22 April 2011

Happy Birthday Gene today.  The next time I blog I will put pictures on of the office party for him. Most of the snow is melted and spring is trying to come.  Thank goodness.  We need blue skies and sun.We hit our half way mark last week. Still looks like it is going fast when I look back but long when I look forward.  So still day by day and it works great.  Still loving our mission.  Love the office work and being around President Sorenson so much.  He is so much fun and we love him.  We have lots of good times with the office elders too.  We went out on our third Visa trip last week and we had to stay overnight.  We took documents in on the 14th and brought documents back on the 15th. But we loved Riga and I almost could not get Gene back on the plane to Russia.  That is a switch for sure. Ususally me. But it was a little taste of America almost. The Moscow district is growing and still hoping to get the first stake in Russia soon.  I do not know if we will see that or not.  But we hope so..
To Cody who just had his wisdom teeth pulled we hope he is doing better.  Pa still has his.  To stubborn to get them out.  And to Michelle who has been sick with phenomia(don't know how to spell that) we hope she is getting better too. 
Well I will put pictures on and then you will see what has happened in the last 2 weeks.





This is the street in front of our apt that is dug up to put in a pipe.
So the cars drive on the sidewalk and the pedestrians have to
get out of the way.  Cars are the most important here.




We watched conference in black in white at the branch.
They could not get the color to work.  So we watched some
of it on our computer.




Elder Nielson's birthday.  He loves hash browns so Sister Sorenson
made him some and we sang Happy Birthday to him.



This was about a week ago.  We have had enough snow.



This is a package full of love from Henderson Nevada.  Michael, Julie
Cody and Shellie sent it and we are so excited to make soups and corn
bread and brownies from America.  Our children are so good to us.  We love
them so much.




Couple of Sundays ago when Cody was made an elder.  Can you believe that?
We are getting 2 Cody's in our mission they just have the wrong last name.
His cute girlfriend Melissa.  We love her.




They were all getting ready to take a family cruise so I put
their pictures on the ocean.  Kind of pretty..




This is a huge souviner renick.  This is the first time we have been
to it.  Kind of reminds meof Disneyland when you are walking to it..




That is Gene




This is granny and pa




Gene is trying to bargin for a big furry Russian hat.  The guy
spoke some English.



Plane to Riga Latvia..Our third visa trip



Riga is so old and there is so much history there. The churches,
coblestone streets, old buildings..




This church was beautiful.  Inside it was elogant with candles and stain
glass and statues and pictures..




Old long tiny cobblestone streets




Same beautiful church




Just an old beautiful building





This looks like the entrance to the courtyard and palaces that
they lived in.  This long tunnels are all over Riga.



First good donuts since we left home.



Old park





Lots of old engravings and decorations on the buildings

 



Look at all the detail on this building




And this one too





Happy me




Bridge in the park.  The locks are marriage locks.




The pigeions would come up and eat right out of Gene's hand.




Whenever we see pigeons we think of Mat when he probably was not even 3
and he reached down at a dinner table we were eating at outside
and cought a pigeon.  He had chased them all day and finally he had caught one.
We were in Old Town in San Diego visiting my parents on their mission.



Plane home from Riga