May 7, 2017

Mary had her first Rugby tournament last Saturday. Bless my mother who came to so many of mine. Tournaments are the worst. Mostly waiting between games... Mary loved it though, and when her games were postponed because of lightening she pulled TWO books out of her bag! 

Abe had his final soccer game and is counting down the days until summer break.

Maeser is full of self confidence and ambition. He is going to win every race, tournament or game ever played. If invited to play a board game he asks, "Who's winning?" "Ok, I'm on your team."

Scout is still enamoured with animals. We are going to the zoo in 1 hour, can't come soon enough. We went last week only to find it was closed, and it has been a nonstop conversation of the zoo's opening hours ever since. 

Moses is a climbing daredevil. He doesn't have a large vocabulary... he only says "Hi!" and "Da." But he can communicate fairly well with gibberish and grunts. So well that Scout has adopted the non-verbal communication and usually just scrunches her nose at us. It is impossible to tell if she is upset or disgusted with us half the time.

Dan is still training, daily. He told his coach he only had 10 hours a week to train so his intensity has really increased. Everything is done in intervals.

I am so glad that Derrick and Julie are here. It will be sad to leave in three weeks, but I think they'll have settled in and Julie is making friends fast. 

Just a thought from this week:

Seek after the Spirit.

Alma 18: 35 "a portion of that spirit" gave Ammon knowledge.

Alma 17:9 "... and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God..."

Alma 5:46 "... Behold I have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by this Holy Spirit..."

Alma 8:10 "... Alma labored much in Spirit, wrestling with God in might prayer..."

Have a desire for the Spirit to be with you. One of the greatest blessing will be that he will guide and teach us.