Day 3 August 12, 2011

This beginning of this trip was actually very sad. Out of all the people we had met thus far, the Campbells were the hardest to say goodbye to. I’ll never forget what she yelled to us as we drove away, “remember your kids will always have an Indian grandma.” That’s exactly how she treated us, like family.

The reason we left Cattaraugus, was to make our way to another area where Elder Osborn served. He served in Rochester, and it was there that we met Loyd Robinson at Perry’s Pizza Shop. Loyd Robinson was an amazing person. He took us to the best pizza place too, where their pizzas were unbelievable huge and their slices were as big as a whole pizza. It was delicious, that and the company made it that much more enjoyable. We didn’t get to visit long before it was already time for Loyd to get to work, and for us to head out to our next stop.

Ever since I was little family trips has always had some kind of education hidden in them. It is interesting to see that even though I wasn’t too thrilled about light houses and museums when I was little, now I just have to go to at least one while on vacation. The fun museum that we decided to go to was the well known George Eastman House. For those of you who don’t know who George Eastman was, he was the man who started Kodak. He lived in a huge mansion by himself, never being married or having children. He made film history and so we went to learn about it. We even ended up making some art of our own with photo paper. It was really neat.

The Snedekers were the next family I was able meet. Talk about a golden family J Both Bob and Carrie are converts to the church and have been able to share the gospel with so many people. We met them while they were doing a garage sale. Carrie was so loud and fun to talk to, and Bob was quite and very nice. We visited with them and their little girl Eleanor for a bit (their other kids Nick, Rosie and Sophie weren’t home) just before we headed off to our dinner appointment.

Brother Kie is the sweetest old man you will ever meet! Every Friday night he makes dinner for the missionaries and an investigator or family that they are teaching. This week we got to be the guests of honor and had dinner with the assistants and sister missionaries. It was neat too, because one of the sister missionaries was actually from our home ward back in Boise. It was crazy to think that we’d traveled that far and ended up running into her. She has become such a great missionary and it was really neat to see her in immersing herself in the work.

When we got back to the Snedekers Bob went on an ice cream run for us, and we visited for hours. I think that visiting with all the wonderful people that we got to meet was my favorite. Especially the Snedekers, because they loved Jason too and love reminiscing in memories of the past and memories they had created together. I hope someday we get to see them again.