Havre in November

We are working hard. It's fun but hard at the same time. We are still visiting the less-actives, visiting the Indians on the reservation, helping people where ever we can and driving the young Elders around (they have a truck but very limited mileage). We were in Great Falls last weekend. Took six Elders with us to a Mission meeting.

Last Monday (P-Day) we went to Chief Joseph's Battlefield Memorial.

It's just south of Chinook which is about 20 miles from here. 

 He's famous for his quote:

 "I will fight no more forever".

It was sad walking around the battlefield and thinking about what happened there. Very disturbing story of the white man taking from the Indians. 

This is the battlefield.

An old barn south of Chanook.

Here are some pictures of Havre in November:

An old church on the way to Canada that we've stopped at a couple of times to take pictures.

 

I like this cute house. It's not ours.



We wondered why they named it the Milk River... until we saw it like this.

The weather is unpredictable. This is what I wrote in my journal about a week ago:

"All day yesterday it didn't get any higher than 27 degrees. Then last night it started to get warmer and by 10:30 pm it was 36. This morning at 6:30 it was 41! About 10:30 this morning it started to sleet and now in the afternoon it's 34 and snowing on and off. Such weird weather here. But it's interesting and actually kind of fun. Granddaddy would have loved it, always checking temps and measuring rain or in this case snow. He even had fun doing that in Southern California where there is no weather!"

We are still looking forward to the really cold weather, they say in January. We just pile on the clothes and go on out. 

Don't have any idea what the -20 or -30 will feel like!

 

 

Thanksgiving at Sister Wood's house. She cooks just like Grandmommy. We went with the young Elders who can be pretty entertaining sometimes. They insist we are their mom and dad. So you have two new siblings. Elder While knows all the kids' and grandkids' names.
 He says he's been "stalking" my calendar that has all the b-days on it. 

This is a quilt made by the Jacobsen Family back in 1978. The kids (Erin, Amy, Ivy, Adam and Cammy) drew Thanksgiving pictures and Mom pieced it all together. 34 years later Amy found it in the attic and Ivy finished off the border, backing and quilting. They sent it to us for a Thanksgiving reminder that they love and miss us. It was our first ever Thanksgiving without family around! 

So...that's the latest from Havre, Montana. 
Love, 
Elder and Sister Jacobsen
Mom and Dad
Gram and Granddad.