And when he had said these words, the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he said: Helam, I baptize thee, having authority from the Almighty God, as a testimony that ye have entered into a covenant to serve him until you are dead as to the mortal body; and may the Spirit of the Lord be poured out upon you; and may he grant unto you eternal life, through the redemption of Christ, whom he has prepared from the foundation of the world.
-Mosiah 18:13
Today's sunrise
For breakfast I made a loaf of banana nut bread. James loved it and told me that banana nut bread is his favorite sweet. He may have enjoyed it too much because later he got quite a headache.
He left to go to town around 9am. He went to get a new tire and wheel for his trailer, and a thermo-cuplar for the downstairs hot water heater. On the way up here Thursday evening at one point the trailer James was pulling began to swerve and he had a difficult time getting it under control. He didn't realize he had a flat tire and consequently he ruined the tire and the wheel.
James also stopped at LaCasita and brought me home my favorite meal: green chili chicken enchilada and refried beans and their wonderful chips and salsa. I just can't get enough!
Bad news. James spent over an hour installing the new thermo-cuplar and the water heater still does not work. Our only choice is to call a repairman who won't be able to come until next Friday when James returns. Darrel & Trina are coming tonight and we will only have hot water in one shower.
James is so frustrated with the water heater that he goes outside for some tractor therapy. He makes a huge pile of branches and brush to burn.
I think this is a Bobcat, not a tractor.
You would think with all of these clouds that we would have gotten some rain, but it wasn't meant to be. As you can see it rained quite hard on Sierra Mentosa, but never got to us.
As we were reading on the porch in the early evening from our book Blackmoore, we heard a car drive up and thought it was Darrel and his family. It was the missionaries, Elder Stott and Elder Knight. They came to issue us a challenge. They want us to look through our Facebook friends and find someone whose name we can give to them or use as a referral. I told them I would do it and I think James will too.
Darrel and Trina and the kids arrived right after the elders left. I got to hold Lola!
Addy and I started this puzzle.
We got the edge pieces put together.
