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Just some new pictures of what I posted in March.  Here is what our street looks like now.

Down the street towards the records office.

Up the street towards more housing.

Across the street, the open field where the fireflies like to play at night.

The area behind our tri-plex with the trees all leafed out.

We've had a couple of feet of rain in the last couple of weeks.  The river is at flood stage for the rest of the week.  Everything is wet, wet, wet.  Kalifornia really needs some of this water we keep getting.
We went to out monthly missionary meeting last night and got a briefing on the pageants coming up the end of this month.  They promise to be exciting and the pageant committee wants us to come on stage and sing the last song after we get through with our shift at night.  The pageants (British and American) will run from June 29th through August 10th and is our busiest time of the year.  We (the temple) will be open from 6 AM till 8 PM Monday thru Saturday as much as possible.  It's gonna be full time schedule for the missionaries and the local ordinance workers but it's what we're called to do.  They told us last night we have about 100 temple missionaries and 300 locals supporting the temple this summer.  Last year they had about 58,000 people attend the pageant.  It seems like it's a big deal.  Now, if we can keep the A/C running at the temple, we should be in good shape, huh?

We are teaching the Marriage Relations class in the Burlington, Iowa ward.  We started this last Sunday.  We had one couple attend.  Hopefully, we'll get a couple more but you never know.  Mostly temple missionaries attending and they've all been married for a million years.  Not teaching them a whole lot!  Class is going to run 8 weeks for the first part of the class.  Hafta see what happens in the next couple of weeks.  Arlene and I teach next week.