I guess the big news for this week is that we now have a release date for our mission. March 10, 2016 we will be heading home! We got a call from the mission office earlier in the week letting us know they were getting everything ready for our release. It is hard to believe that we do see an end to this great experience we have had. Our Supervisor came in this week and gave us an assignment to find other couples who are interested in serving as record preservation missionaries. He mentioned a number of areas where they need missionaries and one of them was Baltimore which would be very nice because you could spend a great deal of Saturdays exploring the wonderful areas around it. Don't worry we are coming home!
At the archives this week we have had numerous probate files for Duncans which we hadn't had before and they were in the area of Grandpa's family so I wrote all the information that was contained in the records and then checked to see if they were any direct relations to our family line. Couldn't find any but it was still exciting to see Duncan on the folder. I suspect we will find more in the coming months. This county has 354 boxes of probate files and as of Friday we have finished about 20 of them. We won't finish this assignment before we go home so they will either assign another missionary couple here or have our co-workers, the Mayvilles finish it. They are paid for each picture they take and have been working at the archives for almost two years. Without their help when we first came I think learning all that needed to be done would have been really difficult. On top of that Tim always tells us interesting places to go in the area and we have followed his advice and seen some great things here in New Hampshire.
Yesterday we headed up the 89 freeway to Vermont to look at the beautiful fall colors and then came back down on the 91 freeway which took us to the bottom of Vermont. The weather has changed quite a bit this week and so now most of the leaves are starting to fall off the trees and the vibrant reds, yellows and oranges are beginning to fade a little but it was a beautiful day with some amazing landscapes. We visited Woodstock, Vermont and Springfield, Vermont, ate lunch in Laconia, New Hampshire and browsed in a big new Michaels store in Keene, New Hampshire. We drove all around the areas on two lane roads and enjoyed the leisure trip since most of the time the speed limit is 30 miles per hour. It is so interesting to go into these small towns and see great big factories, that probably provided jobs for most of the people in the town, now sitting empty with broken windows and worn brick facades. That is one thing we have seen over and over in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island. There was definitely a time in the history of this area where they were probably some of the giants of industry. For us in Concord it seems that state government is the big employer since it is the capital of New Hampshire. We hope you are all doing well.
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