Snow!

We have been home from California for several weeks now.  The brown hills of California have stayed on my mind, as they should be the rich green of winter and they are not.  Idaho has also been struggling with much less rain and snow than normal as well.  So last fast Sunday there was a general fast for moisture.  The very next day the snow arrived here.  And the rain found California!  It feels like an answer to our prayers and I'm taking it as such.  I love the snow!  Maybe it is the California in me, but I find it beautiful and don't even mind shoveling it.  It is a fairy land here now and more snow and some rain is still expected.  I don't even mind driving in it as much as previously.  Layne bought snow tires for the car and it has made quite a difference.

I'm beginning to feel the pressure of lots to do here, much like I used to feel when we were in California.  We are working on a presentation on pornography and I have a talk to give on using the Atonement.  In addition, our singing group is rehearsing again for a series of spring concerts.  We are getting to know people here and becoming involved in activities and projects with some of them.  Sigh.  Part of me would like to hibernate and do my own projects and part of me enjoys being involved with outside stuff.  How do I find the right balance?

I have been trying to get more interested in family history.  I would like to write the stories of our ancestors and share them with family.  I'm hoping to finally partner with my sister; she finds them and I write about them.  Recently I read a statement by one of the general authorities that computers and the wonderful technological gadgets that we have now were inspired by God to promote His work and that if we use them for that, notably family history work, they are much less likely to be used for such dark stuff as pornography.  I think that is an idea worth sharing and indulging in.

So, as the time rushes by, I feel grateful for the comforts of life, for the snow, and for the warm fire that burns before me at this very minute.  Soon we will be out in the middle of the evening weather, attending another of our pornography support group meetings.  And life goes on.

                                                  Our house, in between storms.

                                      Me shoveling snow from the driveway.  Such fun!

                         On the way out of our development; thank goodness for snow tires!