Happy Father's Day! (Since I didn't mention it below!)

Most of the missionaries in our zone live in Klamath Falls, which is two hours away.  But there is one set of Elders just over the border in Oregon the other direction, who are only an hour away.  They live almost as close to Betsy as we do, so they have been able to help her a lot.  She loves them, and so when THEY asked her to commit to a baptismal date, she agreed to July 2!  There are a few things that must be done first, but we hope she can make that!  Since she adores them so much she’s going to have one of them baptize her, per our suggestion!  We're so excited for her!

Since they are SUCH hard workers and SO capable and willing, we asked if there was any way these Elders could come with us to a member’s house that is an hour from Alturas, opposite their direction.  Missionaries have limited miles each month, so we drove them out.  This sister in her seventies has been widowed for a couple of years and has 60 acres in the middle of nowhere.  This Spring three men from the Branch went to help her dig out her irrigation ditch, and I visited her a couple weeks ago.  She said the men and I were the first visitors from the Church since her husband passed.  These branches that are so spread out have such struggles.

The missionaries dug post holes, Craig did weed eating and I 
cleaned inside her house.

I have been GROVELLING all over town for more singers for our choir.  There is a large church in town that has a lot of talented musicians, but we have been told from several different people that their preacher speaks weekly in his “sermons” of the evils of our Church, and NONE of them will participate or attend ANYTHING in our Church.  Our Branch had an Emergency Preparedness Fair a few years ago, and EMTs and people who work for the electric company who attend that Church wouldn’t participate.  So sad.  I loved the story I read this week of the Saints in Edmonton, Canada who held their services early on a Sunday to accommodate a Sikh Parade that passed their Chapel, so that the parade goers could use the Church's parking lot and restrooms. (https://news-ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/what-a-sikh-parade-in-edmonton-taught-latter-day-saints-about-religious-freedom)   Now THAT is Christianity!!!

I don’t care how long we live here, I can’t imagine that we will ever tire of seeing the lovely deer in our yard.  

These two were actually in the yard at the same time, but so far apart
the picture of the two together didn't work out well.