Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Montanaeing tortured in the

"Draw near unto me," the Savior said, "and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you"

-D&C 88:63

I was up at 3am and left for the valley a little after 4.  I saw two cow elk and their calves just past Hunsaker's.  I also saw three more elk later on, a deer and a badger.  I was pretty awake until I got to Payson and then I started getting drowsy so I had to stop for a drink.  It did the trick. 

 I got to Dr. Cullimore's a little before 8.  Adam drove James there and dropped him off and took a check to pay a subcontractor on the Hatch job.  James sat in the waiting room for two hours while I was being tortured in the next room.  After I was finished I went to the house to take a nap while he finished up some work.  He insists that he's driving me home.  He is leaving Adam and Christopher here to work on the tile in the bathroom.  

I am supposed to eat soft foods so I got a shake at Sonic and then took my pain meds.  The combination was not good.  I got sick and threw up on the way out of town.  When we got to Show Low I had a Sprite and some mashed potatoes and gravy at KFC in Show Low.

James wrote this in my notebook: James brought me home today from my surgery because he is so in love with me!

 I do appreciate and love him so very much.

 

Monday, June 23, 2014

Lavender field in England

 "We apply the Atonement when we receive the Holy Ghost, feel it's sanctifying power, and become more like our Savior."

-Brad Wilcox from 'The Continuous Atonement', p.99

James left for the valley this morning.  He has Adam working for him now and he's trying to keep him busy and train him since Adam has no construction experience.

I call Dr. Cullimore and get my prescriptions for after my surgery called in to Walmart today so I can pick them up and take them with me tomorrow.  That way I don't have to stop and get them after my surgery when I probably won't be feeling or looking to great.

Alberta, Canada

I made a trip to town to pick up prescriptions, do a little shopping, get gas and pick up something to eat at Arby's.  I got a chicken pecan wrap which was pretty tasty but I made the mistake of ordering onion rings along with it.  Not the wisest health choice plus they were pretty taste less and made a hu

ge mess in my car.  

I got a new blouse from Walmart.  I really like it but it's just a tad too small which has motivated me to want to lose some weight.  

I came home and worked on my blog and watched The Next Foodnetwork Star and then went to bed around 8pm since I will be getting up at 3.

Sunday, June 22, 2014

"The Lord designated the purposes of marriage to go far beyond the personal satisfaction and fulfillment of adults to, more importantly, advancing the ideal setting for children to be born, reared, and nurtured.  Families are the treasure of heaven."

-Elder Russell M. Nelson as quoted by

Elder Neil L. Andersen in GC April 2014.

Somewhere in England

James left at 5:15 for stake council and then on to speak in the Linden ward.  Blain Curtis is gong to meet him there as his speaking companion.  

Ty Applegate was the youth speaker in our ward.  He spoke on work and self-reliance, a good topic for an Applegate since they are such hard workers.  Rob Langford and Adair Jim from the high council were our main speakers.  Brother Jim is a police officer on the Navajo reservation.  They both spoke on the sentence in the Family Proclamation which starts out: "Successful marriages and families...."  President Crandell was on the stand and spoke at the end of the meeting.  One thing he said was:  "When you have problems in a temple marriage, you work them out."

I sat by Patsy Tedder and we had a nice visit.  I went to high school with her brother Pete Whipple and she used to babysit my cousin Rita and her brothers.

Our Sunday School lesson was taught by Wendy DeWitt.  The lesson was about Samuel and Saul.  I sat by Sandra Wilhelm.

Denice Hall taught the young women about sustaining and supporting priesthood leaders.  I think it was appropriate that President Crandell and Brother Wilhelm came in.  Their comments really added to the lesson.

 A partial picture of the Phoenix temple.

 Rosie Lauritzen and I visit taught Lannie Gillespie after the block.  Lannie is assistant superintendent of Navajo schools and she says she is busier in the summer than during the school year because she is involved in alot of training.  

When I got home James was already there and had fixed me lunch.  We took a nap and then got up to prepare to feed the missionaries, Elder Russell and Elder Stott. When I asked him how his talk went he said he struggled with his voice but it went okay.

So grateful for our missionaries!   Elder Russell is from Tucson and Elder Stott is from Blackfoot, Idaho.  Elder Russell loves books so he went crazy when he saw all of mine.  He has been here six months and will be transferred to Scottsdale on Tuesday where he is going to be a district leader.  For dinner we had grilled chicken, rice, corn, and salad.  And for dessert brownies, and ice cream with chocolate sauce.  The elders took home some extra brownies.  I am always grateful to have the missionaries in my home because they bring such a wonderful spirit.  They gave us a list of all the people they are teaching so that we could pray for them.

 

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Elder Robert E. Wells wrote about the temple,

"There is no place on earth where we gain a clearer

and more complete understanding of the Savior,

our dependence on Him, and His involvement in our lives.

Indeed, our feelings about the temple are the truest

indicators of our deepest feelings about Christ."

Alice Wilhelm, LeeAnn Hunsaker,

Jordyn Applegate, and Kelly Reynolds.

Also attending but not pictured, 

Kilee Hunsaker and Shelly Applegate.

These girls were up and at the church this morning at 5:30am to attend the temple.  I am so proud of them, especially after the tiring week we had at camp.  They are valiant young women!

Here is a list of all of the people who attended the temple from our ward.  The entire Applegate family: Jimmy, Tamara, Jordyn, Shelly, Jace, and Ty.  This was Ty's first time at the temple so it was a special occasion for them.  Jimmy performed the baptisms and Tamara helped hand out towels.  Brother DeWitt's grandson was the only other young man who attended.  Brother DeWitt, Jimmy Applegate, Jim Diewald, Ricke Lauritzen, Blain Curtis, and Elders Russell and Scott and Sean Hunsaker rounded out our priesthood leadership.  John Wilhelm came but left because we had so many.  Diana Curtis, Tamara Applegate, Stefani Hunsaker and myself represented the young women leadership and our young women: Jordyn and Shelly Applegate, LeeAnn and Kilee Hunsaker, Alice Wilhelm and Kelly Reynolds.  The Eagar 2nd ward was there with us.

After the temple we all went to El Cupido's to eat.  There food is so good and our temple trip wouldn't be complete without stopping here.  On the way home there was a bike race.  Kelly, Alice, and LeeAnn counted 153 bikers.  LeeAnn whistled at a few of them.  She has one of the loudest wolf whistles I have ever heard.  

When I got home I took a nap and then typed James's talk.  He is speaking in the Linden ward tomorrow with Blain Curtis.  I also read to James from Edenbrooke and fixed him a meatloaf for dinner.  We did not watch any TV tonight as we were both studying the gospel in preparation for tomorrow.  

California Fun

Evan and his cousin Matea.

 No Mickey ears for this guy.

It's a coon skin cap all the way.

Nothing like playing in the cool damp sand.

Friday, June 20, 2014

Don't know what is going on here but

I love this face.  Maybe he's missing

his buddies Evan and Max.

These boys are having a great time at the beach.

I got back at camp around 9 and the morning chores had already been done.  Darn!  Sorry I missed them.

LeeAnn, Kilee, and Sister Curtis doing chores.

 We went up to break camp and then we were called back for the awards ceremony.  1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th years got certificates and so did the YCL's or Youth Camp Leaders.  

 Heaven taking down the Service Tree.

Awards Ceremony

 Kilee, Alice, LeeAnn and Heaven at the

awards ceremony.

Do they look bored?

After the awards ceremony they announced that there would be more activities.  I don't know about everyone else but our group just wants to go home.  We are tired and want our comforts of modern-day life restored.  The activities today consist of shooting, puppet making as a service project.  These puppets will be sent to wards in Africa.  The puppets are characters from the scriptures.

The other activity was games. 

After these activities were completed and lunch was over we were called back to the ramada again.  This time it was for water games.

That's Kelly in the blue shirt.

She loved the water activities.

We finally got to break camp and get ready to go home.

Alice and Kelly

 We appreciated Brother Curtis even more

as we began to disassemble the tents.

We finally figured out after reading the directions several times

that the poles do not come out of their sleeves on this tent,

they only collapse.

Finally the tent is down!

Now to get it into the bag!

Let the games begin.  Julie Wilhelm had brought

water guns for our ward, big ones for the leaders and

small ones for the young women.

Amy(Sister Reynolds) is an expert when it comes to shooting a real gun and

a water gun is no different.

I guess I should call Amy, Sister Reynolds.

Her husband Cope teaches fire arms safety.

Kilee's in trouble because she dumped a bucket of water on

Sister Reynolds.

Before leaving we had a chore assigned to us by the stake.  Ours was quite easy.  We had to clean around the flagpole.  After we were done we loaded up and headed for the church to unload some of our equipment.  I took Kilee Hunsaker home but LeeAnn refused to come.  I guess they had had a little tiff and she didn't want to ride with Kilee.

I go home and crash and veg out in front of the TV.  I found an old Glenn Ford, Maria Schell movie on.  The name of the movie was Cimarron.  My mother was a big Glenn Ford fan so I saw this movie in my childhood.  In fact, part of it was filmed in Mexico and we were in Mexico at the time at a bull fight in Nogales.  Glenn Ford and Maria Schell were special guests at the bull fight and it was the highlight of my mother's day because she actually hated the bull fight.  I hated it too.  I felt so sorry for the bull.  

James fixed me dinner and then he did the dishes.  I read to him from Edenbrooke.  I took this picture of the sunset before going to bed around 9pm.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

 Happy Birthday to our beautiful
daughter-in-law Tricia!

Let Your Light

So Shine Before Men, That

They May See Your

Good Works, And Glorify

Your Father

Which Is In Heaven.

-Matthew 5:16

The theme for this year's camp is "See the Light, He is the Light."  Each day there is a morning devotional and the YCL's handed out card with quotations or scriptures about light.  The above one was today's handout.  The girls could clip these on a necklace they were given with a clip on it.  I loved this aspect of camp.

Everyone was just finishing up breakfast when I arrived back at camp.  These was an unfortunate incident with a mouse.  One of the stake leaders, Linda Pearce, squished the mouse with her foot which was very upsetting to many girls including some of ours, and our assistant camp director Amy Reynolds.  Our girls were assigned to clean the eating area after breakfast.

Hope sweeping and Kelly trying to get out of the picture.

Kyah was a good worker.

Next the girls broke up into groups for certification classes.  Amy, Diana, and I attended Julie's class on clouds and trees and vegetation.  Julie also taught compassing and water purification.  She is really an asset at camp.  She was also the hike leader for the stake as well as our ward camp director.  She works for the forest service and loves the outdoors so she is a great resource person.

I especially loved the tree boring class where she bored into the tree to count the rings to determine the age of the tree.  The girls loved it too.

Julie counting the rings of the tree she bored.

Amy, Diana and I had to leave class a little early for kitchen duty.  The cooks, Sister Crandell and Sister Jackson had left on a hike and were late getting back.  Our job was to cook the noodles for the macaroni and cheese but we couldn't find them.  We told Sister Crookston, a counselor in the YW's stake presidency and finally after about ten minutes she found them in a box hidden away under the counter.  We already had several large pots boiling water on the stove.

Diana stiffing the pot.

At one point while adding the noodles to the water I spilled noodles all over the floor.  Also, the pilot light had gone out on the oven and there were several people trying to light the pilot so we could cook the garlic bread but no one was successful.  Somehow we managed to get those noodles cooked and our kitchen leaders made it back from hike and lunch for 150 people was brought about.  We had macaroni and cheese, ham, salad, bread, and fresh fruit.  Sister Crandell was so grateful that we had started without her.  

Back in our camp Julie and some of the other girls took Hope's stuffed bear and hung him from a tree.  We had a memorial service for Teddy and Jordyn even played taps on the harmonica.

 Teddy handing from the tree.

Hope was a good sport.

Jordyn playing taps and Julie

bowing her head.

Rescuing Teddy.

Alice during journal and scripture study.

Heaven

Amy, Kilee, and Diana taking a break.

Enjoying some down time.

LeeAnn painting Kelly's nails.

We were assigned to help with dinner.  I was proud of how most of our girls responded and came to help.  Dinner was green chili chicken burros that were absolutely delicious.  It was bishop's night but since our bishop is working out of town Brother Wilhelm and Sandra came.  They had dinner with us and then afterwards we gathered at camp for our testimony meeting. Afterward Sister Wilhelm handed out cookies.  It was a nice evening.  I was tired again when I went home.  I was surprised to find James had come home so I was not alone.

Earlier in the day James attended Aaron and Kari's sealing.  Gail and all of his kids were there and so were Darrel, Trina, and Jared.