Nauvoo revisited, birthday week, Easter

This has been a very full week!  Family Home Evening Monday was great; Us and 5 nonmembers talking about Easter in English and Spanish. One son-in-law, 2 grandkids, and 3 of our kids had birthdays this week! We got to talk to most of them and communicate with all of them. Amy made it to Nauvoo to do baptisms!

The weather has been gorgeous!

I actually saw this guy catch a fish on the pond!  First time!

We said good bye to Charlie!

We said good bye to Vickie!

Daffodils bloomed!

We moved Nancy on the only rainy day!

The Sisters helped too.

Driving to Gilman for youth group which was awesome!  We gave the Pastor a Book of Mormon!

On the way home Wednesday night at 9.

Heading back the next morning on the same road at 6 to pick up missionaries.

Our van load headed to Nauvoo!

Amy was baptized for her mom.  It was a great day!

Joseph and Hyrums graves.

Old trucks off the highway.

Tired Elders

We got to attend Payton's blessing.

Pretty clouds on the way to Albion.

Gredo being Sister Quincy. I took Elysee's ministering sisters to meet her and they will be awesome!  We made it to Zenos pizza and it's really good!

We found Mormon Ridge.

Saturday we did lots of service.  Well Elder Quincy did mostly. He put a railing on this porch...

While I went for a walk.

Done!

Then we went to put in a new window.

And cover a board with fascia.

We then picked up Paul and Lea to go to Ames.  The freeway was closed becuse a live wire fell over the road.  We got there though! And Lea and Paul met with the Stake President for temple recommends!!!

Cool moon on the way home at 11!

Meanwhile in Utah my awesome family had their annual Easter Bash!

The Tsoluka kids in their Easter best.

A good looking bunch.

Alain

Elysee

Alana

My kids were all supposed to send me pictures!  So far my daughter-in-laws and son-in-laws are the best at it!

85 degrees today! We had 9 non members at Stake Conference today! 

We got to help feed the homeless with this great crew for Easter dinner!

We moved more stuff to Des Moines, and are trying to wrap things up here!  We are just so wrapped up in the lives of so many we live here!  Change is hard! One more Sunday in Marshalltown!  

Late addition from Jon and Nathan

Hump day!

What an amazing week!  We had another super busy P-day, but managed to do laundry and a trip to get groceries.  The awesome things that happened tbat day were finding out that Pauls eye procedure worked!  The hole in the retina is gone!  Alain may have insurance! Pauline didnt have cataracts. We had a great Family Home Evening at the Church that night.
Tuesday was Zone Conference in Des Moines which was inspiring, fun, and sad; great trainings, fun lunch and visits with missionaries, and farewell testimonies from those leaving us next week.
We took another load of stuff to our apartment down there. Wednesday we celebrated our halfway Mark of the mission by going to Smokin Gs for lunch. Delicious!  Elder Quincy fixed a window casing, put a tv stand together, and put new siding up.
I helped Nancy with her job interview at the Veterans home.  We practiced telling why she wants to work there in English and she did great!
I translated Leas talk I to English and was surprised how easy it was!  The hard part was saying it after her in church without crying.  It was a beautiful testimony of Christ!  I tried Fufu and recoup.
We got to teach 16 youth and 4 adults at the Methodist church is Gilman Wednesday night!  We are going to miss  many things about our time here, the youth group more than most.  We taught them (including the Pastor) the Plan of Salvation and they were engaged and had so many questions that we went over our hour time allotted.
We took the Sisters to teach a new referral in Union.  She is Marshallese and golden!  We stopped to eat dinner at Woodys which pretty much is a bar.  Oops!  Good food though!   We got 3 less actives to Young Women's that night!
We had a super fun brunch and Easter Egg hunt!
A full week.  Our daughter-in-law had emergency surgery Tuesday and had her appendix removed.  They moved yesterday.  We wanted to be there to help, but were glad to hear that their Relief Society came and helped pack and clean, the Bishop came and helped our son give her a blessing, and the ward moved them yesterday!   The gospel in action!  We are truly blessed!

Our last trip to Toledo and Conrad to take the sacrament to people. We had to get our picture by the sign.  Best dirt in the world right there in Conrad!