Transfered to Beaver

Stacey was transfered to Beaver, Utah the first of March. Here is some of her experiences:
"Beaver is a Bilingual area so I will be teaching in English for the first time and of course Spanish also. My new companion is Hermana Morales who is from Atlanta, GA but was born in Mexico so she is bilingual. We are teaching about 70% in English and 30% in Spanish. Beaver is really smallville where everyone knows everyone....So here you are really active or really less active. There are only a few non-members who are more than likely spanish speaking or from Thailand. We cover the entire Beaver County. Milford, Minnersville, Beaver and a few other spots on the map. This is our basic schedule: Monday P-Day in Beaver, Tuesday drive to Milford, Wed in Milford until dinner. Thur DTM in Panguitch and weekly planning, Friday in Beaver, Sat morning and night in Beaver, afternoon in Minnerville or Milford. Sunday attend one of the english wards and try to make it to the Spanish branch."

Tuesday we got a foot of snow in less than 3 hours. Here's some pictures of my adventures so far:I was so happy I had knee high boots & the snow still got in.

Nice view of the world of Beaver all white...

Our poor car was buried and all we had was a little ice scraper and a broom...

Look I really did drive in a foot of snow. I'm getting pretty good at that.....

The Blizzard at night......

Hna Morales and Me going crazy because of the snow....

Hanging out at the diner in Milford......

Meet my new friend. We sleep in his room in Milford at the Carter's home.....

A full view of the big guy....

The full shot of the room. Sister loved her pretty "fern" rug when she first bought it. But now she knows what it is and hides it in the basement spare room.

We are teaching a cool couple, Karen takes lots of notes and Lester even has a new "uniform" for church. They are getting baptised on Mar 26th if they pass their interviews & stop smoking. We are teaching a lot of less actives and their non-baptised children. And tracking in the trailer parks has been really interesting. We don't go after dark...No worries... The work progresses and we are having an adventure!"

Wedding projects

Wedding bells are in the air and quickly approaching. Mike & Nicole are getting married March 25th in South Carolina and then we are doing an Open house in Tacoma the 10th of April. It just wasn't practical to be able to 'share' decorations in both places so I had the challenge to plan stuff long distance. Thanks to some great helping hands (Debbie & friends thank you, thank you, thank-you) we are getting this figured out. I had to come up with table center pieces that were able to travel well, be inexpensive and simple. I was checking out some crafty places here in Billings and walked into a Party store. As Mike, J & I were browsing the store, the friendliest man came up to us who happened to be the owner & gave me a gazillian ideas, but one particular fit my perameters. They have this little contraption that you can use to make these simple center pieces using foil paper, ribbon and sand and whatever else you want to embellish it with. So I came up with a plan...a nice looking fake rose, some cute fake white flowers and a tassel spriggy thingy. With this plan I had Mike go back to the store with me and we set to work making these centerpieces. It took us all of half an hour to make 13 of them and they ended up being less than $3.00 a piece. Taaaaa... Daaaaa. What do you think?

To each his own.....

Out for a drive around town, we were crusin' the area around near the Rim. We came across these two houses. They actually built their house around the rocks of the Rim. This house added a little patio between the rocks.

Same house... Front of the house.... go figure......

Now this one is just Crazy... again the front of the house...check out the next picture....

Ya gotta be skinny to fit in that front door.......

Pondering

Once again I read through 3 Nephi and am amazed and awed with the event of the Savior's visit to the Nephites and how that experience touched their lives and those that read about it. It was such a incredible experience. You can tell it deeply changed their lives because we read in Fourth Nephi, after the Savior leaves and the disciples go about all the lands teaching and baptizing, "the people were ALL converted unto the Lord." Then for the next 23 verses and throughout two hundred years later "there was no contention in the land, because of the love of God which did dwell in the hearts of the people." I hope at some time we might be able to read more about what took place during those 200 years. What did Nephi and his son Amos and Amos' son, Amos write about? I hope we can read about how these people lived and how they loved each other. It's sad that we only get 23 verses to describe this, but I can imagin it was like spending every day in the temple, the peace felt there in the joy of love and service.
And now on to the saddest part of the Book of Mormon . . . . . . . . . . . . .sigh. . . . . . .