Soul food

We enjoyed the chimenea in our backyard Monday night.  Of course we made s'mores!

We took a bike ride around Anthem Saturday morning and this is what we saw.


I cleaned the toothbrush holder clay pieces yesterday.  The holey one will fit on the flat one.  It ain't pretty but it will be functional.



The fire, the bike ride, the pottery, some sewing, and watching "The Giver" on Friday and the live "Beauty and the Beast" on Saturday all fed my soul this week.  AND, we had RAIN Tuesday night.  All night!  THAT truly fed my soul.

Finally, I want to spend the rest of this blog on Elder Wall

Elder Jarek Wall is a Church Service Missionary from Phoenix who started his 18-month mission January 2nd as our mission technology expert.  He lives at home and works in the mission office Monday through Friday, 9-5:00.  He is a young man slight in stature and with obvious physical limitations but he is the BMITO (big man in the office) for sure!  He is so good with all technology.  But, not only is he good, he is patient with all the old brains around him. AND, not only that,  he is kind and self-effacing.  Whenever one of the senior missionaries praises his work, he always says "I did hardly anything".  And, no matter what he is working on, he always drops what he does to help.  It would be so easy for him to sigh and eye-roll when he is asked for yet another time to help with a computer issue that he has solved several times already but he doesn't.  He cheerfully and patiently works through the problem.  We all love Elder Wall.  And, a nerd side note - he was named for a video game character and everyone in his family has "fett" somewhere in their email address.  Isn't that just the BEST?!?!?