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We put our home up for sale on KSL.com on a Friday. The following Monday night, we placed 'For Sale' signs out in front. I created a blog giving all the details. The address is: http://www.mynibleyhome.blogspot.com/. We can't tolerate the long, cold and snowy Cache Valley winters. If we sold this home we'd purchase a small one in Franklin or Cache County for the summer and travel to warmer climates during the winter. We found a few possibilities. With the current economy and housing market, we're not holding our breath. We don't have to sell, so we aren't willing to 'give it away.' It would take just the right person to be interested in what we have to offer. The day after we put the signs out we got a call from a member of the temple presidency to see if we'd come back and serve as officiators. He told us to think it over and get with him later. The next day Reed received a phone call and was asked to serve as 1st counselor in the bishopric of the 8th Ward of the USU 1st Stake. He accepted. That puts a kink in our winter plans for three years! As long as we'll be around we decided to serve at the temple too. When we were in the temple president's office and were discussing the shifts that had the most urgent need, Reed casually mentioned that a shift in the middle of the day would work best with his responsibilities at USU. With that disclosure, we were told that bishops and bishop's counselors cannot work at the temple while serving in a bishopric. I was actually disappointed. (We could still move with either church job as long as we stay in the valley. This house would certainly lend itself to large gatherings better than a tiny home would) We'll be really involved and busy in the student ward...not just the regular block of meetings but a million activities, FHE at our home each Monday, Ward Prayer every Sunday night etc. Reed will have all the other regular bishopric meetings and responsibilities as well. A wife of one of the counselors said it seems like all they do is feed the students. We will meet in the 'golden toaster' building. Four wards meet in the building from 9 to 12 and four more have meetings from 1-4 p.m. Our ward is a singles ward, mostly freshman, who live in some of the dorms. 2/3's of the ward members are girls. Each school year a completely different group of students are in the ward. This is finals week and the ward will not re-convene until August.


We purchased airline tickets to go back to Palmyra and serve as volunteers at The Sacred Grove and Smith Farm during the Hill Cumorah Pageant in July.


We've been reading lots of books. We've been working a little on family history. There is so much to do but we aren't having much luck. I posted two more histories on http://www.myransomfamily.blogspot.com/. They are on Reed's line and are of Ira Ames and Ira Ames Jr. I haven't had time to proofread and edit them yet. We have a rich pioneer history. I think the histories are fascinating. Along that line, I am the new Secretary/Treasurer for the Sunflower Camp of the Cache Far South Company of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.


I've been sewing doll hospital gowns for a humanitarian project for Primary Children's Hospital. Here are what they look like:



We've been happy to have some visitors: Roger and Deon, Marsha and Ralph, Julie, Michael and Lauren.


Reed has been eating radishes from the garden. The tomatoes are growing inside the walls of water. Our corn isn't up yet. We start begonias inside and they need to be transplanted outside but it is just too cold! It is pretty pathetic when you have to wear a coat to mow the lawn between rain and snow storms in May. We have to take advantage of the good days that have been few and far between.


We are headed to Oklahoma City on the 26th. We are crossing our fingers that Jodi's baby girl doesn't come before the scheduled delivery on May 28th.


That's all for now!