Winter Has Visually Arrived

The snow storm I have been waiting to see has finally arrived.  Six inches of heavy, wet snow has slowly fallen and turned everything into a wonderful fairyland of white.  Our Subaru Outback has proven to be the perfect choice for an automobile here.  The all wheel drive lets us go where we want to go. 

 

We held a missionary preparation class on Saturday morning.  Heather Malin was the only one to show up.  Our two 17 year olds had a basketball tournament, and Matt Adamson told us he would be camping up on the mountain

somewhere.  We had a wonderful lesson on the importance of being personally worthy to serve.  We then discussed the importance of the Temple.  As wonderful as it is to serve a mission, it is a bigger blessing to receive the blessings of the Temple.  She stayed for another hour visiting with us and asking all sorts of questions about missions, the gospel and the temple. 

 Sunday I woke up with the impression that I needed to let Carolyn Chenoweth know that she was thought of and loved.  I texted her and told her I was coming to give her a loaf of bread and see how she was doing.  She is doing better this week and did a very good job of teaching our Gospel Doctrine class. 

I have had a cold again.  Hopefully this will go away quickly, as this is a big teaching week.

I visited with the 2nd ward Ward Council, to present to them the daytime Institute class

Proposal.  They didn't jump all over it like the 3rd ward did, but they did announce it in their meetings.  We begin on Thursday.  I am anxious to see what kind of a response we get.   I substituted for the Sophomore Seminary class this morning.  The kids were very attentive and they participated a lot.  The lesson was the miracle of turning water into wine and Jesus cleansing the temple.  I've often thought it would be good to read the Book of Mary.  Wouldn't you love to see it all from her perspective?  We use the new Bible Videos whenever one is appropriate for the lesson we are on.

It is fun experiencing the sun coming up at 8:30 a.m. and then going down at 3:30 p.m.  Our hours of daylight are short.