It actually looks like Fall here in Fresno! It's starting to FEEL like Fall too! When we leave for the office at about 8:00 am - it's only 60 degrees ~ What's up with that?
Oh my! I don't know if I can handle it being only 76 degrees F. I'll have to wear a long sleeve shirt instead of a short sleeve shirt! Hey! I figure - we suffered through the 40 + days of over 100 degree Summer - we can truly enjoy the very beautiful Fall we've had, and it has been nice. I think we had 1-2 days of rain, but that's okay.
It could probably use some more, but around here, they pray to not have rain until the raisins are harvested! Sister Morris had a couple of pictures on her camera of the grape harvest.
I rotated and emptied the gathering bowls.
You are suppose to carefully lay the grapes out on the brown paper. You can see the papers laid out on this row. This is just a part of the row. Each row was 1 mile long and I think our ward had 5 rows. The Spirit was fabulous though! Something to remember! I might be here for next year's harvest as well - that would be cool!
Another couple of pictures that were on Sister Morris' camera were from our Memorial Day trip to the Sequoias. The first one is a shot of what are called Snow Flowers around here. During the Spring, if it snows, these flowers pop up! It had snowed the night before we arrived. Aren't they beautiful?!?
We always seem to be busy! We have had some health issues, but seem to be on the mend. Last week I had the worst headache ever, and it lasted for 2-3 days! I don't know if it was a virus, or a migraine. I've not had a migraine before, so how would I know? It was something I hope to not have again - ever! Sister Morris has caught a couple of colds, besides having the coughing issue. She seems to be getting better with all of it. We are praying for her immune system to kick in gear now.
This is a picture of Becky after coming out of the Stake President's office in getting her temple recommend! She truly was happy! She is great!
Sister Scoffield gave Sister Morris and I these cute pumpkins that she made! Very clever and gifted. Bunny Ursenbach gave the adorable brown pumpkin made from the sleeve of an old sweater, and the jam! Yum! yum! Talk about being spoiled!
We had a real scare with our friend, Becky. She was vomiting, and her blood pressure was up to 212/106. We ended up taking her to the hospital on Wednesday evening. We were there until .... a time I can't tell you .... , we left her there as they said they were going to admit her to the hospital shortly. We stopped by before going to the office the next morning, and she had JUST gotten to her room! We could not believe it! It took ... a LONG time - many hours ... to get her into her room. If we'd known it was going to take that much time, we would have stayed with her. We felt really, really bad.
She had a really rough day - as a matter of fact, it was so bad, she doesn't even remember it. Her blood pressure was still up, and she was having back pain (sciatic nerve pain), and she had a seizure. We were very worried about her, and asked our District, and ward members here, to pray for her. She turned the corner midday today, and it's hard to believe she's the same person, but oh so thankful, as she has become our sister.
We are grateful for all the people who prayed for her, and know it was because of their faith and their prayers that she is doing as well as she is now. We hope she can come home on Sunday or Monday. She was going to go through the temple tomorrow, but it has been postponed until next Saturday. We are so happy for her, though, to be at this point in her life, that she can go!
11/10/12
Becky went home last Sunday! She is still really weak, not eating enough, but! We were blessed to be able to go to the temple with her as she received her endowment today! It was humbling to be there with her and we are grateful to know her. She knows she has work to do for those in her family who have died. We pray she will have the strength she needs to complete the task she needs to do. We've told her we will help her!
This is a post hospital picture - you can tell she still doesn't feel well - it was hard on her to go, but she was SO determined to not postpone it another week. She now thinks she's 100% Mormon!
We went to do an initiatory session on Thursday - we actually have a standing reservation for every Thursday night at the 6:45 pm initiatory session. We are still taking sisters with us, though we didn't have anyone for this past week. Friday we had a Senior Missionary Conference all day. It was really good - we had a couple of musical numbers, and training, and meeting in groups.
A couple we have in the mission are Elder and Sister Brimley. He is a professor at BYU and spoke with us for over an hour about marriage. It was good, because it can be applied to all of our relationships. We were fed lunch by Sister Gelwix, and her helpers, but mostly Sister Gelwix, as the helpers are missionaries!
It's kindof weird having training meetings with the senior couples, in that we don't do much of what they do, and they don't do what we do. President said every position in the mission is vitally important. We have been out looking for people on our ward's membership list that are less active. Only a couple of them have been found. We still have some more to look for!
Last night, after the conference, we went to a play put on by the Fresno North Stake YW/YM. It was called "In God We Trust". It was really good, and the youth did a fantastic job. It was really crowded, and we arrived 1/2 hour early and sat on the back row! We saw quite a few people we know, including our associate manager, Brother Addington and his wife, missionaries, people serving in the storehouse - Sister Morris recruited someone to come volunteer to do resumes! Wow! that's awesome!
Britta signs up to feed the missionaries once a month, and she has her home teachers over too, and we did that tonight. There was another couple this week, so there were nine of us. We had stew and Sister Morris made some great French bread! I had 3 pieces - not a great way to lose weight.
I had best sign off -
My deepest condolences to Rosie and her family for the passing of her mom. Death is never easy for those of us left behind. My thoughts are prayers go to you all ~ Love, Sister Ure
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