'From the Book of Mormon in 2 Nephi we read:
"For behold, again I say unto you that if ye will enter in by the way,
and receive the Holy Ghost, it will show unto you all things what ye should do." (2 Nephi 32:5)
We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still, small voice.'
-Elder L. Tom Perry
In conjunction with their ward conference Jared's ward had a service project today. There is a site called BillionGraves.com where you can download an app for your mobile device. James and I downloaded this site on our phones and when we got to the Memory Gardens of the Valley Cemetery we were ready to take pictures of headstones, transcribe the information, and download it to the BillionGraves site. Jared for some reason could not download the information onto his phone and James and Anna's minipads don't have a data plan so all the work our family did was with our two phones. I downloaded 68 names and James did 47. I was a great service project and involved the youth as well as the adults.
I am not sure what is wrong with Molly.
She spent most of the time we were here playing with her friends from the ward.
I believe the ward did over 2,100 transcriptions.
James left the cemetery service project a little early because of award basketball game. When we were finished, we went and watched him play.
James played in his jeans until Jared got there
with his shorts.
James's team, Franklin 5th ward, won 23-17!
After the basketball game we were all starving so we headed for Kiki's for some authentic mexican food. We are still celebrating Anna and grandpa James's birthdays. This treat was on Jared. Thanks!
Waiting to be seated.
Looking at the menu
Emmy and Molly shared their meal.
James Hayden, Jared and I all got the machaca.
Might tasty!
Back at Jared's Molly and Emmy working on building snow people.
It's so funny to see snow in the desert!
Molly's snow family
These two can be the best of
friends when they want to be.
Anna dropped her phone in the toilet awhile ago and now it randomly calls people. Emmy practiced her spelling words again today. Here were some of the words she practiced:
trattoria, capricious, archipelago, pizzicato, just to name a few. Pretty had words for a 4th grader, but Emmy is super smart! Of course Molly wants to do whatever Emmy does so she would practice spelling them too.
James spent a lot of time trying to get papers the realtor sent him for selling our commercial lot. I think we might have to take care of this business when we get back to Chandler.
James Hayden was going to go to the stake dance but on the way there he decided not to because he "just didn't feel liketalking to people." The kids watched the movie "The Pacifier."
Back at home in Arizona: Evan scored the only goal his team made at the soccer game this morning. Sheri took this picture at the game:
Joshua didn't go to the soccer game. He went to the Pinewood Derby instead. He got first place in our ward and third place in the stake. Congratulations!
