Eclipse

Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse over Provo. Someone said it was like 97% here. Anyway, Amber invited us to go watch it with them, and my other visiting teacher Sister Carter volunteered her roof to watch it from! There were a few other people from the ward there as well. It was really fun and the eclipse was really cool. Amber and Matt brought over their telescope with the sun filter so we could all see it really well. I took a couple pictures through the telescope lens. Anyway, it was a fun evening.

We've been really blessed lately for being in this ward. At first we wanted to be in the married student ward, but we lived one block too far south. This ward has a lot of young families in it with like 3 or more kids so we felt like we didn't fit in for a while. We are the only couple who doesn't have kids or is expecting. And there is a new baby born at least once a month. It's crazy. This week they announced two births. Anyway, my visiting teachers, Amber and Sister Carter are wonderful, and people in this ward can teach us things. Sabrina volunteered to teach me how to sew, an older couple we went to visit a couple weeks ago do woodworking and said we could use their shop if we wanted to, and the Carter's have a beautiful garden! Seriously, it was an awesome garden, and they do canning in the fall with a lot of their garden stuff. It sounded like they grow everything they use to make their salsa. Anyway, so many of the members here are willing to teach us things. And we're finally finding our place in the ward.

Saturday we focused a lot on getting ready for our trip. Right away in the morning we borrowed our neighbor's extension cord and got our car all vacuumed out and cleaned. We went to Walmart and bought new windshield wipers and replaced our old ones, and today we're taking it in for an oil change and a tire rotation. Woohoo! Oh! I also worked on my dress and it's looking pretty good. We attached the skirt and all we have left is the zipper and the hem on the skirt! :-)