Love Walking Through the Piles of Leaves as They Crunch Beneath My Shoes

The trees are slowly losing all their leaves and it really does feel like fall with brisk mornings and piles and piles of leaves everywhere. Craig and I walk early every morning and as you can see the sun is just barely starting to come up as we head up one of our favorite paths on campus. The young people here are wonderful and in general we have grown to love the people of Michigan. What a great place we have been blessed to serve.

We see this gorgeous tree in the woods when we look out our windows.
Saturday, the YSA Ward Relief Society had a great activity at a small cemetry that was once on the farm of Truman Rockwell called Foote-Rockwell Cemetery. We originally planned to take pictures of all the grave stones for findagrave.com , but I guess someone had already taken pictures at this cemetery so we spent our time seeing how much we could learn about the individuals buried here by the things that were on the gravestones. Honestly these girls are amazing and I really learned so much. Do check out findagrave.com as it is very interesting and helpful in finding records.


Brother Draut wants the Institute to be a home away from home for the students here so he ask me to warm up the building with some fall decorations. I love fall decorations so this has been a really fun assignment. We enjoy teaching the institute classes and cooking for the Friday Forum is a lot of work, but we so enjoy the young people here in Lansing. Even Elder Poulsen has got into cooking.


We have a great office in the Institute and we enjoy working with Brother David Draut who is the CES director in this area.


These are some pictures of our cozy little apartment. We especially love the view of the ever changing trees and the busy squirrels outside our windows. I also love the sound of the trains as they whistle in the distance each night.