...and other Sunday activities...
What a busy, fun, entertaining Sunday we've had!
First of all, Church was AWESOME! I love going to my Sunday meetings, partaking of the Sacrament (I NEED that renewal each week), and learning the Gospel. Today Kevin got to substitute teach in Gospel Doctrine. Since he was on-call for work, I helped him prepare the lesson so I could be back up in case he got paged. Let me tell you, I said a few prayers for him NOT to get paged! Ask me to teach almost anything else in Church, but Gospel Doctrine lessons intimidate me! Kev did a great job!!!
We got home at the same time as our neighbors, Hallie and David Whiting. An across the driveway chat lead to an invitation for them to come over for dinner. The left-over stew from yesterday was a big hit! YUM! We LOVE our neighbors! We finished just in time for our Home Teachers to come by.
We have the BEST home teachers! Shane Lee and his son, Ryker are faithful and fun! We love their visits. We always talk too long and feel badly for keeping them away from home so long! But they keep coming back and we truly appreciate it!
After we wore out the Home Teachers, we jumped in the truck to go visit Mom Webster. But first we stopped to do some steer-wrangling. No, you didn't read that wrong. We wrangled a Black Angus steer on the way to visit Mom. lol Yeah, it sounds silly to me when I read it, too.
As we drove from our house towards Pioneer Crossing, one of the steers from the local herd had gotten through the fence and was munching happily on the grass on the roadside. Dumb steer! His buddies were all gathered at the fence, pushing on it to see what the big attraction was. Guess they thought the grass was greener....lol Knowing cows, it was only a matter of time before the whole herd followed our hapless steer out onto the road and got hurt. After making some inquiries to find out whose herd it was (without success), we decided to try and round him up and get him on the right side of the fence.
Kevin used the truck to keep him from running further into the street. With the help of a good samaritan who was out for a jog, I got the steer back to a section of fence that I could open. Our walking Big Mac expressed his opinion of our herding technique by lifting his tail and pooping in our general direction...ingrate! I held the fence back while our jogger-friend encouraged our wandering moo-ster to go home. Once he saw the opening in the fence, he couldn't get back to his buddies fast enough. That's gratitude for you! lol With Sir Loin of Beef back in his grassy kingdom, we moooooved on to finish our journey to visit Mom.
Mom and Ella (Mom's best friend) had just finished dinner. We got hugs and kisses then they took us back to Mom's room so we could show Mom the "goodies" we'd brought. The lotion and body-wash were quickly over shadowed by the lure of chocolate. Mom and Ella made short work of the Milky Way candy bars we brought. Before we could say "YUM", they were out the door and back to their evening TV show. Here's your hat, what's your hurry?! lol They were done visiting just that fast, and we were dismissed. We could hear them laughing and chatting as we walked back out the door. At least they're happy and they have each other for company.
We've been counseled to "make the Sabbath a delight". I'm not sure if today qualifies as "a delight", but it certainly was entertaining!
