Dear Family and Friends,
Cute little baby boy is in the arms of his Grandmother. Pretty bright and alert for being only three weeks old.
Can anyone guess who will turn the big 65 tomorrow, couldn't be grum pa could it?? :O}
Last week was pretty busy. On Saturday we went to the Snowflake Temple with the Stake, They had standing room only in the chapel session. It was so amazing. They also had to ask people to wait and go through the 11:30 session because the could not seat all the people even though they brought in extra chairs. That was actually a pretty "nice problem" to have to deal with.
I did discover to late that they were handing out the headsets for the "white" people because the session was all in Navajo. Fortunately they had a screen with the English scrolling down so you could read what was being said. I never even thought about getting one to begin with, then I was to embarrassed to admit that I needed one. I thought that they were giving them out the those who wanted to hear the session in Navajo. Getting older sucks sometimes because you assume to much. I mean it was a Navajo session, duh? Oh well, I did get through it and the spirit was there, the language really didn't matter.
We left at 5:30 A.M. and arrived home 7:30 P.M. Wonderful experience, but very hard on Elder Olson's leg with all the sitting.
Today I started at 7:30 A.M. Ronnie, Lee and Avy Nez cooked Navajo tacos for the group that met at 2:00 after the 2nd Ward meetings ended. We meet with a sister from Chandler Heights who drove up to help us with all the indexing that we are doing. She will be officially retired tomorrow at 5:00 after working for the Church in family history for over 41 years. She just couldn't quit, so she was thrilled about volunteering to help us.
Two other senior couples came to the meeting plus Sister Norris, Sister Benally and Pres. Justice. We discussed our concerns and questions about what we had done, what we wanted to do, and what was the best way to accomplish our goals. We ate around 4:00 cleaned up and went home a little after 5 then headed back to watch the devotional at 6.
We invited several people to the Christmas Devotional and Sister Mary from the Catholic Church ;O} came and thought it was awesome. She could not say enough about how much she enjoyed it. Sister Margaret was sick, so she could not make it, but I am confident that Sister Mary will share what she saw and heard.
Went back to the apt and Bishop came to visit, he left and then a sister came and left at !0:05. It has been a wonderful weekend.
Elder Olson is going with Brother Yellowhorse out to work on a garden in Monaeve tomorrow. They are going to work on Sister Bighorse's garden, which is way out there as the crow flies.
Brother Yellowhorse is an excellent gardner and raises a fantastic garden every year. He and his wife love their garden and it shows.
We haven't had snow yet, but I suspect it is coming.
Elder and Sister Olson
Happy Birthday to my wonderful brother! Always a good example to me and everyone around him. Diane and I hope you enjoy your special day and please know how much we love and pray for you.
ReplyDeleteYour brother,
Evan