Dear Family
This week LaDean (Grammy's sister) gets to celebrate her birthday all by herself! How about that! She has always been spoiled though – and we love to spoil her. Hope you have a great day LaDean. The sisters lunch has been moved to Sept 25th to honor her birthday since she filled her week up this week.
Before I forget to mention it – The Hogan family I guess will be in charge of Thanksgiving dinner this year since I didn’t hear any big outcry of anyone else willing to oversee it. We weren’t able to get the Young Ward building as it was already spoken for, but I scheduled the building that is our home-ward for our dinner. I know that some prefer a home to gather in – but we don’t have a home big enough to do it, so with the church the kids can play basketball and other games. We will be contacting all of you with assignments. It would be nice if you had an idea of how many of your children would be joining us.
Also, Kathy, Emma (cousin) and I will be sponsoring a shower for Shara (cousin). Kathy recommended that since some will be traveling to join us for Thanksgiving, that we have the shower the next day so that you can still join us. I have scheduled the Young Ward building for that event. We will be notifying you of further information for time, etc. I have the building scheduled from 12:00 to 4:00, so keep your schedule open if possible for that event. We will be doing the “traditional” quilt at that time also.
We had such a nice time visiting with family members yesterday as we listened to Jenny (couisn) give an absolutely wonderful testimony at Sacrament Meeting. Actually the entire meeting was very touching. The young couple that spoke with her were so good, and the spirit was so strong throughout the meeting. It was also nice to share a wonderful lunch with everyone. I had to smile about one of Jenny’s male friends. He came in the door and glanced into the living room seeing Dad. He said, “Wow! There’s brother Israelsen. What is he doing here? Are you related to the Israelsen’s?” Jenny of course explained that her Mom was an Israelsen. The young man said, “He gave me my patriarchal blessing!” It is always a small world when you deal with the church.
Some of you have heard my story about our bathroom cleaning product called “Pretty Potty”. We have used it for years to clean the toilet, however, the lady that assists with our deep cleaning is from Peru and speaks very little English. We couldn’t get her to understand how to use it properly so it got slid to the back of my undersink cabinet. Recently, as she pulled out all the things under the sink to clean it well, she started to “chatter” in Spanish. Upon inspecting, the chemical had eaten through the plastic container in which it had been purchased, had eaten the paint off the cabinet floor and had eaten into the wood. The hot and cold pipes were disintegrating and the hinges were coroded. When we called to find out how to neutralize the products effects on the counter, we were told that everything would have to be replaced as it would continue to give off the destructive fumes. I called Ammon Dauges and he came to “fix” things. He had to cut out the square of flooring, put in an entire new floor, replace all the pipes and hinges, etc. I had him also look under Kathy’s sink and her’s had destroyed the drain pipe and the sink faucet feature, so that had to also be replaced. Soooo $600+ later, we had the mess cleaned up. I don’t think that I will be using that product any more!
Roy and Penni have chosen to move Jae from the public school system in Tri-Cities to a Catholic private school. She was having some major problems and through prayer and fasting, they found this small private school that they felt was an answer to their prayers. Jae has been competing in sports almost since she was big enough to walk, but she has especially enjoyed Volleyball was to be on the varsity team this year. The new school is very very small – I think she said around 150 students. Anyway she is on the varsity team there, and they have been winning all their games and it looks very favorable for them to be going to State. She is really excited to be on such a good team. We are hoping that this scholastic move will be a very favorable one for her. Her Bishop is also the Seminary teacher in her former school, so he is working 1-1 with her for her Seminary program. We pray that this move will truly be an answer to all our prayers. She is such a wonderful young woman and I love her so much!
We finished building 4 more planter boxes this week. That will give us a headstart in the sping instead of trying to build them then. It was fun to have Rachel’s help one day to assist with 2 of them.
Family members have been submitting the missionary letters to me and I print them all up for Dad to enjoy. Some of you have requested a copy of them also. I am going to add my sibling names to a mailing list for the missionary letters each week. If others of you want to read them also, please let me know. If the sibling group are not interested in reading all the letters, let me know and I will remove you from the mailing list. Better close for now. Love you all so much.
Carol and Kathy
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