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We are so happy to have Aliza back at home for a few days. How we all love the calm and skill she brings with her. She matches the other redheads here and is getting reacquainted with the baby boss. He is charming and demanding all in one the longer one is around him the more they see his range of emotions. Thankfully he is still amicable to new people holding him. 

The girls have a play coming up for school. Aliza was kind enough to go costume hunting for them and found exactly what they needed to look their parts. 

Livy let her magnificent hair down for us. She has a lot of wavy hair. It is thick and gorgeous. She will be playing the part of a manners or etiquette teacher. 

With pearls adjusted we think she is ready for the stage. Oh and high heels she is so excited to wear high heals. 

And on another note we had Joey on the call this week as we were receiving answers and blessings from heaven in 1.5" of rain over the weekend. Allowing for another week waiting on the dam to release water and a good nourishment pre-planting. 

Sometimes it really blows my mind that there is a potential to have 30 children or next generation in our family. Then there's the grandchildren we hope each gets to have. Wow!

We are reading the short books of scripture in the Book of Mormon those that follow Enos before King Mosiah and King Benjamin. The ones that write less and less and talk about being defenders of the people but not having much to relate about God. For most of my life I have thought well yes how does one improve on Lehi, Nephi, Jacob? But maybe they got side tracked in working to protect the people and fighting battles that they didn't know Jesus. Maybe they thought they were too stained from fighting and leading or living to be worthy of Revelation. Maybe time passed so quickly they didn't record special moments or missed them? Isn't that easy to do? To focus in the wrong direction. To entertain, or live and forget to know God, to worship him, to praise and thank Him.

The rains came Saturday night heavy and really heavy on Sunday. Months ago fellow faithful ward members shared how God had blessed them in years past. I have clung to their faith and testimony. And here on another fast Sunday God answered those prayers and sacrifice. Alma 45:1 says the people rejoiced with prayer and fasting. I told my family we should also be joyously fasting that God had heard their hard giving up of food. He saw their struggle and blessed us. That he surely does hear us when we ask. 

It is my most sincere desire that my family knows Jesus and knows they can depend on Him and His word. I am working to recommit my time and effort in paying attention, using the time we have together and being a better follower of Christ. To turn my will more to him. I still get caught up in what is happening in the current war but I'm working to be more present and more serviceable to Him or my family which sometimes I think is pretty similar. As we head into a long year of farming and new trials I hope we can see the hand of God not because we have crisis after crisis but because we pay attention to the small blessings he gives daily. Life is good and beautiful.