General

Most of the leaves on our trees are still green and have not turned yet.  This is because it hasn’t been cold enough yet to make them turn.  But today the weather skipped over fall and went straight to winter, so I guess the trees are in for a shock.  My roses braved the snow and kept blooming.  Go roses!

Saturday, Sept. 27, was the General Relief Society Meeting of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  The music was furnished by a choir of sisters from the Alpine and Highland areas.  I was fortunate to be allowed to sing in the choir and it was a wonderful experience.  We have been rehearsing on Sunday evenings for the last 6 weeks.  The singing was a small part of the rehearsal time as we were expected to learn the music on our own: what we really learned was to be better people and to strengthen our testimony.  Every week the director said Aloha and gave us a gift, which was to sing a Hawaiian chant that partly says  that “You are the precious adornment worn around the neck of your ancestors.”  What a lovely thought and how wonderful for our self-esteem.

I was on TV several times and if you go to BYU TV and click on LDS Church Broadcasts.  You’ll see a separate file under there for each of the talks and the musical numbers, so you can watch the 3 numbers and see me on TV (or the internet, as it were).  Wow!