Elder Graff and I survived another Sunday of speaking in church. We should be very good at this by the time we get home. To celebrate, we made German Babies for supper. This is a recipe that we were served after our Thanksgiving dinner at a local Chinese Restaurant. Actually we had the dessert at the Porter's condo. They ran a B and B in Snowflake, Arizona until they retired and this was their signature dish. Yummy! It is eggs, flour, milk and bake. Then spread real butter, lemon juice and powdered sugar over it after it bakes for 12 minutes. Eat and enjoy. We will probably make these until the doctor tells us no more butter, eggs and sugar. Until then we will order us larger clothes.

This last week was very busy in spite of Thanksgiving. We are still doing most of our teaching in the evening. So that makes for a long day. We have had the opportunity to teach people from Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti again. These people are so excited to get their family history written down. I love showing them how Roots Magic works and how they can scan pictures and documents into it.

One of our contacts does not even have a house to live in as we know it. He occupies the back patio of someone else's house and uses old mattresses for walls. We set up our computer and printer on an old dresser that he is refinishing and stood the entire time we were there. He was so grateful for the information that I found for him. He will take five names to the temple next month.

The temperature coming home from church this afternoon was 92. Isn't much like the winter we know at home. They say, it should get down to around 65. We hope so. The humidity isn't quite so bad, but still there.

We finally are getting new neighbors above us. With all the northern people moving down, I was surprised that it took so long to rent it. Guess they had to find poor people like us to rent it. I still haven't gotten over the fact that we had to re qualify for low income housing.

The kids sent us some more pictures and a few letters. If they realized how much Grandpa Spud needs those things, I'm sure they would send more. (Hint, Hint, to any kids reading this). The rest of you can send pictures and letters too. We are making a scrape book called "Back Home".

Our next round of apartment inspections will include the delivery of Christmas presents. I guess the "inspections" will be more a holiday visit. We are trying to decide what to take the missionaries this time for a treat. Any suggestions out there? I tried to take sugar cookies this time, but Elder Graff insisted on Crispy Kreme donuts. He told them they were a secret recipe that the cops across the nation have voted as #1. Most of the donuts never lasted the 15 minutes we were in their apartments.

The missionaries were given strick instructrions to only accept two dinner invitations for Thanksgiving day. One at 1:00 pm and one at 5:00 pm. These kids all have hollow legs when it comes to eating. Our Elder Larsen just got here from Utah with a broken wrist that he got in a skate boarding accident just before he left to come out here. Riding a bike is a real challenge for him.

We rode out to the Everglades Holiday Park to check out the airboat rides. The large ones will seat 35 people. When they finish their ride they watch a "gator show". We will probably do that after our Chinese Dinner we will have for Christmas. It wasn't crowded for Thanksgiving so we might try it again next month.