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The Easter Season

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How is this for an Easter egg? It was on display at an ice cream store close to a museum where there was an exhibit by a local artist. The Edward's, Sister Richardson and the Moore's visited the exhibit, had a nice dinner in the museum cafe and then ice cream at this little shop nearby.  We have actually seen eggs this size in many different places. This is a spirtual experience that I feel is important to share. We have found a hamburger place we really like. We don't go out to eat much but if we want a burger, we go to this one particular place. It's a few minutes' walk from our apartment. When we left the restaurant, about half a block from where we started, I noticed a man looking at us strangely. It was creepy. A few steps later, Mike remembered that he left his glasses on the table at the restaurant so we turned to go back, got his glasses and walked back again. That man looked at us oddly again. We have been told that we, as senior missionaries are targeted b...

A Senior Missionary's Experience

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  No idea where the hazy effect is all about but this is church ... after church.  Classes always start about 10 minutes late each Sunday and sometimes even 15 minutes late.  It's lovely really. These are brothers and sisters in the gospel connecting.  So ... every night at about 9:30, we hear quite the racket. It's the trash pick up. The large dumpters are on the street. Everyone takes their trash bags to these receptacles. In our building, we actually take our trash to a regular trash can in the stairwell across the hall from us. The building workers then take it to the large trash container. You can see how quickly they end up overflowing in spite of being emptied every night, seven nights a week. How are they emptied? A crane lifts them over a compactor truck. Unfortunately the boxes in this picture obscures the huge hook at the top of the container. The bottom is shut but there is a remote that another person presses, the bottoms of the container opens up, trash...