Missionaries

I so love the missionary program. I can't wait for the new updated reports from my parents who are serving a mission in Nauvoo. I have a nephew coming home from his mission any day! We have awesome missionaries serving from our ward. I am so impressed by the selfless dedication to go and serve the Lord. Someday I hope to be able to serve a mission with my companion. In the mean time... I will stand in awe as I hear and associate with others who share their amazing stories with me... thanks to you all!

Life just keeps on going!

I can't believe summer is gone, the kids are back in school,and the farm harvest is well under way. It is always good to get back into a routine, but I can't believe how fast the days fly by! We are all doing well, are healthy and happy! We regularly see the hand of the Lord in our lives, we are truely blest!

grateful

This summer has been eventful. Not so much with big events, but with events that have had me thinking and evaluating my feelings for family and the gospel. We have friends and family who have lost loved ones, had children chose ways other than what they wish, had loved ones turn away from the family and the gospel. It seems to me my thoughts have been mostly family centered for most the summer. I am so grateful to have been raised in the family I was, with wonderful parents and patient sibblings who showed me love, even when I was selfish and undeserving. I am likewise blest with a great husband who also came from a wonderful family. Who knows where I would be without the influence of love and gospel teachings. Family is my greatest joy and I thank the Lord daily for the way I have be so greatly blest!

Reunion

I have just enjoyed a very rewarding weekend! To start the reunion off we did a temple session. There are few things that comfort my heart more than to look around and see several of my sibblings and children there in the temple with me! Then the time at the cabin. So rewarding to have no schedual and just enjoy every minute of visiting and playing... watching the children play and interact together! The lake was wonderful even if we had watched rain on and off and wondered if we would make it there. The cabin is so wonderful! Thanks mom and dad... and everyone who participated! I love my family!

Wet

Wow, the rain just seems to keep on coming. On the farm ee have hay turning blue, yet the ground is so wet we got stuck when we tryed to cut. I have yet to get the sprinklers out, with it raining on and off everyday there is no reason! As a family we are blest and healthy. Work is going well. The ward is awesome. Yet I feel this down feeling... I think I just need some sunshine!