Refugees

I had to laugh when Brother Kimball came into primary portraying Samuel the Lamanite.  Brother Kimball is the best!

Brother Kimball a.k.a. Samuel

Stockton and Jorja both got their temple recommends renewed after church.  We then came home and packed things up.  For Christmas our ward wanted families to sponsor a refugee family.  They had lists of families and things they needed.  Three families could sign up for each one.  We signed up with the Richs and the Andersons.  Too bad Sister Rich found out she had breast cancer days after signing up.  They still managed to collect several things and dropped them off at the Andersons.  Brother Anderson had a laptop that he didn't need anymore.  It ran really slow.  Mike spent a lot of time Saturday fixing it up.  Beds were also on the list.  We gave a set of cabin bunk beds that Glade made.  We had been saving them for Matt and Sam.  They were planning on using them, but said it would be okay to give them to the refugees.  That was nice.  I went and got new bedding and pillows for them yesterday.  Anyways, Brother Anderson has a truck and he loaded the bunked in that.  We followed them down to Salt Lake to drop the stuff off.  We had an address, but no other way to contact them to see if they were home.  Luckily the mom was home.  She has four little boys. The littlest one is one month old.  Her husband was at work when she got there.  She asked us if we could put things into the garage.  I think she was nervous having strangers just show up.  We set up the bunkbed in the garage so they could see how it fit together.  It looked like a lot of people have been dropping stuff off to them.  I'm glad so many people are willing to help.

Driving behind the bunk beds

I am glad we were able to finish that project today.  Christmas time gets so hectic.  It is nice to have one thing off of our plate.

Lessons

Both Stockton and I had lessons to teach today.  Stockton was able to work on his a bit yesterday.  I was watching kids so was unable to work on it.  Things have been so crazy that I haven't had a chance to plan my lesson yet.  I worked on it this morning and found a cute game to play. The game ended up taking longer than I thought.  I thought some of the answers were obvious, but the kids liked to look up every answer in their scriptures.  They had fun though.  Stockton said his lesson went great.  He is glad to have it over with.

Mike, Stockton, Preston and I played a game of Pandemic.  Stockton looked a little bored, but wasn't obnoxious about it.  We ended up barely winning.  Thanks to Stockton seeing a quicker way and Preston remembering a card that hadn't been played that would likely come up during Mike's turn.  Preston was so happy.

I talked to Matt and Sam today.  We have been saving one of the bunk beds from the cabin for them.  I asked them if they were serious about wanting it because if they didn't we were planning on giving them to a refugee family.  Our ward has about thirty refugee families that they are sponsoring.  They encouraged three families to sign up for each family. We signed up with the Anderson family and the Rich family.  Both the Andersons and the Richs are empty nesters.  I talked to Judy today and she asked if we knew anyone with beds.  A few days after we signed up, Marilyn Rich was diagnosed with breast cancer.  She starts chemo this Wednesday.  Yuck!  Anyways, Matt and Sam were planning on using the beds, but were willing to donate them to the refuges.  That was nice of them.  I hope the family will be okay with bunk beds.  We aren't sure if they can be used as single beds.

School starts tomorrow.  No one is ready for this vacation to be over.  It went by too fast.