Thursday, December 19, 2013

Happy 16th Birthday to Michael!

I had a visit from my visiting teacher's today, Alicia Hunsaker and Dian Gillaspy.  Colter was here too but he mostly visited with James.  The message this month is appropriately on the life and mission of the Savior.
Alicia gave me a plug in light and wax warmer.  I love it!  I gave each of them the book "What Would a Holy Woman Do?" by Wendy Watson Nelson.

I went visiting teaching this afternoon.  I visted with Linda Diewald and Rosie Lauritzen.  Rosie's husband Rick, fulfilled a life long dream by getting a Mastiff dog.  Yikes!  Poor Rosie and her cats!   As I visited with Linda and Rosie I bore witness of the Savior and gave them Sister Nelson's book.  My partner, Joell Miller just gave birth to a baby boy.  Excitement for their family as it is there first boy. 

I wasn't able to set up a visit with Lannie Gillespie.  She is the assistant superintendent of Navajo county schools and said she was in Holbrook today and could I see her after Christmas.  Will do.

This evening I picked up Shelly Applegate at the library where her mother is the librarian, and we went to Diana Curtis's.  We helped wrap gifts for the Hansen children and then the three of us delivered them along with a tree and decorations.  One of our Young Women, Arizona Hill, is a part of this family.  After the Hansen's we met Denice Hall out on the road and she led us to Hunter Crowe's, another of our Young Women.  It's Hunter's birthday tomorrow and we took her a gift.  I met Hunter for the first time.  She has never attended Young Women's since I've been here.   We never would have found where Hunter lives without Denice.  We passed three dead end signs before we got there.  They are in a beautiful spot surrounded by pine trees.  We had a nice visit.  Shelly rode home with me and I gave he the mini Preach My Gospel book I bought for her at Deseret Book.  She was so excited you would have thought I gave her a $100.  I love this girl!

Went home and watched "Finding Christmas" with James.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

I got ready for a visit from my visiting teachers today.  I carried boxes upstairs and downstairs, cleaned the floors and put out more Halloween decorations, including my favorite talking pirate picture.  I am calling him Hagoth.

Alicia and Colter Hunsaker and Diane Gillaspy arrived around 10 am.  They were here for over an hour.  As soon as they left James hurried me out the door because he said he was meeting someone at Horne Auto around noon.  We stopped at Lynda Tanner's and dropped off a book about how to handle adversity. 

James realized he wasn't going to get to Horne's in time so he called the guy who had been there for awhile and talked with him on the phone.  Well that was easy.  Now we can go on to the important stuff like LaCasita, Walmart and Home Depot.

James called Jason today.  He said he and his wife debated for a long time but they decided not to buy our house, mostly because the master bedroom is not separate from the other bedroom.  Oh well, back to the drawing board.

James had a meeting tonight at the stake center.  It was on the new youth curriculum for Sunday School.  Since he is now over the Sunday School he was one of the presenters.  It's funt to see his enthusiasm for the program!

Facebook Finds

Sheri got a great picture of this owl in our Chandler neighborhood.  

She said there were two, but the other one flew away.

Paul posted this picture of Joshua 

enjoying a butterfly.

Adam and Joseph at Lion King.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

James left early this morning for Demming, New Mexico to see his Dad.  About an hour after he left he called and said he was on his way home.  I guess his Dad called and said he wasn't ready to meet.  George has not been feeling well and wants to get his affairs in order before he passes away.  He has asked James to help him.  James said he was going back next week and was wondering if I would like to go with him and go on over to El Paso to see Jared's family after he's finished with his Dad.  I said that sounded like a great idea.

My visiting teachers, Alicia Hunsaker and Linda Price came by for a visit this morning.  Linda actually lives in the valley but she is up here for a couple of weeks.  I always enjoy their visits.  Colter, Alicia's four year old son came too.  He played with the toys and when he was finished he put them away and announced to his Mom that it was time to go.

We had a combined Young Men, Young Women service activity this evening.  Some of the high priests and elders helped too.  We went to the Hunsaker's and split wood for the widows.  I was so impressed with some of our young women, especially the Applegate girls for how hard they worked.  We split 13 cords of wood.  Here are some pictures:

Shelly Applegate.  This girl never stopped working!

Kilee Hunsaker.

Victoria Alexander. Victoria is the DeWitt's granddaughter 

and she lives in Gilbert.  Her family brought their

wood splitter and helped with our service project.

That's Jordyn Applegate in the hat.

Shelly catching a block of wood thrown to her by

Brother Allen.

Running the splitter.  That's Kaeli Nicoll in the gray sweatshirt.

Steve Allen, Natalie Soderquist, Kaeli Nicoll, and LeeAnn Hunsaker.

MaKenzi Hunsaker doing it the old-fashioned way.

The girls want to do everything the boys do.

Mary Swift.