Week of October 24- October 30, 2021

Highlights:

Spiritual

We were so blessed to be able to watch Sam's Sacrament Meeting Program on YouTube. He gave a wonderful talk about baptism and the things he is doing to prepare for that special day. We had a good Sacrament Meeting and Primary went well. 

Dad was able to get a temple appointment on Wednesday night and had a stake leadership training meeting on Thursday night. 

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

I have indexed 19,120 records and reviewed 100,123 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

I took pics of the computer as Sam gave his Primary Program talk and sang. 

Grace had a fun spirit week at school and had various dress up days. 

We enjoyed being able to see pics of the family Jack o Lanterns. Sam's was the biggest jack o lantern and had a dangerous run-in with a piranha!

The Ethan Rice Family

Wade had Disney Day at preschool on Tuesday and he and his friend enjoyed dressing up.

The Doran Rice Family

Doran and Amber are getting through some great family challenges and are working with professionals to get through them. Poor Kooper had an accident while at they baby sitters and has a broken collarbone. 

Morgan

No news from Morgan this week. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week and a couple of days off at the end of the week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan and Jessica and the girls are doing well. Nathan needed their vehicle so I had my first driveline experience alone. Got Annie to and from school that day. The family had busy week with soccer practice and game and three trunk or treats.

Dad's Garden

Garden is doing well and his tomato sprouts are getting bigger. 

Other highlights

I worked all week getting the Christmas Village up. 

Dad worked a long and busy week. One of his few coworkers is leaving Honeywell for another company. 

Fun trunk or treat at our ward on Friday. Dad drug out the little deejay stuff he has and played a great evening. 

Week of October 17-October 23, 2021

Highlights:

Spiritual

Sunday was Stake Conference. Being that we had a family pizza dinner planned, I stayed home to mind the pizza oven while dad attended. No online broadcast was available. Dad really enjoyed the conference and took many notes.

We were able to get appointments to attend the temple this week. When I first was able to return to the temple after the closure, I had four sisters in my packet that had baptismal ordinances performed right before the shutdown, and now needed the rest of their ordinances. My favorite temple worker was with me when the initiatory ordinances were performed and she noticed these sisters, and I felt so strongly that their mother wanted her children sealed to her. Weeks of work continued. Then another, and another sister were in Dad's reserved file. I was nearly done with the sisters when I found this mother had not had her work done yet, though she was sealed to her husband in 2005. I completed those and this week, we went to seal these six daughters and one son to their parents. It was such a spiritual experience as these ordinances were performed. Dad also attended an endowment session on Tuesday evening. 

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

I have indexed 18,563 records and reviewed 99,267 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family had a very busy week.

The Ethan Rice Family

Cameo returned from Phoenix on Monday, and Ethan flew to Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the week. 

Kids painted pumpkins and shared at school. 

Here is Ethan and Cameo at Oktoberfest

The Doran Rice Family

This family had a very busy week. One of those tougher ones. 

Morgan

Morgan is doing well. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week and got a little overtime. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan had a good week. He has a few job interviews lined up and hopes to be able to select the best fit for his family. They attended the temple on Tuesday evening and the girls played here. We made paper plate bats and played with playdough. Soccer practice and game went well and Nathan helped at Market on the Move Saturday and worked on making a router table. 

Dad's Garden

Dad was on vacation this week, so lots of gardening was done. Lots of plants planted and transplanted, garden beds cared for and covered from bird and chicken attack. 

Other highlights

Pictures from Pizza get together on Sunday

Dad substitute taught at a school on Friday.

For me, it was a week of party prep and then the family Halloween Party on Saturday. 

Week of October 10-October 16, 2021

Highlights:

Spiritual

Sunday was great. We heard from two missionaries who had recently returned from their missions and they both gave wonderful talks. One served in the West Virginia Mission which included a large area of the country, and the other began serving in Peru and then had to return due to Covid and then was reassigned to New York City. Dad attended another ward for the Stake Sunday school. My primary class went pretty well. Dad attended Stake Leadership Meeting on Saturday afternoon and we both went to hear Elder (someone from the Seventy) on Saturday evening. 

Dad attended a session at the temple on Thursday night. 

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. I got all the General Conference talks read and am enjoying listening to them each day now. 

I have indexed 17,826 records and reviewed 98,432 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

Wilkins family continues to be busy as they pack and prepare for a move. All seem to be doing better. 

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan spent another week back in Pennsylvania. Cameo kept things going at home, even as the kids are feeling under the weather. Ethan flew home late Thursday, laundry done and suitcases switched, and Cameo left Friday morning to come to Phoenix for her 20th High School reunion. She had lunch with her parents (Jade came down with Covid, even with her vax months ago...pretty bad case right now.) Anyway, she then let me know they were done, she and I went to visit Nano. It was a good visit and Nano seemed to enjoy it. 

While Cameo was here, Kaylee lost another tooth!

The Doran Rice Family

Doran and Amber celebrated their 9th wedding anniversary this week. Crab is now checked off the bucket list. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie spent a couple of days fishing last week. They had lovely weather and a fun time. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week with just some overtime. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan and Dad received the notice on Tuesday that they have to be fully vaccinated or they will be fired from Honeywell on December 8th. Nathan is searching for another position with another smaller company. He has put in applications as far away as Texas. The family had a good week otherwise, with soccer practice, school, and soccer game. They are working around their house to prepare for a new baby to come. The girls were here to play a few times this week. 

Dad's Garden

The garden is looking good. Snow and Sugar peas are continuing to grow. Dad has seeds in pots and they are beginning to grow. 

Other highlights

Had lots of wind, and a little rain as a surprise. 

Got some more granite moved from that long lived pile on the front driveway. 

Not so highlights

As I said, Dad is to be fired on December 8th due to deciding not to get a Covid shot. We have lots of data regarding side effects and long-term concerns, but the most pressing concern is that we are standing against mandates like this. In my life, I have NEVER experienced a situation where people are being fired from the military, the hospitals, and airlines, and now manufacturing over choosing to not get a medical procedure. It should be a private decision for the individual rather than being forced to get something injected that is experimental. The FDA has not approved this medication (if they had, the other two shots would not be allowed to be administered in the emergency mandate situation). We stand to lose over ten thousand dollars in savings this year, plus a month of pay. We also will need to determine our medical insurance situation as well as our life insurance. Dad is filing a religious exemption (as opposed to a religion exemption since our faith is not opposed to shots using aborted fetal cells) but we have abundant data. While I doubt that it will save his job, he is getting to testify of his belief and sharing the data involved. These last ten months have resulted in a country I no longer recognize and a steer directly toward communism. Doran's coworker who lived in Romania knows what is happening. She has seen it. So dad is standing for what he believes. For individual choice and freedom.