Some late pics & news

Corban after water relay at Aspen Grove
Abigail getting blessed.

The kids at the BYU/ Ole Miss game with Dad. Chan opted out of pics.

Abgail gettting blessedLove these boingy curls. Mom, keep the scissors away! No, that is not my rear.

Chan and Corban hoopin it up at Aspen Grove

Chan trying to make a basket with the crazy balls

Abigail snoozin in her Albright shirt

Annali Joy

Chandler was Mr. $ bags, sharing all his gummy worms with his cousins

Everything good here. Had a great time at Aspen Grove for the Albright Reunion. Having all the fun and craziness of school. Abigail has 8 teeth now and is crawling everywhere, putting every little morsel she comes across into her mouth. Chandler is all revved up about selling gourmet popcorn for cub scouts... I guess he has more of Cody in him than I thought, because that sure isn't from me! :) He is also playing soccer, and gets really into that, scoring some goals. And he is finally enjoying piano, which we started up again. I think I had tried to start them too young, but now he is ready, and I'm going to wait to restart Annali when she's 8. We are doing the Jon Schmidt method, which is free and really amazing. Chandler is working on I Am a Child of God, his favorite. Annali is reading up a storm, and rewrote the book, Eek, There's a Mouse in the House for me as a thoughtful gift. She is right there to always help out with Abigail, and can always get her laughing. Corban is starting to sound out words. He is also my big helper in sorting laundry. As soon as the clothes are pulled out of the dryer he is on them! We all went to the temple today. It was just what I needed. Did a stake youth choir for stake conference last Sunday. It was really fun working with them. Cody is busy with work and scout stuff, but sure is a good daddy when he is home. Love you all!

Sports Day

Wednesday we had a mission sports day.  All the missionaries went to a members farm where he has a summer camp with soccer fields, basketball, etc.  They played what they call Hero Ball. I'm not sure what the rules were but there was a flag in the center that had to be captured and run to the goal line, there were soccor balls being kicked, frisbees being thrown and little socks with flour in that they threw at each other 'disabling' others so they had to leave the field until replaced.  Then we all ate tons of food.  Fun was had by all and we enjoyed watching.  Only 1 twisted ankle in the bunch.  What a fun group of guys and girls.  We're glad we are old.

Monica Boh

Let me tell you about Monica.  She is a member from Cameroon.  She was a teacher in Africa and her oldest son is a catholic priest.  She has 9 children.  She came to US to visit her nephew and they took her passport and made her their servant and babysitter.  They told her that her visa had expired and if she complained she would be put in jail.  Finally she got help from a friend and ran away.  That is about the time she met the missionaries.  She joined the Church and has been to the temple.  She was working as a nurses aid but could not continue because of an injury to her back.  She has no job now but works a few days a week cleaning houses.  She said she was a 10 in Africa (economy wise) but is a 1.5 in the USA but would  not go back because she has found the church here.  She feeds the missionaries every week (all 6 of us) and says she wants to help in any way she can.  She is quite a good cook and usually cooks traditional African food.  She told me this week that when she got her patriarchial blessing they told her she was from the tribe of Benjamin.  She loves the church.  She has become a good friend to us. 

This is a picture of Monica on the left with her daughter Adell who came from Africa to visit her.  She has not seen her in 8 years.  Adell married an African-American from Georgia who went to Africa to find a bride and now both are investigating the church in Georgia thanks to Monica. 

Hurricane

We stayed up until 1:30 Saturday night to see the hurricane. Got sleepy and went to bed.  It was really blowing.  We went to an appointment until about 5 pm and it was raining very hard and I was scared.  The Stake President cancelled church and the Elders were bummed because they had a record amount of new investigators and 1 baptism that got cancelled.  When we woke up Sunday morning it was calm but we noticed a big hole in our green tree wall.  A tree had been glown down about 30 ft from our balcony but blew down away from the apartment building.  A few doors down another tree blew down toward the building.  Hmmm... The Lord is still watching out for us.