End of Dec posting

Somehow the pictures got posted in random order so we will just explain them as they are.

Here is an upside-down Christmas tree we saw in a store at Clayton, NY

Full moon over Bolt Castle in 1000 Island area of Northern New York.  Picture taken from the Bishop's house.

Western side Mission Conference Christmas Dinner Dec 17th

Pres and Sister Rogers and us at the conference both celebrating our Dec 17th wedding anniversaries.

Trinity Church where we attended "The Messiah"  It was beautiful with orchestra and choir.

This was a Christmas concert at the Baptist Church.  We had two members of our ward singing in the choir.  Really nice evening.

Our indoor tomato plant still producing fruit on Dec 26th and a few new flowers.

Mom taught this Korean lady how to sew a table runner.  She was so excited, she just giggled it was the first thing she has ever sown.  She picked out the fabric.  She speaks very little English.

Had a great description of events written and then hit the wrong button and deleted all of it.

We spoke in the Watertown Ward today and felt a sweet spirit present.  The Bishop sent us a text tonight:  "Thank you for helping us end the year in such a spectacular way.  You are a blessing to our ward."  The Lord has been very good to bless us with the talent for communicating gospel principles.

Dan, Chandi and Kids have been with for Christmas.  We have had such a wonderful time with them.
We are also grateful for Facetime and the Family Facebook page.  We almost feel we are there with you.  What a beautiful blessing it is for us.

I will now just post some of the pictures from this last month and explain some of the events.

Dan and the kids at the Burrville water falls.

Broadbents in Clayton by the St Lawrence River

By the anchor in Clayton

Christmas Eve day at a members home with kids who's Dads are deployed plus our grand-kids.  We played Bingo and Mom and Chandi had wrapped lots of prizes.

Same party with Sister Missionaries.

Tibbits Point Lighthouse.  Chandi took the picture

Broadbents on the shore of Lake Ontario at Tibbets Point 

After the concert "The Messiah" at Trinity Church with friends Donna and Allen

Festival of Trees

Just a little update with pictures from the "Festival of Trees" decorating parties we have been having.

Just getting started.  At least 30 totes filled with decorations and toys for the 7 trees that the ward did.

About 1/4 of the way done.  This took us two full days plus some evenings getting the ornaments wired and ready to go.  All ornaments have to be wired to the tree so they won't fall off during transport to their new homes.

Taking a break to just supervise! 

The missionary tree.  Was chosen for the charity auction and will probably sell for around $1,000.00 or more.

Ward members decorating trees and making ornaments. 

District with Zone Leaders at decorating event.




Some of the trees that other organizations decorated.

The next pictures show our ward trees almost finished.

Traditional Christmas

Star Wars Tree

Family History Tree

The Heart Tree

The Missionary Tree

Anyway that's about it for tonight.  We will try to give an update on "The rest of the story" later.  Love ya all

Some added pictures

Eastern half of the mission at mission conference with Elder and Sister Bennett (far right) Pres and Sister Rodgers standing on the left next to presidents assistants.

Flower mansion.  Largest home in Watertown built over 100 years ago.  It has been turned into appartments.

Front entrance of the mansion.  Went to diner at the Presbyterian Ministers apartment.

Ward empty nesters getting together to prepare ornaments for the "Festival of Trees"  The ward decorates 5 trees for the city wide event.  It is a major fundraiser for the city.  Each tree sells for up to $1000.00.

The missionary tree will be decorated totally in white.  These are some of the ornaments for the tree.

List of  1st Presidency current Apostles with lots of fun information.

Spring Water

This is where we go to get water.  It is a natural Spring.

It only costs a quarter to fill 7 gallons.  So much cheaper than buying it at the store like we used to do.

We take our washed out milk containers and fill them here with good tasting water - not a good as our Ririe well water but thousand times better than the tap water here.

This where the Miskins (senior couple) gets their water.  That pipe comes right out of the hill side.  It is free.  They live up North of us a couple of hours.

Oct 19th

This last weekend we were asked if we could take the office couple, Elder and Sister Larson, to the Joseph Smith Birthplace and then to Maine for Lobster.  This is their first time away from office duties in a year.  Anyway we went with them and had a wonderful weekend.  One the way back we stopped and went to church in Werschester, MA.  Here are some of the pictures from the trip. There are lots of other pictures that we will try to get posted.  Love ya all

Road leading into the Joseph Smith Memorial, Sharon, VT

Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial

Elder and Sister Larsen in York, ME

Larsens and Rex on the beach in York, ME

Getting on golf cart for site tour

Tree somewhere on route to VT

Picture of post card in Maine

Home on cliff above Atlantic Ocean in Maine

Flowers around Joseph Smith Memorial