Status of Things in our Life

 I suppose, if anyone is really reading these, that a little of what is happening on our lives might be useful to share. Most of what I have been posting has to do with my Danish family research. I do a fair amount of that, so that is what comes out here.

I actually started this blog about eleven years ago when we were preparing for our first mission, which took us to southern Germany.

Since then, Shauna and I have moved twice and served four additional missions.

Now we are awaiting our next mission which begins in October when we go to the MTC in Provo just prior to spending eighteen months in the Auckland New Zealand mission.

We moved from our long-time home in West Jordan between our second and third missions. We sold our place and bought a two bedroom townhouse in Daybreak. 

We then served two more missions and then had a whirl-wind experience that ended up with us packing up quickly (over just a few days) and moving to where we now live in southeast Ohio, about halfway between Athens, Ohio and Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Our missions have been the following:  Alpine German-Speaking mission (2013-2014) in Ravensburg, Germany; Salt Lake City South mission (2015-2016) in our West Jordan home and stake; Rochester, New York mission (2017-2018) in Hornell, New York; Southern California - started with the Carlsbad mission, then Newport Beach mission (2019-2021), living in Irvine; Nauvoo Temple mission (2022) living and working in the temple in Nauvoo, Illinois.

We live in the country now, surrounded by 21 acres of woods of our own — which comes with different life requirements. We experience many wild animals, especially white-tailed deer, rabbits, opossums, box turtles, wild turkeys, and of course, flies, ticks, bees, hornets, humming birds (and many varieties of birds), fire flies, mice and snakes.

Life can truly be interesting