April 26th and befoe

Today has gone by fast.  We slept in until 8:00 a.m. and then read scriptures and conference talks for an hour.  We had breakfast and showered and started to dress and it was 10:25 a.m. and we were almost late for church.

It was interesting because the theme today was the restoration of the priesthood and the first speaker spoke on the Ten Commandments.  The second speaker spoke on the Aaronic Priesthood and its importance but nothing about the restoration and the Third speaker talked on how Music has affected the Restoration of the Church instead of the Priesthood and the last speaker talked about the Importance of the two priesthoods working together.  I know that I probably did not have the right spirit or it would not have bothered me that no one spoke about the restoration of the Priesthood.

It has been a hard week for me.  For some reason my hips and back and legs are acting up and my Sciatica has been bad and all I could think about today in church was how much I hurt and maybe the Lord would give me credit for just coming.

After Sacrament meeting I decided to walk around a little before Sunday School class and ended up talking to others and walking the whole time.  It did help my legs some though.

Relief Society was based on Elder Hamula talk from October General Conference about the Sacrament and the Atonement.  It is an awesome talk that helps to focus on the importance of the atonement.  At the end she had us comment on how we apply the Sacrament and Atonement in our lives and there were some very good comments but one that I liked was that the Atonement can help us to overcome the hurts that others inflict on us because of no fault of our own.

Ciecli Rose Christiansen

Last week I didn't get the picture of Cieli Rose with her eyes open in the blog so I am adding it this week.

Monday morning I went to Physical Therapy at 7:30 a.m. feeling fine.  Walking fine.  I drove a van to pick up Larry from the Van rental place and could hardly walk.  I called the PT person and they said that sometime PT can do that.  During the day I worked on office work.  Larry had 11 new cars come in that he had to pick up from Toyota so he had the assistants and moving elders help him get them to the office parking lot.

Monday was the Senior Missionary dinner that we have after the Transfers.  It was in New  Braunfels this time at the Mamacitas restaurant they have there.  I was hoping that we could get Bob and Carol Vincent to meet us there as they have moved there from Utah but they were having health issues and couldn't make it.  Nathan was invited but he did not go so it was weird to be there by ourselves.

Elder Williams, Elder Clark and his sister, Sister Clark

After the dinner we went by Nathan's and took him a dinner and got the boys Scout uniforms and books so that we would have them for Wednesday.  I asked him if we could have a key for his apartment when we were gone but he said that he wanted to see about it.

Tuesday morning we went to San Marcos to pick up a car that Larry needed to have in San Antonio from a missionary and we gave him a different one.  We had breakfast with them at Jack in the Box.  I was feeling well this morning but for some reason I was stiff in all my leg muscles so my leg is a fluke. The only exersize that I did the day before was to hold in my stomach to build up my core. Larry spent the day getting that car ready to sell to a person flying down from Utah to buy it. I again worked on paperwork.  I got in about 45 boxes of Book of Mormons but was unable to get them put away because of my legs and back.

Elder and Sister Adair- Great people from Clearfield

Sometime during the day Nathan let me know that he was not going to give me a key but that I could pick some of the kids stuff up if I wanted before he left.  I was not happy. 

Tuesday night we went to the temple for Ward Temple night at 8:00 p.m.  It was a good session.

Elder and Sister Greer- Newly weds only been married a year

Wednesday morning we went to the office and worked most of the day until it was about time to get the kids for Scouts.  It rained all day long and was really wet.  Larry went to pick up the car that he was selling from Pep Boys and it took him and hour longer that he thought so we were slow picking up the kids but it worked out okay.  We got to McDonald's and got them some food.  We didn't have time for ice cream much to Sammy's chagrin but we make it to Scouts.  As we were driving there they said they were canceling Sammy's Scouts due to the rain on Facebook.  But Isaac had his Weblos meeting anyway.  They were supposed to go to a park and do a service project but it was too wet.  Isaac's leader planned something else but the others didn't.

Elder and Sister Williams and Elder and Sister Studevant

Sara got there late because their dog Roxy got lost and they were looking for her.  They were pretty sad.  She finally brought David and traded us kids about 7:20 p.m.  They didn't find Roxy that evening and Nathan volunteered that night to go look for her the next day but then she came home all muddy and such at about 3:30 a.m.  So that was good.  She is loved by the kids and Nathan and Sara.

We were able to help two people in our ward in the Family History Center that night and were able to help them get some names in Family Search Family Tree so they could take them to the temple.

We went by Nathan's after we dropped Isaac and David off and went to the apartment to get some of the kids stuff.  We were able to get their Ipads and Sunday Clothes and some of the snorkeling equipment but I could not find any bedding so we may have to have the kids sleep at Sara's and we will take them during the day

Elder and Sister Antuar are from Australia

Thursday I was really tired because of not sleeping well so Larry let me sleep in until noon and went to the office by himself.  It felt good but I could have slept the whole day. I was also still stiff in my legs.  I went in for the afternoon and worked diligently and accomplished quite a bit.  It also rained Thursday  in fact during the night it was really thundering and lightning.

I talked to mom for awhile in the morning after I woke up.  I was good to talk to her and she gave me some good advice.  Among which was to have the young Elders and Sisters help me with my boxes that needed put away.

Thursday afternoon we had an Elder Dittmar from the missionary office to visit for a while.  It turned out that he was origninally from San Antonio and was in the same stake or ward as the Williams's so they had a good time visiting with him as well as the President.

Nathan had Honey Bishop help him with the kids on Thursday so we had a night to go home and rest.

Friday morning I went to Physical Therapy at about 7:30 a.m.  I walked out of the house fine and when I got there and got out of the car I could hardly walk my sciatica hurt so much.  They worked on my back and helped me to do some traction but I have not got feeling better all weekend. They say that my spine is out of alignment and I have two areas in the lower back that are not opening.  Plus I have the aches of Fibromyalgia so I just do not feel good.

We worked in the office on Friday and were able to accomplish a lot.  I asked the assistants to help me move the boxes and they helped me move them all.  Larry spent the day out working on getting licenses on cars and working with tiwi's. We went grocery shopping that night and went home and went to bed because he was exhausted so we went to bed at 8:45 p.m.

I think that Nathan left on Saturday morning early for Utah to stay with Marcy for a month.  I will feel better with him there because he can do a lot for himself but he is still pron to falling and such.  Kirsten said that he got there and they had dinner with her and Marcus and Amanda Hadlock so at least I know he made it okay.

It was not a good night for me.  I woke up about every hours having to go to the bathroom.  About 4:00 a.m. after laying there and not being able to go to sleep for 15 minutes I got up and read for a while and then had breakfast and took a shower and went to the hairdresser at about 6:30 a.m.  I let Larry sleep because he had been so tired the night before.  I got there and felt fine as she was doing my hair.  Then when she took me to the wax room to do my eyebrows I started getting nauseated.  By the time I got home I was shaking all over and could hardly pour me some milk to drink as I felt like that would help.  Then I went to bed.  We read scriptures for a while but I didn't feel good and kept shaking and falling asleep.  I told Larry I wanted to sleep.  So I slept for most of the day. I never threw up and I only got up to eat. I was feeling better last night but right now I do not feel good again.  So I guess this is the whining blog for the week.