Looks Like We Made It!

And the week flew by so fast that I can't believe it.  This week was full of WONDERFUL experiences for us.  Ken already wrote about our Monday excursion to Ben and Jerry's factory.  But I thought I would post a few pictures for your entertainment and for my memory later on down the road!   There is a large assortment of flavors in the Ben and Jerry's graveyard and each of them  has a headstone with a clever rhyme.  This is just a sampling of a few. Monday night after our little excursion, we stopped in Underhill to buy a pie at Poorman's Pie.  It's a little self-serve pie stop where you take a pie and leave your money in the drop box.  Total honor system.  It's a thing here in the Northeast I think. We invited the  "E" Elders (Ellsworth and Edstrom)over to help us celebrate and to share the pie with them.  Since they are now ONLY YSA missionaries they don't ever have meal appointments.  I need to feed...

Today is September 23 and we decided to take a "P" day. Tomorrow is the blowout day of Debbie's birthday so I better rest up a little. We drove up to Stowe Ski Resort just to take a look around and to monitor the changing of the leaves. They are becoming spectacular! BUT I'll be honest they better get a lot better to be as beautiful as Covered Bridge Canyon with the sun shining on it on the perfect Autumn day. The Stowe Resort is massive and the condo's go on forever. Just above Stowe is Smugglers Gap Ski Resort and it's pretty much a picture postcard also.  On the way to Stowe we stopped at the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream factory and took a tour. Took us right back to our Hippy day's. Tie Dyed Tee shirts and all!  Tomorrow is Debbie's birthday and to celebrate we've been trying to find a reumatolagist and internal medicine doctor that accepts new patients in the area.   Mom's knee's are really getting sore and...

Does that mean we've been in Vermont for a month?  YUP!  Today is Isaac's birthday and we arrived here on the 16th of August.  It's funny because it seems to have gone fast and yet we feel like we have been here for longer than that.   Yesterday we had stake conference.  The stake here is most of Vermont with a sliver of New York and a sliver of New Hampshire so some people have to travel a great distance for Stake Conference.  They usually send it over video to other chapels but this time they wanted the stake to come together.  Elder Dudley of the Seventy was the visiting authority.  It was a great conference.  We had a YSA lunch after the conference with Elder Dudley and the stake presidency.  I made 6 pans of Chicken Divan over rice.  It darn near killed me.😂 (That story later)  The elders you see above are the ZL's that we work with all the time.  (Elder Ellsworth and Elder Edstrom) We love them--they have...

I don't know that I can continue to call these posts by the week because I'm obviously behind.  Oh well. I realized as I went to write this blog post that I'm not taking enough pictures.  I will do better.  The weeks are starting to run together.  I guess that means we've been busy.  At least I have.  My weeks revolve around what to cook for institute, what to take to the potluck, or what to feed the missionaries.  Needless to say I spend a lot of time at the grocery store and in the kitchen. We have been doing a lot of visiting also and on Monday we hosted an empty nester FHE for the ward.  We had about 9 people there.   All of this may change soon because the BIG news is that on September 29th they are forming a YSA Branch that will encompass the whole stake--which is most of Vermont.  The word we get from the Zone Leaders is that we will be working exclusively in the YSA Branch.  They have assigned a set of young mission...

I really need to get more creative with my post titles.  😁 Tuesday morning Ken played golf.  There is a great golf course right next to the church.  He played with a couple from Washington who were here on vacation.  He should have played 9 holes instead of 18 because he was REALLY sore for a few days after that.  He was going to play this morning with 3 of our YSA's before one of them heads off to BYUH for school tomorrow, but it's a very rainy day today.   We had the opportunity to visit several members and part member families this past week.  I love getting to know all of the people.  You realize though just how hard life can be for some people.  Sometimes it's from choices that were made in the past.  But many times it's just life and health issues and circumstances.  Ken was able to take the sacrament to a lady in the ward who is in a wheelchair because she has lost both of her legs.  She lost one when her h...