Sunday, October 13, 2024

Week of October 6 - October 12, 2024

Many days spent in getting Nano's things squared away. Monday included a three hour meeting at the mortuary. Funeral director is wonderful. Lots of paperwork. Lots of phone calls. 

Spiritual
General Conference was wonderful, beginning to end. 

Dee was able to attend the temple this week on Thursday.  

My daily morning foundation of General Conference talk(s), prayer, scripture study and Come Follow Me study continues each day. I was so excited when the talks finally uploaded individually on the Church website. I spent Thursday and Friday reading all the talks. 

I have indexed 53,114 records and reviewed 19,366 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family
It was so good to hear from the Wilkins family via Marco Polo. They visited as they finished playing a game of Monopoly. Allison is busy at work and competing her masters degree. Classes still are being taken and papers are being written. Mike is doing well at work and decided to return to college to complete another Bachelors Degree in Warehousing and Logistics. Adam is doing well at work and visits his sweetheart when he gets off. Grace is doing well in school and finally completed all the preliminaries so now she works at a Day Care. Josh is liking seminary and doing well in school. And Sam had more money than anyone and likes school! 

The Ethan Rice Family
Ethan and Cameo are busy decorating their house for Halloween. Kaylee had her first band concert this week. The trumpet section sounded awesome!!! It was a real memory to hear "Hot Cross Buns"! 






Spoke with Kaylee, Ethan and Cameo via FaceTime on Saturday evening. Wade had a really good showing at his lacrosse game earlier that day and was at a teammates house spending the night. Kaylee was working on her Halloween costume and then gave me a tour of their skeleton collection inside their home. All are doing very well. 

The Doran Rice Family
Happy Anniversary Doran and Amber on Friday. They celebrated with a trip to Nashville.






Morgan
No news from Morgan and Cassie this week. 

Kayty
Kayty had a good week at work. 

The Nathan Rice Family
Spoke with Nathan and Jessica as she was making some sour dough bread. Nathan said her first loaves were a bit hard but the second loaf came out excellent! They had a fun Saturday. The drove two hours and listened to General Conference, then toured a farm tool exhibit where they saw a cotton gin and the worlds largest bale of cotton west of the Mississippi River. Then they drove the two hours home and listened to the next session of General Conference. All are doing well. 

The girls called via FaceTime on Friday and shared their new family members: two puppies. Their names are Whitney/  and Cookie. The girls take turns walking them and they are totally smitten. Eve struggled earlier in the week with croup but is much much better. 

Dad's Garden
Harvesting romaine already. Still struggling with small creatures eating our seedlings. We still are keeping our chickens alive in this never ending heat. 
 




Sunday, October 6, 2024

Week of September 29 - October 5, 2024

Spiritual
Nano passed away on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 early in the morning. This week has included much talking and planning. She lived a wonderful life and had many wonderful things happen to her and loved her family. I could only think of the great reunion on the other side of the veil as she and my dad were reunited as well as her other beloved relatives. 

Sunday was good. We began practicing our primary program.

Dee was able to attend the temple this week on Wednesday.  

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

I have indexed 51,626 records and reviewed 19,366 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
Kaylee had her first sixth grade chorus concert this week. 


In her rare spare time, she loves drawing...


And Wade's LaCrosse team participated in a fun parade. Coach Dad got to ride on the float with Wade!









Kaylee is doing well at cross country. She is now running in varied terrain and she is working hard to adjust. Wade played very hard at his Saturday laCrosse game.

The Doran Rice Family
Doran called and spoke with me. They are doing well and enjoying their cool Fall. Work is going well, the kids are doing well at school and they are making new friends in their new home. 

Morgan
Morgan has been very very busy at work. Cassie is healing and is awaiting her next step.

Kayty
Kayty had a good week at work. 

The Nathan Rice Family
Nathan has been working hard preparing for hunting season for weeks. He is excited that animals are already walking in the paths he established. Work is going well and he will be traveling soon for work. Jessica and the girls are busy with school and friends. 

Dad's Garden
I ate some of the first romaine lettuce in a salad this week. Garden is doing pretty well. The heat is still a struggle and we work very hard to keep our chickens alive. 
 
Other highlights
Long week. So glad to sit and listen to General Conference on Saturday.