Thought of Landy when we were at Rocky Ridge earlier this month. This was taken at the Rocky Ridge Trading Post.
Well, this has been a very, very, busy week. Monday we had the Missionary Training
Meeting. We have 3 seniors come from
Sand Carlos. A senior couple is serving
there and the sister’s dad, Elder Colett serves with them. He will turn 85 or 86 this week. He is so fun to be around.
On Tues. the Young Men and Young Women helped bag
seeds. That was quite the adventure
really. It got to be a race near the
end, so we are not sure that every bag will have every seed packet that it
should. ;o} But I certainly appreciated
the help.
The seniors had helped the on Monday and 200 bags were sent
back to the various units including 40 to San Carlos. I had run and cut 26,000 seed labels and our
goal was to make 600 seed packets. I did
not count them, but we used up the labels, so I figure we did it or at least
somewhere close.
It was interesting to watch the YM and YW help serve with
that project. Some were very focused and
on task, while others weren’t quite so enthusiastic.
Wednesday was also very busy and Thursday we did the 2nd
Garden Demo. We had around 85 people, it
was a great turn out. We were able to
pass out more seed packets and hand out the irrigation to those who had not
already picked it up.
The Stake President, his brother-in-law, Dan Stephan and the
young Elders passed out onions and potato starts. Elder Olson was cornered in the garden, so he
could not help with the potatoes and onions, but in a way I was glad because
there was so much fine dust in the shed.
Friday we drove to White Mesa to find one of our previous
gardeners who had not been put on the GPS.
I was pretty sure Elder Olson was taking the scenic route, but we came
over a rise and there it was right in front of our eyes. It is out in the middle of nowhere or pretty
close, maybe 6 miles from Nowhere.
We took pictures and I am excited to take them again in June
or July and see the difference. It never
ceases to amaze me what can be grown.
Saturday, we had Stake Women’s Conference. The theme was Family History. That was so incredible. There were about 5 speakers and they all took
just a little bit different approach to doing family history. I think we had about 50 sisters show up. Several sisters had been asked to display
what they had been doing. I was a little
disappointed that more did not come, but we actually had rain that day, which
we desperately need.
We feed the young Elders twice this week. They seem to enjoy coming over and are some
of the most helpful ones we’ve had serve here in Tuba. Yesterday I called them and asked them to
come over and go through the Church after the Conference was over. I thought someone might have lingered, but
they did not find anyone, so I was very glad of that. There has only been a couple of times that I
did not feel safe when I went into the church, so I simply left.
The community workers continue to come, but they are very
sporadic and sometimes will go several days before I see them again. If they go a week, I turn the papers back
into the probation officer and let them deal with it. I tell them when they come that I will turn
their paper work back in. It has only
happened 3 times and we have had several dozen workers since December. Good guys who made a poor choice.
Elder Olson is busy
all the time, but he loves it. We will
have close to 300 gardens between the 2 wards in Tuba City and about 900 in the
Stake at the end of this season. We had
four new people come Thursday night and want to sign up.
We feel very blessed to be a small part of this great work.
Elder & Sister Olson
