December is here!!!

It is hard to believe that December is here.  2 more months and our mission is finished.  It has been a fun month of Nov. with alot of fun things happening so I will just explain the month in the pictures.  We were looking at the weather and it looks like it is colder in Utah and Idaho than it is here in Russia.  Our winter is here but we have not had much snow and the temperatures are around 30 degrees most of time.  But we know it is on its way.

We have our plans to come home.  We will leave the mission on the 8th of Feb. and spend a couple of days in Washington D.C. and see our grandson Cody on his mission.  We will have a grandparent, grandson missionary picture.  We think that would be sa great photo.  His mission president has approved us coming.  Then we will leave on Sat.Feb11th and arrive home around 7:20pm.  Hard to believe.  I thought I would never be able to say it went fast.  But it really did.

We started Novemeber with a Zone Conference.  they are always great and we
always learn so much from President Sorenson and the Zone Leaders and
the AP'S.  This was lunch time.  One of the branches prepared it for us. I am
sure it was good, but I did not like it.

Look at the elders.  Obviously it was good.  I am not sure that
Sister Sorenson is as anxious to eat as them.

And who else but our best friend..Elder Lex.  He is from Austria and we have
rreally grown to love him.  And cute little Sister Naegle nest to him.  They
are the newest couple and had only been here about 2 weeks.  They live very
close to us which is so nice.

Sunrise is not my favorite time of the day.  I love Sunsets.  But the sun comes up
so late now that this was the sunrise from our office window.

And Michelle is taking care of us.  She sent us many needed items.

Licorice, frosting that is creamy, pills, dvd, fairy tale book that I am going to give
to one of my friends at English club.  Lots of pictures from the grandchildren.
Eye glasses and cake mixes.  Until you do not have cake mixes or canned frosting
or good powdered sugar to make frosting with you will never know how much
I appreciate these things.

New little treat we buy at the grocery store when we go shopping.  Gene likes the
cherry turnover and like the dry cookie .

We went the elders to their bishops house for dinner and family home evening.
This is salad on bread.

These is the plate full of food they handed me.  I about died. 

This is their youngest boy Maxim.(Maxeem) Very, very active.

This is the 2nd little girl Maria.

This is their oldest girl Melana.  She was reading us a story about how Jesus knows her.

Singing a hymn together.  This is the living room. 

It amazes me how they raise a family in this little apartments.

Getting ready for Thanksgiving.

Our big 9lb turkey that we were so happy to have.

Lots of yummy food.  Not the same as home but it was the best we could
do and we all enjoyed it.

Waiting to get started.  They were all so excited to eat
Thanksgiving Dinner.

Dessert time.  Elder Naegle (the senior) is just one of the kids.  We love him.

Elder Hayes ate and ate and then went for lots of desserts.

Big Russian hats.

It's over and cleaned up and we collapsed.

One fun English Club.  Boris played this guitar we have at the church.
He also sang.  We really have a fun time at English club.  We have made
many friends.  You just hope down the road something touched them
and they will join our church.

All 3 clubs(beginners, intermediate and converstional) all got together
for the last 10 minutes and played hanky panky. We all had fun.