SICKLE DOWN

Tuesday was Zone Conference.  We love being with the missionaries.  It was the last time to see President and Sister Thomas.  They are holding the sickle the senior couples gave them.  They love it.  We love them.  They bring us such leadership and training.

Couples who gave the sickle.  Pres. Thomas is always saying "Keep your sickle down." D&C 4  "And lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul."

Thomas, Kellers(leave in Aug), Us, Silkers (came out with us.) Burns(leave in Sept.)



Sister Thomas and me.

with the Pres

We went to a great ward council meeting. The stake challenged the members to have the Book of Mormon read by Mothers' Day.  Of course your dad read it twice.  This month they have challenged      

the wards to meet with every family in the ward and invite them to do something to improve the spirituality in their home. (family prayer, scriptures, meetings etc.)  We are going to many of the homes to help the ward out.  In Sept the invite is to place a Book of Mormon or give 10 pass along cards out. The  Greensboro Stake is great.

Thursday we had our first writing class at the Senior Center.  We were so worried no one would come.  Ten people signed up and they were so great.  I loved teaching the pre-write.  It felt like I was in the classroom again. The people loved it and want to do it every Thursday.  They had questions about the Church and one lady asked how to get to the church to start her genealogy.  Yahoo!  We are thinking of doing one at the church for the members so they don't have to go clear to Yanceyvillle.  One lady told us about members who live in Yanceyville who are great and wonderful people and are Mormons.  We went to visit them after writing because we had never heard of them.  They are great.  He is 80 and she is 68.  They got married in Sept.  He couldn't find the Caswell Ward so he went to Danville, Virginia, which is closer,  found this wife and so now they go to Danville. Go figure.  No one knew they were here.  They live in a post Civil War home and are completely redoing it.  They are having way too much fun.

We have now been out 5 months.  Time is going faster now.  I got a great present to celebrate.  Tick #4.  What a thrill.  We were talking to a nurse practioner today and she said dad for sure had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever when he was sick a few weeks ago.  How were we to know?

After going to an inactive and part member home after church we went to a home to celebrate with another family.  They had had several graduations.  We ate such good food.  We left that home to go to another one that was celebrating cousins graduating from BY High.  We are so fat.  Food here is just way too good.

When we finally got home we called our Lily.  It is her birthday today, seven years old.  What a special little girl.  We just can't believe she can be so big.  She is so good to Jonny and loves her family.  We are so happy with the good decisions she is making.  We are excited that she will be in second grade next year.  She will be such a good friend to the other students.  We love you Lily

Lucy's cousins.

Many times people get old, die and their kids don't want to live in the family home so they just leave it empty and build a new home or put a trailer on the land

This is a telephone pole we like.                                                                                                            

Tues. July 11, 1905  We left Gate's this morning at 7:30 AM and started for Jefferies' but we got on the wrong road and went down  Haw River.  It stormed on us part of the day and the roads were very muddy.  From Haws River we went up to McAdam's, a family of friends who lived three miles from there.  We were beginning to feel a little tired having walked about twenty-five miles.  We retired at nine o'clock.   

(Elder Bayles and I were at Haw River yesterday.)