Mother’s Day may 12 2024

 Today has been monumental as mothers days go! Started by joining Kaleys farewell on zoom!  She did great as did Sophie the youth speaker and Josh on the stand in the bishopric we could see the whole time it was great!  After the four that were there zoomed us so we could visit! Almost as good as being there(not quite).  So glad chalae Tricia and Jarilyn and families could be there! Staci joined the zoom too!  I so crave them to support each other!!  Got a text from Kassy and a card from Cam!  Love them all so much!!

We had a great week this week. We traveled home from Fairbanks in snow lots of the way so that was a bummer for calm and spring!  Tuesday morning we had a temple session with our Zone which was really nice and the afternoon at the institute with a lot of them! I mend a bit and worked on lunch for zone conference!  Cooked four crock pots of chicken for cafe rio chicken salad. Lynn mixed the spices and got them started and then I shredded all of it!

Wednesday we had to be at meeting by 8:30 so an early run to the institute to pick up all that chicken and get it to Arctic building!  We were able to attend the meetings with Elder Bragg our area President which were great!  Then helped serve and keep the tables filled for 175 missionaries! Called a mission tour so had 7 zones or so here!  The kids loved it!  We were glad to help and mix with the missionaries. After the seniors met at the institute for dinner and a visit. We brought our own food cause Friday night we were doing a steak on the grill and all 18 seniors came to that!  Larsens were comjng but a problem came up so missed!  We had a great time! Elder cox and Smith grilled steaks for all. I made cinnamon rolls for sister Courier and all brought sides. We went from 5:30 to 9:30.  Everyone enjoyed the visit.  Siste Watanobe is here replacing sis Pruit. Fun to get to know her a bit!!

This daylight all night is wierd! Feels like 6:00 and it is 10:35pm. We have to close the blackouts to feel like it is night!!  Also the aurora borialis  has been magnificent at home in Kaysville and Malad but not here! Been really cloudy so we’ve seen nothing b
ut all of Utah Arizona, Idaho and more have had a great show!!!

We did get a few other things done this week!  We went with Kuerths to the commissary on base and got the steaks. We also went to the National Cemetery on base.  It is a beautiful peaceful place! We went to lunch on base and then went to the federal building to see the earth quake movie about the quake of 1964. That was amazing!  Checking lots of things out for our kids before they come next week but also things we want to do! Love being with Kuerths and they will be gone next week at this time!  So grateful for all the missionaries we’ve met here!

Missionary work will look a little different for summer .  It will still be great!!