We are now on the afternoon church schedule. The meetings now start at
12:30 p.m. and end at 3:30 p.m. The afternoon schedule is quite nice. I can
sleep in, have a leasurely morning, and leave for Church about 12:15.

Testimony meetings always start with a bunch of the kids standing up to
bear their fledgling testimonies. It’s good for these kids to stand up and
express a little bit about their beliefs. We’ve gotten to know a few people
in the Ward. I like this place and enjoy being here. It has started to feel
like home.

My brother Perry also has a web log (see the link on the right). He’s been
collecting lists from people about the year 2004. It’s worth checking out
the comments to his blog entry. There are some things that I’m quite happy
about:

1. Internet connectivity. Slowly but surely I can be connected to the
Internet wherever I’m located. Having connectivity across Europe this fall
seems quite incredible to me.

2. Photography. I ran across a website the other day that featured images
of people the author had met around the world over the past year. I’ve
taken lots of pictures of things and perhaps it’s time to start taking more
pictures of people.

3. Family close by. Not since we lived in Chardon, Ohio have we lived
reasonably close to family — particulaly family that don’t require a long
distance phone call. In Chardon it was Nina’s family and here it is my
family.

4. New beginnings that aren’t so very new. It’s a new year that is barely
distinguishable from last year, but the arbitrary New Year affords an
opportunity to change some things.

Life is good for us!

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