I guess the summer heat is here. It wasn’t as hot as it has been (not 109 deg), but it was
really humid, and the air was heavy. We
didn’t spend a lot of time outside, needless to say. I think it reached 102, but I don’t know for
sure. We found out we can go to movies! All 3 of us want to go see “Brave”. Maybe that will happen on Tuesday, as the
office is closed for the 24th of July. Can you believe it? Here in California we celebrate the 24th
of July! I think it’s great!
We spent the morning helping Sister Scoffield paint the
kitchen at the office. The building has
the Bishop’s Storehouse, LDS Family Services, and LDS Employment Resource
Services Center in it. We all share the
kitchen. The kitchen used to be just white,
but it is now a really bright shade of green!
I wouldn’t call it florescent green, but it is bright, and I like
it! Sister Scoffield has done a
wonderful job of brightening up the whole Storehouse. No longer are there drab, white walls, but
walls filled with color and warmth. She
felt the people that come in need to feel warmth and love, and certainly, the
Scoffields fill it with both! I will try
and get a picture sometime soon. Sister
Scoffield told us not to tell anyone in our office about painting the kitchen,
to see if they would notice. I told her “They’ll
notice!” I do like it though! For all those worried about my wrist – I painted
with my left hand, and stayed far away from the edges and door frames, because
my left hand is pretty uncoordinated and
I didn’t want to mess up the walls, etc.~
We continue to go to the temple (our beautiful Fresno
temple!) every Thursday night. We haven’t
taken the same person twice yet. We are
encouraging those we take to take other people on another night. I don’t know if that is happening, but
hopefully it is. We have met some
wonderful people there. They welcome us every week, and we feel so loved. Two people from our office work there on
Thursday pm, a Brother and a Sister. It’s
good to see them there as well as at the office.
We have been inadvertently blessed to go on Thursday night
besides serving in the temple, because two of the workers take turns making
cookies on Thursday pm for the temple workers!
We are invited to go have cookies as well! How cool is that?!? One of the Brothers (yes – Brothers), Brother
Tanner, volunteers at the Employment office on Friday am, so not only do we get
cookies on Thursday pm, if there are any leftover, we get cookies on Friday am
as well! They are really good cookies
too! There is a slight competition
between the 2 Brothers, seeing who will bake the best cookies. Brother Tanner made Thumbprint Cookies with a
Hershey’s kiss on it instead of jam recently.
They were good! It did make me
want to make some like my mom does though, with jam…. Hummmmmm!
Maybe Monday night?
The only problem is my ever-expanding waist line! I would hate to see what would happen if I
didn’t exercise, but it’s still pretty scary because I DO exercise. I didn’t do much today – no time with the
painting. We get up at 5:45 am to
exercise for ½ hour. I cannot! get up
any earlier! It’s just too hard, I’m too
lazy! It’s too hot to exercise after we
leave the office, and there’s always something else we are doing. SO… I
guess I’d better not buy any more ice cream, chocolate covered almonds,
caramels, starburst………..
Speaking of eating, we had the young Elders over for dinner
again. They are still the same Elders
that were here when we arrived. They
said they have been together for 4 months!
They are wonderful – Elder Berg and Elder Jensen. Britta’s home teachers came (the Betts), thankfully,
as it would have been WAY too hot to be outside because the young Elders can’t
come in without an adult male in the home! We had our new friend, Becky Cuthill, come
over for dinner too. She brought fruit
and vegetables and herbs, for us and for the Elders. It was so sweet, but, also, it was presented
all wrapped up in tissue paper, making it look like such a festive gift! She is a real sweetheart! She is a Native American of the Big Sandy
Tribe. She is awesome! She graduated from university in English. She is a kind, kind lady.
For dinner, Britta bought Tri-Tip which is a local favorite
and really good! Brother Betts was very
kind in cooking the tri-tip on the grill – with some Alpine Touch – it was
delicious! We had potato salad, fruit,
baked beans, grilled corn on the cob, tomatoes, and blueberry angel food cake
and ice cream! All in all – a wonderful
evening ~
Sister Morris and I are going to give some workshops in a
couple of towns in August/September. Two
are in Modesto, on different dates (a spot of driving there), the other is over
to Santa Maria. There could be as many
as 25 people in one of the Modesto workshops!
Now that’s going to be a challenge!
But! It will be great! Looking forward to it!
We will probably spend at least one night in Santa Maria. I was thinking renting a hotel room would be
good, but with the price of gas – maybe we’ll sleep in the car! (I AM JUST KIDDING, MOM!) We’ll borrow a tent….
Well – it’s bedtime – sorry there aren’t any pictures. I keep forgetting to take it out of my
purse! I hope you all are doing
well. Thank you for your thoughts and
prayers. I feel strength from them every
day! Love, Sister Ure
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