The Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent

 Absolutely loved the Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent!  This is the time clock used by the employees in the late 1800's.

 Entrance to the Potteries.

 These are the molds that are stacked inside the kilns and are ready to be fired.

 Love this picture.  This is where they fill and prepare the molds before they are fired.

 This nice man demonstrated for us how to make pots on the potters wheel.

Elder Blunck shows us the size of the kilns.

 This is the furness that heats the Potteries and provides power to the factory. 

The tools and machines that keep the Potteries going.

 The kilns.

 The Potteries also make tiles.  So pretty!

 These are the pots where they mix the colors and glazes to go on the plates, cups, bowls etc.

 The molds.

Mick's Baptism

 Mick was baptized by Elder Bateman but all these wonderful Elders taught him and supported him through many difficult roads blocks towards his baptism. Elder Kofoed, Elder bateman, Elder Taylor and Elder Johnson.  Love these wonderful men of God.

Visit to Crew

 We arrived at the Crew Chapel and saw this amazing car and of course had to have our pictures taken by it.

This is the Crew Hall located just outside the city.  It is a hotel or resort now.  Beautiful!

Stoke District

 Sister Conlogue and Sister Schwab are absolutely the best!  We are so blessed to serve with these sweet wonderful sisters.

 Elder Bateman and Elder Kofoed serve as the Stoke District leaders.  Love them so much!  Great leaders and teachers.  God's Royal Army!

 The Congleton Sisters!  Sister Luerng and Sister Kretschmann

Congleton Chapel

 Karl and I traveled to every chapel in the Newcastle Zone.  This is the beautiful Congleton Chapel.

Mick and Sarah's Wedding

 Mick and Sarah were married with all their 17 children in attendance.  They are the cutest family.  When the Elders met Mick he loved the gospel of Jesus Christ right away. This is a beautiful sweet family.  It was a pleasure to be a part of their conversion process and to see how the gospel blesses our lives.

 Sister Schwab, Sister Conlogue, ZL Elder Johnson ZL Elder Taylor, DL Elder Bateman, and Elder Kofoed with Mick and Sarah.

 The Elders performed at the wedding reception.  Their singing was fun and lovely.

Mick and Sarah sign the wedding registration.

Birthday Celebrations in Liverpool

 We had a wonderful day in Liverpool celebrating mom's birthday.  We spent the morning looking for a flat for an arriving senior couple and then decided to see go to the docks and check out the shops.  Love the architecture and museums.

 This is the display for the Titanic at a local museum.

 It was pirate day at the docks.  They were completely in character and very fun!

 At the docks we saw many locks attached to the fences and chains located around the dock.  The locks represent love for each other.  It shows your commitment to each other.

 The ferris wheel was closed on this day.  It is extremely high.

It was also biker day in Liverpool.  There were huge groups of motorcyclists so we thought it was so funny when we saw these bicycles lined up and tough looking people hanging around strutting their stuff.

 This tunnel goes underneath the water connecting Liverpool to  the other side of the bay.

Beatles Museum!

Chris's Baptism Stoke

 Sister Tholen and Sister Tuitupoe are so excited for Chris to be baptized.

The water was so hot that the Elders had to fill buckets with cold water in the kitchen to cool it down.  It was still very hot when Chris was baptized but everything went well.

Elder and Sister Bambrough

We were blessed to help Elder and Sister Bambrough move into their new bungalow in Preston.  (The one we just moved out of because we were transferred to Newcastle.)  We were sad to leave and also excited for our new area.  The Bambroughs were so tired but did amazingly well keeping up with us on the motorway driving for the first time on the wrong side of the road and wrong side of the car.  Love the Bambroughs.