Week of August 13 - August 19, 2023

Spiritual

We had a good Sacrament Meeting with missionary returning from missionary service in Billings Montana. He did not leave from our ward so it was our first meeting. Primary went well. 

Dad attended an endowment session at the temple on Thursday evening. 

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

I have indexed 12,334 records and reviewed 18,996 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family 

Grace shared some things she learned during her first week at a new school:

Started a new school

attempted to ride the city bus for the first time

learned that touching the coyote's nose is good luck

freaked out about another Taylor Swift album re-release

and the best Saturday night dance ever.

The Ethan Rice Family

This family enjoyed a great fishing weekend after some batting practice at the batting cage. They had a good week at work and at school. 

The Doran Rice Family

Amber and Kelsie traveled to Las Vegas on Sunday night to spend the week working, and relaxing, there. Doran and Kooper enjoyed their men's week at home and school too. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie continue to work and help Cassie's friend clean out and get ready to move. They had a yard sale on Saturday. 

Kayty

Kayty had a pretty good week at work. She took a vacation day on Friday. 

One minor save this week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

This family is doing well. Annie is loving school and the girls are enjoying earning some nintendo switch and texting time. 

Dad's Garden

We enjoyed a little rain this week. The garden and citrus REALLY enjoyed a little rain this week. 

Other highlights

Roofing project continues. Our first bid, which we estimated would be the highest, in fact, was not. We had two roofing contractors come on Tuesday and their bids were higher. Our solar panel company gave us a bid on Wednesday. After the bid on Thursday, we prayerfully made our decision and went with the solar company. We are also adding six solar panels to our system. The work of removing all panels will begin at the end of next week and then new roofing. 

Dad spent Saturday morning replacing the air conditioning compressor on his car. It took awhile but he did it and now there are no more bearing failure sounds as he drives.