Today a friend from our old ward came to look at our roof. He works in that industry. We have had some shingles blow off our house this summer and we wanted to get it repaired before winter. He explained how to go about fixing it ourselves for about $20, otherwise his company would charge $600 – $800 for the repair work. It was just nice to chat with him. Rachel and I both miss the people in our old...

This morning I noticed a new movie coming out that I am so excited for. It is called Invictus. It’s a story about South Africa winning the 1995 rugby world cup and how it united that nation. I can’t wait to see it! I was just thinking, it’s too bad they didn’t call it “Inzolo”. That would have sent a lot of free traffic to my site!...

We had a good day at church today. All the kids went to their classes and I got to go to mine. It was daylight savings time so we had an extra hour to sleep in, plus, being fast sunday, I didn’t have to go in so early for meetings. It was a pretty uneventful sabbath day – pretty much a day of...