Our 6-month service mission to Deseret Cattle and Citrus Ranch ended on November 1, 2010. Since we were already on the East Coast, we booked a cruise to the Bahamas leaving out of Miami.
The cruise was very relaxing, enjoyable and we enjoyed beautiful scenery. Plus, we were reunited with our friend, Buttons Forloines. Buttons is sitting across from me. Her friend, Alice accompanied her on the cruise.
The week before the end of our mission, Dad started getting a cold and a cough. He took all of the normal precautions, but during the cruise, his cough kept getting worse. On Sunday, when we drove into Niceville, Florida, we decided to go to the ER to get a prescription to help this cough. Well ---- after four hours ---- and after chest X-rays, blood drawn to check white blood cell count, and puffing air into a machine, the dr. determined that he had allergic bronchitis.
So before he could leave the hospital, he had a breathing treatment, lessons on using his little breathing apparatus and 3 prescriptions. We spent the night with Marc and Linda Strickland.
Ross is standing in front of the property that his ancestor, Lorenzo Johnson, owned in Nauvoo, Illinois. It is on the same block as Joseph Smith's brick store and the Missouri River is in the background.
The property owned by Parshall Terry (Joshua Terry's father) is the pasture land back towards the trees and is next to the Missouri River.
I am standing on the property where my ancestor, Urban Van Stewart. lived.
The beautiful Nauvoo Temple. It was closed for its 2-week cleaning, so we were not able to go inside.
This is the Winter Quarters Temple. It is a "by appointment only" temple.
This is the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. LeRoy and Clint should recognize it because they helped to finish the basement inside.
They now have a new and bigger church next door to it.
We had such a nice visit with the Reverend Herman Brown and his wife, Lottie.
Dinner at a Mexican Restaurant with good friends whom we have not seen for 20 years: Ron and Sharon Strawn, Patsy Hart, Ross and Dave DeVol. What a great reunion we had in Bellevue Nebraska!!!!
The cruise was very relaxing, enjoyable and we enjoyed beautiful scenery. Plus, we were reunited with our friend, Buttons Forloines. Buttons is sitting across from me. Her friend, Alice accompanied her on the cruise.
The week before the end of our mission, Dad started getting a cold and a cough. He took all of the normal precautions, but during the cruise, his cough kept getting worse. On Sunday, when we drove into Niceville, Florida, we decided to go to the ER to get a prescription to help this cough. Well ---- after four hours ---- and after chest X-rays, blood drawn to check white blood cell count, and puffing air into a machine, the dr. determined that he had allergic bronchitis.
So before he could leave the hospital, he had a breathing treatment, lessons on using his little breathing apparatus and 3 prescriptions. We spent the night with Marc and Linda Strickland.
Ross is standing in front of the property that his ancestor, Lorenzo Johnson, owned in Nauvoo, Illinois. It is on the same block as Joseph Smith's brick store and the Missouri River is in the background.
The property owned by Parshall Terry (Joshua Terry's father) is the pasture land back towards the trees and is next to the Missouri River.
I am standing on the property where my ancestor, Urban Van Stewart. lived.
The beautiful Nauvoo Temple. It was closed for its 2-week cleaning, so we were not able to go inside.
This is the Winter Quarters Temple. It is a "by appointment only" temple.This is the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. LeRoy and Clint should recognize it because they helped to finish the basement inside.
They now have a new and bigger church next door to it.We had such a nice visit with the Reverend Herman Brown and his wife, Lottie.
Dinner at a Mexican Restaurant with good friends whom we have not seen for 20 years: Ron and Sharon Strawn, Patsy Hart, Ross and Dave DeVol. What a great reunion we had in Bellevue Nebraska!!!!
