Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Sunrise and Snow:

My kind of day, although the weather has been kind of crazy!

I spent the afternoon preparing for tonight's young women meeting on Personal Progress.  I have no idea where any of the girls are on their Personal Progress, but I intend on finding out.  I made one of these charts for each of the girls:

 Shelly's chart.  She's self-motivated.

I also took brownies and ice cream for the girls after we are finished with Personal Progress.

Brother Mayfield is a real gentleman.  Not only did he open the door for me at the church but he carried my stuff down to the kitchen for me.  We had two new girls attend tonight, Kelly and Karla Reynolds.  Kelly is a Beehive and Karla is a Mia Maid.  Kelly is going to be in our ward but Karla lives with her mom in Grants, New Mexico.  She was just here visiting on spring break.  Also Cody Ianola was here and says she will now be in our ward.  Her mom is in our ward but she has been living with her dad in Linden and just visits us once in awhile.  Trenda was our only regular girl who wasn't here tonight.  Her brother Talon didn't know why she didn't come.  Mary is 18 and not interested in Personal Progress.  I gave her a challenge to read one chapter from the Book of Mormon a day.  She said she would.  

Sheri posted this picture of Max on Facebook and I just had to copy it.

Max and his fauxhawk.

Michael Gonzales

My daily dose of drugs.

That's enough random posts for now.

 

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Tyler Hunsaker, Tina Allen, and Jimmy McNeil were the speakers in sacrament meeting.  Tyler is 15 years old and he spoke on the 5th Article of Faith.  Tina and Jimmy spoke on overcoming adversity.  Tina is the Young Women's secretary and I have become friends with her.  She has two boys, Jackson who is a deacon and Rusty who is a priest.  Rusty plays ball with Colby.  She also has 5 grown daughters.  They all visited her this weekend for her birthday and they had a family picture taken, (there are 22 of them), in the field of sunflowers here in Vernon.

During sacrament meeting I saw Natalie and Hans Soderquist leave.  Their children stayed by the Hunsaker's.  After sacrament meeting Hans ask me if I would teach young women's because Natalie was sick.  Thank goodness I studied the lesson this morning and brought it with me to Church.  We had two visitors today, Ashley and Savannah from Lakeside.  Our lesson was on goal setting.  Afterwards I met with the class presidents and did some planning for the month of September.  James home taught Sister Lorraine Vaught at the church and I sat in.
I had two Mom's come up to me at Church and say how much their girls loved me and enjoyed our Wednesday night activity.  Trenda's mom, Sandra Wilhelm gave me a big hug.  When James went home teaching to the Hunsaker's he said Brother Hunsaker said I was an awesome young women's leader.  I am grateful for the praise but most of all I am grateful for the young women in this ward.\
We got more rain today and my car got covered with mud on the way home from church.  At the end of Sunday School there was a loud clash of thunder.  Someone said: "Time to end class."  During young women's the lights flickered and thunder crashed again.  I like rain but I don't like thunder and lightning.
We had grilled honey lime chicken again.  Not as good as last week's because it didn't marinate as long.

It was a good sabbath day.  I worked on Personal Progress this evening.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

I listened to the song "VivaLaVida" by Coldplay today and it reminded me of Marie Antionette and her husband King Louis XVI of France.  James and I are reading their story right now and it is so sad how the people treated her.  She really was not a bad person and neither was Louis.  The French Revolution was started mostly by agitators hired to stir up the people against the King and more specifically his wife.

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."