Other Highlights From the Week

Wednesday, we headed down to Salt Lake to have lunch with Josh and Liz from the Church History Library and to make a quick visit through the 2nd floor of the library.  Oh, how we love that place and it was wonderful to see and to hug so many familiar people who we served with. We even connected with one of the missionaries from our MTC group from March of 2023 who is just about to finish her 23 month service in the library.  And Jena was a popular person with the missionaries and the staff---they wanted her to start doing the mail again.

No pictures,  next time!  We did get a picture of this yummy treat that Josh got us.  We had lunch down in Chinatown on State and 33rd South and he bought these from a nearby grocery store.  It is a place we will go back to.  Friday nights it is supposed to be quite fun with so many Asian shops and restaurants in one place.

These mango (left) and peach (right) ice cream treats are delicious!

Thursday was James' birthday.  It was fun to FaceTime with them and show them around the house in its remolding disarray.

We had a very low key Valentine's Day which is fairly common for us.  Jena had a Valentine's Party for Family Night in her YSA Ward on Monday and another one at her theatre class on Friday, so she was having fun. 

I did order these for Gary---although really in honor of our master bathroom almost being done.

On Saturdays at about the same time Gary leaves for the temple, we head over to Davis Lanes for bowling.  Jena loves bowling and being with her friends.

Getting ready to bowl...

We also had some of the first snow since before Christmas that stayed on the ground for more than a day--both on Thursday and again today.

The first two pictures are from Jessica's house---

These are the crows in the tree across the street from our house today....

And our water chain is in action as it has not been cold enough to freeze it yet.

I taught my first Gospel Doctrine class since being called as a teacher again.  It was nice to prepare all week for just one lesson, but nerve racking to teach!  We all survive and the PowerPoint and screen all worked perfectly.

Gary continues to serve at the Ogden Temple and he was called and set apart as a worker in the Syracuse Temple as I mentioned last week.  You can only serve in one temple and they told him that as soon as he serves his first shift in Syracuse Temple, he can no longer serve in Ogden. We are assuming that will happen the second week of June after the temple is dedicated on June 8 but that hasn't been confirmed yet.