It appears to me that February 10 must be a special day somewhere in the cosmos.  It was the day that A. L. Williams was founded in 1977. It also is a year since I last posted so it is probably time in the universe for me to post once again.  It has now been over two years since being called as branch president of the Spanish branch.  Still can't speak worth a darn.  Still don't understand much of anything. Despite all of that weakness, I'm still here, the branch is growing somewhat, mostly from people re-activating, and the Stake seems pleased with the love and unity that exists.

The last posts my view of the outside world was quite different.  We lived in a small rental, waiting upon the Lord to guide us to where he wanted us.  Our prayer was, from the beginning, to put us where we are needed.  The six months stay that we had imagined when we moved back from Utah had turned into a year, then two, three and four.  Finally, the right place turned up!  Now as I look out upon the outside world I see a yard that I am very excited about.  Our house was built in 1953 and the builder lived in it from then until he died.  So essentially, we are the 2nd owners.  It requires very little in the way of fixing.  We pulled up the carpet and beautiful oak hardwood floors appeared.  We seem to be doing fine getting along with just one bathroom.  The shop is too small but hopefully, I will make do.  Just last week I picked up 6 chickens for our coop.  They aren't laying (only one has appeared) because it is excessively cold and snowy.  I believe the very strange weather is do to "geoengineering". We look forward to the spring when they should start laying once again.

On January first, I was called by the branch full time elders telling me they needed to perform 4 hours of service.  It was a pretty nice day so I invited them to help me in the yard.  We cut down the Marrion Berries as they had been neglected for a long time.  In the process of pulling out one of the vines, my finger snapped and broke.  It has now been a month and 10 days and it still hurts.