Week of September 15 - September 21, 2024

Spiritual

Sunday went well. Dee taught a lesson to my class about Samuel the Lamanite. He later went to stake priesthood meeting. I visited with grandkids and enjoyed a great Sunday. 

We were not able to attend the temple this week. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. 

I have indexed 50,290 records and reviewed 19,308 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family continues to do well at work and at school. 

The Ethan Rice Family

It was Fall Break for the kids this week, which meant a week of fun for the family. They went camping with their dear friends. They went to the Chatanooga Aquarium and had a fun time. 

Kaylee also attended a fun activity with friends. 

While fishing at their nearby lake on Saturday, Ethan had an unfriendly encounter with a watersnake

The Doran Rice Family

Doran and Amber are doing well and enjoying getting used to driving country roads rather than city streets. 

Morgan

Cassie came to Phoenix on Tuesday and I took her to see a facial surgeon. He had a good plan for her treatment but then told us Cassie's insurance only covered her initial evaluation and that she would need to pay $9800 for her treatment. We left and Cassie contacted other resources. She decided she wanted to go to the emergency room so we took her to Banner University Hospital (the old Good Samaritan Hospital) so she was admitted to the hospital and spent her week there with surgery on Friday morning. 

The surgery went well and they returned home with their four dogs on Saturday afternoon. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

I facetimed with Ellie a couple of times this week. She is liking school and her co op group and is looking forward to a cooking class on Monday.

Happy Birthday Annie on Wednesday!!

Dad's Garden

Dad planted lettuce, collards, swiss chard, carrots, radishes and cabbage this week. 

Other highlights

Dad and I again spent the week doing lots and lots of yard work. I trimmed trees out in the front yard and filled the bulk trash pile with more branches. Dad and I filled two large boxes with the dead prickly pear cactus from the front island. We also picked up a small limb chipper of Facebook Marketplace. With the new bulk trash schedule and rules, it will help us keep our pile smaller. We will now have to make an appointment to get our trash picked up. We are limited on pile size. We get four pick ups a year, but if our pile exceeds the size, we lose a future pile pickup.