The boys were glad that the lions were "not hot" like they are in the summer. 
Grant and James didn't want to wear shoes to do zoo. Finally after Grant had been outside walking in the leaves he decided it would be a good idea but James firmly declared, "The animals don't wear shoes!" Eventually Krisitlyn reasoned with him that they don't need shoes because they grow fur on their feet and she pointed that out at the zoo. In this picture the boys are running through the leaves and Kristilyn is standing in the back with James' shoes in her hands.
I enjoyed visiting with Desi this week. She has been called as Primary music director in their ward. I'm sure she will do an excellent job with her lovely singing voice, her ability to play the piano, and her creativity. 
This is how our tree looked a week ago but it dropped a lot of leaves. Saturday John and I spent a couple of hours raking leaves and putting the yard to bed for the winder. Things looked really good then a big wind came up and it looked like we hadn't raked a leaf because most of the leaves were off the tree in front. The globe willow in back hasn't lost any leaves yet. We spent another hour raking leaves so the yard looks much better and the bins are full for the garbage/recycle trucks tomorrow. Keith, we have six large bags a leaves for compost for your garden. We really enjoyed Kim's blog with the cute Halloween costumes, fun outings, and delightful pictures of the family.Friday night John and I had a wonderful dinner and visit with Julie and Jason then went to the BYU Homecoming Spectacular. They are such fun company. It focused on Mount Timpanogos. We especially enjoyed the choreographied music of the Mens and Women's Choruses as well as the Ballroom Dancers.
Katrina's ward RS had 24 sisters including the 3 YW at their special new.FamilySearch and Indexing activity this week. She was so excited that so many attended and that it was a fun, bonding time. Anna's upper GI x-rays were taken in Olean instead of Buffalo but it still took six hours because of a 1 1/2 delay in starting and an hour instead of minutes for the fluid to get from one area to another. Next week will be full of appointments and Neal will be in Ohio for three days with Model UN for St. Boneventure. She really appreciates the blogs, emails, and calls because "they keep me sane" but she is sorry she isn't very good about keeping the rest of us informed of her life. She has her hands completely full just getting from day to day. It was fun to talk with Daniel on the telephone. He was eager to tell me that he wanted to come to my house on the airplane again.
Melody and Brandon, we loved our blog this week about your church history trip around your area. The pictures and insights were excellent. Thank you for sharing.
We had an interesting week last week. We were supposed to train Church Service Missionaries but the one assigned to me never came. John's came for three days and it was special that when we went to the Jordan River Temple on Thursday night, his student last week was the one who took him through the veil. That's what the church is all about--we just take turns doing different roles. Some of students couldn't be trained in the day so last week they had night classes for them. I ended up staying late teaching them so we just took two cars. This week will be very different. We will be starting to certify for British Reasearch so we will be spending time going through the activities as if we were assigned to the Bristish Zone. There is so much to learn. We will have the mornings to work on the certification this week then we will have to do it on our own. In the afternoon we will have inservice training so this week will be trained instead of training others.
Funny things: A couple come in for training this week and the sister carefully followed directions to bring a flash drive for her and her husband. The flash drive she brought for herself didn't have any family history on it. She didn't think she needed to bring any personal genealogy. The flash drive she brought for her husband turned out to be the remote controller for the mouse for their computer at home.
Tonight was our YW in Excellence. It turned out well with 9 of the 12 girls there. The theme was "The Worth of a Soul" with the word play on sole talking about the different roles (shoe soles) that we can develop--slippers, tennis shoes, hiking boots, etc. ending up with temple shoes. Sister Postic ordered a cake from Costco and wanted them to put some white temple slippers on the top as a decoration to carry through the theme. She wrote a note, "Do you have white slippers we can use." When she picked up the cake those words were carefully written out on top of the cake. Hilarious and really appropriate in a strange way.
It's late and 5:00 AM wake-up call for Elijah Choir comes way too early. We appreciate the way you keep in touch. We love you each so very much. --Mom and Dad
That cake story made me laugh and laugh... so funny!
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