A Neat Experience

My cousin Matt is serving a mission for the LDS Church in San Jose, CA. Below is an email from a local radio show that is sent out every so often. My cousin is the elder that she mentions that asked about her lawn. Pretty neat experience for everyone involved.


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The Sheila Show
Sat. July 11th
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July 10th, 2009

Miracle of the Week! This great idea(MOW) is courtesy of my 12 year old daughter Natasha!!
Last week I told you how I was standing in my yard looking at the overgrown everything, feeling overwhelmed and asking God for help. In the next breath 2 men appeared and began to give me their spiritual sermon. I kindly listened and before I could shoo them away, one turned to me, looked around and said, "Ma am looks like you could use some help here, we'd love to help you." As I burst into tears (of gratitude and dis-belief!) they made a plan and came back the next day. They worked 2 hours pruning and raking. Here's what's happened since.

They are missionaries with the Mormon Church.They returned a few days later, this time there were 4 of them. My lot is 1/2 an acre so there's plenty to do! I brought them grape juice and watched as they weed wacked, trimmed hedges, pulled weeds and filled 2 big green cans. Yesterday, they came back again! This time (I kid you not) there were 8!! Natasha and I made them lemonade. One of the boys was no more than 10. They filled 3 green cans.(thank you neighbors) When I looked in each of their eyes to say thank you before they left, I was so filled with love and gratitude, it's hard to explain. This experience will be remembered by me as one of the most powerful, profound and wonderful miracles of my life! Never once did they want anything in return.

My dear friend Mary said to me, "You know Sheila, as much as they're helping you, maybe you're helping them."

The next time you see people neatly dressed with bibles in hand, instead of running in the house for cover, why not smile and say hello? You never know where it may lead.
With Gratitude!
Sheila
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Independence Day

I love the 4th of July. I love the good food, the heat, the fireworks, and celebrating this country. God bless America.
This year, Bryan's family came down. We had a great dinner, and we enjoyed the Stadium of Fire fireworks for free and without having to listen to all the girls scream for the Jonas Brothers.

A great holiday if I do say so myself.

Summer!

Summer has officially started! I'm so excited! I love it when Provo is all green and I get to go swimming without freezing!

Last Saturday, there was a ward activity planned down in Manti. Bryan and I couldn't go to the temple session beause we had to work, but we made it down there for dinner and the Manti Pageant. It was actually raining pretty hard until an hour before the pageant started, so the hill that was the stage was fairly slippery. I felt bad for the actors that were slipping and sliding all over the hill, but it was pretty funny. We didn't get home until after one in the morning and we had to get up for 9 o'clock church, so we were pretty tired (especially since we had gotten up at 5:30 am to go to work!).

Father's Day was uneventful, but great. We stayed at home, but called our dads to wish them a happy father's day. I am so grateful for everything that my dad and Bryan's dad have done for us.

I'm pretty excited for tonight because I am going to go out with my old roommate and have a girl's night. Girly movie, girly food, girly toenail polish. I love it!

Schools out...

School is almost over! We have about a week left, and I am so excited! I'm glad I was able to get some extra credits out of the way, but it will be nice to not worry about homework for a while. One of my last assignments for environmental health is to inspect resturants with a partner. I was really nervous, but thankfully my partner is great. She introduces us and we both get to watch the workers and talk to the manager about what we saw. In one place that we went to (I will not name it =D), we saw the assistant manager pick her nose and then touch the lids that go on the cup. Gross! Overall though, there have only been a couple minor things in each place that were a problem.

My brother got ordained an elder last week! It's crazy to think that he is going to college in the fall and leaving on a mission next spring. What happened to my little ten year old brother that followed me around everywhere?

We got a job! Bryan and I were dreading having nothing to do this summer besides working on the weekends, but now we have something to do! Someone at church remembered about us when her boss was looking for a couple people to hand out flyers. So we get to enjoy walking around in the sun while posting flyers around the county. We are so grateful for this. The Lord has truly blessed our lives.

Ward Activity

Last night we had a terrific ward activity. Our apartment complex is basically a square with a courtyard in it. Anyway, they hung and stretched a sheet across the stairwell to make a projector screen. When it got dark we put in Bedtime Stories, popped some popcorn and sat on blankets to enjoy the show. Bryan and I had a great time spending time with some of our friends in the ward and enjoyed the movie.

This week has been pretty crazy for school, and there is still a lot to do! Thankfully the term is almost over. Yay! For one of my classes, I had to create a blog about a health topic. If you feel like it, you can head on over here, check it out and comment on it.

One Year

It's hard to believe it has already been a year since Bryan and I got married. Time has flown! To celebrate, we went to see Angels and Demons in the new-ish theater and went out to dinner at PF Changs (an amazing place, if a little expensive). We wanted to go somewhere, but unfortunately money, school, etc prevented that. We had a great time hanging around here anyway. (Sorry about the word in the middle of the picture!)

Life has been good, but a little stressful. A little stress is good, right? School has been picking up and there are lots of assignments and tests. We haven't found extra work yet, but are still looking. We are lucky to have the jobs that we have. If I can't take classes this summer, I think I am going to volunteer at the hospital for a few weeks.

I'm glad summer is upon us. I am also glad that our air conditioning bill is included in our rent. =D

Happy Mother's Day!

First off, I want to say happy Mother's Day to my mother and mother-in-law as well as all of the other women that have shaped my life. Cheers to motherhood.

It has been a good weekend. We went up to see Bryan's family on friday to celebrate mother's day as well as my mother-in-law's birthday. For her present we put together a photo album with Rachel and Wendy's help. I think she liked it alot. Here is one of the pictures we found:

It was taken December of last year. Bryan is taking the picture, but he, Rachel, Olya, and Jacob helped me make the fist snowman I ever remember making. We had a good time.

We also all went to go see the new Star Trek movie this weekend. I thought that it was only going to be okay, but I really liked it. Two thumbs up.

I had to give a talk in church today. It turned out alright, though my knees were knocking together nearly the whole time. I got to speak about motherhood and how all women are mothers, even if they don't have children. Since we attend a student married ward, I hope that I helped some women feel like Mother's day is special for them too.

And now it is the beginning of the week again. I think it will be a good one. We are having FHE with some friends of our in the ward, so that will be fun. Other than that, it's school and work...ugh. At least the weather will be nice!