Anybody would be crazy to drive in that weather, but Courtney was home for the week-end so we hazarded it. At least it wasn't quite so bad coming home.

We helped in the soup kitchen last Wednesday.  I chopped onions, buttered bread and carried dishes to the sink and I was dead tired when we finished.

Endings

Today Daylight Saving Time ended for this year.  Yahoo!  October also ended.

Our beautiful fall weather ended this week-end.  On Friday (halloween) the weather was wonderful - 18 degrees C. and no wind.  Even so we only had 30 "trick or treaters" that night.

Last evening it started snowing and has been snowing most of today.  I shoveled the sidewalk and the snow was very wet and heavy.

It was the end of the month and I went visiting teaching and our home teachers and my visiting teacher came to visit us this past week.

I also went to club in Raymond on Thursday.

This Morning in Lethbridge

Great Big Snowflakes

Banff etc

This past week we started on our Service Mission which is looking after missionary housing for Southern Alberta.  We attended missionary transfer day and were surprised that they had a devotional preceding the transfers.  We were asked to speak at this meeting.  We have not yet been set apart.

On Friday we drove up to Calgary and then rode up to Banff with Nathan and Tara.  We attended a conference of the Alberta Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society (Brigham Young University Law School).  We checked into the Banff Springs Hotel at the same time as D. Todd Christofferson (a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) and rode in the elevator with him and his wife.  He gave the keynote address at the Friday evening banquet and his talk was impressive.  It was about freedom of religion and the law.

Saturday morning there were three classes, which Bob and Nathan attended, but I didn't.  The Honourable Madam Justice Carolyn S. Phillips of the Court of Queen's Bench was one of the speakers.

Nathan and D Todd Christofferson checking in

Views from our window in the Banff Springs Hotel:

Bob, Nathan and Tara went for a walk after we checked in.

Happy Thanksgiving

Friday evening we went to a wedding reception for Mark Frache.  Later in the evening Nathan and his family arrived.  We certainly enjoyed having them.  Today Sue-anne, Jeremy and their families joined us for Thanksgiving dinner and our usual Thanksgiving football game (the Turkey Bowl).  At three p.m. everyone started leaving and it is now very quiet.

Home in Lethbridge

We spent a quiet week in Lehi.  Amber and Darwin worked all day and Caden, Chloe and Owen had school.  We went to Cafe Rio on Tuesday evening.  The weather was beautiful.

Darwin drove us to the Salt Lake Airport on Thursday morning. Our flight landed in Great Falls and we drove home to Lethbridge, stopping at Subway in Shelby for Lunch.

The weather has been beautiful in Lethbridge since we arrived home.

Winter's Coming On

We woke up on Thursday morning to snow on the lawn and on the rooftops.  We drove to Great Falls with snow in the ditches, fields, hay bales and even on the signs.  As we got closer to Great Falls snow began to fall.



Great Falls Airport

 

Darwin met us at the Salt Lake Airport.

 

Last evening we drove to Orem to the Nova Scotia Mission reunion.  It was great to spend time with some of the couples we knew in Dartmouth.