Happy Thanksgiving

     First of all we want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. We celebrated ours on Monday with the Temple missionaries and the Temple Presidency and even had two of Pres Majano's grandchildren. We had a feast of a king. I opted to eat very little potatoes and turkey so I could concentrate on the desserts. Unfortunately, my stomach didn't feel too good at the end of the day. I was fed my turkey dinner Tuesday after the Temple with leftovers which was very good. Next time I will eat dinner then the dessert two hours later. Sister Petersen wanted to make this Thanksgiving very special for us, from the table setting to the name tags, even had Indian head dresses for the men with Pilgram hats for the women. It was a very special day that we will cherish always.

     Now for the more important (interesting) news happening, I went GOLFING. It was a very enjoyable day even though we were only able to play nine holes. It is a very beautiful golf course. I did not score well, but there was a reason why I didn't other than my ability. Down here you have to hire a caddie. And the caddie carries the score card and marks your ball, and knows all the rules. Therefore, there was no foot wedges and no mulligans because all caddies look out for their players. Therefore I had 4 double boogies, 4 boogies, and one par. But I did not go out of bounds. We had to rent clubs. I went with Trent Kitley and Eric Behner. Eric is the club member and without him you will not golf down here. Luckily we found him. He is married to a member in our ward, even though he is not a member. He is like Jim J. a super great guy, but doesn't golf as good as Jim. It is not a poor mans game down here. It costs $22.00 just to go through the gate, $12.00 for club rental, $15.00 for the caddie, $50.00 to golf one hole or 18, and then you are expected to buy the caddies a sandwich and a drink. If you were in Vegas or Sun Valley or Hawaii that would be cheap. Therefore we will probably only golf once a month. The grass down here is quack grass and so the ball doesn't go into thick grass and it is easy to hit off the fairways. The greens are very nice and the fairways are about like the Muni in Twin Falls. The view is gorgeous as you will see in the pictures I am sending. I wish now that I would have brought my clubs but Eric has the same driver that I have and I put some clubs together at the club house which worked well. They even have hybrids. One good thing is while you are in snow Dec, Jan and Feb and part of March, we will be golfing early to get away from the heat. The golf course is by Lake Ilopango, where we went last month on our trip to San Sebastian. It is about 45 minutes away. It is interesting to watch them mow the course with hand lawn mowers, not even self propelled ones and trim with machetes. And the course is very well kept. You will notice the big canal down the middle of the course, in some rainy seasons the course is flooded and so they put in the canal to keep the course from flooding and it runs into the lake. I promise next time I go golfing my score will be better as I am taking a pencil with an eraser. And it may cost an extra $20.00 to my caddie but my score will improve. I miss golfing with Gene, Kurt, Ken, Jim, Al, Deloy and especially Larry in Buhl. Again we want to wish each of you a Happy Thanksgiving. We are truely blessed to live in America and we all need to count our blessings and give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all we have, even our trials, for they will make us better people. We send our love to all. Lon and Nancy

PS Go Broncos