Tonight in welfare meeting we spoke about the economy and how it has a bleek outlook right now. Now I suppose there is a chance that our company could always take a nose dive, but for whatever the reason, I feel at peace. I have a feeling that even if the economy goes really bad (which I still don’t know that it is as bad as the media makes it out to be), we will still be okay. Maybe I would be more concerned if I were in the position I...

After conference I felt a great desire to serve more. I’ve been fortunate the past few nights to have the opportunity. Around 8:15 tonight I got a phone call from an elder in the ward who had recently moved in. His wife had gone to a home in West Valley to purchase a used high chair. When she was leaving her key broke off in the truck lock. So he asked if I could give him a ride out there so he could take the spare key. It was nice to be...

For family night, we drove up Milcreek canyon and hiked a short ways up a trail. It was too cold to hike very far. The boys weren’t quite dressed warm enough. On the way down the trail we started throwing leaves all over each other. Gehrig was pretty ornery up until that point. It turned to be a fun little outing.

My home teacher called me around 9:30 tonight and asked if I could come over and assist him in giving his son a priesthood blessing. I am always honored and grateful to be invited to serve in such a manner. When such occassions come up, I remember my Grandpa’s funeral. The bishop spoke and talke about how when after he died he got a call asking if he could go to my Grandma’s house and give her a blessing. He said he had just gotten...

Priesthood session of general conference was awesome tonight. I especially loved Elder Eyring’s talk – mostly because I felt the Spirit the most during his talk, but they were all great and seemed to center around the theme of bouying us up and assurring that us that as we are on the Lord’s errand we are entitled to the Lord’s help, and he will help us. During Elder Eyring’s talk he spoke about a mission president...

We went out to dinner with Lance & Kelli tonight. They wanted to take us out for saying thanks for watching Alyssa while they were delivering their baby. We went to the Mayan because we thought it would be fun for the kids. It was fun to sit and chat with them because we have never really done anything with just them. I think the kids had a ball there too.