June 24, 2012 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

One of the sites in Nizhy is The Kremlin.  The city is where two rivers converge.  In Moscow we had a meeting with the auditors in Europe East.  On the Moscow River cruise we saw the Peter the Great statue.  We had lunch with Elder Hamp from Placerville, California where Rick & Alicia lived.

June 17, 2012 Yerevan to Moscow

We leave tomorrow for the week in Russia.  We will fly to Moscow and then take a train (4 hours) to a branch in Nizhney Novogorod for training with the leaders.  On Thurs. and Fri. we have meetings in Moscow.  The first picture is me practicing Armenian with a lady on our trip to Georgia.  On Sat. we walked up the Cascades (big set of steps) in Yerevan.  I counted 600 steps.  You can see Mt. Ararat in the distance.  The day was not too clear.  The rabbit sculpture was on the walk.

June 10, 2012 Tatev

On Friday, June 8th we went on a trip with Sister Bailey who completed her mission that week and her father and brother.  The first picture is the Tatev Monastery.  On the drive we saw some stork nests on light poles.  Sister Bailey's family is standing in front of the Jermuk Falls.  The Noravank Monastery is in a canyon which looks like it could be in Utah.  You will notice the unusual stairs on the outside of the build front.  The stairs were about 18 inches wide with no hand rail.  The roads were SO bumpy!

June 4, 2012 Last week in Georgia

On the drive to Georgia as we came through one section of mountains we could see the border of Azerbijan on the other side of the river.

The statue of the horse and rider in the lower left hand side of the picture by the river in Tbilisi was the site where Elder Holland dedicated the country of Georgia for the preaching of the gospel in 1999.

We went to the bazaar market and this was a candy section.

Tbilisi is beautiful at night with all of the lights around the buildings.  The last picture is the memorial in Spitak, Armenia, at the site of the 1988 earthquake.  One source states that 25,000+ people died.  It was after the earthquake that Jon Huntsman and Armand Hammer built a cement plant to help with the rebuilding.