It's November Already!

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It has been four weeks since I have written. Things have been happening but I just haven’t taken the time to write. We’ve been going to the FHC two days a week. I have been helping many people each day. Most of my time is spent helping either new missionaries or the patrons. I really enjoy doing that and am so thankful for the knowledge I have gained since I started there and for my memory so I can remember it and pass it on. And I am still learning new skills too. I learned yesterday how to enlarge pictures on the copy machine and how to lighten them. You just have to push certain buttons but you have to know what buttons to push.

Last Thursday, our bishop had asked us as a ward service project to have 60 people at the cannery to do applesauce and clean up so they can do some extended repairs. The unofficial count was 72 which I think was just wonderful. Since I couldn’t tolerate that kind of work for four hours, I volunteered to take care of Hatchs’ four children while both of them went. I had tho’t about it for about a week before talking to them. I was kind of apprehensive about it because it would be at least 4 ½ to 5 hours I’d be with them and it had been a long time since I had taken care of any children not to mention four at once. Colleen is 8, Keeton 6, Kevin 4 and Logan 3. I took some DVD’s that I didn’t think they had seen (which they hadn’t) and a VCR tape and some books and our colored dominoes so we could play chicken foot. Logan knew his colors very well and was my partner. Kevin ended up winning! They were so well behaved and we all had a great time.

Our country is in a real turmoil right now. We are truly living in perilous times. National elections are this coming Tuesday. It seems to be again, we are “voting for the lesser of two evils” type thing. The one candidate appears to be a warm good person but the ideas he is presenting are too radical and too close to socialism. He wants to give everyone everything without their having to work or account for it. And that just isn’t right! The other one wants to improve things and has some aggressive ideas that may or may not work, and he is 72 years old! Now, I know are prophets are and have been much older than that and work very hard every day. But I think this is different. I’m fasting today (and my sweetheart, too) at least until after church at 2:00 pm (I usually don’t fast because I need to take my medication with food.) I decided that this is an important enough issue and we need the Lord’s help so much that I will do it this time. I’m already thirsty just thinking about it now. The easiest part was when I was asleep. J I told my mother in March or April that if the Democrats get in this time, maybe it will speed up the Second Coming. She said that was a new one on her; she hadn’t heard that one before. There is expected to be a record turnout at this election.

Today is the first day off of daylight savings time. It is nice and light this morning, early. But it will get dark very early tonight. That will take more getting used to. It already was getting dark so much earlier. We have had unseasonably warm weather, in the high sixties but I have so enjoyed it. We do definitely need the rain and moisture that we usually get in the fall and winter time.

That pretty much covers the month of October. I haven’t exercised as I should have done. And my blood sugars are a little higher. I know how to fix that and commit to going to Apple Athletic Club more often. I’m thankful that my sweetheart has kept up with his own exercising. Oh, and our bathroom is completely finished. It only took seven weeks. It is beautiful! I enjoy it so much. Having it in disrepair for so long, I really do appreciate it more. If I had know the last of August when they started that it would be October before they finished it, I’m not sure I would have had the courage to do it. But I am thankful that we did.