Chalin was the featured speaker & told us all about his mission

Dearest Family,

     Happy 2nd Birthday, Lucy on Friday, October 20!

What an amazing way to start the Week!!!!  Monday Night - our family had a FHE together!  Rob, Michelle, at their home, Vicki, Bryan & Chris in SLC, Darece, Ken, Talon, Mattis, Kenny, Rosie, & girls, & Bob & I; all at Darece's, Allen & Family in Worland & the Fikes in Laramie!   Chalin was the featured speaker & told us all about his mission - even showed us slides!    It was wonderful - we did it over our computers using ZOOM!  We loved seeing all who were there!  Vicki did take a minute to report on Cozy & Kirena!  Both are doing great!   Kirena has reached 33 weeks in her pregancy which is great!

We would suggest doing a group Family council mtg once a month over Zoom for those who can make it. Maybe we could rotate which of the five of our kids would be in charge that night to provide the prayers and a thought to share then spend the remain of the time sharing whats going on in each family. Keep it to an hour. We would always be the presenter for the Zoom mtg. So nice too SEE & HEAR everyone this way! ! Whats your feelings?  Suggest a night for it too?

We have done Zoom FH trg meetings with people in Moorcroft, Cody, Belgrade & Sheridan!  We live in an age of amazing technology -  being used for both good & bad!

Saturday aft we traveled to Sheridan, over the mountain, it was a beautiful fall day!  Spent the night there at Workman's then early this a.m.  went to Gillette.  Spoke in two wards there & also met with the Stake President! Several shared some special FH experiences after meetings which they had had!  What a blessing it is for each of us to find a loved one, get to know them & perform the sacred ordinances for them!

We encourage all to process some hints, index or add a memory each day since FH should be personal worship just like our daily prayers and scripture study!

Dads been scouting for deer since the season is open here until Dec 1st. Not alot around but some nice ones coming into the orchard and field. We enjoy eating the venison!  We have a deer mice infestation in the shop now and have trapped 16 last week. Sure nice to have warmer drier harvesting weather for the farmers. 

Love you all & CTR    Mom & Dad

What an amazing week! A busy one but oh so nice!

Dearest Family,

What an amazing week!   A busy one but oh so nice!  

     Dad & Darece cut plants in the pond one day,  then he has been very busy winterizing, cleaning up, blowing out water lines, final fall mowing of lawns & oh so many other thngs, & I am not any help!  Our little garden, 4 tomato plants & 4 g peppers, yielded oh so many beautiful tomatoes, he picked abt 5 gallons which will ripen in the next few weeks. An the grapes are super sweet, I've done a batch for jelly, Michelle & Rob picked on Saturday & Darece plans to pick next week!

     Darece & I had a special day in the temple on Tuesday - We enjoy helping in the laundry so much, doing a little shopping before & after!  Dad & I were there again on Thursday, did an endowment session then I attended a meeting with Donald L Hallstrom. He was there prior to coming to our Stake conference this weekend. He met in individual meetings all afternoon with various groups, I was invited to the one for volunteers (laundry, office, housekeeping, etc)

Had some great times on Zoom web trg mtg with 6-8 people, kept us hopping!

Our Stake Conference was amazing!  President Tom Newman, Counselors Willie Bridges (1) & Michael Jones (2) - what a great team this will be for the Lord! So grateful for all the service given by the past presidency! ! ! !  We know what is required to serve there.

Elder Hallstrom talked of Reverence defining it as Reverencing & a profound love for Deity! How we speak, what we hear & do and how we relate to others. He talked about how we learn reverence thru three different  form of worship.

1.  Public Worship- that would be everything we do at church on the sabbath day.  2. Family Worship - If we are to busy doing good things to do the essential, FHE, Scripture Study, family prayer then we need to evaluate our life. Home is where the spiritual base is planted for our families. 3. Personal Worship - we need to feel the spirit daily in our lives! 

 It gave me much to think about!

CTR & have a great week  Love to all!

It has been an amazing few weeks!

Dearest Family

It has been an amazing few weeks!  Lets see - there have been a few Birthday's:  Happy Birthday to Krysta & Josh on Sept 20th & September 30th!  Happy 2nd Birthday to Neil also on September 30th, Saturday. Happy Birthday, Choc, on September 23!  Hope you all had a wonderful day!!!

September 22, Friday, we traveled to Sheridan!  Spent the night there & enjoyed time with 4 TFHConsultants. Had a great time with them.  On Saturday, we traveled to Gillette - got to spend time with the Fike's. All of them were there except Symphony who was playing volleyball in Casper!  Ky was playing in the State Tennis Tournament!  He & his partner, Ben Graeff are the state #1 Doubles Champs !!!! Congratulations! 

On Sunday, September 24, we were in the Gillette 1st & 2nd wards.  In the afternoon at 3:00 - 5 p.m. we did another training with TFHConsultants!  then traveled back to Sheridan to spend the night!  Had a wonderful weekend, returning home on Monday!   The whole weekend was rainy & snowy in the mountains. We appreciate the Turnbull and Workman families for bunking us! 

Last week & this one have been great with lots of  ZOOM trainings!  Darece & I did go to Billings on the 19th to help in the Temple!  Nice day!  I did visit Dr Bart Grant who xrayed by hip - the one which I have had a catch in for the past several months!  Also talked to Dr. Fike.  The consensus is  - there is no cartilage left in it! - no wonder it acts up!

Many of you may have heard the talk of Bro Waddell on Sunday afternoon where he talked about Hyrum Smith Shumway. Dad & I would like to share our experiences with Bro Smith Shumway, as we knew him. Our experiences were at the University of Wyoming & include Rob, Vicki, & Darece.   Our first experience was when he was serving as a Bishop in Cheyenne & we were serving on the Stake Sun School board & visited his ward.  Dad served as an AV specialist & I encouraged people to use the Instructor, a church publication. Rob was a baby. Our second experience was also in Laramie when Dad was serving in a Bishopric. In those days, we attended Sun School in the a.m & in the afternoon Sacrament Meeting.  It was the practice, when a member of the High Council visited the ward from out of town, whoever was conducting that day invited him to their home for lunch.  Bro Shumway visited out home several times for lunch.  While I was finishing lunch preparations or cleaning up, he entertained Rob, Vicki & Darece who were abt 3, 4 & 5 years old.  He entertained them by doing magic tricks & helping them write their names in braille. Do any of you remember that?

This weekend has been wonderful!  We are so blessed to watch General Conference right here in our own home! Next weekend will be our stake conference and a change in the stake presidency. Elder Hallstrom of the 70 and Elder Hintze, an area 70 will be here.. Rob and Ken both HC man will get to be interviewed by these two brethren on Sat morning as they search for the Lord's choice as Stake President. I've had this experience a few times and its a wonderful spiritual experience! I came away knowing the Lord was in charge of this work! We're excited to sustain the new presidency!   

Thought I send you a touch of Fall - Love to all of you!!!     Mom & Dad

Sept 17, 2017
Happy Birthday to Rhonda Croft, today September 17, & to Krystina on Wednesday, September 20!    Have a great day girls!Happy Belated Birthday, Darece on September 4, & a Happy 5th Anniversary to Micah & Kirena on September 8th

As I have reviewed my notes I can't believe that the last letter I wrote was on August 27th!   There has been so much going on - but most of it all of you know about!  Congratulations  to Nathan & Bri, they were married September 2 in the Oakland temple  and to Whitney & Choc who were married September 15 in the Sta!r Valley Temple!   It has been a busy time in the Grant home!    Then yesterday, September 16, their reception was held here.  We all had a wonderful time!    

Dad & I had a great time on Saturday with some great visitors,   Allen, Amber & their family and Chalin spent the day with us.  Also Cheyenne & Tchae had dinner with us before going to the reception. So very wonderful to see Chalin!  He had an eventful trip home traveling around Hurricane Irma.   Nathan & Bri also had an interesting return home from their honey moon because of Irma!

Over the past three weeks we have visited the Sundance & Wright Branches!  We love these little branches & the wonderful Saints that do so very much!   We also were able to attend a Cross Country running event in Sheridan and watch Melvin & Ira run!  They are troopers - those 2 mile races look like torture to me!  

We have done alot of Zoom FH trg mtgs over these weeks and that gives us more opportunities to help leaders and families learn the new FH processes!  Zoom works so well for this!  We discussed with Chalin how we could do an all family - FHE soon with him via Zoom into each of our homes. We will keep you posted. Will a Monday evening be best??

Dad and I have been able to do more boat fishing this fall and some good catching too. We had three catfish on two poles  one morning and that was a task to get them all landed. Each time we go its so beautiful to be out together!  We enjoy eating the fish of different kinds.

Love you all Mom and Dad

We have had a great week - an at home week & weekend!

September 3, 2017

Dearest Family,

 Happy Birthday, Darece, on Monday, September 4!  Happy 5th Anniversary to Micah & Kirena!   Congratulations to Nathan & Bri who were married on Saturday, September 2!  Here's a link to a video of them leaving the temple!  Hope it works!

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We have had a great week - an at home week & weekend!  Today we actually went to our own ward!  It was great!  Then an afternoon spent at home - sure was strange - we hardly knew what to do!   Climbed around in the tree's of a Bishop & his wife in preparation for training we will do in the coming weeks!  

We have had several trainings this week!  they are always nice!  I have spent every day quilting with wonderful ladies who come & help!  I appreciate them all so much!  I hope to finish the quilting on Monday!  then the binding will be all that is left!  It is a great feeling!

Dad has had some fun fishing days this week - Wednesday, Friday & Saturday! As he tells it:   Wednesday to pond 5 to try for Lg Mouth bass and hybrid sun fish. I used grasshoppers on a #8 Abereen hook set under a bobber 2' down. The fish were only 12 ft from shore in 2 ft of warm water. I started with two poles but soon did only one so I could keep up with the catching. I kept a dozen of the nice ones, they are great to eat!!  Friday Shane Roberts and I went back to pond 5 and were intending to use the flatboat but too much wind so we shore fished. The hybrids were just in the nibble off the grasshopper mode today so we only caught one but lots of fun trying. Sat Mom and I went to HSbend by the rock hump near the 57 mile marker. There were hundreds of fish on the sonar and we started catching as usual around 10am. We caught 5 cats and 2 carp. Mom and I had fish on the same time so she helped me land mine with one hand then she reeled in hers but it was a double, 2 catfish, one on each hook. It was a fun 1 1/2 hrs of catching in 25 ft of water with the fish on the bottom. Shane and I will be going again soon. He had to retire early due to some new health issues . . . . so it helps him deal with this new challenge! 

It was fun to go to Melvin & Ira's Cross Country Meet on Thursday afternoon at the Foster Gulch golf course. Wow there was a big group this year!  They both seemed to enjoy it!  Amber and the other children came too. Al was away on a work assignment in western Wyoming.

Vicki reported Thursday,

 Hello family. This pic is of cozy last night. We are juggling today- mr micah had some hip surgery scheduled for today. Since they were in the valley,  they took cozy to her neurologist cuz shes not keeping much down. Her MRI showed more fluid where the brain collapse is. She'll have surgery this morning to drain the fluid and micahs surgery will be around noon. Poor kirena.

From kirena-- Thursday evening, 

Cozy looks so good :) awake- in zero pain, stats are great. She found her hands and is content ;) Dr said surgery went really good- they took off 120 cc's! Imaging tomorrow, then a follow-up in four weeks.  

Vicki reported Saturday evening that all was going well in the Vehr's Family.  Kirena, Micah, & Cozy had return to Logan.  Emerson would be staying with her for a few days! 

We love you all, hope you are having a great holiday weekend!      Mom & Dad

Boy - what a busy, crazy week - a good kind of crazy!

Dearest Family,

Happy Birthday, Uncle Bill on Monday & Aunt Gaye on Thursday!  

Boy - what a busy, crazy week - a good kind of crazy!   Ryan arrived abt 7:30 a.m., fishing in the pond, fishing for one of the big ones!  He &Grandpa had fun!  Then 10:30 Gaye & Frank arrived for the day!  They had come to pick up the sheep, & also to work on Family History!  their internet is slow at their house & their Family Tree apps needed updating!  We had lunch together & a fun time working on FH. One of their devices is too old to take the new FS Tree app update so they will be getting a new one! They took the sheep home today . . . . it's been great to have the sheep clean up all our weed mess this year . . . hard to believe they ate all that dry Tansy mustard and Cheat grass.  

Then is was also Eclipse Day Aug 21  - at 11:30am  Rob, Michelle, & Ryan came out also!  We all enjoyed it together!  So very fascinating & interesting!  We were all amazed had how the temperature changed - several of us put a jacket on!  And the interesting shadows! Photo enclosed!  

Had a special time in Billings on Tuesday with Whitney at the temple! Our family was most of the small session! A nice time to practice what we preach!  And then on Wednesday the quilting began here at the house!   Had lots of special helpers this week! Next will also be a busy week!  Dad will take our RAV to get serviced for it's 42,000 mile one . . . can you believe it. So many wonderful miles in serving the people and the Lord! ! !  We love it!

We have helped several in their homes, using Zoom web trainings on the internet, visited at the Grants one evening & guess how the evening ended, helping Nathan & Bre do FH on their smart phones!  They got two names to do ordinances for next week.   Even spent one morning at the lake, a beautiful calm sunny one, with a couple of catfish to boot!

And had an amazing weekend, in Sundance Wyoming, a small branch, about 50 people in all!  These little branches are so fun!  They are amazed that we will come to them & we love it!   The spirit there was so wonderful.  Quote of the day, a young father abt 35, " I've had many people talk to me & tell be I should do FH, but  this is the first time, they actually taught me how to do it!"

This whole group including some white haired ones did really well today, all of our extra tablets were used as folks tried the apps!

Since we were so close to Devils Tower we went home that way. These Blackhills are some beautiful and unreal. The ponderosa pines and oak trees with grass every where is something else. We thought in a month when the oaks trees chg color it would be spectacular! It was fairly busy at the Park but not packed. We even made a new selfe that seemed to work better. Such an unusual rock formation with all the columns. The north side is much better looking not so much erosion from the sun and other elements. We stopped in Sheridan this evening for supper at Arby's. We saw several animals coming over the mtn, plus more smoke as we dropped in to the valley, and home by 8:30pm.

Love you all Mom and Dad

We drove to Sundance on Saturday,

Dearest Family

Happy Birthday to Micah Vehrs on August 26th!  A belated Birthday to Cheyenne Fike on August 16!  

About those anniversaries I mentioned - Bryan & Vicki celebrated 28 years on July 31 & Ken & Darece celebrated 28 years on August 18th.   Kenny & Rosie celebrated 3 years on August 14th. We enjoyed Grandma Darece & Lucy visiting that day.  She was tending while Kenny & Rosie celebrated in Billings!

We have had a wonderful week!  So great to see Ryan, Rhonda & Quinn, sure enjoyed dinner with them at Rob & Michelle's on Monday evening. Josh & Krysta were also there & it was great!   Rob, Michelle & Quinn stopped by on Thursday Morning, just to visit & play!  Then on Friday Quinn caught his first ever fish - Where?   In Grandpa's pond!  He loved it & caught quite a few of our bluegills, even several of the big guys, the ones that are bigger than Grandpa's hand!  He & Ryan had a wonderful time! Also the proud grandparents (Rob & Michelle)  & proud great grandparents!

Dad & I enjoyed the sun on Big Horn Lake one morning! Just fishing, no catching! Guess we will do our fishing at Grandpa's pond where the catching is better!

Hurray, Nathan & Bri's quilt is finished & Whitney & Choc's is on the frames & the stiching has begun!

We drove to Sundance on Saturday, lots of smoke the whole way! Other than that it was a nice drive and opportunity to do training with Pres Valdon and wife who live in Sundance but he is Pres of the Moorcroft branch. We had done our homework which TFHConsultants are supposed to do now. It makes it so your patron has quick success in getting a name for temple work.  Both were able to print out a white card for temple ordinances. We stayed the night with the Turnbulls in Gillette and will for the next few weekends.

Today was a special day in Moorcroft, Wyoming! As we were checking out the internet in the building this morning we were greated by a brother,  "Oh, you are Joy's parents!"  He was Dak's Uncle Chuck & we also visited with his Uncle Rod. 

 

The spirit was great & the people are excited about the work!  But like many of the other wards & branches just a few people are involved & the Lord wants each member to be involved!  It will come!

We've included one of the video's which we showed at Big Sky!

Love you all!