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A beautiful day we had today.  When we got off after serving on our Saturday morning temple worker shift, we found out that Kevin had a family that has him in their ward regularly, the Puente's, visiting their family here and Nauvo.  They made every effort to find us at the temple.  In fact, spent of of a frustrating day trying to get in contact with us.  We're kind of hard to find on a Saturday.  But, perseverance pays off and we finally met up with them.  Mom at her time and me just before they left.  Very nice people.  They really like Kevin and say he has a gift for Spanish and speaks it very well.  A lot better than he has been telling us, right Elder Seger?  They love Kevin.  We may have a picture coming along sometime in the future as there wasn't a lot of time when we were talking.

Also, we got to see the video of Michael and Nicole's "Reveal Party".  Looks like there will be another namesake to carry on the Seger name in the future.  My Dad was so concerned that his end of the family would be the end of the Seger name.  Guess not, Dad!  You are well represented.  Now, won't that be pretty spectacular when all the Seger kidlets get together?  I mean, really, we all know how well they got along as kids at our house, growing up, don't we?  Absolute terror anyone?

So, you have something to look at on this post, the tulips at the Nauvoo temple popped this week.   Sorry but I had to use my iPhone.  Here they are:

Mom, what are you looking at?  The tulips are over here?  Sweety?

Now that I have your attention...

That green grass in the back was dead brown when we got here three weeks ago.

The Hyacinths look a little peaked due to the wild weather we had a couple of days ago.  They didn't stand up to the wind quite as well as the tulips did.

So, we have officially been gone from Kalifornia for a little over a month.  So far, not missing it much.  No real time to miss much of anything except sushi...have not had time to find any good restaurants out here yet.

The days are long and event filled and we're thinking, albeit not a lot, about what we're going to do in 17 months when the time draws to an end.  The missionary people we work with here are past temple presidents, stake presidents, Bishops, and personally know general authorities and we keep wondering...how'd we end up with these people?  We are so outclassed!   But they are really, really nice and down to earth people.  Many are serving on their 4th or 5th mission.  They get home and submit papers for their next mission to leave as soon as they can.  They want to keep going as long as they possibly can.  We are about the youngest couple out here.  Arlene is one of the "babies" among the women.  Seriously.  Wonderful people.  Now the people that live here, well, that's another story to come a little later....