hallway and guest bedrooms

This is the hallway to the bathroom and two guest bedrooms. Just above this place where I am standing the ceiling came down because of a roof leak.
This is the guest bathroom. Pink counters and floors.

This is the first bedroom you come to. It wasn't bad. It's a nice size. This room and the living room are the only spaces in the entire house that didn't have wallpaper.

The second bedroom was horrible. Wallpaper on everything including the closet doors and bright yellow walls underneath.

Wallpaper still on closets.

This is the dry rotted facia trim that needs replacing. Backyard looking thru to the living room. We will put in two french doors here.
This is a view looking into the master bedroom. Web will put in french doors.

We have a really nice backyard space. The two magnolia trees are tearing up the concrete really badly. Hate to lose them but thier roots are huge and everywhere.

We would love to put in a jaccuzzi here this firepit is someday. The firepit is overgrown with plants.

This is the backdoor to the kitchen which we will remove and make into a wall. We have to move the window too. The ledge is dry rotted and falling off the wall.

I will never take for granted these amazing sunsets!

Sister Hendricks!!!

Dear Family, September 13th 1976

You can't imagine how happy I am!!! My new companion (Sister Hendricks) is a worker! WE have done more in the three days we've been together than Sister Linn and I did in an entire week. I have had so many spiritual experiences. I know now what it means to be a missionary. We work every minute of the day and don't even stop for dinner! Sunday we had 3 people bomb out on us but we didn't get discouraged, we just started knocking on doors. No one was home. Sister Hendricks said< " I feel we ought to talk to that lady." I thought she looked mean but I said okay. So I introduced ourselves, and asked if we could tell her about the church. She said sure, come in and maybe my X-husband will leave. And he did! She has four real nice daughters. WE taught her, and I felt the spirit so strongly, it was fantastic! I felt as if I could tell her anything and Heavenly Father would have prepared her for it. She was anxious to read the B of M. We'll call back on her in a couple of days. Her mane is Rachel. The whole day , each day, has been like that. It just goes to show how the Lord will bless you if you are willing to work and be obedient. Sister Hendricks has already taught me so much. Later on that night we wer teaching a science professor, the spirit was there but he will do everything to fight it. He's so logical. I told him Heavenly Father gave him a heart as well as a brain. I remembered scriptures and passages I'de never remembered seeing. It was fantastic! There's no words for how good I feel, knowing she and I can really work. WE are doing a display on J. Smith at the college this week. 11,500 students at the University of Maine at Orono. All science majors! Yuk! But I love it. WE are also using the radio stations to announce that we are in town and a member works at a t.v. station so we are getting all kinds of stuff from salt lake. We're "Expanding our influence". I have to give a talk o what I'm doing to "Expand our Influence" in President Rozsa's workshop at Zone Conference. But I feel like I've done something so I'm not scared. I know the Lord loves me cause her sent me a great companion and he answers my prayers cause he sent home Sister Linn!!! I found out that every companion she had had big problems with her. I thought it was just me. Now I don't feel so bad. Anyways Sister H and I get along Great! She's not spoiled, she's from Washington too and goes home in Nov. But at least she works. I love you all very much and hope the Lord is blessing you as he is me!

Old town Maine

Dear Family,
We had stake conference yesterday, the saints were really chastized. Boy were they ever. They were chasized for reverance in the chapels, (the mothers were told exactly how to discipline their children.) The reverence in the chapels is outrageous if I haven't mentioned it before. I've had a couple of investigators really upset about it. The were chasized about their home teaching, visiting teaching, missionary work, sacrament attendance and on and on. That stake President was really speaking by the power of the Holy Ghost. He can't seem to love them into doing their part so I guess he decided to shame them. We drove for 5 hrs. along the coast of Maine home. It was beautiful. We had an open house where all members were supposed to bring a family, one member did. But Sister Hendricks and I had a family there! They are the Rosso's and they are fantastic!!! ( They were later baptized! The whole family!) She has 18 month old twin boys, and two other children. We were tracting and my companion said, I feel strongly that we should knock that house. So we did, and they were so wonderful!!! ( He was later made Bishop of that ward) Those twins are terrors and should fit right in the ward. I can't believe them. We had quite an eventful open house. But it was really fun. The kids had a ball and that's great. The parents really enjoyed it too. I gave a short story to all the little kids while the twins ran around in chaos. They'll fit right in!

Christmas on Tondolea

Do you kids remember the Christmas on Tondolea when we invited a homeless woman to stay for two weeks during Christmas? She was down on her luck from a divorce and just didn't have the money to pay her rent and so ended up on the street. What I remember most was how tired she was and how she would sleep forever. It must have been good to know you could sleep without worrying about being molested. But what means more to me now is how we came home from church one sunday and she had made a batch of cookies. She said," I hope you don't mind, but it's been so long since I've had a kitchen and all the tools and ingredients to make a batch of cookies." Her whole foundation of what she was and all she knew had been lost beneath her. When I want to complain that all my kitchen stuff is in storage and all my familiar things are not around me, I think of her and that she ended up with nothing at all. She was someone just like you or me. We have alot to be grateful for don't we.
Love and merry christmas to my little one so far away,
Mom

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