WINDOW WITH A VIEW

What will become of us without our precious Temple view? This is how close we live to the London England Temple. This is our view during the day. 

Our view at night is ever so spectacular! This view is what keeps us coming back for more each day. It just draws us up to the front doors, recommend in hand, to serve another day. My heart aches when I think of never living this close to a temple again. It has been an experience that we will never be able to replicate, and, you know what, we would never want to try it. Yes, the end is in sight. We are ready to close this wonderful chapter of our lives and move on to whatever the Lord has in store. 

Niel was able to find a little bit of good weather to take some more pictures (see pics) of the temple grounds in their fall glory. Love this place! 

We spent a wonderful week with our darling granddaughters, Ashley and Allie Lancaster. They overcame their jet-lag with flying colors and kept themselves very busy all through the week. We visited Stonehenge, which Allie said was her favorite, and the white cliffs on the Channel, which are called the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head. 

They spent two days in London and even saw the Queen in her motorcade! 

The English will be celebrating a day of remembrance for the soldiers who served in both WWI and WWII this Sunday. I wrote about the church services we attended last year. Very impressive. I included a poem about the poppies in Flanders Field. This year, there was a BIG project to make over 800,000 ceramic poppies and plant them in the dry moat outside the Tower of London. Niel was able to get pictures.

We are now in the process of training new couple missionaries. Two couples came this week. One of them will be coming for one in eight. That means, work one week and be off for eight, which means we will not be seeing them again. We have only one week to try and get them prepared to serve as T.O.W’s (temple ordinances workers). The other couple moved back to England from their home in Brittany (France) in order to serve as full-time workers for a six month period. They are Bro. and Sis. Banks and will definitely be an asset for the A temple shift. We are expecting another two couples in the coming weeks. One couple  from England and the other will be coming from Logan, Utah. WooHoo!  My sister, who works in the Logan Temple has been telling us about their coming for quite a while and they are finally coming. However, they will be on the B shift and we won’t be training them. But, what’s to train? They will already know what to do. Wait a minute, they won’t know the London Temple way, though. Guess they will still have to be trained, properly, as the Brits say. 

Be prepared for lovely pictures of us packing our bags on the next blog. Hopefully, we have more exciting things in store to share on the blog, though. 

Love to all, Niel (Grumps) and Carolee (Gran)