Happy Haunting

We attended District Meeting yesterday morning.  It was Halloween and I commented to the missionaries there that I liked their costumes and found it sweet that they all dressed up like Mormon Missionaries for Halloween.  One of the missionaries, Elder Black from Adelaide Australia (incidentally President Howes had been his home teacher) told me that on the last day of school back home, a day they call 'Muck Up Day' when  everyone dresses up, he chose to dress up like a missionary.  He was the one member in his whole school and he said, 'I got a lot of flack from other students, but hey,  I did give away two copies of the Book of Mormon.'

I thought that was pretty good.  It also gave me an idea.  What if after classes we let the missionaries trick or treat at our office doors in the MTC.  They knock on the door and practice their best door approach and then get a treat.   I asked Sister Gasu, the manager of the MTC what she thought and she liked the idea.   President Thatcher and I loaded up on candy, President and Sister Briggs did the same and came to help man two of the doors.  There are four offices in the lobby here.  We were set.

It was fun. The door approaches ranged from very good to very touching because of the missionaries trying so hard to speak English.  All did well.

Elder Taunauta and Elder Kenyon teach President Briggs  

Sisters Liu, Tarati, and Fonseca give President Thatcher their door approach

We love seeing how all of you are celebrating back home.  Thanks for the pictures

Sam (Batman), Jonny (Dumbo), Tommy(who looks like he is worried about being made into pumpkin pie) and Ben (Lone Ranger)

Caption on Picture sent from Katie, "I see some resemblance to his Uncle Paul . . .
they both have blue eyes."

Always cleverly costumed are the Farmington Thatchers
Ella makes a darling Ty baby, Lily an enchanting witch and
Brig, you will see is that cute man from the game 'Operation"

great detail with the spiders on cheek and hand

She is only going to grow in value for any of you Ty beanie baby collectors

Kaitlin did her own make-up - impressively scary!

Emma makes a lovely Belle

June is a darling Dory

(Will) And look at this happy bouncing tiger

The Hadfields are always fun on Halloween

Andrew straight from 'Tangled'

Luke, Henry and Eva or is it ____,_______, and _______?

I'm guessing Steven is Gandalph but both he and Will look like a couple of Lord of the Rings Dwarfs to me

Princess Leia was a twin as well

 Claire - Even the Aggies in the family love this BYU Cheerleader

Grace looks good enough to eat

Millie - Is this Bee making honey?

Ty - Cute little Stinker!

Looks like Liesel, Anne, and Heidi got a ride Trick or Treating

A generous Halloween Haul

Surely you recognize our ever thin stick-man - Kyle - his personality
shines through

sadly Gideon was not feeling well enough to dress up for Trick
or Treating but he did enjoy pumpkins this year

No pictures from the Ellis family but we have it on good authority that Thatcher wore a Harry Potter cape, Lindy was a ballerina and a pirate, Jett was a bunny, and Silvie was Belle.

The mysterious Mark Thatcher family sent no pictures but we can imagine they were creatively attired for the evening.

And the Happy Haunting Howell family has yet to send pictures of their fun.

It looked like a fun Halloween for all of you. I remember how tired that holiday left me as a mother.  Luckily the children would share some of their candy with me to build up my lost energy.   It must be a tiring day for the little ones as well, as this final picture of cute little June attests.  Just keep sleeping little dory (June) . . . just keep sleeping. . .

tired little Dory