I love going on my morning walk and listening to conference talks. I gain such insights and inspiration. (Did I say that before? Well, it's true).
I worked on preparing for our Young Women's activity, which will be held here tonight, most of the morning. I dusted and vacuumed, waxed the floor and cleaned the kitchen. I also finished preparing for my little talk on Personal Progress. I started getting worried about everyone getting in here tonight because it rained most of the morning. For the first time that I can remember I prayed that it would stop raining. It did. Thank you Heavenly Father.
Around 2pm James and I went in to town to get supplies for tonight and gas for the Ranger. I wanted to get some bananas for my shakes and this is what the banana display at Walmart looked like:
Did some monkey come through and eat all of the bananas?
By the time we got home it was almost 5 o'clock and our activity starts in an hour. Yikes!
I could never have done this without James's help. He is such a sweetie. He cleaned the grill, put the water bottles in the ice chest, and kept busy the entire evening. I put groceries away and started making cookies. I had intended on making the cookies earlier in the day but got busy cleaning and just didn't do it.
At 5:50 Wes and Teresa Smith and the nonmember girl I invited yesterday, China Wadlington, arrived. What a delight it was to meet China. She is such a cute, friendly, mature 17 year old who is a senior at Show Low High School and wants to attend college next year and eventually become an attorney. Her Dad is a member in our ward who is inactive. China and her dad are friends with the Swansey's. Sherry Swansey was just baptized and asked us to fellowship China. It will be our pleasure.
China and Teresa helped me in the kitchen and Wes helped James with the grill. Soon the others began arriving: MaKenzi, Leann, and Kilee Hunsaker, Jordyn and Shelly Applegate, Mary Swift, Trenda Wilhelm, and Sister Natalie Soderquist, the Young Women's President. Natalie brought tater tots for us to cook. We are having a "Ketchup" on Personal Progress night.
During dinner part of the conversation centered around creatures we don't like: moths, scorpions, crickets, cockroaches, and vinagerettes. Vinagerettes? Isn't that a salad dressing. Kilee looked confused. She said her Dad didn't like them. I was confused too so I ask James if there was a bug with a name similar to vinagerette. He said: "Oh, you mean vinagerones? Yes. Mystery solved.
After dinner the men worked in the kitchen while we gathered the girls around the dining room table and talked about Personal Progress. We found out what each girl was working on, and then bore testimony and challenged them to set a goal as to when they would work on their experiences and projects and figure out a plan as to how long it would take them to finish. I felt like things went well. China joined in and even made the comment that she thought she would be baptized and that she would start coming to Church!
I took Trenda and Mary back to the Church and Jordyn and Shelly home. The conversation in the car went something like this: Trenda: "Shelly and Jordyn I want you to start coming to the stake dances. There is one next Saturday at the Linden chapel." Shelly: "I don't want any boys touching me!" By the time we got back to the Church I think she was considering going to the dance and maybe allowing a boy to touch her hand.
The girls loved our home and I told them we would have more activities here. Shelly ran from room to room and came back and reported that we had 11 closets.
I forgot to mention that when Trenda saw James doing the dishes she said: "That is so cool. My Dad always makes us do the dishes."
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