Week of March 24 - March 30, 2024

Spiritual

We had a very good Sunday session of stake conference! The opening prayer was by a lovely primary child. The talks: a primary child (once in my class), a youth and a single adult. The music: one choir number and one song by all the youth present in the stake. Just a great meeting! Quiet day for the rest of Sunday, talking with Annie, Ellie, Emma, Allison, Grace, Josh and Sam. 

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

I have indexed 13,075 records and reviewed 9430 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins Family is doing well and working hard. Grace got her senior pictures taken and is counting the days till school ends. Josh had a great soccer game and is doing well. Sam is so enjoying Pep Band and loves playing his baritone. Mike is doing great at work. Allison interviewed for a head teacher responsibility. Adam is doing well at work too. 

Grace shared her testimony of prayer:

Throughout Jesus’s life, especially in the last week, prayer was such an important piece of the story. He prays for His disciples and He tells His disciples to pray for themselves as well. He knew that He would have to leave His disciples, so He let them know that they can talk to Heavenly Father and the importance of prayer. He encouraged them to ask Heavenly Father for help and the things that they need to make it through challenges. He told them that they would never be alone if they turned to their Father in Heaven.

I have a strong testimony of prayer. I know that prayer is a way to talk to Heavenly Father and He loves it when we talk to Him. I know that when we ask Heavenly Father for things that we need, He always has an answer. Although it might seem like He doesn’t answer or He deserts you at times, there have been times I have felt like that, I know He is listening and has an answer, it just might not be time to hear it yet. Heavenly Father has a plan for you and whatever challenges you are going through, Heavenly Father is there to help. He is waiting for us to ask and He will jump in with whatever He knows you need, even if it is different than what you think might be what you need.

The Ethan Rice Family

Cameo shared on Wednesday:

I wanted to take a moment to congratulate our 5th grade girlie. Only  out of 1,078 students at her school were selected to participate in the elementary school honor chrous program. Today she took a special field trip, and performed this evening. The kids did such an awesome job. We are very proud of our Kaylee Alyssa. 

Dad traveled for his first Last Year AT Honeywell vacation. 

At Lake Alatoona on Saturday

Easter egg dying that night while Cameo made her famous carrot cake. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber and the kids had a good week. Busy work for Doran with lots of overtime hours.

They enjoyed Grandmas Easter Celebration on Saturday.

Morgan

No news from Morgan this week.

Kayty

Kayty had a busy work week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Annie and Nathan made a wonderful dessert last weekend.

Exciting news: the put an offer in on a home and it was accepted. Now for all the inspections, loan stuff, etc. but hopefully all goes well and without any problems. The girls are sure enjoying softball/tball practice. Saturday, they spent their morning delivering cupcake treats to friends and neighbors. 

Dad's Garden

Snow peas are going to seed now. Many seeds for next year. Spinach continues to grow. Dad transplanted some volunteer tomatoes into the tomato garden. I cut away some of the oregano that was spreading. Dad removed a potato plant volunteer that actually had potatoes beginning to grow on it. 

 

Other highlights

Dad traveled to Ohio at the beginning of the week for work. The plane left Phoenix two hours late but he managed to get a nice dinner and find his hotel. He visited the company, toured and attended meetings on Tuesday, and then had time to visit the Kirtland Temple. 

Week of March 10 - March 16, 2024

Spiritual

I attended a meeting with the sisters I teach with, the primary presidency, and the primary chorister to work out a plan for our special needs sunbeam, Ana. We had such great counsel from the presidency as also. We tried quite a few things, but Ana had a rough day from the beginning of Sacrament meeting. Plus her mom was not on the same page about how we should work with her. Problem is that we are just three older women trying to do our best to help her. We are not trained professionals. My lesson did go all right and the rest of Sunday was good. 

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

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

I have indexed 9973 records and reviewed 7742 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins Family has been very busy. Sam's musical had four performances, plus there were teacher conferences that kept Allison at school for long days into the evening. Mike's job is doing great and when he had a day off, he and Adam repaired Allison's car radiator, water pump plus other things. Adam continues to work at the theater and enjoys that. Grace is now on her final quarter of high school. She attended the Saturday night dance recently and had a fun time. Senior pictures are coming soon. Josh tried out and made the school soccer team. He has also been accepted into a magnet high school and will study sports medicine. He will also be able to participate in Las Vegas High sports. Sam had a wonderful time performing and was sad when everything was over. This upcoming week is Spring Break and they have plans do an escape room. Allison will also work ahead on schooling to make it through till the end of the year. 

The Ethan Rice Family

Back to work and school this week, plus laCrosse and softball practices. Wade helped juice some of the citrus they took back home. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper had a good week. 

Morgan

No news from Morgan this week. They are both probably very busy at work. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week. 

The Nathan Rice Family

This family had a busy week. Work went well for Nathan. The girls were feeling better and were able to attend gymnastics and their softball practices. 

Dad's Garden

Garden going well. Rain on Friday helped out too. 

 

Other highlights

On Tuesday, headed to Discount Tire for 4 new tires. We had been struggling with leaky tires for awhile and it had become a weekly refill activity so we bit the bullet. 

Thursday...not a highlight by the way...I had two fillings put in. 

Week of March 3 - March 9, 2024

Spiritual

We enjoyed a wonderful Sacrament/Fast and Testimony meeting on Sunday. Dad shared a wonderful testimony of the Book of Mormon and his love for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Primary was interesting as always.

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

I have indexed 8608 records and reviewed 6449 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

This week was Sam's production of "Annie" at school. Grace shared he did great!! Allison shared that they were rather surprised when shy Sam decided early in the school year to be a part of this musical. He went to many practices and the show was a huge success!!

The Ethan Rice Family

We got a visit from Ethan and Wade as they came to borrow a gas can so they could do some yard work for Liz. The kids came later and ended up swimming! So cold but they had a blast. Ethan got Cameo and their things later and we shared Chinese Food a la Dad and they settled in to sleep here for a few days. We ended up enjoying quite a bit of time with the kids, playing games, catch, and those kids swam and swam. Wade's services were beautiful, honoring a wonderful friend. They ended up being very wet! Rain and cold. Morgan and Cassie came down from Flagstaff to attend. Later, they returned home due to probable snowy weather and Doran, Amber and the kids came for barbeque and swimming (it was rainy and in the 50s outside!) They headed back on Friday and Saturday.

The Doran Rice Family

Doran, Amber, Kelsie and Kooper are doing well and, though struggling through colds, are able to work and got to school. We had a last minute barbeque on Thursday and they came and ate burgers and ribs. 

Morgan

Morgan and Cassie are doing well at work and in living in Flagstaff. Shopping etc is nearby and they are looking forward to a cool summer. They attended Wades funeral but the weather led them to return home before the barbeque. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good work week. Good review for the year also. 

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan had a good week at work. His project is progressing and he had time to go catfishing on Friday evening. Jessica had a busy week taking care of sick girls. Influenza and Pink eye are the culprits now. I did facetime with the girls on Friday and they seem to be feeling better. Ellie got to have a special day with Daddy on Saturday, running errands, helping out a ward member, playing with some friends and getting a Lunchable. 

Dad's Garden

Rain this week is always helpful to our garden. Kaylee and Wade picked carrots and peas for chinese and lots of fruit to take back home with them. 

 

Other highlights

Our microwave oven just stopped working on Monday morning. So we went and got one similar at Lowes after work. Ethan helped install in later on Tuesday and it works great!

Dryer stopped working on Friday! Dad looked at youtube and is repairing it now. We spent most of Saturday replacing all the parts that came in the mail and getting it back together. It works and we were very blessed. 

Week of February 25 - March 2, 2024

Spiritual

We had a good Sunday. Nice talk by a young man in our ward who recently returned from serving a mission in Chile. Primary was interesting but we survived.

Dee was 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 7409 records and reviewed 5769 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

No news from the Wilkins this week.

The Ethan Rice Family

Cameo shared:

It is with a very heavy heart that I make this post. My Dad, Wade Wallin, passed away on Sunday, February 25th, at the age of 76. In November 2023, he was hospitalized with septic pneumonia, and was diagnosed with ALS. During his hospitalization, new devices such as a ventilator, tracheostomy, PEG (feeding) tube, and catheter became a part of his life these last 3 months.

Dad’s funeral services will be held on
Thursday, March 7th at
Phoenix Memorial Park & Mortuary
200 W Beardsley Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85027
Visitation 9:30am-10:15am
Service 10:15am-11:15am
Burial 11:30am 

 

Wade was a dear friend and helped us so much around our home. Helped us repair drywall damage, put in a new master bathroom, build my amazing holiday decor hut, and build our wonderful patio roof. He will be sorely missed. 

The Doran Rice Family

Doran and Amber had a good week at work and the kids had a good week at school. 

Morgan

No news from Morgan this week. 

Kayty

Kayty had a good week at work and spent Saturday at another Spring Training game. 

1 major save this week.

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan has been given a big assignment that is keeping him very busy. The girls are well and had a good week at home school, gymnastics, 

Dad's Garden

Tomato plants are getting bigger. Winter garden is fading. 

 

Other highlights

Lots of yard work this week. We took down most of the back yard mesquite tree that had fallen over in a wind storm. 

Sealed the outdoor kitchen counters.