Busy Week

Now that I look back this has been a busy week. We started off Monday with our FHE Group taking a trip on the Erie Canal. We went through lock #29, had dinner on the boat, and spent about 2 1/2 hrs. on the canal. The Canal was completed in 1825 and is 363 miles long and links the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes.

Elder Lockwood, who is serving in Camarillo, is from Canandagua and we have met his parents and grandparents. His grandparents have two 1960 Chevy's and belong to a classic car group. We went to see them. Over 200 cars meet at Wegman's parking lot every Thursday evening. They had some nice looking corvets there.

Paul Crookstron & Paul Lewis

On P Day, Thursday, we went to the Sonnenberg Mansion. It stands for "sunny hill" in German. It was a home built in the 1887's by the Thompson family. He made his money in banking and they had five homes throughout the East. They had no children. She was from this area and gave a lot back to the community. They built this home on 50 acreas and it has five or six gardens, Italian garden, rock garden, rose garden, Roman garden and bath, Tea house and garden and the blue and white garden and old fashion garden. It was a little early for the gardens to be in full bloom but they had to have been beautiful in there day.

Carriage House Sonnenberg Mansion (Tonita & MJ) Stoddards, Crookstons, Jacobsons

Thursday evening the Gary andLinn Evans Family came through Palmyra. We met up with them at the Sacred Grove and took them over to see the Canal and Lock 60 and then went to dinner. Had a wonderful visit and they were having a great trip. They were headed off to NY in the morning.

Gary & Linn Evans Family from Camarillo 2nd Ward

Friday night we joined our Palmyra Ward in the temple on the 7:30 session. We can't figure out what else to do on Friday nights. Old habits are hard to break (been in the temple on Fridays since 1992). Saturday we were assigned to serve in the baptistry and we had two great youth groups. Saturday afternoon we went over to our friends the Amdsens and Paul climbed on a tracter to do what he likes best, mow some lawn. They have a huge lawn, they are the family with the lamas and goats and Dee is office manager at the temple.

This weekend they held a huge Young Adult Singles Conference at the Grove. You can't tell from the pictures but we had over 100 tents at Zion's Camp. They were all over the place. It's definitely the beginning of the summer. Lots of people around.

Today we went to Church with the Brittons. They are assigned to the Rochester 3rd Branch and were speaking in Church today so the Crookstons and us decided to lend moral support. What a great experience, they had about 50 people attend. We stopped on our way home at Lock 60. I have to include a picture of the Hill Cumorah. It is so beautiful and I'm still walking. Have a great week.

Paul, Crookstons, & Brittons