Random Thoughts on the Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a very happy new year!!! It was a quiet new year's eve for us. We were blessed to be on a mission so as not to have been able to attend the Rose Bowl as we did last year. At least last year the game was close. It was hard to watch the game this year. It has been snowing quite a bit lately. Four years in Florida helped me forget how much I hate shoveling snow. But is sure is beautiful immediately following a good snow storm. We had one missionary complete her mission and leave us (see picture at the beginning of this post). Her family came to pick her up and we were able to attend the temple with them on transfer day. On the flip side, we had a group of nine new missionaries begin their missions - three of whom are awaiting visas so we will only have them temporarily. It is hard to believe we have been serving now for a little over six months. There is this weird paradox of feeling as if the time is flying by so fast - like we couldn't possibly have been out ...