Week of July 7 - July 13, 2024

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Spiritual

We had a good Sunday Fast and Testimony Meeting at church. Our meeting went long, so singing time went long in Primary, and I ended up with 15 minutes to teach. Edit...edit...edit. What I did went pretty well though. Sunday was good and we talked with family. 

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 37, 375 records and reviewed 16,442 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins are doing well, though they are doggone tired of the heat. Their a/c doesnt work at all. They pay over $600 in electric bills every month the a/c runs. The house is up to 100 degrees. It was 120 degrees in Vegas this week. They called the landlord and he of course refused at first but was going to send someone out on Monday. There is a very warm place in hell for this guy!!! Adam is about to start a new job and is looking forward to it. Grace shared wonderful experiences, amazing talks, and fun friend time while at FSY. Joshua had a really good time too. Sam enjoyed his time at home and had a good week. He is becoming quite a good swimmer!! Allison and Mike continue doing well at their careers. 

They are doing well otherwise and living the the community pool as much as possible. As of Wednesday, the a/c is working much much better!

The Ethan Rice Family

Ethan, Cameo, Kaylee and Wade are doing well. 

The Doran Rice Family

Kelsie spent a few days at Girls' Camp early in the week. Doran and Amber traveled to Tennessee to find a house on Thursday. 

Their offer was accepted on Saturday and they returned home to move in a few days. They are happy with the location, the schools and the church in their area. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie are doing well and enjoying a cool summer. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good week at work. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Happy Birthday Jessica on Tuesday. 

Nathan sold his parts jeep for a great price after getting lots of parts off it. Came out way ahead. Jessica has been meeting with her homeschool co-op parents over the plans for their co-op meeting days in the upcoming school year. Saturday they celebrated Christmas In July. They went to a ceramic painting studio and painted ornaments and decorations. They drove around listening to Christmas carols and made Christmas cookies and drank hot cocoa. Nathan and Jessica are next fencing in their yard so they can eventually have chickens, guinea hens and maybe a dog. 

Dad's Garden

Heat is making it a ton of work to keep the chickens alive but so far so good. 

 

Other highlights

Lost yet another limb on the front yard mesquite tree so Dad spent time in the heat and cut it up and i hauled branches and stacked wood. 

Christmas in July this week included Christmas music, watching Elf and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and painting ornaments. Over half done with the ornaments.