It's Spring - YEA

When we are at home, we both feel like we live at the computer -- always working, studying and preparing lessons. We love the work we do and know that we are truly blessed.

Home, sweet home! Our apartment is the one with the long balcony -- there is an apartment below and one above us. There is a narrow road by the apartment building, and beyond that are the meadows and woods. The balcony is great. We hang our clothes out there on a string clothesline, and we enjoy the fresh air, and watching it rain. We just planted some flowers, but I don't have a picture of that yet.

We love our little red car. Great for gas mileage. Very squishy when we take the Elders with us. Good on the narrow, winding roads.

Lunch with less-active members.

Meeting with an investigator at the church.

I think it would be fun to be a farmer here. Even the yellow dandelion fields are pretty to see. They let the grass grow tall (about 2 feet) and then it is mowed, raked, bailed and stored to feed the animals in the winter. Then the meadows look like freshly mowed lawn everywhere.

Now it is Spring and we have a goal to walk everyday except Sunday. Yesterday was our 45th consecutive day! Wow! Most of the time we walk in good weather, but at times we have to walk in the rain. One day we were walking in water 3 inches deep and it was raining hard. That was fun! Water was squishing between my toes!

We cannot get over the beauty of the meadows and woods. We go for a walk everyday regardless of the weather. During the winter we felt like couch potatoes because we couldn't go walking because of all the ice and snow. After Jerry fell twice we decided it wasn't worth it.

Mother's Day and a beautiful orchard plant from my Sweetheart. I don't have a green thumb, but I have heard that these are easy to take care of here because of all the moisture in the air.

We love hearing from our family and friends.

We have had a wonderful month of May. We have enjoyed warmer weather, sunshine and lots of rain. My favorite smell? Barnyard! For some reason it always reminds me of my childhood growing up in Centerville.

Our favorite sounds -- cow bells. In the meadows by our house it is like music. All the cows have different sounding bells and so do some of the sheep.