I love this Church!

 October is pretty wonderful in the state of Minnesota.  We had a visit from Grey and Robyn.  We had such a good time looking at ships, birds, leaves, water falls, pies and bikes--but no bears.


 We had a meeting the first evening they were here.  So we left them at canal park to explore and we thought we had given them enough information so they could ride the bus home because the hills are REALLY steep.  They found a homecoming parade to watch and walked to Duluth Pack and Duluth Trading and then they WALKED all the way back to our apartment!!

See how pretty the leaves are and
how happy they are to be here!

The view from Enger Tower

Big ship loading ore pellets

Hand and Foot at the Newtons

  

Mountain bike trail
Ron is making his last good weather count by riding lots of trails.

We attended Sister Webster's seminary class in Pine City.

So, one day I said to my friend Patti Newton that we should get together for Hand and Foot. So she invited us for dinner and cards.  I was still scratching my head wondering how I invited her but she was the one cooking dinner.  It worked out pretty nice for me!

Ashli and I were partners doing a worksheet.. 

Then we built an altar out of cookies.  Pretzel sticks were the wood for the sacrifice and we each sacrificed a paper lamb on which we had written a habit we wanted to break. Then our lambs were sacrificed on the cookie altar.

Then we went to visit a seminary class in North Branch and here are some photos from that class. (No fire)

The really happy boy is Jacob.  And we happened to be talking about Jacob in the Old Testament.
  When he was asked to read, he said, "And I said" instead of reading "and Jacob said."

 At our stake conference, Elder Neil Anderson was here.  It was an amazing spiritual experience.  He talked a bit about the 3 apostles who recently died or he called it "graduated".  His experience with each of them shortly before they died was pretty amazing.  I love this church!

We fed 16 elders and 4 sisters breakfast before we went
 over to stake conference.

This morning we went to seminary with Cora and Audrey Delich.
  Before seminary class, we did not know they were famous tennis players.

                                                                                         

                                                                                    Last night we got invited to Elder Dover's going                                                                                       away dinner.  This was his first area and he is                                                                                           loved.

We also inspected the Elder's apartment in Virginia, MN and took them to breakfast.  Elder Frost ate a lot.  This is the breakfast he ate after he ate his own breakfast and some of mine.  He warned us that he is Samoan so he can eat a lot.  And it is true!!