Game About Life Here We Come!

Elder Ashton working diligently to get prepared for our upcoming Game About Life we are doing in Sharon Vermont.

E-Mail Day!

Sister Chatfield

Sister Wilson

Elder Langford

Elder Canfield

Elder Marr

Elder McMullin

The missionaries come to the Center on their P-Day to send/received all their emails. (once and awhile I manage to make them a treat) We really do appreciate them, the dedication with which they serve our Heavenly Father, and how they brighten up our days.

Ana's Baptism

June 26, 2010 (Elder and Sister Ashton's 41st Anniversary) Ana was baptised! What a great anniversary gift. The baptism was mostly in Spanish - so Elder Canfield sat by us to translate - I did manage to sing a few words in Spanish. (It is alot easier when you can look at the words and someone is pronouncing them clearly right by you!)

Austin drew the pictures for these mugs that they had made for us.

Thanks Austin, we love them - they look great - we have them sitting on our desk at the Employment Center.

Old Sturbridge Village

The Boston Sr. Missionaries had their Senior Training at the Old Sturbridge Village

and we kind enough to invite us along once again!

Guess Who

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Elder and Sister Excell

Sister Ashton and Sister Excell outside the
"Friends Meetinghouse"
The Friends Meetinghouse is a meetinghouse of the Religious Society of Friends,
Also known as Quakers


The Fiddler along the pathway - He played while they would
try to get visitors to dance along

Some of the missionaries getting with it!

Stage Coach

Nineteenth-century New Englanders called this building a meetinghouse. This one was build in Sturbridge in 1832 and moved to the museum in 1947. Buildings like this were used every Sunday for worship by members of the local Congregational church. There were morning and afternoon services, each over two hours long. Christmas and Easter services were very rare, but there was always a special Thanksgiving morning service. Periodically the community would meet here to hold town meetings. They would also hold concerts, public meetings, lectures, and Independence Day celebrations.

Inside the meetinghouse

This is what they called Town Pound. If your livestock got out they would be

put in the pound and you would have to pay to get them out.

This was posted inside the Shoe shop. An historic ten footer, which was a

small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in

New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. I didn't get a picture of the tools - ect.

Display of shoes - they didn't look to comfortable!

There were several different houses to walk through - that would have

furniture of the day in them

They had the fire going - think that would have been really hot to

work around in the summer time.

She is getting ready to start dying some yarn

The colors for the dye usually game from different plants

Demonstration of shooting the musket

It makes you jump because it is so loud - even though you know

what it sounds like! When it shoots fire comes out the top.

Now the Grist Mill

One of the stones that would have been used at the Grist Mill

Inside the Mill

Then the saw mill - they say this is still working, but

wasn't while we were there.

Outside the mill

Logs on the platform ready to go into the mill

And . . . . . the saw!

Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, which re-creates life in rural New England during the 1790s through 1830s (the Romantic Period). It is the largest living museum in New England, covering more than 200 acres OSV has a large staff of historians in costume, 59 historic buildings on 200 acres, three authentic water-powered mills and two covered bridges. Visitors can ride in a stagecoach, view antiques, heirloom gardens, meet the farm animals, and take part in hands-on crafts year-round.

Have to say this is my favorite!

Evidently Pato is a Spanish cartoon. The missionaries love to draw on our appointment board.

Today was transfers and none of the missionaries that we work with in the Employment Center were transferred - so that means they will be here for another 6 weeks. Yeah!!

Edler Canfield's Birthday Dinner

Ana (the Sisters are teaching her), graduated this year and is getting ready to go to college in the fall. She drew us this picture to hang with the rest of the Grandchildren's pictures.

Ana, Sister Chatfield, Sister Wilson, Elder Canfield and Elder McMullin

Elder McMullin, Elder Canfield and Elder Ashton

We took the missionaries to dinner for Elder Canfield's birthday.