I have been feeling bad because one of the VISTA Volunteers that worked in my office a few years ago, took her own life. She was a talented violinist, mother of 2 little girls and a great husband. She and her family lived in Salt Lake City and I haven't seen her for a long time. I didn't know that she was ill with a mental illness. She was in the hospital under the suicide watch. It hurts to think things were so bad for her that she would leave her little girls. I sure did love her and she was a women of many talents, intelligence and kindness. I admired her so much and I will miss her so much.

Yesterday was a very busy day. The Mondays in November the SUN Center has the Bread an Soup Dinner. There is so much to do to prepare each week we have to set up all the tables and chairs, get the posters made and out, get different volunteers to set it, set it up, serve, clean up and put all the tables and chairs up. It doesn't sound like much but it takes a lot of time and many helpers.

Yesterday we also had to put the Angel Tree up, get all the angels cut, punch holes, tied on a ribbon to get them ready to hang on the tree. Get the child Christmas wish written on. It was up to the last min for everything. Thank goodness we I got all the angels wishes done on Sat. at home. We have 25 children and each child has 5 angles on the tree. Most of my volunteers were busy with their classes, test and illness. The project leader Lynn was suppose to come and bring volunteers at 1:00 he never showed. I found out later he pulled a muscle in his neck and couldn't get up off the floor until one of his friends came and found him 5 hours later.

Everything turned out very well. We had 380 people come to the soup dinner we had so many people that we ran out of soup and bread and had to use some buns that a lady had in her car from a church dinner. We had a piano fight. I had asked two different girls to play the piano, they both showed up on the same night. The one was already playing when the other one showed up. She is from Korea and was very upset. She throw her books down and ask the girl who was playing what she was doing, she responded that she was playing the piano. That her name was on the sign for the evening. She came me and I was able to get the one playing to come next week. We had one almost fight with an old lady and one of our more bossy servers. The lady wouldn't get in the line after being told not to kindly a few times she did get in the line but when she got to the server she wouldn't take the soup saying she wonted the man to serve her, the one who was there before, which was Brad King. The service put the soup on the table and tried to go on to the next person but the lady said very loudly, " I will not take that soup", the lady ask her why and she said "It has corn in it", all the soup had corn in them, she really made a stink and finally it came out that she had and alergy to corn.

Beautiful Fall Sabath Day

Thank you dear Kathryn for assisting, no, for doing all the hard work to get me on this blog spot.

Kathryn is amazing, she can do everything. She does a scrapbook page each day, they are wonderful pages.
I also want to be like Callie, committed to a daily routine of keeping a journal. She takes a picture each day. This month she has done a special project, each day she has a theme of gratitude for blessings with pictures of what they are thankful for. She sent me a book of my visits in Michigan. I love it so much. It is a treasured gift.

I am thankful for my tremulously, beautiful, talented, wonderful,delightful, loving, kinds, inteligent daughters.

It has been a beautiful fall Sabbath Day. We had Stake Conference last evening and this morning. It was the broadcast and the messages were powerful, timely and inspired. Sister Liftter talked about her pioneer heritage from the Southern Utah Area she called them her foundation of faith. I liked that Foundation of Faith and am going to name the pioneer book I am writing "Our Pioneer Family our Foundation of Faith". Brother Cook and Brother Irving talked about having our own personal faith and testimony, how it can be developed with starting the day with meaningful prayer, listening for answers to prayer, studying the sciptures and strengthening our families, with homevening, family prayer morning and night. Brad King and President Potter and Bro Dinklmen and Rachael Powell spoke last night they did such a great job. Brad talked about being nicer in all situations, which is very needed.

Tami King invited Mary Worthen and I to come over for lunch. It was a great lunch and it was so nice to relax and just visit. I love all those dear people.
Sarah called me and we visited for a while it really helped to have someone to talk to while I was ironing my cow aprons for the Bread and Soup event tomorrow. I didn't get time to do them yesterday. I worked in the yard on the leafs for 6 hours and got 12 bags it was back breaking at least it felt that way. I picked the apples then got cleaned up and went to conference. When I got home I started on the apple sauce. I tried using the cooker on my glass top stove because I was using pint jars and felt like it wouldn't be to heavy. It worked, but I ran out of time and had to stay up until 1:00 a.m. until it was finished cooking.

At 11:45 I got a phone call, it turned out to be Rik Vasques of in Coloado, he told me some very sad new that Billy Brown had past away, he was very upset, me to. She was my VISTA volunteer a few years ago. Now she is married to Mr Brown the High School Band teacher and they have two wonderful little girls. Billy is a talented vilion player. They live in Salt Lake City. I am so upset about this. I don't know what I can do but cry. So many sad things.