The Planting

 

It's all about the flowers.

     Let the planting begain.  With the help of all the missionaries we planted about 4000 flowers in one day.  The planting took place all over the Kirtland Village.  There were hanging baskets and flowers of differnt colors and sizes.  The idea is to bring color to the grounds around the Village.  We have about 13 sets of young sister missionaries and about 15 sets of senior missionaries and 4 sets of Facilities Maintenance (FM)  missionaries.  One of  the FM missionaries was asked to come to Kirtland to work on the sprinkler system and he has been working very hard and making good progress.  Most of the flowers beds are being watered now.  We were doing it by hand, we would water, mother nature would water and the sun would dry eveything up.  The work  moves on. 

Some of the happy planters.

 

   Sister Cook and I have been pruning trees all week.  We cut the lower hanging limbs load them into the back of a 4 wheel drive ATV and take them to our dump out back, over hill and dale, loads of fun.



                                                                         before the planting-----

                                                               after the planting--------

The Visit

Elder and Sister Poulsen (right) on the porch of the Whitney Store
with the Cooks

The Visit

     The Poulsen's, Elder Craig and Sister Karen stopped by for a visit a few weeks ago.  They had a break in teaching and took the time to do some personal business in Ohio.  While here they went to many of the different sites.  We were able to have them join us missionaries on a special Kirtland Temple tour with Karl Anderson who is an authority on the Kirtland Temple.  Talk about being in the right place at the right time.  Brother Anderson helped us see the vision and feel the spirit of the temple and how Joseph and the early saints used the Temple.  The Kirtland temple is owned by the Community of Christ Church.  They will lend the building out for meetings so some times the local Stakes will hold meetings in the Temple.  The Poulsens enjoyed their visit with all the missionaries and got a real close look at the Kirtland area.  Thanks guys for stopping in.

     We have been ask to attend the Chardon Branch.  We will be doing some home teaching and visiting teaching and member activation.  We will be meeting with members like going to Ward party's,Ward BBQ's, and visiting Ward families.  We look forward to serving the members here.

     We saw a play (nunsense) put on by the local theater group  Took in a little concert in the park.  When we go to a free concert in the bay area there is a big crowd, here we walked in with the singers in the band  They were very good and really covered a lot of different sounds.  We took a ride out to Amish country and saw the Amish buggies on the road and stopped in at some little shops.

     The weather here is really different, it rains a lot then the sun comes out.  That means everything is really green.  When we got here the trees were just sticks no leaves, now everything is green.  The sounds are lawn mowers followed by weed wackers followed by leaf blowers.  Everyone has a riding mower because everyone has a lot of lawn.  We in California don't know what green is, I guess that is why it's called the golden state.

     We hope everyone back home is doing well, we are busy and working hard to keep up with the work (next week we start planting flowers about 4,000 of them)  Until next time we love you all.

                                                                             Elder & Sister Cook