Pageant is over - what next???

I am slothful at getting this blog up dated. Things keep coming up that needs care & I just keep pushing the blog further back on the list. Summer finally arrived a couple of weeks ago. We had a week of truly beautiful weather. Since then it has been cooler & very wet - a lot of rain! The weather man said (on a beautiful Saturday) "Today is summer, get out & enjoy it!" I guess he was right as about that last week of July as the leaves are starting to turn already. We have not had even 1 day in the 90's as yet & very few in the upper 80's. This has been a VERY COOL summer.

The pageant is over & things are slowing down. Tour groups have almost quit & we get excited over anyone that appears - even the Gardner. It took a week or so to get things back to normal but the Hill Cumorah is pretty much cleared & the "walk ways" between the rows of seats are almost grown back to green again. It is sad that this is our last pageant. We love the family, visitors & volunteers. We see the missionaries in "full glory" at pageant time. They do such a great job. It truly is beautiful here!!!

We will be leaving the mission in about 6 weeks now. I told Elder Bennett that I wouldn't think about it until after pageant - & now after pageant is here. We are planning to visit NYC & DC & hope to go see L'Erin before we head home but do not know yet of exact release times so can't make too many plans. It's coming up soooooooo fast! Fall is such a beautiful time here. I think we will enjoy every minuite we can.