Beginning to look like Christmas

 Our mighty Christmas tree

 The master builder has done it again.

 Presents from home, hurray!

 The singing Mission President

I never should have worn this, now everyone wants one.

Washington DC Temple

 Magnificent and beautiful, and the Temple looks nice too.

 All decked out for Christmas

 The stained glass is beautiful



Wonderful experience

 Do we look cccoldd

 The grave yard where the baby was buried

Our Boys (adopted)

 Our first Pottsville elders, Elder Rowbottom (left) and Elder Hunt

Elder Rowbottom is from Canada and been here 3 days longer than us.

Elder Hunt is from Murray, Utah, and is good friends with David Archuleta.

 The Elders from our District. L-R back row

Elder Lloyd, Elder Christmas, Elder Rowbottom, Elder Blackburn.

L-R front row

Elder Bowler, Elder Hunt, Elder Barry, Elder Barnett.

 Elder Lloyd looks like our grandson Micah but grownup.

What do you think Micah?

We let the Elders decorate our tree.

Our cozy cottage

 Our spacoius kitchen and dinning area.

 The master bedroom

 The lovely livingroom, straight out of Better Homes.

 The master bath, room enough for two, if you're skinny.

 The master's study

The dinning area, for all our dinner parties.

more Pottsville

This very old cemetary covers about 1 1/2 square miles.

 The county court house

 The county Jail looks like an old castle.

 It seems every street either goes up or down hill, some do both.

So many hills, and all covered with houses.

We made it

 Pottsville PA Welcomes Elder and Sister Ashby.

 The towns are filled with tall skinny houses bunched up together...

 and many others burried in the woods.

A skyline view of Pottsville

One of dozens of really old churches in Pottsville.

Almost there

 Our bags are packed, our trunk is packed...

 ...every square inch of the car is packed.

 First stop Denver, and the Denver Temple

 This is the St. Louis Temple

And the worlds biggest MacDonalds, not really.

It's the famous St.Louis Arch.

On our way

Still smiling at the open house

 Now where have you seen this picture before?

 One of our trainers

Heading out to the MTC

Mission Possible

Ed and Lois are going on a mission!!

Their farewell is scheduled for oct. 31, 11:00 am. Hunter 27th ward House. Watch for more info.