Palmer's Four Corners Connection

Check out my Slide Show!

2008-07-14T09:41:00.001-07:00

Trip to the British Isles

2008-07-12T15:35:00.000-07:00

Tamra graduated from UVSC (now UVU) in April. Within a week she was on a plane to London. She was working as an assistant for a Study Abroad program. She finished that program on the 13th of July.

I, Jeanne, flew to London and got there on the 13th of July. (However my luggage did not do the same). They met up at the Novetel Hotel and the fun began. Check out the slide show for a few of the places we saw.

The luggage finally caught up with us the night in Bristol.

Change in church calling

2008-07-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

On Sunday, July 13, 2008, We will be released from being a fellowshipping couple at Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. We have been going out there as a couple since the beginning of 2005. I, Jeanne, was going out 2 or 3 times a month before that. We have made many good friends and will be sad to leave them. We will still be able to see them at Stake functions. One of my young women was 12 when I started going out there. She just graduated and turns 18 this month. I am the only Young Women's leader she has had so I was glad the release did not come a month or two ago before she graduated.

If you want to know where is Teec Nos Pos is just look at a map and stare at the 4 corners. (It is in 5 miles from the monument in the corner of Arizona.)

We are looking forward to getting to know the people in our own ward now. A few families have moved in and we do not know them very well. We have been asked to speak in our ward on the 17th of August. They did not even wait for the formal release to ask us!

New Palmer Bloggers

2007-12-27T12:03:00.000-08:00

A New Experience
Welcome to our blog page. Is blog another name for ramblings? This is a new experience for Barton and Jeanne (It will be mostly Jeanne doing the posting). I have enjoyed reading the blog pages of other family members so thought I would give it a try.

It is different than a web page or a news letter where there is more control over the design, look, and order of the articles.

I am a novice at this and as time permits will learn how to add pictures, links, and other items to make it more interesting. Hopefully this blog will help those we love to know that we are still actively engaged in whatever experiences life give us.
Jeanne

2007-12-27T11:21:00.000-08:00

Christmas Celebration
We had another joyous Christmas season. The excitement started on Dec. 14, when Ann came to Kirtland and brought my mother and Tamra, to spend a few days with us.

Os Sat. all the women went to a wonderful play and luncheon put on by the Stake Relief Society. They do that every two years and it is wonderful.

Ann and my mother went home on Wednesday and Tamra rode back to Orem with Barton and I on Friday.

On Saturday, Dec. 22 we were able to go to the Jordan River Temple with our niece, Joy. (Barton's brother, Richard's daughter) After the service we went to her sister, Reva Ann's home for a nice luncheon. We were able to spend time with Richard and Reva who came from Washington for the occasion.

On Sunday we spent time with my Mom and my sister, Nancy and husband, came for a visit. They live in St. George now and are not always in town when we go up to Orem.

On Monday, Christmas eve we went back to Reva Ann's home for a dinner and program. Those attending:
Old married couples:
Barton and Jeanne
Richard and Reva
Our married nieces:
Reva Ann and Clint and 4 children.
Jill and Austin
Guendolyn and Eric and 2 children
Our single ladies:
Ann, Tamra, Joy, Laura
Honored guests:
Jeanne's mother
Eric's mother

A good time was had by all and the children put on a good play of the first Christmas. Reva Ann knows how to do a good party.

Christmas morning we spent with my mother. Ann, Tamra, and Laura came for breakfast. In the afternoon Ann and Laura left to spend time with other family and my local family members came to spend time with my Mom. Tuesday we had a traditional get-together with the Mughans and played the crazy gift exchange game. It was also my brother, Richard's, birthday so we had cake and sang to him. Those attending:
Old married couples:
Allen and Neva
Nancy and Kieth
Barton and Jeanne
Richard and Betsy
DaNieces and family:
Liz and Doug and 4 children
Monica and 2 children
Michelle and 1 child
Our single ladies:
Karna, Tamra, Valerie
Honored guest: (It was her house)
Jeanne's mother

Next year Doug is in charge and that should help with communication and giving enough advance notice so that people can plan their schedules.

Current Church Activity

2007-12-27T11:04:00.000-08:00

We are assigned to help the branch at Teec Nos Pos, Arizona. The chapel is about 5 miles from the four corners monument in Arizona so if you look at a map and find where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet you will know where we are on Sundays.

Jeanne teaches the Young Women and Barton fills in in Sunday School as needed. We are assigned a few families to home teach. We have been doing this as a couple for 3 years but Jeanne was helping in Young Women as a member of the Stake YW for 2 years before that.

We really like the people but sometimes miss our own ward family. there have been families move in, babies born, changes in callings, etc. that we are not aware of. We go to activities but church in our ward but Sunday services are the same time as at Teec.

Our stake has about 8 couples with this calling that go to two branches and the Shiprock ward but there are also other couples called to work with branches not in our stake. Their calling is more like a service mission and they are called as "member mentor missionaries". Salt Lake is monitoring both of these programs to see how they are working. The purpose is to help the people on the Navajo reservation to become self-sufficient temporally and spiritually.

Happy New Year

2007-12-27T10:49:00.000-08:00

New Year's Resolution:
Keep in touch with family and friends by getting email addresses and creating a blogspot.