Baby Lily's first laugh party.

This week was especially busy. We had our Missionary Training Meeting on Monday and then the Participant Demo on Wed. Always fun, but also busy, busy, busy. ;o} We had 34 on Monday and over 75 on Wed. It has been fun to watch the natural leaders evolve. Sister B does a demo on how the soil changes after you follow the Soil Prep procedure, by putting in Humate, 2 fertilizers and manure. After 5 years we are finding earth worms in the garden and we use less water. Another couple who are great enthusiasts told everyone how to get rid of Squash Bugs which will literally destroy a plant overnight. The use strapping tape, wrap it around their hand and just touch the eggs which are laid under the leaf. Lo and behold the little eggs and even the newly hatched eggs will stick right to the tape. They plant their first seeds and then more at two week intervals. Once they take care of the eggs on the first plant they find fewer on the second and so forth. They have squash all summer. They love it and store it every way you can think of. The new gardeners are excited to get started and many of them prepared the soil last fall. We are anxious to see how many have gardens this year, but have save their seeds from last year, so all they need is to borrow the rototiller and get the Humante, fertilizers and manure, which most of them have access to from a relative or neighbor. I love taking pictures when they first start and then when they harvest. It is really quite amazing. Two of our young Elders are transferring out tomorrow. One will go to Kirkland and the other to Sanders. We have had four for quite a while. A third is going home, so we will keep Elder Beus and he will get a new companion. 17 of the young Elders go home this week and only 1 new Sister missionary is coming into the Mission. Our people who have gone through the Self-Reliance class will have show of sorts on Tues. and let everyone see what they have done to start or enhance a business. I will try and take pictures. If anyone understands how to take pictures off Carousel and copy them to the Blog, please let me know. Sister Olson