Yippee!  After about 3.5 weeks, it finally arrived.  Yes, we have a mission call!

 Our mission call arrived at our home address on Thursday, so we had Martha send it to us in Quartzsite overnight by UPS.  Thank you, Martha!

Here it is in our hot little hands - do we look like future missionaries?

We have been called to the South Dakota Rapid City Mission to labor in the Mormon Handcart Historic Sites - Martin Cove.

So that's the latest & greatest.

On November 1, 2013, we came back to Quartzsite, AZ to spend most of our winter months.  We discovered that our bathroom floor was spongy along with a partially tipped toilet and a warped kitchen floor that was all caused by a water leak.  Pictures just don't show the extent of the damages.

So we are careful where to put our feet &we are getting by until repairs can be made to the floor.

 The palm tree we planted last spring survived the summer & looks really good.  We've done some more yard work and even planted 2 more small palms.  We decided to put in a bubbler system across our driveway on the east side so had the backhoe here just yesterday digging a trench.

At least we are making progress in the outside projects, now if we can just get the inside taken care of.

Dad was really excited when he got a package from the Cluff's. Yum! Jerky!

We enjoy visiting with Aunt Reva & Aunt Wanda and they love to ride in the Chevy.
We'll have more exciting news to come later.