July 21-28th 2014

Here it is Mon. again, where is the time going?  Our week was full of running people to appointments. Rosenna is still fighting her tooth problem.  I wish I had taken a picture of her yesterday when we picked  her up for church.  She walked out in a low cut sundress that left nothing to the imagination, no teeth, and in house slippers.  You can’t help but love her.  She knows how to play the system and get help from the branch. She went away smiling because they are going to save her from being kicked out of her home, we are taking in a food order for her Thurs, and we are making a bunch of food for her today to get her by till Thurs.  How do these people get themselves in such a pickle?  She has had 18 children, (not all still alive), when she called, in tears, because there was nothing to eat, I ask her to call one of her kids and ask for some food, they are all working too hard. We don’t mean to sound like sour grapes but how are we supposed to teach them when we go in her house, the brother lives with her and two grand kids, that are teenagers, all sitting in the middle of the day watching TV.  The more the church does for them the more they expect.  I’m not bitter by any means, just wondering how on earth we can help change their way of thinking! We see it go on and on, generation after generation in our whole branch.  You can’t help but love all of them, wish we could do more, this will just keep on going because they don’t know any better!
  We had a baptism Sun. A young man that is 11, he is very sharp and hopefully will be a strong member of this branch.  He had a really good turn out to his baptism, his mother didn’t even come to the baptism, she is a baptized member but very bitter and talks down about the church, I’m surprised she let him get baptized.
  We have many more Dr. appointments with Rosenna and Dee this week, we have to stagger them cause they are all in a different direction.  We had a thunder and rain storm during the night to beat all the ones previously.  It was just like day, it felt like every time it would come in our bedroom window.
  We want to thank all of you for being so good to us for our anniversary; it was so good to talk to all of you and appreciated the remembrances and cards.  We had game night at  the church, had about 15 there, then Dad took me out to AppleBee’s, thanks to the gift card you sent.  We have learned that we have everything in the world, a wonderful family, each other, wonderful friends and people that has influenced our life so much. And most of all the gospel that binds us all together and gives us our purpose in life.  We are doing exactly what we wanted to be doing for our 50th anniversary, we are on a mission, something I’ve wanted all my life, we are so blessed and thankful for the wonderful life we’ve had together, our family, and so many good friends and people that have enriched our life.  We give a big (THANK YOU)  to all of you for the part you’ve played in it.  We are the most blessed people in the world and all of you contributed to that.         LOVE YOU ALL!

The steps in the movie Rocky

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