Dear Family and Friends,
I think I have finally figured out how to upload the pictures. You decide which ones you want then post them from the last to the first and the first will be last. Amen. ;o
This post should come with the one I worked on earlier this week, so you get two for one this time.
This is the 1,500 ft line that Elder Olson put in for George Babbitt's corn field. The picture was taken at dawn, so he left here well before dawn and was able to watch the sunrise as he started to work another day on the project. The others kind of explain themselves as he goes up and over the hill burying the line, so it won't be stepped on by wandering horses, sheep, or goats.
The last photo is at sunset near the top of the hill. When we got the paperwork for this mission it said, 4 hours a dat, I'm pretty sure they forgot the 1 in front of the 4. That seems like a very long day, but amazingly enough you have the strength and endurance to do it again the next day. Whatever the Lord deems necessary, we seem to have the ability to do. He has blessed us greatly as we have served His children here on the reservation.
Yesterday, along with the two Elders, and Mike and Mae, we tilled four new gardens in preparation for the 2012 growing season. I was able to take pics of 3 tillers going while others were raking or throwing out fertilizer and manure, everyone did whatever needed to be done and no one complained, they just helped. One of the four prep gardens was for "Pastor Johnnie" I did pause just for a moment when Mae asked if we could put his in, but then I remembered that I had never read of the Good Samartian stopping to ask which church the man he helped belonged to before he helped him. Who knows maybe he will be converted and bring his congregation along. ;o} it has happened before.
After we tilled from 8-3 we headed back to check some gardens and spray squash bugs, which are becoming a real pain. They can demolish a squash plant pretty quickly. They lay their eggs underneath the leaves, where the larva hatch and eat away. We have actually sprayed twice, but they are resistant or persistant, not sure which but they remain a problem that we continually address.
The Seeley's have asked us to do two demos, one in Lukachudia on Wed evening and a second in Chinle on Thurs. We will actually stay at the Best Western in Chinle both nights because it is so far away then return on Friday morning. Elder Olson says we are getting a vacation and perhaps we are, but I suspect they have squash bugs there also.
There were 118 people at the 2nd Ward Sacrament, last week there were 119. Three young men bore their testimonies and are planning for missions.
I got up also and if you have time read D & C 18:34-36 The church is true, the scriptures bear solemn witness of the divinity of Jesus Christ. We can bear the truth of the gospel without fear of men and what they may say. Jesus is the Christ and will come again, we know not when, but we can look forward to that day knowing that He is our Lord, the Son of the living God.
We each have our individual roles to fulfill and we need not compare ourselves to others, for we are uniquely different and our roles are uniquely different. It matters not where we serve or in what capacity we serve. We need to focus on the tasks we were sent to do and spend less time worrying about other's tasks. The Lord loves us as individuals. May we strive to live a little better each day and serve wherever we are and in whatever way is necessary, being confident that the Lord will bless us in our individual roles to fulfill His work.
We think of you often and pray for your welfare.
Elder and Sister Olson
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