Thanksgiving 2016

Last Thanksgiving we were happy to have Michelle and Rhett visit.  Andre' had to work due to a new job.☹️

Can I blame not blogging earlier on my injuries soon after Thanksgiving?

Here are some pics of a few of our activities.

 

  

We enjoyed having them!

Misery in Missouri

A week before Christmas we had a snow and ice storm that cancelled our ward Christmas party, church on Sunday and many other things in the area.   Cabin fever struck and we decided to bundle up and go for a walk.  This is just down the block from our apartment.

 

 

It didn't look too threatening, but on the way back home I fell on the ice.  My wrist was obviously broken and my cheek was numb ( and broken).  We had a trip to the emergency room  on Saturday, then surgeries on Wednesday and Friday for wrist and cheek repair.  Toby, my personal nurse, took great care of me.  

 

After a couple weeks, the splints were removed and I was fitted with a removable brace and sent to occupational therapy 3 times per week.  Here is "the claw" just after the splints were removed, all leathery and bruised and stiff. 

 

Therapy is now complete and I have returned to normal activities.  I certainly learned many things from my injuries and am grateful for healing and a wonderful husband to help me through all of it.

Missionary Activities

As well at our work at the Archives, we get to do a variety of regular missionary activities.  Here we are with an investigator and the elders from our ward at the Independence Visitor Center.

 Here are sisters from our ward at enrichment night Thanksgiving dinner. Here is the primary class that I subbed for for a couple of weeks.  (They were dressing up.)

 Elder Treasure has also been teaching a mission prep class for several weeks. 

  We love the variety of activities we get to do and especially getting to know many wonderful people!

A visit from the sisters

Joan and Mary came for a long weekend visit. We toured the home and studio of mural artist Thomas Hart Benton.  He died in his studio doing what he loved in 1975.

 

I love this photo taken by our elderly tour guide who was not familiar with smart phones.

We also saw and spoke to a Hallmark artist at the Crown Center.

 We toured several museums, ate bbq, and went to church sites.  It was a busy couple of days!

Here we are on Harry Truman's front porch.

 

Manicules Continued

We have found my favorite manicule so far.  It is hand drawn!  I wish we still used these.

 

We have finished homestead records from Nebraska and are now photographing naturalizations.  Some of them have photos attached.  I love seeing photos of people who came to America to a new life.

 

 

Above are husband and wife.  So far we've seen lots of people from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Ireland and England who came to Iowa and Nebraska.

October Outings

We made a mad dash to Louisburg (about an hour drive) early on a Saturday morning for Apple  cider and apple cider donuts before General Conference.  That bin is full of apples.

 

We watched the donut machine just like Homer Price!

 

And drove home through the missouri countryside.

 

We enjoyed a visit from dad Treasure and Marla; spending time seeing some sights and playing Hand and Foot.

  

 

We spent a Saturday seeing Atchison, Kansas including Amelia Earhart's birthplace and museum with a couple of other senior missionaries.

 

We went to Fort Osage for the annual fall muster . 

 

 

Found at the Archives

We have learned many things from our work at the National Archives.  One thing our archivist taught us is that the hand symbol below is called a manicule.  Here are some that I have found recently.  Note the address on the bottom one.  Hard to believe that mail could be delivered with just a name, city and state; no house number, street, or zip code for rural Nebraska.