Dallin's Pictures - Oct 13

Dallin:  "My dad (companion) and my dad's dad (trainer)--so my grandpa."

 

 

 

Dallin:  "Our zone team and our coach.  The zone leaders are to the left of me.

 

 

 

 

Dallin:  "So this is salchi papa, with hot dogs--sooo good.  And the mayo here is sooooooo good!"

 

 

Dallin:  "With Presidente Delgado after the priesthood session."

The B Date and General Conference Weekend

On Monday, for Family Home Evening, we invited the Nixons over for dinner.  Then Brother Nixon taught us about Family History and showed us a lot of great websites that can help us.

 

 Did you know that Emer Harris, the older brother of Martin Harris, is my fourth great grandfather?!  He was baptized by Hyrum Smith.  He was an expert carpenter and helped build the circular staircase in the Kirtland Temple.  I was able to look at pictures and documents of his life.  I'll share them with you soon--but check out Doctrine and Covenants 75:30!

 

 

 

Tuesday evening Josh and Elizabeth went golf ball hunting along a creek.

They found 289 golf balls!

 

 

 

It was a difficult week for the Payne family in Mississippi.

After throwing up for over 48 hours, Afton was admitted to the hospital.  She was severely dehydrated.  She had to stay at the hospital all day and overnight.

 

Seeing the pictures of Afton reminded me of this picture of Dad and Jayna.  Jayna had just turned two--so she and Afton were close to the same age.  She was in the hospital for almost a week.

Thank goodness for good dads!

 

 

Friday was our B date.  I was in charge.

I hung a new "blackboard" I made to announce the evening!

 

 

We started the evening with "burgers" from Five Guys.

 

Then we played "basketball."  We played two games of horse. 

 

Then we came inside and played two games of  "Blokus."

Can you see the "Baby Ruth" candy bars? 

 

Then we made "Butterfinger Blizzards" and watched "Bronco" and the "BYU" cougars play football against Utah State while snuggling in our "blue" blanket.  It was a "blast!"

 

 

Saturday evening the boys headed off to the Priesthood session of General Conference.

 

While they were gone Elizabeth and I got Panda Express, played Rummikub, and watched one of my favorite chick flicks--While You Were Sleeping.

 

The boys continued their tradition of being the first ones out of the Church, going to Sonic, and then coming home and watching a game.  They watched the Ole Miss and Alabama game.  They were cheering for Ole Miss--so it was an exciting game!

 

 

Dad came up with a new Gorp for General Conference.  We forgot about the peanuts and pretzels and mixed all kinds of M&Ms together.  Genius!

 

General Conference breakfast.

 

Watching General Conference . . . or maybe just listening to it. 

 

Remember how Sunday evenings Josh would get really antsy and drive us all crazy.

Not much has changed.  Just sayin.

 

 

Dallin's Pictures - October 4

These are pictures of the area in which Dallin is living.

 

 

 

 

Dallin:  "This is our new apartment." 

 

 

 

 

Dallin:  "The bathroom is kinda small and its hard to see the shower cause it's in the light.  There's that hole in the wall."

 

 

 

Dallin:  "This is our church.  We have sacrament meeting on the 3rd floor and other classes on the 2nd floor. 

 

 

 

Dallin:  "This is my companion, Elder Ortega.  He's pretty cool."

 

 

Dallin:  "This is Elder Nielson.  He's the only gringo besides me in our distrtict, which has 4 guys.  And our zone has 12 or 14. He's from Arizona and is pretty cool."

 

 

EFY Medley Around The World

As I have sung this song with the youth of the Church many times, I love this compilation of youth all over the world joining their voices together.  So inspirational!!!  This is truly a testament that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a worldwide church.

 

 

 

Dallin's Pictures - Sept 29

This is Dallin with his mission president and wife.

 

 

Dallin said he did a ton of hiking up a hill that was mostly dust and rocks.  But I had no idea he meant that literally until I saw these pictures.  There is no green anywhere--which really surprised me.

 

I don't know where he ate this--but it looks good!

He did say he eats chicken, rice, and potatoes for lunch every day.

 

Dallin:  "Our branch had a Linger Longer kinda thing on Friday night.  It was awesome!  But it started late, like everything here.  Like church starts at 10, but it's supposed to start at 9.  It's really weird.  I don't like it.  Ha ha!"

 

Dallin:  "Inca Kola is a soda that everybody drinks here.  It tastes like gum--I like it."

 

Dallin:  "That's my shower, when we actually have water."

 

Dallin:  "So Sporade is like cheap Gatorade."