Happy Thanksgiving!

We have both had coughs and congestion. Gene got over his rather quickly, mine has been hanging on for a few weeks. Things are getting better, though. We did have a couple of really nice days last week that felt like Indian Summer. But now it is rainy and foggy, and one of these days it will probably snow here. We keep busy with our missionary assignments and are totally happy to be serving here. The young people that we associate with are super and we really enjoy mingling with them. We have so much to be thankful for at this season of Thanksgiving. The Lord truly blesses us abundantly in so many ways. We are especially grateful for our family and the way they support us. We will surely miss being with family this Thanksgiving. We will be with our fellow missionaries in this zone in Vienna, though on Thanksgiving Day and will enjoy meal there together. We wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Autumn is over!

We have surely enjoyed the autumn season here. There are so many varieties of trees which have turned colors at different times and it has been beautiful. The oak trees near where we walk to get from our apartment to the streetcar dropped thousands of acorns and now all the brown oak leaves are on the ground. Last week there were leaves coming down like snow. It was beautiful, but kind of sad at the same time. There are a few larch trees in the woods next to our apartment building. They look like evergreen trees in the summer with green needle-like leaves, but they turn yellow and then kind of an orange-yellow in the fall before they drop off. We walked through the woods and found a short cut that really turned out to be a longer way to the grocery store, but it was beautiful. The ground was totally covered with yellow and brown leaves.

We have been watching this maple treet outside our balcony gradually turning from green to orange. Now, almost all the leaves have fallen off of it. :(

Below is a photo of the larch trees.