We spent an awesome afternoon with the Boyd family for dinner after Fast and Testimony Sunday meetings. They are so exhilarating and generous! It's now nearly 11:00 p.m., and I'm still full to the gills! Every time we go their home (or anyone else's) I feel like we are at a mountain cabin. Oh, wait! We are! It's a trip!
This week we made the quarterly apartment inspections of the Elders in our district. They do rather well, probably because they know we are coming. ;) I only had to teach them how to clean their shower and kitchen sink. Not bad.
Some of our activities this week include 3 special FHEs, making caramel apples to share, baking 60+ loaves of banana bread, baking 9 pies, visiting 10 or so families/individuals, attending an investigator lesson, assisting at the Farmer's Market, District Meeting, enjoying a date. A good week!
One night we helped with the Holy Smoke annual fundraiser dinner (for which I baked the pies). This is for the local House Raising Committee, sort of like Habitat for Humanity. The difference is they build a house or addition for a qualified applicant, make them a low-interest loan, and the recipient repays the loan gradually thus enabling them to build again for someone else. The dinner is sponsored by whatever churches choose to participate. They all bring some dish to serve, and people can sample whatever and however much they choose. It's quite the deal! We have made friends with several people from other churches this way.
After more than a month we finally squeezed in a date! Pres. Irion told us to have two a week, but we don't seem to make that happen. We just stay too busy! We enjoyed a movie, a milkshake at our favorite ice cream parlor (No Name Ice Cream), and watching the BYU football game on TV. It was really enjoyable!
We love the area, the people, and what we are doing! There are only a few drawbacks--the gnats, the abundant snakes, and no family closeby. The Lord is so good to us, so we cannot
complain. We LOVE you!! Thank you for your prayers; we also pray for all of you.
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| Typical old mountain home (This one is abandoned, but many just in this condition are still inhabited.) |
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| Someone show this to Stu Smith! |
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| Pie display at Holy Smoke dinner (Murphy Branch did all the pies.) |
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| Lone Mountain Band (Famous Bluegrass group from Tennessee) |
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| Variety of morning glory here |
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| Another morning glory - even weeds are beautiful sometimes! |
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