Today is SUNDAY! I love Sunday! What makes this day especially great is that I am feeling well enough to go to church! (Yesterday I had to spend the day in bed, because I couldn't really even stand up!) I really enjoy going to church! I love the opportunity to partake of the Sacrament and to renew my covenants. In essence to be "reborn" and renewed. Each week I can covenant to remember our Savior Jesus Christ and work at becoming like Him. Each week I give an accounting of my works and I can see my many failings, and weaknesses. Then the great atonement comes into play and I know that the Lord will bless me as I strive to overcome. I can feel of His great love for me, and the great love He has for each one of us. I know that there is nothing I will have to endure that He won't send help to bless me thru it. I love to go to church to feel the Spirit of the saints! I go and fill my reserves so that I can make it thru the hard times. What a great blessing it is to feel the strength and the joy when the saints meet.

Friday we had a fun evening. Jacob and Tally came over and we started playing games. Then Chad & Erika Stewart, and Elijah their 2 mo old came to dinner. We had pizza for dinner and brownies and ice cream with homemade caramel sauce for dessert. It was a great evening. So nice to be able to share it with family and friends!

This Monday on the way to work Grandpa hit a deer. It was really sad. It just jumped out in front of him and he didn't have anytime to stop. Grandpa didn't get hurt, but the car got some damage. We still don't know when we are going to be able to get it fixed.

Today I wasn't feeling well so I didn't do my wii bowling this morning. Lisa Miller came over anyway and we watched some cute movies that were on the Hallmark station. It was nice to have her come and spend some time. After she left I took a long nap, and that seemed to make the chest pains go away again.

Marjie Rice sent a lasagna home with Grandpa from his High Priest Group Leadership meeting last night. It was really good and it was nice not to have to worry about fixing something when I wasn't feeling very well.

We have been very blessed this week. We were kept safe from all the storms. My heart is saddened for all those who have lost so much.

Yesterday I spent most of the day resting. I was just really tired all day. Early in the evening Jacob and Tally stopped by and we decided to go out to dinner together. I wanted to go to a restaurant in Keokuk that I heard about, but when we got there the sign said that they weren't open on Monday evenings. We ended up going to a place at the other end of Keokuk called Ogos. We had gone there before and it was really run down and dirty. We had heard things were better and they were, but we all agreed that it was one to go to when you were in a bind. We were so spoiled living in Utah and having so many wonderful places to eat. Lonestar Steakhouse in Layton, Olive Garden, Golden Corral in West Valley. My favorite Mexican restaurant closed and that was Casa Melinda's in Bountiful. Anyway to get back to my story, Lisa, Shirley and I decided to go out to lunch today. We went to The Cellar, the restaurant I wanted to go to last night. Come to find out it was open, they had just changed their hours. The food there was pretty good. I even asked if they had fry sauce, of course they had never heard of it, but they asked what was in it and made me some, and are thinking of including on the menu! We enjoyed our meal and enjoyed being able to get out and talk.

Today in Sacrament meeting one of the talks that was given was on keeping a journal. It pricked my heart because I realized how long it has been since I last wrote on my blog. So many things happen and they have not been recorded. I really need to do better.

After Sacrament meeting I came home with a friend. I was not feeling the best and so I took her up on the ride home. I said goodbye to Grandpa, and told him I hadn't brought my keys. He told me that I didn't need to worry about keys because the dining room door was unlocked. I knew that we had locked the family room because Buster was in there. So Laurel brought me home and I went to the door and it was locked! So I started thinking about how I could get in. I went to the window to see if it was unlocked, it was. Now the problem was how to get the screen out of the way and get the window to come up. I pushed on the screen and it went right up. But the window wasn't budging. I worked and worked and it finally came up. Then I climbed through. Whew! I made it. So I had an adventure on my way home to rest.