Monday we met in the barn for our last FHE with just the Winter Missionaries. We had barbeque ribs and invited some of the Sun Family (those that the Church purchased Martin's Cove homestead from). They do not like big crowds and so we invited them to our small group activity instead of the large neighborhood group we had on Friday.
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| Elder Crist Playing His Harmonica at FHE. Sun Family on the Right |
These Sisters worked hard to play the piano for our Sacrament and correlation meetings this Winter. They were beginner one handed pianist that grew tremendously in their ability over the Winter.
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| Thank You Piano Cake. Sister Bowden, Crist, Paul |
It was great to welcome the returning missionaries. These are the missionaries that were here last summer and decided to serve another summer. Their return more than doubled our numbers. Sacrament meeting felt like a regular church with so many sitting in the pews. That will grow next week again, when we welcome some of our new first year missionaries on Wednesday. Then we will receive more during April. We will still be working on a skeleton crew. Last year we were down about 15 couples from the year before and this year we will be down even more. Probably 10 less couples than last year.
We had a great experience teaching family history in the Saratoga Ward on Wednesday evening. Saratoga is about 85 miles from us, so it was late when we got home. We used to think that we lived in the middle of nowhere, but we learned where the middle of nowhere really is.
Below is the only restaurant that we could find open in Saratoga at 5:00 pm before our family history presentation. Good homemade food.
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| Firewater Restaurant in Saratoga, Wyoming |
Friday all missionaries were trained for the new season. It got us thinking ahead and getting geared up for the busy, busy summer.
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| Missionary Training; Sister Smart on 2nd Row |
Saturday we invited lots of our neighbors over for dinner. All the local ranchers, all friends (Baptists) in Alcova and some friends from Sixth Crossing came for a barbeque at the barn. Lots of fun and good fellowship.
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| The neighborhood barbeque Sister Smart is in line to get her share |
As Visitors' Center coordinators, we are busily trying to get things in order with the Visitors' Center. We want to do everything we can to make the Visitors' Center work efficiently with less missionaries.
We love Sundays here at the homestead. It is a spiritual uplift every week. The lessons are so well presented and the spirit is so strong. It is such a refreshing experience. We are really blessed to live on sacred ground. We just hope that we can be living right and still feel this spirit all the time when we return home.
Happy Birthday this week to Aaron Smart on March 30th.
Love you all,
Grandpa and Grandma, Mom and Dad, Paul and Annie, Elder and Sister Smart
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| George Albert Smith Monument Overlooking Martin's Cove |
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