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.