Dear Family,
This has been a great week both in service and in Spiritual
experiences with good people.
Some things we have learned about the Zuni Nation:
People here like to laugh
People like good food and lots of it
People love their families
People here are kind to many people
People work hard to get enough wood to heat their home all
winter.
They give funny directions when you ask where someone
lives: the third house past the library
then past the two story one or so on.
.They like hot food with lots of spices.
Meals are served with a plate of peppers like we would add
olives or tomatoes
They are artists and make beautiful pottery and jewelry.
Their children like Halloween and candy just like ours do.
The children love to dress up.
The families eat a lot of pot luck at every event.
They have a Wellness Center where they go and exercise in
the mornings
They love dogs and have three or four of them.
A few things we don’t have:
Our grandchildren
Our children
Our close friends
My car (Is anyone driving it)
A warm house
Town that is closer than 45 minutes
Paved roads
A little about this week:
We have had some great opportunities for service such as two
days helping get wood with Brother Poway and Brother Benn.
Cleaning up a huge area , pulling weeks, pulling out trees,
raking up and using the week eater to get most of the weeks. Also pulling out a few trees that were
small. We are done and it is a good feeling
to help those people.
Instead of going visit teaching once this month with Maxine
I have gone 4 times with different sisters.
Each Sister should go to 4 houses.
Some times they do but most of the time they don’t. I love the cards Carolyn has been sending me
with a part of the message on it. I have
taken all 20 of them out to sisters.
They think they are so pretty and they display them in their homes.
We went to a Wake.
One of the members of the Branch Called us and said their friend had
died. We had just visited the Hooees
with Sister Vicente a few days before and met the father in the home of the
Branch Member. He is a wonderful man who
was coming to church. His wife and
daughter still come some of the time. He
has been offended but coming back. He
went with us to the house. He gave a Spiritual
talk at the Wake because the man who died was a less active member. He did a wonderful job and all of the other
people in the room were not members but he stood there and taught about the
Plan of Salvation and many other things.
It was an amazing experience.
We had a trunk or
treat in which about 70 people came to the church. We helped the Salt family decorate and it was
cute. The children came in costume and
had so much fun. We also ate chili made
by the members. Way too hot for me but
they don’t even need a drink of water when they eat. Great Branch activity. So different.
We move the chairs out of the room and put up tables then take them down
and have Sacrament meeting in the same room.
Wow I am getting used to this.
Elden ate his first tamales cooked in corn husks made by out
neighbor for helping her with her Ward.
He liked them a lot.
They are building a Panda Express in Gallup – just so my
grandkids know that we will soon be able to get Panda food.
We have been
helping a lady named Maria. She broke
her arm and takes care of her very old mother.
She is so grateful for any and all help.
She is coming back to church. I
know Heavenly Father helped her to be ready for this. She is a very kind person.
The Young Women are happy with their pennants they made for
their room. They are cute. I am so happy that Taylor is going to make
some things to add to the room as she works on her Honor Bee. They will love the things you are making
Taylor.
Had a fun phone call this week. Kendal was using a different phone and
calling her mom. Instead she got
us. We loved talking to that cutie. Love all the Watrins weekly updates . Amazing things happening everywhere. Cute pictures from those Johnson kids. They are so cute. Hayden we love; your answers to our
questions. Often we get one word answers
but we love them just the same. Pictures
of the three little boys are priceless – in fact any pictures are priceless.
The Spirit is strong here.
We love it and we keep so busy.
There are many people to visit and revisit. They ask us to come back and we do. Today we had a great visiting day with people
we wanted to have Visit Teaching Cards:
We stopped at Marvis, Lalios, Sister Salts, REb eccas, Sister Dykcees,
Anthony family and others. They are so
nice. We didn’t stay long but just let
them know we were thinking of them.
Heavenly Father directs the work here. You can feel the Spirit in all we get to
do. We are so blessed to be here right
now in this beautiful little Branch.
I think we are learning that there is nothing like
family. Tell everyone in your family you
love them and appreciate all they do for you – kids and adults. We are a blessed family. We miss all of you but feel the work here is
also important. Love you, Mom and Dad
Here are some photos of the weed pulling, raking and tree cutting that has been taking place.
Here are the photos of the branch Halloween trunk of treat!
Young Women worldwide in the LDS church participate in a program called Personal Progress. Sister Dattage had a leadership role prior to her mission and has a real testimony of this program. She has instilled this testimony in her daughters and grandaughters. Here is a photo of the Young Women in Zuni making banners for each value color
Purpose of Personal Progress
Personal Progress will help you strengthen your faith in and testimony of Jesus Christ as you learn His teachings and regularly apply them in your life. It will help you strengthen both your present family and your future family. It will help you prepare to make and keep sacred covenants and receive the ordinances of the temple. And it will prepare you to be a faithful, contributing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Personal Progress program uses the eight Young Women values to help you understand more fully who you are, why you are here on the earth, and what you should be doing as a daughter of God to prepare for the day you go to the temple to make sacred covenants. It will help you prepare for your future roles as a faithful woman, wife, mother, and leader in God’s kingdom. Participating in Personal Progress teaches you to make commitments, carry them out, and report your progress to a parent or leader. The patterns you establish as you work on Personal Progress—such as prayer, scripture study, service, and journal keeping—will become personal daily habits. These habits will strengthen your testimony and help you learn and improve throughout your life.
Requirements
To complete the Personal Progress program, you will need to:
- •Attend sacrament meeting regularly (where possible).
- •Live the standards in For the Strength of Youth.
- •Complete the value experiences and value project for each of the eight values.
- •Keep a personal journal.
- •Attend seminary or participate in independent study (where available).
- •Read the Book of Mormon regularly.
- •Record your testimony of the Savior Jesus Christ.
After finishing these requirements, you will be eligible to receive the Young Womanhood Recognition following a worthiness interview with your bishop or branch president.
Here is a link to the LDS.ORG page that explains the program in greater depth:
https://www.lds.org/young-women/personal-progress/overview-for-young-women
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