Starting Over in the Arrowhead Stake with Finnish Flair.

Welcome Fall, here are the leaves turning on the North side of the house.

Monday was a ministering day for me.  Here I am after having a late lunch with Aubrey.  We had a buffet here, it was super vegetarian friendly, cheap and yummy.  We had a great visit too.

Next, I took a cupcake that Dad had picked up for me and went to visit Judy.  She is in the middle of chemo and radiation and is pretty bored and miserable. She's an amazing gal, and I have loved getting to know her. 

That was also the day that Pertti came to stay, he's a Finn who was baptized back in 2019.  It's very unusual for people to join the church that late in life.  He's a couple of years older than Dad.  These are the Sisters that taught him.  Ellie is the Blond, and she is the one that brought him down here on Monday. She coordinated his 10 days here, and he came here after spending a couple of days with her. The dark-haired sister is Kaitlin, who after her mission, married another Finnish Missionary named Cameron Fielding, they were both from Texas.

Another baptism picture showing the man who baptized him and showing another sister, Alexsis, who worked with him (in the red dress.) She also spent time with him this week.

Here are they all.

Here we see Cameron and Kaitlyn with Pertti and Hannah Kokkola who knew him in Finland as well.  She drove down from Layton for the visit.

Here are Kaitlyn and Cameron with their older daughter Nora.

Dad had dropped Pertti at the Fielding's apartment in Lehi, then he went to Barbershop.  After he came back to pick him up, in driving rain, under an unlit overpass, he mistook his turn and ended up ripping up the bottom his car on the central island.  It didn't look too bad, but was undrivable, and turned out to be totaled. It was his first accident in 48 years. 

On Tuesday I headed to Highland to hang out with Kimi and Shirley.  We did some crafting.

This is the interior of the box shown in the picture before.

This is a little coffin box I had fun with.

All the crafties.

and a delicious lunch.

While I was having fun, Dad was dealing with the car issues.  Then he and Pertti went for Mexican food, before returning home to watch the announcement of President Oaks's counselors. That must have been pretty historic for Pertti to see, while visiting in Utah.

That night I made salmon soup, and salad to feed four Elders from Dads time in the Finnish mission as a young man.  They all brought their wives, and it was fun to get acquainted with those we didn't know.

Here we have Elder Burke Reese, his wife, then Dennis Dowdle and his wife, then Pertti.

Elder Ralph Kern and his wife, then Roger Nuttell and his wife, then me.

Reeses

Dowdels

Kerns

Visiting

And more visiting.

Pertti with Roger Nuttall.

I stopped at DI on the way to work on Wednesday, and found this set of Jadeite from the 1920's, that still had its wedding gift givers written on tape on the bowl.  Of course that means it was never used. Great find. 

I also found this original painting, dated 2004 of Dracula's castle, along with another watercolor of another castle in Romania for sale at the North Treasures.  I bought them for $6.99 each. It was just a day of deals.

I have already reframed them both.

This one may not be a castle, but it is the destination that Dad and Pertti went to on a long drive that day.  Pertti thought the Manti Temple was huge.  He was surprised that the pioneers could build such an amazing structure. They drove back through the Nebo loop so Pertti could see the tail end of the leaves.  Dad said there were some nice sites, but not too many.

On Thursday I had given my workday away so that I could go to the Vintage Market Days of Greater Utah sale in Spanish Fork at the fairgrounds there.  We have gone to the one in Logan, but it was such a long drive we never went back (I went two other times, once with Dad).  Now here it is in town.

We laughed at the message on this vintage jacket.

And ran into many friends ... Me, Heather, Julie, Denise and Robin.

There were so many antique books and small paintings for sale.  It was not hard to tell what's trendy right now.  I loved this 'English Library Aesthetic' booth.

I can't imagine how much work it was to set up.  I actually bought books from 3 different booths, just not in this booth.

Amazing.

Here are Julie and her daughter showing off their Halloween clothes.

This is me with Julie in front of the 'photo booth'

And this is my loot shoot.

Here is Pertti with yet another missionary he knew in Finland, Parker Fenton, she took him to the store and dinner.  

She and her husband brought him back and we had a nice visit with them 

After they left, I went out and harvested Oyster Mushrooms off our big stump, and we had mushroom gravy poutine for dinner.

There were lots to cut up and freeze for later too.

Then on Friday morning Dad took Pertti to the airport to fly to St. George and visit missionaries there, before flying back tomorrow to SLC and then heading home on Tuesday.

After Dad got back, I talked him into going back to the market in Spanish Fork with me again.  Not his fav, so we didn't stay too long.

At work on Wednesday, I had pulled this plate out of a 1917 book that had other damage, because I love this painting by Jesse Wilcox Smith.  I framed it when I framed the castles and hung it here in the library after we got home.

On Saturday we had a house full.  This time it was a young man who was finishing up a movie he started earlier in the summer.  He brought a couple of aunts, an uncle and his grandmother, so we had fun getting acquainted.

Here's the filmographer and his wife with two boys who are playing deacons in the movie.

Later I got this picture of the boys on the stump. 

Meanwhile Trevor and his family are finishing up the work on the house they were building for a single lady with 3 handicapped kids down on the Navajo reservation.

They got back just in time to join Dad at the BYU-Utah game.

It was a great game!

Dad loves sharing tickets with these guys.

While Dad was gone, I hooked up with Ginny Taylor to go to the Saturday evening Stake Conference Meeting where we found out our new Stake will be called the Payson Utah Arrowhead Stake.

Then today we found out our new Stake President would be Kenton Phillips.  It was cool for me because last week in Fast and Testimony meeting the Sprit whispered to me, when he got up to bear his testimony, that he would be our new Stake President.  I think he will be wonderful.  His first counselor is Alan Davis, who served 9 years in our previous presidency ending 3 years ago.  The second counselor is Thane Kennedy who went to school with Becca, and who is married to Chelsea Cooper, the Cooper kid that was Spencer age.  So much fun. 

Then Dad talked to the Temple President who had helped him with Pertti at the Temple on Thursday, and he found out that one of his companions, from Finland, is a first cousin to the President.  That was fun.

Then my cousin Debbie came down to share dinner with us.  It was so fun to catch up!!

So that was our week with some life changing events in it.  Hope your week was great too.