Women shoppers in their long fur coats.

The children learn how at a young age.

Refreshments after the program. They use one long table, and everyone has their place and stands around the table and eats.

Christmas program in Tomsk.

More of our hotel.

Our hotel. 4 stars!

One of the little chapels that are everywhere.

More buildings in Tomsk.

More Christmas tree. It is -20 at this time.

Christmas tree ice sculpture.

Looking down from the bridge over one of the streams that go to the river.

One of the ice sculptures by the Christmas tree.

Ice fence around the Christmas tree.

Dad watching the kids feed the birds.

Kids feeding the pigeons.

One of the many beautiful buildings in Tomsk. I was not able to get some of the old houses made of wood.

The man in the orange is one of the thousands of snow shovelers of Russia.

The view of the corner outside our hotel in Tomsk.

The building opposite the Elder building. They are exactly alike.

The driveway below the Zone Leaders apartment in Tomsk.


Elder Kolpokov trying to make my computer work with the Christmas DVDs that the missionaries are allowed to watch.

The open spaces (of which there are a lot).

The ice on the inside of my window.

Our bus, with everyone out using the toilet except me.

The toilet stop, 4 hours into the trip.


Another village across the fields.


Another village.

On the way to Tomsk for Christmas. This is one of the villages.

District Christmas Dinner at the Mission Home. Happy Birthday to Elder Kolpokov who is home with his sick companion. The others are singing to him via the phone and then they ate his cake. Teacher training at the left bank.


The last Zone Conference we had. Isn't he beautiful! I can't seem to get the description with the pictures!

My Parus Majors or Great Tits, in my improvised bird feeder, looking out of our "library" window to the park behind us.
















After a fireside at our apartment.


















The moon rising at 6 PM at night over the park behind our apartment
















Thanksgiving in Tomsk with our missionaries.

















Dad taking the trash out through the park behind our apartment.

















The old casino sign that was on the casino under our apartment. Taking it off was done in the middle of the night for 3 different nights. And you can see what they did with it. By the way, the casino is still open, just not advertising.

This is a man out on the Ob River, ice fishing. But it doesn't look like he is going to get back to shore













One of the typical Russian houses in a village that we passed on our way back from looking at "another" camp for the YSA conference for 2010















Shasha Drachov on the left and Shasha Ozerelov on the right. Dad in the middle.















We stopped to throw snowballs at each other.
















Baptism of Danna, who has been a four year investigator. Sister Kisalova, left, Sister Gneighting in blue (absolute greenie) Danna and Elder Rainsden.