These are pictures of the inside of our apartment. Notice the quilts on the beds in the bedroom -- both made by our good friend, Karen Taylor. Pretty amazing, huh! I was stunned when she presented them to us at our Goodbye Party that was given by our Conference Center team at her home just before we left to go into the MTC. I really love the quilt and it is there with me every day. Thank you again and again, Karen. We are going to see Karen and Ross next week -- they are coming to visit us -- I'll be sure to get some pictures while they are here. All the furniture you see here is from the "back cave" (where they have extra furniture for the missionaries -- except the beds that are new), or from thrift shops. I did buy a couple of Costco tables and a couple of Walmart lamps. I wanted a place to put things and good light to read by. Anyway, we were fortunate to find things that actually match. One of the senior couples that live in this complex loaned us a television -- yes, we're allowed to have a television, although we really don't have time to watch it. We are able to play music on it and so that is nice. We're happy here.

My New Home / Workplace

These are some pictures of our apartment and the grounds -- however, this is now, not then (when we arrived in the winter and it was too cold to even take pictures). The only attempt I took before it warmed up was to take pictures of the many, many geese that were in the pond. As you can see, that didn't work too well. Those geese were way too friendly -- I was backing away from them as I tried to take pictures. Didn't work too well. Where we live is called "The Mansions," you can see the Mansion (that's really the office, but is very lovely), as are the grounds. Our apartment is the one in the picture. We're only .7 of a mile from where we work every day, so it is really nice. I put on a couple of pictures of our work place. The other sisters are my companion, Sister Ann Marshall, Sister Lynn Williams and Sister Lavonna Zurlinger. We enjoy each others company and working together.