Luke's Farewell

First off I have to say that Luke did an amazing job on his talk. It was so good!! He's going to be a great missionary!!!
















We left for St. Georg Saturday afternoon after Emily's dance. That evening we hung out with all the family. Russ and Cristy have a such a nice house and the view from their deck is incredible!!! It was so fun staying with them!!!













Steve and I went around taking pictures. It was good to see Mike again. It's been awhile. We had to leave later that afternoon cuz Steve had to teach today and Em had school. It was so fun seeing family again. We need to get together more often.

Nathan's email

hey Mommers,

hey so things here are going good. We had a pretty low week for numbers but we ended up finding a dump load of potentials and have teaches set up for everyday this week so that's pretty rad. Wow... that's really all that happened..haha... but it was a good week. Oh so sorry I wasn't able to get a letter out to you guys last week... we had a really busy pday but i should be able to get one out to you all this week. However so you know I sent a B.O.M. home that I had out here that I marked up and I don't really need it anymore out here but I wanted to keep it... so hopefully that should be coming in the mail. But yeah... That's really about all that happened but I hope that you have a great week and I love and miss you a ton!!! Thanks for everything!!!

Rakkaudella,

Vanhin Peck

Hey Pa!

So how are things going back home? Thats cool to hear about your poems!! thats awesome that you got 4 in there! Hows the Pinecone book coming along? when is that supposed to come out?

So things here are going good. not really too much going on right now. but things are going good. The language is coming along nicely, its still super hard but its really fun and it gets better everyday. There are still times thought when I just have no idea what people are talking about. But that's just the way it goes. Some days I feel like I'm doing really well but others not really, but I just keep learning and keep coming little by little. But I'm enjoying it so that's good!!

Well I hope all is well with you and that you didn't get sick. I hope you have a great week! I love and miss you!!

Rakkaudella,

Vanhin Nate Peck

Apples

Aren't they pretty? I did 13 pints and 1 quart of applesauce today. Which entailed climbing into the trees (really 1 tree. We have that many apples) and picking them, getting hit in the eye by a falling apple, peeling, coring and making it into applesauce. It's kinda a long sticky process but glad I did it and I'm done for now. I still have 4 trees overflowing with apples. Also a second batch of apples are in the food dryer. Why am I doing this? I think cuz I just feel guilty letting them rot on the tree. Guilt does motivate me.

end of season

This is basically how most of my garden looks now. I have to say though it's been a pretty good year. Next week I will probably be cleaning most of the stuff out for the season. I have a few tomatoes still and a few green beans are still growing but it's basically done. I will be drying the last of the cherry tomatoes too. It kinda sad seeing it be over but I guess I will start making plans for next year. :)

picture update

I wanted to get these pictures I copied off of Jessica's blog onto mine. I'm really good at copying but not so good at reposting. Kingston loves his new backyard. Many hours are spent back there.























I'm also really good at taking pictures and also good at leaving them on the camera and not downloading them. So here's a small taste of the ones I've taken. Maddox and Asher are really growing fast!! So is Kingston! It's amazing how fast they are growing!

Nathan's email

Hey mommers!

So how are things going back at the home? things are going alright here. We don't really have too much going on but hopefully that will all change this next week... I hope. We've been doing more of our tracking in the college areas which usually have better success, so hopefully we will be able to find some more investigators. But other than that things are good. The weather here is getting pretty cold... yesterday it was 5 degrees as we walked to church. so it was pretty cold... today's been around 7 or 8 so not too cold. but I'm sure its going to just start to drop from here on out... but that's fine. I really liked last winter so I'm looking forward to this one. should be fun! welp that's really about all for right now but I hope that you have a great week and I love and miss you a ton!

Rakkaudella,

Vanhin Nate Peck

Hey Pa!

it sounds like your trip to France went pretty good. It sounds like a
pretty cool place!

So things here are going pretty good. not too much has really gone on
this last week to be honest. It was a pretty slow week with a lot of
canceled appointments and people dropping us, but oh well they've got
their agency and they can do what ever thy want with it. But hopefully
we'll be able to find a couple of people who want to really learn this
week. We've got a couple of investigators, including set of twins
that's seem to be doing really good. And hopefully we'll be able to
teach them some more this next week.

Well that's really about all but I hole you have a great week and I
love and miss you a ton!!

Rakkaudella,
Vanhin Nate Peck

Preserve

I preserved ( canned ) 4 things this year. Our little apricot tree produced lots of fruit so I got lots of jam out of it. It doesn't look like a whole lot but knowing that we've eaten half of it already we did get quite a bit. We're slowing down now with eating it now that the jam has honey to compete with. It doesn't look like we got a lot of honey by looking at the shelf but there's another shelf with lots of honey on it too. I just haven't organized it very well yet. But I have to say that it is the most delicious honey and the most expensive there is......if you include the hospital bill and ambulance ride. :)
Then I made lots of salsa. There's an additional shelf of that too....just not organized. I made enough so there would be enough for when Nathan got home.

Then with the left over tomatoes from the garden I canned them to go in chili. Nothing better!! I was thinking about doing apple sauce cuz we still have tons of apples on the trees but I have a hard time getting motivated to pick apples when it's raining and snowing outside.