MnR Ogden Mission: Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial: End of January

January 15-30

Good-Bye Harmans

Since the beginning of a new year, we decided to resume our once-a month senior couples get-together night. This month the Mooneys were in charge and they hosted a farewell party for the Harmans on January 21. So the theme of the night was "Everything Harman" --which was mainly: dairy and potato farmers, Kent's hobbies of golf and woodworking, and Tami's talent as an artist.

The decorations, food, and games were cleverly centered around these things. The potato bar and other food was all delicious. We had dinner on the main floor of their cabin, then the games eventually took us to all three levels with activities such as miniature golf, pickup sticks, pictionary, whiffle ball toss, and even an FM relay race. Most activities were similar to "minute to win it" type games. Everything was very unique and hilarious. We didn't get home until 11:00 pm. It was really a fun night and we feel grateful for the wonderful friends we have made here.


Mike dressed the part to explain about the golf challenge activity

We all watched as Kent & Tami came upstairs to the "golf course" room

View of Mooneys' Cabin from Dairy Hill Road

Zoomed In


The "FM Challenge" involved putting on the FM Shirt, taking 3 ibuprofen (cany pills), grabbing the vacuum, putting on the latex gloves, spray & wipe the bowl (i.e.toilet), go to the garbage can & remove the old garbage, get a new plastic sack from the roll, open new sack & tie it inside the basket. The fastest time got 500 bonus points!

Harmans saying "good-bye" at their last FHE

Staying at the Memorial

Thursday, January 22. The Osborn’s picked us up at 4:30pm as we were going to drive with them to Manchester so they could get away for a couple of weeks as they had been promised when they were made director. We went to the Mission Home (our first time to the mission home after 17 months of the mission) where the Stoker’s had prepared a lovely dinner. Pres. Stoker took us on a tour of the mission home and we had a good visit. Pres. Stoker gave me a beautiful tie with the Joseph Smith Monument on it. Sister Stoker give Rhonda a Temple Clothes bag with the Boston Temple embroidered on it. We didn’t stay too long after dinner and the tour before we decided to head back to the apartment driving Osborn’s car. It was a great way to spend our “day off”. The next day when we went to the Memorial, we took clothes and food as we knew we would be staying there until February 9.