Thanksgiving

This is the one picture I have from Thanksgiving before my camera batteries died. :( I celebrated with Sarah, a fellow American in my course, and her cute little family. It was wonderful. She and her husband and two daughters live in Oakham, a delicious little historic community (I guess every town is historic here!). They also invited another American family from Oakham. Unfortunately I didn't get a good shot of Sarah's family...her husband's face is hidden by his youngest daughter :), but their oldest is in the foreground. The food was amazing and the company was fantastic; it was a very memorable day! 

YSA Church History Tour: Preston, England

 

This apartment on the corner is where President Gordon B. Hinckley received his father's monumental letter encouraging him to "Forget himself and get to work." 

The sun came out at the perfect moment to take this picture. The first men to ever get baptised into the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS in Great Britain literally raced across this bridge to see who would be first. :) They were baptised very near this spot in the River Ribble (above).

This is a tiny town in the countryside surrounding Preston. It has been purposely preserved in it's 19th century ambiance. Telephone lines, etc are all underground! Apparently when Mormon missionaries first arrived to this area, nearly everyone in this town was converted. One missionary writes of his departure, stating that nearly the whole town came out to wave their handkerchiefs at him in goodbye. He had to stop several different times at the creek alongside the road to wash away his tears.