Week of January 10 - 16, 2021

Highlights:

Spiritual

We enjoyed a wonderful Sacrament Meeting. I thought so much about Joshua's first Sunday passing the Sacrament. While during the time we could not attend church for months and I was so grateful for Dad holding the priesthood and being able to provide the Sacrament emblems for us, I will never ever again take for granted those wonderful young men who carefully and dutifully prepare, bless and pass the Sacrament every Sunday for us. Never again. I now look at those young men with such gratitude for their service. And today, one new deacon, and the first person I met when our ward was realigned years ago, Trey Larson, was the deacon who served us by bringing us the bread and the water. What a joy it was. 

Temples remain closed for work for the dead. 

I did contact my ministering sisters this week. No more inmate mailings. My inmate was released to a halfway house and the prison ministry is nonexistent at this point. 

I continue my morning foundation of General Conference talk, Book of Mormon reading, prayer, 20 minutes of Come Follow Me study, and Gratitude Journal entry. 

I have indexed 807 records and reviewed 5002 records so far this year. 

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins Family continues to work hard with many extra hours at work and schooling at home. Happy 7th Birthday to Sam on Wednesday. 

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan, Cameo, Kaylee and Wade are doing well, busy with work, and Kaylee remains in remote home schooling. We had a good facetime visit on Saturday afternoon. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper are doing well and had a good week. Happy Birthday, Kooper on Wednesday. We celebrated his birthday at our house on Saturday. 

Morgan

Morgan is busy working and doing well. 

Kayty

Kayty is doing well and worked lots of overtime this week. She also made the final payment on her car! Hurray!!! Paid off!!

The Nathan Rice Family

We had such a wonderful visit with Nathan, Jessica and the girls on Sunday! It was the last time they could play with the Village and they had a good time. Nathan finished rebuilding his car engine this week and was so happy to take it to work and home. They are doing well. 

Dad's Garden

Harvest of beets, cabbage, snow peas, oregano and basil continue. More tomato plants are ready to go into the ground. While we have had no freezes, the weather has been cooler this year and the tomato starts are struggling with it. 

Family History

More Childhood discoveries from my Dad, Allan Kew (William Allan Kew)

Other highlights

I had a great dentist appointment on Monday! Next appointment in July.

Got the village all taken down Monday and Tuesday. All packed up!

Joyous jogs this week with many many American flags flying on flagpoles, something I hadn't noticed before. I also enjoy a couple of beautifully lit houses and Christmas trees in the windows. 

Not so highlights

Someone climbed into our back yard one night/early morning and tore down from our flagpole our Trump 2020 flag and threw it on the ground. It was ripped up all over. We had another one from the Trump Trains of last year and replaced it quickly, but I find it sad that someone who barely sees the flag but a moment as they drive by had to climb into our yard and rip it up.