The End of August

What a great week. We had lots of great adventures this week.

Linda was home on her P-day, August 20th and as usual, she ran out to greet the visitors to the site. This time she got a special surprise!

The visitors happened to be Sister Shirley Rook and her grand-daughters. Sister Rook is the great-great grand-daughter of none other than Martin Harris! They had a wonderful visit and Sister Parkerson was able to get some more first hand knowledge of Martin from his own family. They went for a tour of our apartment and her grand-daughters went into the field stone lined cellar, which would have been the original cellar of Martin Harris. It was a moving event for all.

Yes the berries are still coming. They are coming so fast we don't have time to heal up between pickings! You know who really enjoys berry picking!!!

As you can see here many of the berries are extra-large. Sister Parkerson has made some mighty fine seedless blackberry jam.

The bushes are loaded and sometimes you have to get down and crawl under the bushes to get inside the berry patch where the big ones are.

We showed Elder Murphy, our young friend where our secret patch is. I'm not worried as he goes home in October.....

O.K. This is not enhanced or trick photography! For anyone who knows me and cannot believe - YES that is me. I got this work order this week to replace the burned out floodlight that illuminates the gold dome of the historic Fayette Chapel. The chapel is located on the grounds of the Whitmer Farm where the cabin is that the Church was organized in, in 1830.

You can zoom in on it to see that it is me up there. I had to get on a ladder to the first level, walk up a second level of roof over the visitors center, pause for a prayer, then ascend up to the top of the chapel roof to change the lamp. Somehow I made it back down. Prayer answered.

This is Brother Chapman and his family. His wife June, and son John and daughter Stephanie. They invited us to a dinner with them at a ward camp out held at the Camp Zion here at the hill. It was miserable weather but a great evening was enjoyed with Mark and his family. Really nice people and Mark is an excellent "dutch oven" chef. We had baked chicken and stuffing, steamed vegetables and an apple dump cake.