Rancho Sierra Vista

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I haven’t written for months.  Sounds wierd.  Lots has gone one, but not the energy to keep up the blog.  As we have had to set our clocks forward last night, which bugs the tar out of my husband and makes me happy I can truthfully say I love this day.

The Rez blew to Colorado for two days and back to the Res for two days, needless to say everyone one is coughing and choking with all the dirt and dust flying.

Church started late but we had about forty people before sacrament meeting was over.  Short on leadership this weekend.  I led the music and did Primary.  No complaints, its the most they have let me  do this round on the Rez.  Dad took one of the Elders and went to Lukachukia and then to Chinle to turn off the heaters. He went early to turn on the heaters this morning.   Last year they remodled the building and leveled the floor, quite the project, we loved watching it take place.  The building was rededicated in June.  The people have gone all winter with no heat, and lots of complaints to the FM office.  Dad was given on Friday six or eight new thermostates to put in, with the hopes it would solve the problem.  Dad trouble shooted on Friday afternoon and evening and found that 14 of the 18 heaters weren’t working because the gas had been turned off to them, probably when they leveled the building.  The other two have switch problems and all needed to be vacuumed out from all the dirt, dust, and sheetrock stuff collected in them from the remodel.  Dad went down early this morning to jump start the ones that wouldn’t turn on, he will go back and turn them off.  Can anyone believe that a group of people would go all winter to Church in the cold and endure it without trying to find out what the problem was?  Those that stayed just kept wondering how to get the people to stay who decided to go home after Sacrament meeting.  No brainer, who would stay and freeze to death, just to say they did, except maybe missionaries, they don’t have anything else better to do with their time.

Life is good we are teaching a wonderful little family and hope to get them married so that the dad can be baptized.  The culture on the Rez is very worldly and teaching people a better way rings true, but it’s hard to change lifestyles.  Teaching is always fun.

This has been a good experience.  I only wish I had served a mission before sending my sons out.  There are so many things I had never even thought about when they went out.  I would have done so many things different for them.  I only hope they can forgive me for not really knowing what it was all about.

Enjoy the daylight, we get it on the Rez but anytime we leave the Rez we have to remember Arizona is not on fast time and we have to compensate for slow time.  Dad claims Arizona has it right, but as usual he is wrong and the longer hours of daylight  is where its at, unless of course, dad is putting in a pipeline and then I can truthfully say I prayed for the sun to go down.