When the Cat's away, the mice will play.....

Kay went fishing in Alaska with Pete, Caleb and Ben Hardy.  I have been looking for frames for 2 posters I bought while in UT.  The Heinrich Hofmann painting is one that I had in our living room above the piano. It was on close-out in UT for 2.50 and I bought all 3. One for Janell, me in NE (Lauren all ready told me since I was not in UT she stole mine) and Rachael.  When Kay was called as Bishop, I knew that is why I bought the poster.  Now for a frame under $200.


I went to my thrift stores and guess what I saw.... some Ethan Allen chairs and a table.  They were marked 17.99 for all 6 chairs and 18.99 for the table.  I am a regular so she gave it all to me for 18.99! I didn't even try to talk her down.   The missionaries have someone who needs my old table and chairs. The new one has 2 leaves making it a table to seat 10!

 I was really looking for frames and found a  nice one...  I will give to Janell. Then I went to "hand me ups" a resale furniture store and found a beautiful frame with a ugly flower poster in it for $24. The price on the back is old and says $150.00!  Now it would probably be $250!  The mat was perfect too.

The lady at the store asked me what I was framing so I explained my husband was a Mormon Bishop, a pastor over a congregation and he, as other pastors, represented the Savior when he counseled people who were seeking spiritual guidance.  She is a Christian writer who writes cards to cheer people up.

Lopez family

 Gracie Lopez lives with her father Jose (in his 80's) and brother Antonio. Kay found out over a year ago they had a clogged drain and had the missionaries living in one of their houses on property for free. Kay offered to unclog it. Instead of being a 1 hour job, it was a 4 day job. The drain was so clogged and had turned to cement. He had to replace pipe, rip open the floor and replace the whole sub floor, floor and flooring in the bathroom. We went on several visits and I sat with Jose, talking to him and helped Kay with the building project when needed. Jose has not been to church in at least 20 years. We invited him to church. He said he believes. Stake President Bartlett is his home teacher. Fast forward. Kay was asked to look at their washer and Kay sentenced it to death. Fast forward. After visiting Betty Hall in the hospital, 

We visited them. Jose said he did not remember Bishop but he was dressed different now (suit). When we reminded them of the work he did.... they remembered. We told them Kay was the new bishop and they were honored we came to tell them. We invited them to church, they declined but we felt good about the visit. Jose took our phone number down and asked the Bishop to leave with a word of prayer.

7/27/14 The next Sunday, I noticed Kay pleased, looking back into the audience . I turned around to see what was happening and didn't see anything. Sacrament meeting ended 15 min early so Brother Fankhauser said the Bishop wanted to say something. Kay stood at the pulpit and said “just a minute” he got off the stand, walked to the very back row of the overflow and hugged Jose Lopez. HE CAME!!!! then Kay got back to the pulpit and said “I love you Brother Lopez” then he talked about scout camp and the outstanding leaders of these boys he got to know this week.