Calling Elder Curly

 

This week has been fast and busy and I have seen the Lord's hand a ton! There is so much I can't begin to list everything so I am going to try the highlights and lowlights method this week. 

Highs 

👍 Brother Hoffman's "beanless chilli" and hearing half of his life story including every car crash he has ever been in. 

👍Our very spirit-filled lesson with our friend Rick who only needs to stop drinking and then he is going to be baptized! We also gave him a blessing and the spirit was so strong!

👍Elder Taylor telling us all of the super niche Bible stories as well as some super deep complex doctrine. He is a dawg!

👍Elder Peck being a great comedic relief with his out of pocket sayings coming from the back seat.

👍The Hitzemans bean-full chilli and their company.

👍The Wendy's, Chipotle and Canes that we demolished throughout the week.

👍The cows mooing soooo loud last night cause they were called. There is a video on the Google photos. 

MVP: The Allens. They are dawgs in helping us out with missionary work. Too bad they are moving in January 😭

Lows 

👎 Church being canceled for the second week in a row because of the carpet. Don't worry we went to a different building, but it meant some of our friends couldn't come.

👎 The Eyers getting Scabbies so we couldn't meet with them and we had to push their baptism dates back. 

👎It being cold already, as well as the rainy days. 

LVP: The SHEETZ chili dogs. Never again. 

Spirtual thought: 

This week I studied a lot about hope. The key takeaway I have is that hope is not only being happy or positive about the future but it instead is having trust in God that everything he has promised will happen! 

This is an awesome conference talk about it. Go read or listen to it this week! https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2008/10/the-infinite-power-of-hope?lang=eng 

Elder Curly

Wordless Wednesday - Bingham Volleyball Formal

And Baby Doll's 1st date. 

Never the Same Weekend

A couple of weekends ago, Baby Doll and I had the amazing opportunity of attending Aspen Service Unit's Never The Same Weekend overnighter at Trefoil Ranch.

After waiting for 20 minutes to get through the gate, we had so much fun! They put us in charge of a game...toss the ping pong ball into the cup for a prize. Baby Doll was amazingly good at it.

We had tacos for dinnner, then we set up our rather large bed. It was nice, we slept on 2 large mattresses.

But first, we played a board game instead of taking the oxygen near the campfire.

We ate camp food (candy!), Baby Doll did a craft, and we actually slept. 

Sort of.

It was so nice to run away from home and just hang out. There were no phones and no service, so it was pretty primitive (not really). The lodge is beautiful and we had a great time.

I think...

Bumble's Drone Spooktacular and The Cat In The Hat

Yesterday, Baby Doll and I had the opportunity along with my girl scouts, and Beauty and her boys, to attend the very first Bumble's Drone Spooktacular at The Ballpark at America First Square in Daybreak! These tickets were given to us in conjunction with the new Cat In The Hat movie that is coming out on November 6th. Thank you, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation!!

This was obviously a Halloween thing. 

Now, Baby Doll has been dressing up every year since she was a few weeks old, but I don't believe I have worn an official costume since before she was born. It was a little intimidating to try to find something that would be equal to her Fates costume from Hadestown. She looked amazing! 

I figured I needed to do something totally different to make myself a believable character. Scout helped me make that happen as Bellatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. Honestly, I can't really even see myself in this person. Let me know what you think.

Back to Bumble. 

We took so many fun pics with Bumble, with Thing 1 & Thing 3 from the new Cat in the Hat movie, as well as some of the fun activities. 

We participated in the Costume Parade across the field, and we even did our own little contest of the witches with a fancy walk across the top of the dugout and a rousing witch's laugh at the end. Baby Doll won, of course. The Fates can make anything happen, I guess. ;)

We are super-excited to see the new Cat In The Hat movie! I hope you are too. Look for me in my usual mom/grandma look. Baby Doll will be beautiful, as usual.