LUCY'S FACE LIFT!

There really is a Hundred Acre Woods

Well we finally got the mailbox scratch and the tree bump on "Lucy" taken care of.  Lucy looks much better and is happier as am I.  The lady who gave the estimate was pretty tough and said it would be $750.00.  I talked to her for some time and told her about our loving Father in Heaven, and how important families are.  She just got sweeter and sweeter.  The final cost ended up $450.  That's a great blessing for doing the Lord's work.  We gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon when we paid the bill.  She was quite thrilled.  She even got us a lower price on our rental car.  We had it for 3 days.
P-Day, Elder Bayles painted a swing we had in the back yard way up on the top of the hill.  When Kristin was here she helped us put it on the porch.  It is so fun now.  I would never hike up there to just sit.

We did some home teaching and visiting teaching this week.  We do it together and have the same families.  There are 14 families for us to visit.  We only have 4 left.  We'll get them tomorrow.  We went to FHE and were in charge of treats.  Dad made chocolate chip cookies from scratch.  They were yummy.

playing chicken foot

                       District meeting was again great.  We love Elder Cook and Bentley.

We had lunch at the sister's who lives on the top of a mountain.  We call it her enchanted cottage.  We love going there and she is alone and gets so lonely.  We love her.

cottage

leaving cottage

Three little frogs in pond from cottage

 One of the homes we visited is a less active man who has 25 pot belly pigs.  We just traded cats for pigs.  They really are cute and some are full grown and the size of Rags.  The home is in Hanging Dog.  We went to the ward's missionary training meeting and got home at 8:30, very happy but tired.

We were trying to find an investigator's new home when we got lost.  We came upon this most beautiful lake.  She lives where she can see this lake from her yard.

We went to Wal-Mart to get our flu shots this week and Elder Bayles ended up talking to the RN for over an hour about the church and especially genealogy.  She has gone to SLC to do work there.  We gave her a mini first discussion right there and gave her a copy of the Book of Mormon.  She said she would visit the family history center at the church,  Who knows?
Friday night after a long day a couple took us to dinner and then to the Murphy Bulldog football game.  I have never seen so many people at a high school game.  They only have 500 students but every inch of seating and grass was filled.  The cars had to park at Lowes and walk over to the game.  It was great to see a high school game.
Saturday we got up early to help a brother move.  He had lost his  wife and and couldn't live in their dream home alone.  We helped load the U-Haul his son had brought.  He is going home to Mobile, Alabama.  After that we went to the church to fill the font for a baptism for the Blairsville Branch.  It took 2 hours to fill.  A very sweet man, he thinks he might be related to William Wallace (Brave Heart)  He is so full of the spirit.  His family is not in favor of his decision but he knew it was the right thing to do.  Blairsville, Georgia, is a very special branch.  We got home early, 6:00 and I did the ironing and caught up on some things.  It seemed so good to have a minute.  I love Elder Bayles.

This is half a block from our house.

Pyramid (circa 1930) - Hitchcock Coit was a very colorful lady who traveled extensively and spent time in Egypt. She had this pyramid erected in honor of her grandfather, ARS Hunter who was the first white settler in the area. He had a trading post and traded with the Cherokee and the soldiers. He built a toll bridge across the river, ran a ferry, served as the first postmaster of Murphy and architect for one of the earlier courthouses. His name, those of his wife and niece are inscribed on the pyramid. Some say that the bodies lie buried beneath the base of the pyramid, but this has not been confirmed.

A street in Murphy and a home for sale close by.

Tues. July 17th. We stayed at Bro. Culler's until after dinner.  We then started for Winston-Salem after traveling until seven P.M. we commenced seeking for entertainment.  We went to one place & the man hid in the woods to keep us from asking him.  We then went on & after talking quite hard we got to stay with a man by the name of  H. T. Moore.