MAY 20, 2011- Friday

Merry Christmas from Heber Valley Camp!!! We just can’t believe all the snow. I know you have been getting a lot of rain in the valleys, too. We got 9” of snow yesterday and about 12” more overnight. It’s 10:30am now and just coming straight down. We have campers coming this afternoon by 2pm????? Every available body is helping clear snow from the front of the cabins, the roads. A skidster was just here trying to clear the parking lot and a snow blower clearing trails to campsites. What a crazy year this is. What stumps me is nobody is canceling their reservations. We are going to be full of Fathers and Sons. We had all the fire pits found and dug out, but now they are really covered and the wood is soaked. Happy Trails!!

We have spent the last 2 weeks getting the cabins dusted and vacuumed from mouse dropping and spider webs. Windows touched up and snow removed……………..

I’ve been asked to be the activities chairman and I have an awesome committee. Our first event will be an ATV Progressive Dinner on May 28^th, after all the campers have gone at 5pm. If the weather is bad we’ll have to run from place to place in our trucks.

I’ve been having B-12 shots , in Heber, the last 3 weeks. They are supposed to help the nerves and nervous system. I’m always willing to give things a try. Still having headaches, this Dr says they are caused from my Celiac so am eating very, very carefully. It gets pretty boring!

We are coming home for Doctor appointments on May 31^st. No prescriptions if you don’t come and see him every 6 months……ahhhhh!

We got a letter from Breckin yesterday. It was addressed to Grandma and Pa Marshall, and she signed the end of the letter…..Love, Bob (her nickname has been Breckin Bob for years)

We loved it!!!!!!

May 2, 2011-Monday

It’s a beautiful, BRIGHT ( sun shining on snow), sunshiny day. It hasn’t snowed for 2 nights!!!!! Things are melting today, Yeh!!!! We are so anxious to get into the cabins and clean and ready them for campers. A Woodbadge group is coming this Wednesday at Smith Pavillion and the men are shoveling the trails to the cabins. We have families coming on the next week at a few of the camps. We keep praying for Heavenly Father to temper the elements, and I know he will!! This is His work and all will be well.

This year’s missionaries seem so accomplished and wonderful. Elder Denkers sang in the Tabernacle Choir. Yesterday he was put in as music and choir director. That’s just one example, there are many more to discover. Out of the 64 couples here, only 22 have returned from last year. All are not on the mountain yet. There’s about 20 more trailers to get up here. We’ve been in our Camp Snow for a week.

I got called yesterday to be the activites chairman ( but now it’s Mission Social Committee) with 3 helpers. We do have a lot of fun on some Saturday nights after all the campers are gone.

Well, enough for today. I will go post this to Marci and she blog’s it for me. Thanks, Marci

Snow!

2011 NEW YEAR—NEW BLOG

Today is April 20, we have been here in Cowboy Town since April 16. I wasn’t going to do a blog this

year, but because my son Ron said he enjoyed it and I printed out last years and put them in my journal,

it seemed like a good idea. Cowboy Town is right by the rodeo grounds in Heber and also by the Heber

Creeper Terminal. There are more missionaries than last year. ( 108 last year and 126 this year.)

It has rained every day we’ve been here. There is more snow up on the mountain than last year. Earl

has been plowing and plowing trailer spots so people can move up there. A lot of the prayers have

been asking to temper the elements, so we can open up the mountain to people booked to come May

16. We have had a day of talks from our leader. Elder Donald Butler, an Area Authority Seventy, the

Manager (or Mission Pres) the YW Leaders of the Mountain. Today started training sessions. Things we

heard last year, but oh well!

April 23—Saturday

I am sitting in the truck at Camp Eliza R. Snow. This is where we will camp hosts with Elder and Sister

Gifford from Rexburg. I can get cell phone service right here at our camp, but not internet. Having cell

service will be a treat. It is snowing/raining right now and the men are trying to dig the snow away

from around the sewer and water and electrical hook-ups. The spots have been plowed for our trailers,

but everywhere else there is at least 4-5 ft of snow. This is the same camp we have reserved for our

Marshall Reunion August 5-6, 2011. Cool Coincidence!!!!!!

July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

The days are flying buy. We hit the half way mark on July 15. We are having many wonderful experiences as we work and eat with the girls and leaders. And find connections with families on the weekend. One boy went to school with Brock, my nephew. Several girls from So Jordon 5^th ward know Mason, my grandson, because they go to Bingham, too. Some from the Butler Stake know Rob and Tara and McCLearys. I’ve found out Elder Garlick is my cousin. My Dad has Garlicks’ in his family. Some know people in Richmond.

The last few weeks I’ve had a harder time. I don’t have time to regroup between groups. The girls leave on Friday mornings and the families come Friday at 2pm. We check them in and we check them out and we restock the bathrooms for each new group. Robert hauls a lot of garbage, I give lectures on Bertha Stone Reeder. We have orientation every Monday morning, which we take turns presenting with the Henrie’s, the other camp host couple. I have many pictures and I wish I could include them all. Here are just a few.

5 July 2010

Whew!! What a wild week this has been! I’ll work backwards from yesterday. The 4^th of July Sunday was 46 degrees when we went to church at the Hinckley Pavilion (outside). Until four weeks ago we were driving down to Heber to a meeting house. I went prepared this time because two weeks ago I froze with just a blanket. Snow boots, hoodie and coat, and a quilt. It wasn’t so bad that way. The breeze blows through all the pavilions. It’s the best place to be on a hot day, of which we have had only a few. Robert froze. Only wore his suit………..

We had a girl collapse on the hike to the Lake last Monday. She and a leader headed back to Camp Esther. It was a steep climb and very narrow. She collapsed again. The Security Team got there quickly and transported her on a stretcher up to Camp Esther where the ambulance met them. That was about 4pm and she died around 7pm at the Heber Valley Hospital. We are still waiting for the results of the autopsy. Brother Wright said at church yesterday that there were extenuating circumstances. We tried to keep it from the rest of the girls. We have about 2700 a week. To my knowledge we did, and the week went smoothly for them…..

Congratulations to Marci and Paul!! They just found out they are getting a boy in November.

Last week, when I was talking to Shaynna, she put Brenner on the phone, he’s two years old (by the way he loves grandpa’s tractor) He said, “Hi Gram-tractor!!!” We tried to visit for a few minutes, and then he said,” Bye, bye ,bye Gram-tractor”. What a cutie!

I miss my family, but I love serving a mission! We are almost to the half-way mark. ( Three months left)