District meeting at the Reay house

Elder Nadeau loves playing with Buddy during district meeting. 

Elder Nadeau, Elder Smith and Sister Reay studying hard.  Planning our next visits with investigators.

The desert blooms

My tulips are blooming beautifully

More desert flowers.  This is a prickly pear

Wildflowers

Branding calves, May 3, 2011

I just learned how to drive the tractor so now I guess I'll have some work to do on the Ranch

We all went branding calves and the Elders wanted to have a service project helping brand.  One the left is a ward member and Elder Smith and Elder Nadeau and Elder Reay

John Sanders and some other ranch hands separating the cows and calves

This is Ravella Schmutz and her husband Ray

Elder Smith trying to get calves in the pen

Elder Nadeau getting calves in the pen

Elder Smith and Elder Reay

Elder Smith found a new baby he could pet.

May 2011

This is us missionaries at the youth conference work project.

 We had a hay fire on one of our more windy days.  The volunteer fire dept showed up but they couldn't get the pump started to pump water. 

We used our garden hoses to help put out the fire. 

Elder Nadeau and Elder did a service project at our home helping me plant some fruit trees and roses for our yard

The Elders hard at work.  Good job Elders!

This is the youth from 2 Stakes doing a work project of clean up the weeds and burning them and picking rocks to help clear a field so it can be planted

Touring around Turley well

This is Elder Smith and Elder Nadeau  They live in Panaca but come to Alamo to teach

Brent Chugg came to visit us on Mar 31,2011.  The other man on the left  is Rex Sorensen.  They came up to try to buy more property. 

The beautiful Joshua trees are in bloom.  It kind of resembles and artichoke, but opens up to a big white flower.  John says the cows will get up on their hind legs to eat them, they love them.

our newly baptized family

This is the family whose 2 daughters we helped teach so they could get baptized, Madison and Morgan

We took a sightseeing tour one day on our way to the north ranch, near Ely.  We went through the Cathedral Gorge, near Panaca, it  is beautiful

Taking the Elders on a ranch tour

Elder Smith climbed on top of this old dairy.  It is made of rocks stacked with no mortar, silly boy!  Elder Cragun on the ground.

Elder Smith

Elder Smith

Elder Smith and Elder Cragun

We're not as brave,or crazy as the elders. We keep our feet on the ground!  

Tony and I

burning the tumbleweeds

Most of the fields were covered with weeds before we got here. Tony is planting a field into alfafa.

All the weeds were piled up and burned and I'm sure the smoke went clear to Las Vegas