We have been very busy this week.  We put in the tubing for Jimmy;s garden and then we prepared Mary Lou's garden.  That is me bending over.  Running a roto-tiller and laying tubing is hard on some people.  There will be enough food produced from Mary Lou's garden to feed three families.  Jimmy was a Book of Mormon referral.  We took him a book in Navajo but he said he could not read it.  We gave him the first lesson.  He left and got his sister (Mary Lou) while we were working on his garden.  She read the Book of Mormon to him.  He wants us to come back next week when his wife comes home from Pheonix.  You can see his step-daughters trailer in the back.  We are going to teach her also.  We found out that the step daughter is the former husband of a members brother.  The brother was killed some years ago in an auto accident.






This is Jimmy Homer garden.  You can see
his house in the background.  Because he had
already started the garden we just put in the
drip system and mounded the plants. The mounds
are needed to leach out the salt.

The fencing and the plants in the circle is what
they had done.  We did the upper part.  We
will take back chain link fencing for them. The
cows go right through this fencinf



Mary Lou Homer garden.  We prepared the
the upper portion and put in drip tubing.  we took
seeds back for them to plant on Wednesday

We had an interesting event yesterday.  A knock on our door and a fellow said he was having truck problems and he had cows headed for the slaughter house.  I went with him next door to some members to see if he could use their pens to rotate his load of cattle.  We talked for about 45 minutes.  Come to find out he was a member of the church and there was nothing wrong with his truck or cattle he just need to talk.  He was having trouble at home and needed someone to talk to.

 Devon will be our first convert baptism.  I spent time interviewing and explaining about baptism at the request of President Lowman (Branch President) because they thought he was eight.  Come to find out he turned nine 5 days ago.

This is Sister Hoover and her grandkids.  Devon
(the one with the A} will be baptized next week.  His mother
has had a bad experience with a tough huband and has
not been active. We are tryng to get her back into the church.

The Hoover family are  long time member.  They are just a short  ways away from a branch building that burned down many years ago and for some reason they dissolved the branch.  That caused some feelings.  The next generation has fallen away from the church.  we are working with some of the people of that generation.  She has several of her children that live within walking distance of her house.  Some are active and some not.  Lot of opportunity. 
     We have permission to start a family home evening at the church starting in two weeks.  We are going to invite a few families to start with and then increase in number. We will show videos and then teach a short lesson followed by refreshments. The branch needs to have socials to bring them together and have the meet one another so they feel comfortable with asking for simple things like a ride to church.  The Branch President told us at our Leadership Meeting on Wednesday that we know more about the members than he did.  Their Bishop Storehouse is either in St. George or Flagstaff.  We encouraged the President to use those facilities and then have someone go the the Storehouse and pickup all of the orders.  We will see what happens.