Goodby--No walking today. We are not die-hard walkers, fair weather exercise is all we do.
Alan said this picture wouldn't show the rain. Can you see the rain hit the water in the pool?
Interesting clouds early in the morning.
Hello--Alan had a good work day, closing two nice cases in one day.
Good-bye--My Aunt Sharee passed away this afternoon from esophageal cancer. She was only 73 and it has been such a short time since Uncle George died of liver and pancreatic cancer. (Rosemary sent a picture, but it isn't the kind your post on a blog.) I know she is happy now, though. She was a role model to me as a young woman and have always honored her example. I am planning on going to her funeral next week in Utah.
Hello--Tonight at Base FHE we had three new Marines home from deployment. They are all active young men. They have been out on a miew--deployed on a ship that goes many different places. Among others they said that Jordan and Kuwait weren't bad. The chaplain on the ship was LDS so they got to have services weekly while they were deployed. Here they are:
Sean Datwyler is from Provo but is going home on leave to Payson where his mom has just re-married and now he will need to get to know a new family. He was planning a big biking trip, but has broken his finger (wouldn't tell us how) and that ends the bike riding.
Chris Saunders was a very willing participant in the FHE and quite outgoing. I am told he is very active. It helps to have others in your unit that are members.
Travis Wardle is excited to go home on leave after deployment, but more excited about getting out of the marines at the end of May. We will only see him a few weeks before he is gone.
Goodbye--Seth Carlson is leaving next week for Afganistan. He is excited to go because he has been in the marines two years and never deployed. There is a stigma attached to that. He drives a big truck for the marines.
Seth doesn't really live in our ward. He lives in barracks south of ours at Las Flores off Las Pulgas. Seth comes from the island of Palau. I think he is quite active, but he attends the Carlsbad singles ward. When he found out we hold FHE on Wednesdays he works very hard to attend. He doesn't have a car so takes a bus or finds someone to give him a ride the 15 miles it is from one camp to the other. Of course, by the time we are done, no more buses go back to Las Flores. We add more than 40 minutes to our drive home.
Emily telling Seth goodby.
Hello--We had a great attendance tonight and a nice spirit present. I taught from David Bednar's talk about the things we can teach our children so we will see the warning signs in their lives. I just took out the teaching children part and applied it to our lives. It worked well, I thought.
Carolina Rodriguez, one of the YSA's who came for the first time tonight. The others slipped away before I remembered to get my camera out.
Goodby--Our committee is having a hard time doing all they have been assigned. Alan conducted as well as led the song. I brought refreshments again. Since that assignment is almost never made, I try to always bring a back-up. I know that you need to let them fail so they will be accountable, but it is the marines who lose and I can't stand to let them down.
This is Rachel Johnson. She did not want to be photographed tonight and wasn't there for pictures last week. She is the young woman committee chairman. She is dating a marine officer who is now taking missionary lessons. Rachel is from Las Vegas and also quite outgoing and a great participant. She has had this calling in the past and is very familiar with the marines and the base, which is so helpful to us.
