Odds and Ends 2014-15

First snow that stayed on the ground - The Vauxhall Car - 'ours' for one year. 

The Gym - rainy day therapy for office missionaries 

Eeeeeeekkk! This creepy spider was trying to crawl into the bedroom closet. It looks like a Daddy Longlegs but the body is thinner. This is the only kind of spider we have seen, so far. But if you google 10 Common Spiders found in the UK, there are some scary ones! No more cleaning the cupboards without wearing gloves!

Elder Jolley will really miss his HUGE closet! Small, but great quality!
Look at those cedar-lined doors and the sagging solid wood rod!

St. Ives Cornwall 01/01/2015

Sister Jolley shopping in St Ives New Year's Day 2015
Keep a tight grip on your purse Grammy!

Lunch in the Seafood Restaurant - great view of St. Ives Bay

Happy New Year 2015 & Happy Birthday Casey!

 We are thinking of you today Casey! And enjoying a trip to Cornwall in your honor...

Elder and Sister Jolley at Lands' End, Cornwall - cold and windy - Brrrrr

Wild and beautiful Lands' End!

Mark & Louise won't mind if we take a photo of their personalized marker...

Falmouth, Cornwall Dec 31, 2014

Elder Jolley enjoying the view of Falmouth Bay

Larryn B&B in Falmouth

Sister Jolley on the Falmouth Dock of the Bay

View from the B&B in Falmouth

Sheldon Ward Christmas Party 12/19/2014

Bishop and Anna Stilger and Bishop's mom, Sister Stilger from Germany
The Bishop bought the house next door to his home
where S. Stilger will live while he uses the downstairs as an office.

A happier photo of Sister Stilger, a very sweet lady

Elder and Sister Jones, the benefactors of our Christmas Feast!
Look at this spread! Ham and turkey, salads, fruit, rolls, and desserts! Delicious!
The adorable baby belongs to the Manseyas who are parents to half the Primary children. :-)

Chris and Jake Maloney & Elder Burke from Australia, caught red-handed with a sumptuous mandarin!
Elder Jolley next to the tragically hideous Christmas tree. Maybe the YM were in charge of decorations? :-(

Pat Sheridan, one of the stalwarts of the Sheridan Ward.
She and her daughter Dolly teach seminary.  (Sorry about the thumb!)

Jenny

Patrick Carroll and Timmy

Pat's granddaughter in Santa hat, Camasani's daughter in red sweater; friend.

Beate Wright (R.S. teacher) from Germany - she is Sister Stilger's interpreter

Maria (pianist), Heather (R.S. counselor)

The Primary Teacher's Worst Nightmare...

Sian Davies reading a Christmas story

Jeremiah Stilger was a good sport since his "hands" belonged to a torture artist. Here, he is brushing his teeth.
Oh what fun! This skit is always a hit!

The Appreciative Audience! :-)

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas Eve! Looks like somebody had too much eggnog.

 Elder and Sister Jones hosted a Christmas Eve Luncheon.

Visit to the British Museum in London 12/15/2014

We went to the British Museum expecting to see British history, but we saw the history of the world, which belongs to us all. This is a tiny sampling of what can be seen there.

The Rosetta Stone was carved in 196 B.C. in 2 different languages. (Greek and Egyptian).
It was written using 3 script types: hieroglyphic, demotic & Greek.  The text was written to                                                   honor the Egyptian Pharaoh. It is named after the small town where it was discovered in 1799.                                         Does the shiny bald head reflected in the stone seem familiar?

Colossal Statue of King Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC)

Modern Day Ramesses I and II

Decorative ceiling inside the museum

One of a pair of sculptures found in Assyria. Mythological figures were often placed at the                                                          entrance to palaces in ancient Mesopotamia for protection against demonic forces.                                                              This particular sculpture is a winged human-headed bull.

The marble head of the horse of Selene (goddess of the moon), carved around 438-432 B.C.
This sculpture is from the east pediment or gable of the Parthenon in Athens.

Mummy, is that you?

Sister Jones admiring some of the many beautiful Egyptian sarcophagi 

Sister Jolley and Henutmehyt, an Egyptian Priestess. Her name was popular at the time she lived. (1295-1186 BC)
The richness of her burial says she was an extremely wealthy and important woman, like S. Jolley? :-)

Elder and Sister Jones: Good thing we wore our coats! It's like a refrigerator in here! 

Reconstructed artifact known as the Standard of Ur which was discovered in a royal tomb in Ur (near Bahgdad) in the 1920s. Amazing restoration work by the excavators who filled the hollows in the ground with wax to record the shape of the objects that had once filled them. They carefully uncovered small sections & covered them with wax, enabling the mosaics to be lifted while maintaining the original designs. This reconstruction is a best guess at the original appearance.

Confucius say: Wise guys imitating ancient monkey ...bad karma!:-)