Our continued variety of work here at the wood shop. Elders Nagel and Frost made this counter for the new office wall (finished photo below). It turned out really pretty and our Admin Assist loved it.
Our Boss, John collects hockey pucks which were originally just taped above his door waiting to clobber someone. So we made a nice maple board, drilled puck sized holes and set the pucks in them. There is now room for 10 pucks. This is not the finished item but you get the gist. It turned out really nice too.
Ran into this sign at one of the site missionaries apartments and couldn't resist taking the picture.
I have no idea why I took this picture. Maybe the clouds?... oh well what can I say?
We had to teach the 15 year old young men at Seneca Camp for their Duty to God qualifications last Saturday. It is about an hour from here and a beautiful drive. This is the gathering hall and I did have a picture of the boys but it was all blurry. They were a bunch of real nice fella's though and we enjoyed teaching them a lesson on service.
After the class last Saturday their was a car show in Penn Yan. There were probably a couple hundred cars there but this was one of my favorites. It is a Nash.
My other favorite was this 1950 vintage Good Humor truck. It was in pristine condition and I just loved it. My dad always loved good humor bars so I thought of him this day.
On the way back through wine country we spotted this huge pumpkin patch that just had to put a smile on your face.
Here is a picture of the Hill Cumorah. The fall colors have been amazing.
The finished wall. On a previous post I had the before picture. You will have to look back to see it.
This tree was so beautiful I just had to take a picture. Of course pictures never do it justice but it's close.
There was a big meeting of all the North East mission presidents on Thursday with Elder Holland attending so early in the week we were all busy spiffing things up. Our boss gave us the assignment to power wash the wall at the temple as it was pretty dirty. In my mind it looked this big (above)...
....in reality it was like power washing the great wall of China. We had only originally brought the small power washer but soon realized we needed the mac-daddy one. (That's for you Connie). It took us over 2 hours with 2 machines. I think our boss is trying to do us in in our first 2 months.
I was soaking wet and it's a good thing I had my boots or I would still be stuck in the flower bed.
The GREAT WALL. It really needed cleaning though.
People always ask us how they manage to mow the grass up on the Hill. Well, this is how they do it. Just a guy walking beside a mower. It looked like a walk in the park for him.
I had another job in the Sacred Grove and this was a picture of the pretty colors I found.
My job was to clean off all the benches and I decided to rake it out a bit. This is the gathering place that the Mission Presidents and Elder Holland were going to be at. I did it first thing in the morning and a bus of tourists came as I was walking down the lane with my rake. They all looked at me so I told them I was raking the grove. No one laughed (I thought that was funny). Anyway when I veered off to the gathering place I could hear them all singing a ways away. They were singing Joseph Smith's First Prayer. It had been foggy and misty when I first got there but the sun started to peak through the leaves so I sat down and just listened. It was so pretty and peaceful. Definitely a good morning.
I took this picture from the temple grounds. The lower section in the back ground is the Sacred Grove.
On Thursday morning we had two service elders (Elders Grove and Spencer) assigned to us so they helped us get all the grass out from between the pavers and tidy up the walkways.
This picture I took from the top of the Hill. I just love the fall. It will be sad when all the leaves are gone.
And lastly, this is one of the missionary gardens. Sister Frost and I pulled out the old wilted flowers and planted mums and pansies in time for all our important visitors who were going to take a picture of the whole group up here. We are so glad we did it as it made such a difference. I also was given the assignment to dead head all the yellow mums up top by the statue of Moroni. I hope Moroni likes mums because I had about 50 to do. They were getting pretty ragged and since that was where the picture was to be made we wanted it to look good. It took me about 2 hours to do it. A bit back breaking. This mission is not for wimps. It's no wonder when we get home at 4pm sometimes we crash for a nap before supper time. You'd think I would be as skinny as a tree for all the stuff we have been up to but unfortunately I am over compensating. Not good!
I'll try to keep my camera with me. Hope you are all doing well. Until next time!
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