June 5, 2015  What a great day.   I got up at 5:00 AM, because I got to make 13 dozen + 4 cinnamon rolls for the missionaries.  I was on my feet from 5:45 AM until 2:00 PM.  They all turned out perfect.  All of the missionaries Loved them, but by the time I finished I wasn't sure if I ever wanted to see another cinnamon roll again.  Around 3:30 I ate my cinnamon roll and that was the first thing I had eaten all day.  Boy are my legs and back sore.

Our stake came up today.  They are staying in a different camp than ours, but we went down to see them.  It was so fun seeing all of our friends.  The kids as well as the leaders made us feel so good.  They invited us to have dinner with them so we did.

June 6, 2015  The weather is beautiful.  The sun is shinning with a cool breeze.  We have a youth conference in from Cedar City.  They have been fun to see and listen to.  Last night they had the woman from "Meet the Mormons" movie that talked about having two children out of wed lock.as their guest speaker.  The Balls and the Webbs went to hear her talk, but dad and I stayed home because I was hurting so much.  I slept great.

Dad's blood sugar dropped to 35 today and that wiped him out.  There is a mamma deer that comes into our camp everyday that is ready to have a baby anytime.  I can't wait to see the new fawn.

Looking forward to seeing Kim & family tonight, and Sean's, & Richy's families and Dennis tomorrow for Ethan's becoming a priest

I love you all tons.  Mom
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June 3rd on the mountain

Today was awesome.  We have loved seeing the girls and hearing them have tons of fun.  Tonight I gave the "O Women of Faith"  presentation to the Vernal Ashley stake.  I cried while giving the presentation.  I could really feel the spirit.  Dad bore his testimony.  It was great.  There was lots of hugs and high 5 after the presentation.  It really made dad and I feel good.  The girls from the stake gave us a really cute flower pot with a bouquet of candy bars.  YUM!  They invited us to dinner so we joined them and loved being there.

 June 2, 2015  We are home for P day.  I will be going to see Dr. Calton for my knee!  Boo!  I am a big coward.

I have been called to cook cinn. rolls for 156 missionaries this Friday!  We have been asking all of our kids here in Ogden & dad's sisters if we can borrow their cookie sheets, so I have enough to make all of the cinn. rolls.  Wish me luck.

We got girls as well as families.  What fun.  We put on our skit telling all of the rules.   Dad has to talk trash and is having a hard time.  He needs to get in the groove.  I tell about the wrist bands and then I put on a silly  moose hat while dad tells about the animals.  The other two couples are better at telling their rules.  When the buses came up to camp I got all choked up seeing all of the young women.  I just hope and pray that I can be an instrument in the Lord's hands in influencing some of the girls.  I want them to know that the Lord loves them.  When you go through the gates to the camp there is such a beautiful spirit, you can really feel the difference.  The camp is sacred grounds set apart for bringing the testimony of the Lord and His love for everyone that comes to the mountain.

We see tons of deer, chipmunks, ground squirrels daily and some rabbits, and moose each week.  It is so fun.  I am still in awe at the Lord's creation.  The camp has come to life with leaves and colors.

Church is wonderful.  The spirit is awesome.

I want you all to know that I know that the Lord lives and loves all of us.  We have the truth and it is our responsibility to share that knowledge with everyone we see on a daily bases.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dad Saints is the Savior's church here on the earth.  It is a guideline for us to follow showing us how to return worthy to our Father.  I love you all more than words can tell.  I pray for you all several times a day.  Be happy and keep smiling.  Love you tons.  Mom

Every 1st & 3rd Sunday we have a pot luck dinner with all of the missionaries. It is a lot of fun. We have a get together on the 4th Saturday of the month. On that day we eat and then play games. This last Saturday we had Dutch Oven dinner and then played some very fun games. First game was wrapping two people in your district with toilet tissue. I was the one that was wrapped by the ladies in the district. The next game was hitting a ping pong ball with a carrot that was hanging from a rope. You would swing the carrot between your legs and try to hit the ball until it crossed the floor to its finish line. Dad & I were the couple that played the Rudolf game which was to put Vaseline on our nose and pick up red cotton balls with our nose run to the other end of the table and shake them off into a bowl. There was a ton a laughter going on in the room. On Friday last week we were invited to dinner at a place called Timber Lake Moose Lodge. It is a big lodge that has 13 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms. It can sleep 64 people. They supplied the meat and we brought salads, potatoes & desserts. Then the kids gave us a tour of the lodge. Very beautiful. Everyday we get the privilege of seeing Gods creations. Between the animals and the scenery it is so awesome. This last week was our first time of having campers that we were in charge of. We enjoyed them, but it was hard to get them to were they needed to be on TIME. Dad said it was like herding cats! They were to be at the lake at 2:45 PM so they could be on the water from 3:00 - 4:00 PM. However they were all finally there at 3:50 PM. Luckly the lake wasn't busy so they let them stay out for their hour. Normally that will not happen. That is one thing that the camp has to stick to following a schedule. So if you are late you will miss your time at the activity. Bye for now. We love you all tons. Mom

The time has flew by and I haven't taken the time to update the blog. We are leaving in 20 minutes so I will give you a brief update. For weeks we have been going to meetings and cleaning the camp. We have made some awesome friends. May 16th was a open house for the stake camp leaders to come and check out the sites. In the morning we went to the Welcome Center and had our flag ceremony. The wind was blowing. It was icy cold with some snow falling. I got so choked up when the Young women's colors were let down. It was so spiritual. Then we went to our camps and awaited the arrival of the leaders. We had at least 100 (could have been 200) leader come to our camp. We showed them around and answered questions from 12:00 - 4:50 PM in the freezing cold weather and wind. But that got us excited for the arrival of the campers. Dad and I went to dinner with 6 couples from the camp. Sunday was awesome. Dad taught the High Priest and I heard from tons of high priest that he did a fantastic job. He of course thought that he did OK, but all of the others felt the spirit and came away feeling uplifted. Monday we had a wonderful meeting about how to do the orientation for families, because the Webb's and dad & I will be doing our first orientation on Thursday and the Balls who are the only ones who know what they are doing in camp will be on their P-day. Cross your fingers that we do ok. While driving around after the meeting we saw 3 moose, and around 20 deer. I just love seeing all of the animals. Love you all tons. Miss all of you. Mom

Weight Tracking 5/12/2015

 I missed a couple weeks so I'll give a quick run down.

Week of 4/27/2015 I was down to 369.2
Week of 5/5/2015 I was up to 371.0
Week of 5/12/2015 down to 368.4

So a little bit of a set back last week but back down today.  All told in the last 5 months I am down 33 pounds.  My Fitness Pal is only listing it as 16.6 pounds since I didn't track any weight at all last year and 387.8 is the last weight I had entered at some point 2 years ago(or more).  I still haven't started any kind of exercise regimen it has all been diet.  I do find I am getting hungry a lot lately. Maybe I need to start exercising and increasing my caloric intake.  I was hoping to get down to about 350 before I started exercising in earnest but I will have to look at it as time goes on.

Mom & Dad's Mission Log: May 5, 2015

We had to come home once again so I could post for the last week at camp. The week started off good. We went to the SL Temple as a mission, then to eat at Joseph Smith Bldg. It was good, great!!!!!

Thursday we started cleaning and meeting with our other camp hosts. Friday we cleaned some more cabins and had more meetings. Saturday we cleaned some more cabins and had more meetings. Sunday we had 3 wonderful meetings at church. The spirit was so strong. I cooked a pork roast, potatoes, carrots & onion in the crock pot. Boy was it good! I also made cinn. rolls and took them around to some of the missionaries close to our trailer.

This is the story of last Sunday which was "terrible" (see last week's post): We ran out of propane so dad ran to Walmart and purchased a bottle of propane and a couple of electric heaters. He hooked up the propane, came in plugged in the heater and sat down and put his feet up. The propane sensor started blaring over and over and over, so dad went out and shut the propane off. We thought that would stop the blaring, but it didn't. Dad had also turned the hot water heater switch to electricity. Then the breaker flipped and we had no power in the trailer. Dad's recliner was up so I helped him climb out and he went back out side and flipped the breaker. The sensor was still blaring and we were shocked. What could we do. We couldn't sleep through that noise. Dad had a smart! thought. He had also bought an electric heater and plugged it in to help heat up the trailer. It was the fumes from burning off what they put on the heater bars that were causing the sensor to go crazy. When dad sat down in his chair he put the foot stool part down and broke his computer. Needless to say Sunday night was not good. 

Monday we cleaned some more cabins and had more meetings. Tuesday we went to a meeting and cleaned some more cabins. Then we got ready and left for P-day. On the way out of the camp we stopped in at the office and picked up dad's new computer. We stopped and bought a new printer on the way home. Tomorrow will be fun getting dad's new toys up and working. I will be doing the wash and shopping for food to last the next week. I love you all. Thank you for being the best family ever. Mom