March 2007

March has found us trying to soak up as much as possible from our wonderful assignment here in Melbourne. Our three year term, will end July 1st. When we arrived in June of 2004 we had one grandaughter, Hannah. In September of this year we will have SEVEN grandchildren.
We certainly have been blessed.
Mitchell has been serving in the California Arcadia Mission for quite a few months, in fact he has now been away a total of five months. He is enjoying the experience, even though he is a little frustrated at not yet being fluent in Spanish. He is hoping to serve in a Spanish speaking ward in the future, although he has mixed feelings about that as he worries his Spanish might not be good enough. What a miracle that he has been blessed to progress as fast as he has in just 5 short months.
I hope to post some of his photos here, with the help of my very clever daughter-in-law, Toni.
We have just enjoyed the last few days with Jaron , Toni and Oscar (17 months) visiting. Yesterday we had fun at Phillip Island. We visited the Nobbies and walked around the board walk, which was on the cliff edge. Enticed by our curiosity, we followed the lead of some Japanese students, who were lying on the walk peering underneath. When we did the same we were delighted to discover dozens of fairy penguins cuddled up together!! Wished so much, that Oscar ( who was asleep in the car), and Hannah, Bubby Lew, Seth, and Charli could have seen them. They were so beautiful! Reminded us of Happy Feet.