Week 16

May 7, 2017

Dear Loved Ones,

This has been a wonderful week here in Pocatello.  Spring finally arrived!! The trees are blooming, tulips are up, and thankfully the temperature is up also. Friday, we actually hit 82 degrees.  Today is a lovely 78. I am so happy that Emily made it up and was able to go to church with me this morning and meet my friends the Kunze and Shellie Elliott who teaches Primary with me.

Monday, the Wilkins, the new Housing Couple that is replacing the Balls came to work to be trained by the Balls. They are such an agreeable, pleasant couple I know we will enjoy working with them.  Tuesday after work, I signed up at Gold’s gym so I can do water aerobics with Sister Parkin. We had a great time and the exercise felt great.

Wednesday, David’s niece, Rebekah George, invited me to attend the year-end musical festival for the Charter school that her daughter, Mariah, attends.  Mariah had a solo that showed off what a lovely voice she has. It seemed so normal to have May concerts to attend. Thursday, night I was able to see the music program “Let’s Play Music”. This amazing program starts the first-year students preparing to use a keyboard by using small xylophones while they sing.   Rebekah’s daughter, Sally, was in this group and she got to play a Zephier.  Rebekah told me that my daughter, Sally, has little David in this program also. Second year students learn to play the keyboard, and third year is introduction to piano.  All through the years they are taught to sing Do Re, Me. Two of the third-year students, played original compositions that they wrote for piano, Very impressive! I wasn’t able to attend the program earlier for the preschoolers because the office was having a farewell dinner for the Balls.

The Farewell dinner for the Balls was held at Perkins Restaurant, the Balls had taken the Kunze place, so they were invited also.  After dinner, we went to the Mission Home where Sister Hancock had prepared a yummy dessert for us.  We had been asking to see the video of her time on “The Price Is Right,” so she showed it to us.  I was so afraid I was going to miss that but because we started the dinner at 4:30 I was able to stay to see the video.  Years ago (so long ago that Bob Barker was still the MC) Sister Hancock bought tickets to the show for her daughter’s 18th birthday.  Her daughter had been a big fan for many years.  So Sister Hancock and her daughter and two other members of her family went wearing matching orange tee-shirts.  She said even with tickets you had to stand in line while producers come by and to get to know everyone, you are not guaranteed a seat.  She said that she was flabbergasted when they called her name.  She had only intended to make a fun birthday for her daughter. She is such a cutie it is no wonder that she was picked.  She first played the game you guess the price of things and she won $16,000 later in the show she won a showcase that included a brand-new truck and a trip to Paris.  She said they never went to Paris but her husband got a lot of wear out of that truck.  He was bishop at the time and they took a lot of lectures about gambling when she came home-- the show gives you money for nothing. I think the $16,000 was a reward for her being a careful shopper.  I could have never matched the prices to products like she did.  The producers got their money’s worth of her being such a darling contestant.  

Well it sounds like I just played around all week.  But I did have several baptisms to report and referrals to send on.  Next week will be a spiritual high because Elder Sitati from the Seventies will be here for a mission tour. Elizabeth has told me how much she enjoyed Elder and Sister Sitati’s  visit to the San Jose Mission.

Emily and I tossed some ideas around about the reunion, tee-shirts, etc.  Please give us your input.  I did buy 45 adult tickets and 8 children’s tickets for Bandito, Thursday night at 8 o’clock.  I’m worried I don’t have enough for the Hancocks, but Marsali should get home from Africa today so she can give me a more accurate count.

Love and hugs,

Grammie

P.S. The Gospel is true!!