Fun, Funerals, Work, and Memories

 These past two weeks have been very busy mostly with personal things.  The mission continues to go on and we have been doing Enrichment Training.  We do Classes daily at 10 and 1 and have had 70 to 80 missionaries signed into WebEx to learn.  I have been training Sister Sharon Boushley (Bosley) to take over the emails and handouts when we finish on November 19.  She and her husband will be great assets to the mission.  

We had two funerals that we attended virtually due to COVID. Debra's nephew, Darren Jensen, lost his youngest daughter, Mariah 13, and son in law Austin Jenkins 27, in a tragic auto-semi accident in Idaho.  How grateful we are for the gospel and the knowledge that life goes on and we can be together again in eternal families.  Austin leaves two little girls 3 and 1 and a pregnant wife.  They were all in the car but three survived and two did not.  It has been such a shock to Sherry and Richard and all of us

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How Temple Square looked when we went on our mission in 2019

How Temple Square looked when we left it the end of August.  It is good to know that it will look beautiful again.

I have been working on refinishing our porch swing and Bob has been working on THREE plumbing leaks and issues.  Luckily two have been outside with sprinkler issues and one under the kitchen sink with the RO unit.  It really is a blessing that we are at home and caught them quickly.  It could have been a real mess if they had gone on unnoticed.  

Bob's new replaced sprinkler valves in the backyard.

Debra's stripped down swing.  Still a lot of work to go.

Bob and his "man friends" went up to Strawberry for some ATV riding.  They took the Rim road and had a great day together.  It looks like our dream of land and a cabin in Heber Arizona has hit some seemingly unsurmountable problems with Navajo County zoning.  I am trying to let it go and move on.

On top of the Rim with the ATV's

Bob with two of his Men boys.

Tom Larsen, Bob, Gary Simmons, Steve Stuart, Jerry Bodine.

BYU played their first home game last night, October 24, so Shaylin got to finally cheer at a real game.  We went to Larsen's and watched on ESPN.  We did get two quick shots of the cheerleaders and got to see a quick flash of Shaylin.  Of course, she was the cutest cheerleader there. They won Texas State 52-14.  They allowed 6,000 tickets and spread them out, social distancing as it is now called.  Heather and Jacob flew up to watch her cheer, and are now back home in Mesa.  It is nice to be able to fly to such events.

Heather with Cosmo at the BYU game, cheering on the Cougars, or was it Shaylin?  

Shaylin  Mayhew at first BYU Football game.

Flyer Shaylin, high in the sky. It is hard to see her with the bright lights behind her.

When looking for newpaper articles for Family Search.  I found this of four of us Higginson kids.  It was in the Provo Daily Herald on October 30, 1961.  59 years ago,  I remember like it was yesterday.  We felt so "famous"  our pictures in the paper.  Elder Parker, our zone leader, called this morning and said it had snowed last night.  It made me think of our October snow and Marilyn MonSNOW.

Del Ray, Rosemary, Kraig, and Debra Higginson October 1961