Tuesday was transfer day in the mission.  All of the missionaries being transferred and their companions come into Nashville to a stake center near the Temple.  All of the departing missionaries and the incoming missionaries meet with them.  Our mission is small enough that all transfers and new assignments are made in this meeting then everyone can go home with their new companions.  All of the senior couples are invited to come, especially if they have to bring missionaries that don't have transportation.  It is a wonderful meeting where the outgoing missionaries get to say farewell and bare their testimonies.  Incoming missionaries get introduced and assigned and the Mission President gets to give some good direction.  Then we have lunch and later the Mission President and his wife say their goodbyes by taking the departing missionaries to a Temple session.

One of the departing missionaries this week was one of the Assistants to the President, Elder Stringham from Lehi, Utah.  Named to replace him was Elder Hill from Malad, Idaho.  Elder Hill is on the left in this picture.  The other Elder in the picture is the AP that wan't changed.  We love Elder Hill because we have got to know him as he has been serving in this area.  He is a wonderful Elder and we both felt he would be called to this new assignment.

We traveled to the Temple with Oakleys and had a very enjoyable day.  The Nashville Temple is quite small, smaller than our Twin Falls Temple and all basically on one floor.  It is only open on some evenings and on Friday and Saturday.  Our Tuesday session at four was by special arrangement just for the missionaries.  Eight couples and 11 missionaries attended the session and we nearly filled the room.  It was wonderful to be in the Temple again on such a spiritual occasion.

This old log church, called the "Old Hebron Church", was where the first missionaries preached the Gospel in this part of Kentucky.  It is located across the river in an adjoining county in an area called Hunstville that was first settled by a Civil War soldier.  It figures very prominently in the history of the Church in this area.  Missionaries came up the Green River by boat and taught the Hunt family and others and started quite a congregation.  Reportedly Charles A. Callis visited the area and preached at this church.  The Hunt family was persecuted and eventually left but many in the area claim ancestors that stem from those converted in that first congregation.  The church is fairly well preserved for its age because there is a cemetery in the church yard that is still being used.  It was located down a quite a gravel lane in the woods and we had to try three times to find it.

We were traveling a quiet country road when we saw this sign.  for a moment we thought we were back in Utah.

We got a kick out of this sign - a year round garage sale?  Garage sales are big here and we will see several nearly every day.  They will be anywhere, even way out in the country byways.  There are three major consignment shops in town where people sell their antiques (junk).  I guess it is part of the culture but people keep their treasures in their homes to the point of clutter.  Then they sell them to each other at yard sales, (trading clutter).  I guess we shouldn't comment but we do find it amusing.

Some pictures in the gardens at the front of the Temple.  Travel time from our home to the Temple was about a hour and a half.  Thankfully it is that close and we will have several chances to visit there while we are here.  We took quite a few pictures while there.  I guess we have missed attending the Temple more than we realized.
Elder and Sister Peterson (On the Road Again)