Thought I would show you the results of all of Larry's hard work this week.  He took three carloads of materials to Deseret Industries and filled up both of our garbage cans twice and moved several boxes into the house but we now have a two car garage again.  We have not had a left bay since Larry and I got married and he brought several things there to add to what I already had.  The results are in the picture.

Our "new " two car garage.!!!

This all started when I asked Larry if he would clean out the bottom of our closet in our bedroom for my Christmas present this year.  He is feeling better and he doesn't seem to stop.  And of course I am not complaining and he is getting his activity for Weight Watcher's  The picture below is a creation that I had in my closet all this time that Maren made for me in 4th grade.  I called her and asked her what she thought I should do with it and she suggested that I take a picture of it for posterity and throw it away so I did.

Speaking of Weight Watcher's we were really bummed this week to have both of us gain weight.  I gained 2.4 and Larry gained 0.4 so we are wondering what we have to do this week because we thought we were pretty good last week.  Hopefully it will be just a fluke.

A beautiful creation that Maren made for me about 4th Grade

We were thrilled to get our bank account back to normal this week.  Larry was able to get a haircut and get his suits cleaned and get the cars oil changed and the cars washed.  It was a huge relief.  I spent a lot of time doing mission while he was doing his errands.

Tuesday and Wednesday evening we had to teach the career workshop for LDS Employment mission.  We had a good group this week.  They were fun to teach.  We have decided that we have to practice what we preach so we are going to start networking on Monday to find us jobs.  The statistics say that if you network by calling 10 people a day and getting 2 contacts per person and have 2 face to face interviews a day that you will get a job within 30 days so we shall see.

Nathan called on Tuesday or Wednesday during the day.  It was good to talk to him.  He is getting more patient with me.

Taylor had to have an echo treatment on Thursday at Primary Children's Hospital.  From that they have determined that she has to have a heart cath on February 5th.  After that is done then they will decide when she needs to have surgery.  We hope that you will join us in Prayers and Fasting for her. She is really getting a lot of personality despite her problems.

Friday our missions collided and Larry went to staff training for the LDS Employment mission and I did my familysearch support mission.  There is a real need for more missionaries in FamilySearch Support they had several missionaries on that afternoon but there was a wait and few missionaries ready to take a call.  I took several right together because calls had waited 5 or more minutes .  Then it took me until 6:30 p.m. to finish writing up the cases.

Maren called and told me she was trying to pack and have a birthday party for Brinlie before they left Saturday morning.  She is brave.  She said that they were going to take a picture of the group of friends that came to the party and she was going to let them decorate their frames and then they would all have a picture because most of the neighbors are getting transferred soon.  Then they bought Brinlie a karaoke machine and they were going to let the kids play with that.  Sounded fun.  Grandpa was especially excited about the karaoke machine.  They were packing to meet the in-laws in California at Disneyland. Then they will be here this next weekend for a week.

Saturday I got to teach a class on "Adding and Correcting relationships in Family Tree" at our local Family Search Center at 9:00 a.m. And then Larry and I worked again with others from 10:00-12:00.  The class went well but there was a patron who could not grasp what a gedcom was at the end so I ended up talking to her for about an hour.

We went down to Mom's Saturday afternoon.  She wanted us to help her watch some DVD's so we did.  One was about their former mission president's charity foundation to help Doctor's in third world countries learn how to deal with problems of the eye.  Then we went to get gas in her car and ate at Culver's.  It was good to talk with her but we are supposed to be working for her.  I was pleased though that she had got an alarm system that she can use to call someone if she falls or needs something during the night.  It is called Lifeline.  She has been kind of uneasy being by herself at night so I think that will help.

Well in Sunday School today the teacher said that Joseph Smith did not tell his parents about the First Vision until after Moroni came three years later, so Larry is trying to find something that says that is not true.  So far everything we thought would cover it is inconclusive so I guess we will be doing some more studying. It doesn't really matter though.  The church is still true!

Remember Temple night the 24th and Family Birthday's the 28th for Brinlie and Nathan and Maren's family will be there.