Baptisms of Richard, Praveen, and Tamas

 


25 October 2025
Tamas was baptized.  He was taught by 
Sister Kunkel and Sister Jones.


Richard was also baptized.  In this picture:
Elder Daniels, Richard, he ward member who baptized him, 
Elder Koshar, and Elder Schmidt.

Praveen was also baptized but I didn't get a photo of him.  


21 October 2025
We celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary.  
Gary, who doesn't usually eat sweets, splurged.


Gary and Louise


Gary had a salmon dish and I had a chicken.  It was tasty.  

 

We are trying to learn how the trains and bus system works here.
We have a car and usually we drive where we need to go.  However, 
parking is always an issue.  We had Sister Pearson explain to us how to
look for train schedules on Google Maps.  I think Gary has a pretty
good idea of how it works-we just need to take a trial run.


One of our missionaries lost his train/bus pass so Gary and I
had to drive up to the main train station about 40 minutes away 
and buy him another one.  We parked in the train station parking
lot and took this picture so we could find our way back to our car.


This is the group before the baptism in front of the coolest church.


Elder Stephens & Sister Stephens after the baptism in the church courtyard.  


This is what we looked like 48 years ago...we were babies!









        






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