Living Large!

Here we are at the Vancouver Zone Conference sitting to the left of President and Sister Nelson.  If you look carefully you can almost see us.  There will only be one more zone conference before the Nelsons leave on July 1.  President and Sister Tilleman from Arizona will be our new mission president and wife.  They both grew up in Calgery so they have dual citizebship.  It will be fun to see what changes happen when they come.  They have 5 children and they will be bringing their 6 yr. old daughter with them.

 Here we are on our preparation day down by the wharf.  It is a beautiful day and we just walked around taking in the sights.  I'm wearing my raincoat that I wear everywhere.  The rule is-always have your raincoat, umbrella and camera.

Paul bought a new Vancouver Canada hat.  He also bought a box of cookies from a cute little "girl guide," Canadas equivelant of a girl scout. We are in a small town called Steveston which is a suburb of Richmond where we live. We are always very close to the water (ocean) and in this case commercial and personal fishing boats. The humidity makes it seem colder than we are used to in Colorado....it is about 47 degrees but it feels more like 32.

There were many of these boats set up all along the water selling their fish, and there were quite a few people buying their dinner for the night.  We chose instead to go to a little cafe and get 2 tuna fish sandwiches and 2 diet cokes, all for the "reasonable" price of $17.25! For us the sandwich looks better than taking one of these fish home and looking at it because we would have no idea what to do with it.  If it doesn't come in a box, we don't eat it!!

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!!!  Don't you love it!  Elder Lahache is the sane one in the middle and is a First Nation (Mohawk Indian) from Canada and Elder Williams, the insane one on the right,  is from Utah.  The weird guy on the left is from somewhere north of the ozone! The two Elders are currently working in the office making a DVD for a temple grounds tour of the Vancouver temple so we get to see them every day.  They are awesome!