Berry Blessed Christmas 2009

Christine & Levi spent Christmas with us. What fun it was to have Christine, Levi, Gideon and Joseph here. Every Christmas has a personality. 2009 was a Berry Great Year!

Gideon took the pictures down and hug the socks. Good Job!



Nativity Starring Gideon, Tiger, Joseph, & Others

NHMM Pie M-m- m Good!

Elder Campbell and Elder Bigler were our first Office Elders. What a blessing they are to us. Look at this pie Elder Campbell baked for us. It says, NHMM for New Hampshire Manchester Mission. We miss both Elder Campbell and his pies.

Seasons of the "Pond" at our office.

Boston Temple in Winter

We gave this photo to Pres & Sis Jensen and to Elder & Sister Berg with a poem I wrote. The first lines are:
The siloutte of temple spires againt evenings fading face
Beacon to my longing soul to join the queat for holiness
To lift mine eyes unto the Lord
In this Holy place.

Winter Wonderland

Elder Longmore in his foxy hat. He just dropped off the garbage and is on the way to the car.



One of my favorite shots to the side of our apartment building.



The pond at the office. Remember the Autumn photo?





What we see on the way to the office.



What we see outside our apartment towards the back.

Just Look at These Awesome Elders & Sisters

Elders Dilree & Ahaumda


Sisters Agle, Swan, Schnebly, Powell, Hollesen, Hill, Sister Jensen, Sisters Brovont, & Brown


Brother & Sister Longhurst


Sisters Agle, Swan, Schnebly, & Powell


Elders Ewell & Prybylinski


Elders Henderson, Pitt, Longmore, and Kunz


Sister Walton & Sister Snow (Best Smiles award in my opinion))


Elders Gelwix, Mickelson, Pack, Reading, and Busath

Look at This Missionary Tradition!

Elder Wertz,who will be going home, is giving, Elder Green (that's his name), a "Greenie" an autographed tie.
One of the Missionaries had 600 plus ties. Others don't have as many, but still have a problem getting them into their bags when they go home. They go to thrift stores on their P Day.

40th Wedding Anniversary

Where does love come from and how is it nourished and protected? Looking out into the future in the same direction, building a home together, repenting and forgiving, having fun and taking time to say I love you by words and actions, builds love. The repentance comes in when we don't do the kind of things that build and protect love. No wonder our knees get bad in our old age!
I suppose "our theme" could be the poem President Willard Smith Ray quoted when he sealed us in the Idaho Falls Temple:


"Love”

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
("Marriage means", my edit)
Being a friend means,
After all.

Roy Croft

Sister Longmore's 61st. birthday