17 Oct 2017 Monday out with the team... and an ASL experience.

Yesterday was one of our get togethers with the missionaries / Rock Creek ward activities. As group we headed to Gettysburg, PA. to the battlefield monument, or other venues in the area. Having gone to Gettysburg in Aug of 2015 with Steve and Donna, heading home from our 1st mission, we decided to check out another site. Along with 3 other couples we visited the Eisenhower farm/house. It was interesting although not real elaborate. It's 189 acre farm in the Gettysburg historic site. Apparently Ike, President Eisenhower, loved the Gettysburg area, it was the site of his first command. Not the battle silly, he was commander over a new military training division, the armored tank division. He was there for several years before going to Europe for WWII. Anyway he came back and bought the Reading farm when he retired. That was right before being resigned or better yet, ask by President Kennedy to head up NATO. He and Mamie moved to France then finally came home to the farm. It sold for a whopping $42,000 back then.  Here some pictures:

                                                No flash photography so it's a little dark.
                                                                   Living Room  

                                                                    Ike in uniform

                                                      Sun Room, which was his favorite

                                                            Dinning Room

                                                              1 of a few bedrooms, maybe only 4
                                                                        and servants quarters
     

                                                        Outside in front

                                                      Just some of the acreage

                                                  I said that looks like the tree of Life
                 

                               

                                 The farm used to raise dairy cows, but now raises Angus Beef
                                 

                                                                        Barn

                                                    I liked this old gas pump

                                                The Flag  No taking a knee here

                                                                Putting green

                            Lunch with some of the missionaries, to the right are the Bishop's, behind them are the Juvenal's, across from them are the Snelson's, then Patty and I.

So now for the ASL experience, today at the temple I was in the baptistry and one of the coordinators came looking for me, and said there was a deaf sister going to be at the veil at 12:30 and they wanted me there to receive her at the veil. Here at the DC temple patrons who use another language can decide how much of the other language they want to use. She asked for closed caption in the endowment and ASL (signed) at the veil. I haven't had that experience yet, but they asked me to do it. So I did, my first real at the veil ASL experience! I still need to study and get it down without a card, but I liked it. Still so much to learn. More to come....