SNOW!!!

When we opened our curtain on Tuesday morning this is what we saw - our first snow of the season; it was GORGEOUS!! It actually snowed a little the Sunday morning before but just flurries, not enough to cover the ground at all.  It wasn't all that cold walking to work but it was very slippery!!

View from our back window

Looking east from our apartment building

West side of Conference Center - Temple in background

The rest of the week was relatively mild; we wore coats to work but many of the Utahns came to work in just their suit jackets and continue to think we are pretty wimpy when it comes to the weather.

Our missionary assignment changed and we have moved to the apprentice table to help the new, incoming missionaries with their progress through the Apprentice program.  This should be a good review for us and help us to remember the things we studied when we first started.

On Saturday we took a trip to the Emergency Department at Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful. Ever since Byde's 6-way heart  bypass in 1999, he gets tachycardia occasionally and we end up in the Emergency Room to get his heart rate back to normal. When we go to the hospital his heart rate is usually about 150 - 200 beats per minute.  They inject him with Adenosine which does a quick stop of the heart and then restarts it; kind of like booting a computer.  Thank goodness so far every time we have had to make this emergency room visit the Adenosine has done its magic and we are on our way.  How grateful we are for the miracles of modern medicine.

We were able to attend the concert on Friday night in the Assembly Hall which was an acapella men's group called the Consortium. On Saturday night we went to the Conference Center for a concert with Jackie Evancho. In addition to Miss Evancho the other participants included: Mark Wood, Michael Martin Murphey, Sheila Raye Charles (yes, the daughter of Ray Charles), Pauli Carman, Nathan Osmond, and Lupito of Crystal tones. Two hours into the concert they took a 15-minute intermission and we left as our back sides were through sitting.

Men's Group - Consortium

Daughter-in-law, Heather with her sister, Jamie, and granddaughter, Afton with Mary Ellen Edmunds

We copied a picture off Facebook that Heather posted from the "Time Out for Women" held in Phoenix. Just a little envious that they got to be with Sister Edmunds, she is one of my favorite speakers.