Yes, we made it safely home. The weather was beautiful, expect for dense fog between Pendleton, Oregon and Kennewick, Washington.

The bowls are reversed. At the beginning of our mission the left one was full. Each Sunday we took one stone out and put it in the right bowl.

We thought this day would never come, but now the left bowl is empty and the right is full - full of wonderful memories. We would not have missed this experience for the world.

My Ohio song has been, "I am foot loose and fancy free. I carry no purse. I carry no key."


I will miss waiting for Elder Millet to park the car in the garage. The view is great six floors above the lobby. He ways gives such a wonderful greeting with hat off and blowing kisses.


We will miss the beautiful view from our apartment. We will not miss the winter weather in Cleveland.

Oh, yes, we will miss it all very much. We have had a wonderful mission. We love the young single adults and all those we have worked with. We are leaving with very mixed emotions.

Our last class in Hiram where attendance was unpredictable. David Schneck and Gina Huschka were our most reliable and "favorite students." David was from Akron and Gina from Cleveland. Their date night began with Institute at Hiram on Tuesdays. We love them.

Last class at Cleveland Stake Center: Randy LeBron, Jeremy Taphus, Tom Sanka, Stephen Born, Stephanie Canonizado, Megan Horner, Shanon Canonizado. We love them. Their favorite treat was Challah Bread.

Last class at Wade Park: Back row: Brad Jones, Nathan Graves, Elder Rangle, Paul Crowley, LaShawn Haley, Steven Wyler. Next: Justin Nelson, James Gibson, Joe Barwick, Tali Nay. In Between: Kali Wiegel, Kelsey Potter, Lauren Tyrrell, Rachel Gianetta, Cynthia Tsien, Anna Bowman, Molly Sabolsky. In Between: Emily Butler, Sheryl Robbins, Lauren Roth, Maureen McNeeley. Next: Chris Hurt, Mike Adam, Sister/Elder Millet, John Adams, Elder Hansen. Front: Elder, Robin Bender, Natalie and Raymond Webber. We love them.



We did not get a photo of our noon lunch group who gave us a beautiful cake which we served for dessert. We love them.

Lauren Roth received $50 at our last class. She said, "I'm glad I memorized The Family. The doctrine is perfect and I refer to it again and again."

Since we are going home soon we have really encouraged our students to memorize "The Family Proclamation." Last week Elder Millet was inspired to go to the bank to replenish his supply of $50 bills. What a surprise we had at our lunch class this week - 4 students had memorized it. After hearing all 4 students quote it the other students were halfway there to memorizing. They work well under pressure as the time is short. What mixed emotions we have about that fact. We will miss our experiences here big time.



Jeff Clark went first.


Next was Jamie Clark.


Then Canda Ashworth.


We were impressed that everyone was still listening when Tim Ashworth was finished.

We work with such outstanding young people. It is surprising that we have had more memorizers with our married students - 7 to 3. Elder Millet says this is the best money he has spent while on our mission. I agree. Everyone was excited.

Beth Graham received $50 from Elder Millet for memorizing "The Family Proclamation." We how have 6 who have done so. Good job, Beth.

Wow! Quincunx was a 7 letter word on a double, double word which gave Sister Millet 150 points. That's the highest scoring word yet. Elder Millet and I love to play Scrabble.

The full-time missionaries are presenting lessons to our Institute classes this week on how to invite, commit, and follow through. They stressed the importance of bearing a simple testimony, something that is sometimes forgotten in Fast and Testimony Meeting. I followed through with a testimony glove - which they all loved. It was a true "hand-out."

Our testimony can be remembered on our hand: 1) God the Father lives, loves us, and hears and answers our prayers. 2) Jesus is the Christ the Redeemer of the world. 3)Joseph Smith was the prophet of the restoration. We have a living prophet today. 4) The Book of Mormon is the word of God. 5) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is God's church on the earth today and is the only true and living Church.

It was a great lesson. The awesome YSA were excited about their testimony glove more so, perhaps, than Primary children.

We have a "Jack in the tomato stalk" that just grows and grows. Now that there is no more rail to tie it to the fronds are growing out and we have a tomato above the rail. Elder Millet picked 4 large and 4 cherry tomatoes today. What flavor!

Elder Millet and I were so pleased last night. As we were serving refreshments Roy Merker, a student from Michigan who is working in Cleveland for the summer shyly asked, "Elder Millet are you still giving $50 for memorizing The Family Proclamation?" YES, YES! He did a great job and was thrilled with his prize. We always say we have $50 for anyone who will accomplish the feat.

Our favorite theme this year has been "All who will . . . may."

Roy Merker

Here is Elder Millet out standing in his field - or tomato patch to be more exact. Since we live on the West side of the building we get only the afternoon sun, but it seems to be enough. The plants were purchased at different times and we will have big ones and small ones all summer. It's amazing how much water they can consume.





This is our third ripe tomato.

Elder Millet offered $50 to any student who memorized "The Family, A Proclamation to the World." To date 4 students have accomplished the task and quoted it successfully to their respective classes:

Katie Wells

Linda Titera

Emily Keller

Rosa Bagley

This Scrabble game gets the cheers for the longest word we have ever played. It took 3 turns: provide - provident - providential.

Ohio is known for its maple syrup. The weather was perfect for a bounteous harvest. We went to Burton, Ohio for a maple outing. Our Institute students enjoyed the maple sugar cookies Elder Millet made for them.

We had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 175th anniversary of the dedication of the Kirtland Temple. The meeting was at 6:00 in the morning and was a spiritual feast. We are so fortunate to be near the temple. The sun came up and shone through the window right at the perfect time in the meeting.

On a beautiful summer day it's fun to remember the snow. This is from our balcony and yes we had snow all winter.

Since we are 3 hours closer to Times Square in New York City we stayed up and watched the ball drop on New Year's Eve. Our atomic clock proves the fact. Note that the outside temperature was over 50 degrees. We are having a winter heatwave. 2010 was a great year and we know 2011 will be wonderful too. We have been on missions on January 1 in the years: 2004, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Elder Millet won the prize (cheer, cheer, cheer) for the biggest Scrabble score yet: 123 points. I had just put down a 7-letter word TOWAGES. He then put down DETESTS which gave him a triple word score both ways: 27 for Detests, 36 for Stowages, 50 for a 7-letter word, and he also got 3 for DO, 2 for EN, and 5 for SLAG. Good going Elder Millet.

We received so many lovely Christmas gifts. We enjoyed Troy and Leslie's 12 day package; wondered why we received toilet paper from Roger and Leanne since they did not add the cute message; loved all the goodies from everyone; new bread pans from Marie; President Monson's "To The Rescue" from Marla; and this edible arrangement from Tom and Joette. Lori's package was appreciated as an after Christmas special. Thank, many thanks to all. We had a great Christmas.

Elder Millet and I wrapped up 48 of these little gifts and passed them out to whomever we chatted with on our way here and there. In addition to a package of M&S's and the cute poem we had a flyer for the Kirtland Stake Nativity Display, which was wonderful with over 700 nativities. It was fun for us to see if we could give 48 of them during the month of December and we did!

Our Christmas Mission Conference included a sacrament meeting at the Kirtland Temple. Each missionary had an opportunity to bear their testimony in the temple. What a choice experience.

I am slow in posting the pictures of our beautiful lobby. The Christmas decorations were lovely. It is wonderful to live in such a marvelous apartment complex.