Grandchildren Photos, Escondido Stake Conference, We Love This Place

Dallas's grandmother passed away so Sarah consented to tend the Golden children while Dallas and Rebecca went to the funeral.

It looks like Caroline and Jonah were happy with the arrangement!

Sarah amazed us with her get-this-many-kids-ready-for-school-by-8 a.m. skills! I trust she had the little ones leave all toy weapons at home.

Wynne looks like she's well on her way to becoming a prima ballerina.

Eli is well on his way to becoming a baseball lover like his dad.

Family fun at Lagoon for the Excell family.

What a cute little Eli Cub Scout.

It always melts my heart to see a Sunday porch photo with Jeff surrounded by his little boys.

It also always melts my heart when Sarah is surrounded by her bunch of boys.

It was breaking my heart thinking of Jeff leaving for 3 months to go back east for training for his new job. We didn't know if it would be harder on the boys to have him gone, harder on Sarah to have him gone or harder on him to be gone from his family.

Let's face it--we were all sad about it, but the inevitable was upon us and Jeff was soon gone.

It was so fun to hear about the family party held at Andy and Amanda's house. 

How sweet of Andy and Austin to take Sarah's little boys on rides around their yard. The look of pure enjoyment on the boys' faces is so cute.

I love that my brother and my nephew stepped in to do fatherly things with these little boys whose father is out of town for a while.

At the Escondido stake conference, we always get invited to have a meal with the visiting authority, the stake presidency and their wives in the high council room between meetings on Saturday.  

We went on another Monday morning walk adventure before Glen spent the rest of the day reading and answering missionaries' letters. We thought we had found a new, good trail, but it turned out to be short and we ended up walking on the street.

The short trail gave us a different view of Interstate 5 upon which we frequently drive.

We had a first trainer follow-up meeting with these trainers and their companions who have been in the mission 4 weeks. 

Former Sister Leah Patera from our mission returned to her home not too long ago sent us a photo of one of the missionaries serving in her ward in Florida.

It is Sister Gabby Todd from our home ward in Utah. I was a leader in Young Women with Gabby for many years. I was so happy they took this photo and sent it to us. Small world!!

District meetings are now called district councils. We enjoyed spending time with the Olivenhain district in their district council. I really loved the bulletin board in the room where they met.

We all can learn for ourselves about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon and if Joseph Smith was a prophet and truly saw God the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ in a grove of trees. We can pray to Heavenly Father to know the truthfulness of all things.

I can echo the words posted on the bulletin board because I have asked in prayer just like Joseph Smith did when he was questioning which church to join. His prayer was answered just as my prayer has been answered. I HAVE LEARNED FOR MYSELF.

This is Christ's true Church on the earth, restored through His chosen prophet, Joseph Smith. The Priesthood was restored. There is a living prophet on the earth today who receives revelation from the Lord. That brings me great comfort and peace.

We love our office couples--the Van Aarles and the Radfords. They put together a nice little feast for themselves as a farewell luncheon for the Radfords.

We love Southern California!! The ocean!! The flowers!! The palm trees!!

We love this place!!!!