Also during this trip I stayed Sat. night with my cousin Jim and and his wife Julie Patten. Sun. we to the conference center for the Spoken Word with the Tabernacle Choir. There is also a picture of the sister missionaries from all over the world speaking in their own language inviting any one on a tour.

I went to Utah for Abe and Kateland's wedding reception on the aug,20. These of pictures of them and also Chris was there along with Brett and Stephanie and the two boys. It was fun to see everyone.

More pictures of the reunion plus this is a picture of Janice and me with our cousin, David Lipps and his wife Bessy, David was our dad's cousin so he would be our cousin once removed.

the following pictures were taken at the Lipp's family reunion that Janice and I went to back in June,2011. It was near Gonzaleze, Texas, which is south of Austin. We had never met most of these relatives so it was fun to get to know them.

Dave and Laura Jones Dave is an old friend of mine whom I met my first year at ASU. After Dave married Laura, they moved to San Jose, Cal. Where they lived for some time before transferring to Colorado Springs, Col. Ater retiring the move to Payson, Utah. They just completed a mission in Salt Lake. They supervised the translation department where they translations in to many different languages takes place though out the year and especially at General Conference. The came to Az for a family union and were nice enough to visit with me.