Fun Week #41

This week started out with a Girls' Day Out for Sister Smart and her missionary Sister friends in Casper. They planned on leaving right after correlation meeting about 9:00 am.  We got a call from a ranch couple that were moving into a neighboring ranch Monday morning. They needed some help cleaning some of the house so that they could move in.  Half of us quickly  put on our jeans and headed over to clean  house.  It was really nice to help someone for part of Girls' Day Out.  The Sisters still made it to Casper by 1:00 to meet the other half of the group at Olive Garden for lunch.  We also invited the Young Sister missionaries in Casper to join us.  We had a great party!  The waiter brought Sister Smart a birthday treat.  The Sisters then went to a couple of places to shop and still made it back for FHE -- a busy, but fun day.

Birthday Cheesecake at Olive Garden

Girls' Day Out in Casper

Friday all the missionaries went to Alova to join the with the Baptists in a Valentine's dinner.  All of the missionaries sang "You are my Sunshine" to the Alcova group.  Elder Smart's music has been a great blessing to all of the winter missionaries.  He is our leader when it comes to any music and singing while we are here.  He is our music organizer and choir director.  Elder Crist played the harmonica, Elder Smart led and we all (even Sister Smart) sang.

One of the families in the Alcova Baptist Church has the last name of Smart.  Elder Smart has been doing his usual magic to find out if we are related.  Turns out we are not, but it has developed into a good friendship.  It was  a nice evening, but we got caught in a blizzard on the way back home. Thank goodness for 4 wheel drive.

Dinner in Alcova ('Elder Smart's back)

Rose Smart in Alcova

Singing at Alcova Dinner

Saturday we were asked to travel to Rawlins to do a Family History Conference training for two wards in the Rawlins Stake. We met at the Rawlins Higher Education Building where the conference was held.   The High Councelor that invited us sent us the following text after the conference. "Thank you so much. It was a huge success.  I counted 35 in attendance. You guys are great! You have a great day!"  We felt like we made some progress.  Most of the class found temple names.  We loved having like we had in our first mission.  It felt good and brought back great memories.

Outside the Conference Venue

Inside the Education Building
 at the Conference

Most of this week brother Ormsby came from Salt Lake to help get our internet connected to the fiber optic lines that were put in these past few months.  He worked hard expecting to do it in one day, but he stayed all week to accomplish the job.  The internet was working, but we are having problems with it staying up.  Hope all the glinches get worked out soon.

Brother Ormsby

Elder Crist, Brother Ormsby and Elder Bowden
Working on the Fiber Optic Hookup.

Most of the winter sisters are tieing quilts for their work day assignment.  We made and continue to make many many quilts to take to the women's shelter in Casper.

Some of the Many Quilts Made by the Sisters

This is the "Normal" Around Here

We want you to know how grateful we feel to be able to serve the Lord in this beautiful, sacred place.  We hope to have visits from our family and friends this Spring or Summer.

We want to apologize for forgetting to recognize Kaeson's birthday last week.  Chalk it up to us having a "Senior Moment"!

Happy Birthday this week to Raquel.🎂🎂🎂

Grandpa and Grandma, Mom and Dad, Elder and Sister Smart, Paul and Annie