As we drive the roads through the hills and hollers, I reminded of the song "Country Road".  Actually we are not too far from West Virginny.  The roads wander around the valleys and ridgelines and homes are scattered throughout the trees and foliage.  This picture is of a road just outside of Morgantown.  The roads wind enough and go up and down enough that Sister Peterson tends to get carsick.  We visited members for 5-6 hours Friday and by the time we got home, her stomach was rolling.  Lunch came up and she moaned on the couch for a while.  I guess we will have to do these country road visits in smaller blocks?

One of the unusual scenes of this beautiful countryside is abandoned homes or barns or mobile homes or even some old cars that are just allowed to grow over and deteriorate.  It appears that people leave their property for some reason without cleaning it up and no one else bothers to either.  It is prevalent enough that we noticed it right away.  Since we have not found an apartment yet, we thought this might do?  But it looked like it might take a little too much time to clean up.

Then you will be driving along and the woods will open and you will see an estate like this one out in the middle of nowhere.  We talked to the owner of this home and he was very friendly.  He works in Bowling Green which is about 20 miles South.  He owns about hundred acres here and loves the privacy.  The home is not as expensive as you might think.  Homes are roughly half the price of comparable homes in Idaho.  The interesting thing about this area is all homes in the county are connected to a central water system.  There are very few private wells.  They run water lines to every home just like a power line!  It is amazing when you consider the county is roughly 25 miles square and homes are scattered out through the hills everywhere.

We were driving one of the roads and came around a bend and there was this Baptist Church.  It was just sitting by itself among the trees on top of a little knoll.  It is quite large and probably nearly the size of one of our newer LDS buildings.  The only thing close by was a little cemetery just across the road.  There were houses in the woods nearby but certainly not enough to warrant this kind of building.  We talked to a fellow walking by and he said their congregation numbers about 400, so they must come from some distance to worship here.  We were just intrigued by it and its beautiful rural setting.

It is Saturday evening before Easter Sunday and many people are out and about.  It has also been spring break week for the schools.  Contacting people wasn't going so well so we took some time to go down some new roads and take a few pictures.  We hit Wal-mart this afternoon and bought a few things for our Easter dinner tomorrow.  Which, by the way, we will have to eat alone in our little trailer.  (Sniff, Sniff)  Grandma, Sister Peterson, bought a pan to make brownies in and we ate a late dinner at KFC.  We are having root beer floats this evening, so I guess we are settling in?

Tomorrow we are singing with the choir in a musical program for Sacrament Meeting.  The choir numbers about 12-14 so it will be interesting.  Our little branch has 33 prospective elders and about that many single sisters or part-member families headed by single sisters.  Our Mission President assigned us to home teach and visit and reactivate as many as we can.  We obviously have our work cut out for us.  We need your faith and prayers.  Love, Elder and Sister Peterson  (More commonly know as - Grampa and Grandma)