Friday, May 31, 2013

Memoir from Me "Plants by Mail"



This is the first time I’ve ordered plants by mail.  I was very hesitant at first because when my plants arrived they looked very dead. I bought three trees, two rose bushes, and three perennial grass bushes.  After a month of being in the dirt two of the Red Maple trees are coming to life.  The roses have always looked healthy and I only have one grass plant showing green so far.


Pink rose bush to hide ugly pipe.




First perennial grass bush.

I spend $25.00 every year for three annual grasses.  The magazine said my perennial grasses should survive our cold winters.  (we’ll see)



When the maple trees came in the mail they all looked like dead little sticks with roots on them.

#1 Red Maple Tree
 # 2 Red Maple Tree
 #3 Red Maple Tree
There’s no sign of green yet; it still looks dead.

This is what they are supposed to look like someday.
Summer


Fall


The exciting part was that the trees were only $1.00 each, Pink Roses were $3.00 each, and the grasses were also $3.00 each.
I did have to pay a $12.00 shipping fee.
So if I don’t succeed in bringing back all of the plants by mail to life, I won’t feel too disappointed.


Friday, May 24, 2013

BYU Young Dancemakers



 Julz is in the back with her mouth opened.


 Deliverance

                                                    Julz



Newsies


Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Mother’s Day







Monday, May 6, 2013


Dear Family,
This last week has been crazy! Since there are a lot of last minute missionaries who's Visas didn't go through our mission gets to house some of them so there were a lot of last minute changes to transfer instructions. I actually wasn't originally going to get Sister Pettingill! Instead I was supposed to get Sister Carrigan. I know this because the Assistants hadn't changed my transfer instructions when President had made the last minute adjustments. Because there were no other Sister Missionaries left in our Zone, I got to ride the Transfer bus with Sister Crowton all the way up to the Mandarin Building in Jacksonville that was the fulcrum of the transfer. It was kind of a long ride, since we stopped at two other places to pick up missionaries on the way up, and to drop off on the way back. I'm miss Sister Crowton :(



Oh well... Sister Pettingill and I are getting along great! She does not want to waist ANY time. Thursday was kind of a tough day since I was the only person who can plan, and we spent a lot of the time trying to tract, which we realize that we're both very bad at the CONTACT approach. That first part of the day was really awkward. Chasing after people who are walking their dogs. Makes me laugh looking back on it. But the day got better when we had dinner with the Ward Mission Leader, Brother Salmon. After dinner we went across the street to see if a potential was home (her name is M and she's a high school-er who is really into tennis - she's really good at it!). We had first met her while tracting the Town of Tioga subdivision (a very fancy neighborhood) and she was babysitting at one of the houses! Well, it was a miricle in the making because it happened that she was home, had some questions on the Book of Mormon, and loved the For Strength of Youth pamphlet!
Friday wasn't as awesome. We had two Conference Calls, one concluding our 6th week of training, and another to all of the missionaries who have Elders and Sisters in the same area (which number is increasing every transfer). On top of that was weekly planning. Sister Pettingill doesn't really know anything about the area so as we were going through I had to talk about everyone and everything and it kind of took all day till it was prime pross time. We still haven't gotten Companionship Inventory done - but we're not really worried about that. At least we got a lesson in with Charlie later that evening. The Ward Missionaries here are great! They come to Missionary Coordination Meeting on Sunday and they come with us all the time to go to lessons! Sister Chapman came with us to C's lesson.
Saturday was a day of miracles! We headed out to Newberry (an outlying town next to Gainesville that's in our area) to teach a lesson and during the course of the lesson I realized that I had forgotten my name tag!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Florida




Hello yall.
It is so nice to read all of your letters! I did get Julie's email with a few pictures attached - nice outfits Julie and Josie ;) I also got Dad's letter that was sent April 24th. I'm gonna write her again next week about another kind of bug that's coming out as it gets warmer.
I think it is ironic that it is right after I leave that yall get trees for the yard. We've never had trees. I leave and go to a place where I'm practically buried in trees, and yall get two trees. Interesting.
Well, the reason I'm writing to you on Tuesday instead of Monday is because my first transfer had ended. They call the Missionaries Monday night and tell them if they are being transferred, and give them Tuesday as a P-Day to get everything washed and packed. Wednesday they pick everyone up in transfer buses and move everyone around. Sister Crowton will be leaving me tomorrow morning. Sad day. Yesterday we met with the Relief Society President so Sister Crowton could spill out her brains about the women in the Ward that she has visited since she got here in February before she leaves. Sister Davis is the one who drove us down after I flew in and she also gave us a lot of stuff for our apartment.