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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Christmas Un-decorating and Book Club

First off I just want to say how indeed blessed we are!  Kristen interviewed for and received employment with the Kids Club.  It is an after school program put on by various schools in the Mesa school district.  She did great and we have no word yet as to which school she will be working at, but we are EXCITED!

In other news: This weekend was a good one as we started it out by serving!  We went to help the volunteers take down the many strands of Christmas lights on the Mesa temple grounds.  We showed up right before 7 am and received a delicious breakfast: orange juice, doughnuts, and Egg Mcmuffins!  Then we went and started taking Christmas lights down.  We didn't really know where to go so we just started taking some down on the east side of the Temple.  The Stake President that was assigned to that area soon showed up and said that he was happy for the help.  It was cold and the lights were rather stiff as they had been up for more than a month.  The work went rather fast and it wasn't difficult, but one tree in particular gave me a lot of grief.  It was very difficult to un-decorate as the decorators had clearly put a lot of time into it and had put about 10 strands of lights in and around it.  It was difficult to untwist all those strands.  But all's well that ends well!

Following that we went into the visitors center and changed and then attended an endowment session!  It was very full!  There was not one empty seat in the whole session!  But it was great to be back in the Temple!

The rest of the day went by rather quickly.  We drove out to Mom Erickson's to find snow clothes for next weekend when we go to the snow.  We saw Bella, talked with Stephen and picked oranges, tangelos and lemons from Mom's trees out back.  We brought some over to the McLaws' and also found some snow clothes to borrow from them.  After that we stopped at some Goodwill stores on the way home to look for a game of Scrabble.  We didn't find one but we did find Wheel of Fortune!  That was definitely a great find!  It is from 1986 and is in great condition!

That evening was Book Club at Cheryl's home.  We had dinner first and that was quite a collaboration of dishes of all types.  Each individual was to bring something that started with the first letter of their first name.  So we brought hershey's Kisses for Kristen and chips and Salsa for Steven.  Then after dinner we discussed the book "The Life of Our Lord" by Charles Dickens.  It was a great discussion that ended up strengthening my testimony of the Saviour and his life.

All in all it was a great weekend and today was our Ward Conference where many wonderful messages about love and Marriage relations were shared!  I sure do love the gospel and I know this Church is True!

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