Happy Birthday to my wonderful husband Jeff!

Ok, I don't know why the video is on here twice, so strange. We tried our best to celebrate Jeff's birthday but schedules for our family are challenging right now.

Jeff went to work and Kylee and Jensen both had basketball games for the high school. Jensen's game was an away game, so he took the bus with the team and went out to eat with his team after his game. He was gone from 7 am until 10:30 pm yesterday. Kylee's game was a home game, so Faith and I got to go watch her play while Dallin stayed home to finish his homework. Kylee unfortunately has a cold and didn't play much.

Jeff also had a meeting until 5 pm and didn't get home until 6 pm.

Our best effort to celebrate his birthday was dinner at Applebee's after Kylee's game, without Jensen. We then came home and had his favorite dessert. Homemade Pineapple Upsidedown Cake with icecream.

Jeff says he is the envy of his office with his new mini fridge. He says his team is at the farthest end of the building away from the kitchen, so the fridge makes his life much easier. Maybe next year he will get a port a potty :)

An Update from Spencer!

{Spencer 20 years ago }

Hey mom hows it going?

Well wow... this week was SUPER intense, but it has probably been one of the greatest weeks I have had for a while. It's been pouring for the last two days! The streets were absolutely flooded this morning it was awesome haha. On top of that, our numbers were soaring! we had 4 people at church and now we have 5 baptismal dates! I knew the Lord could work a miracle in our area if we just kept strong. He has worked a great deal of miracles :). Of course they haven't just come. They have taken a lot of work and headaches haha. Luckily things are looking really up for us. We have started to teach another family (or couple) who is older named the Dias family. They are turning out to be really good! we set a baptismal date with them last week and they came to church this week! They are doing awesome. Their son, Cesar, is a convert to the church, but is less active. However, our plan is to have him come back to church (he came last week), receive the Aaronic priesthood, then baptize his parents. Pray that this works out! Another thing that's quite a miracle is Jose told us that he wanted to get baptized this week!! We worked with him quite a bit concerning prophets and why we needed them. We watched the Joseph Smith movie and as well Special Witnesses of Christ, and now he has a testimony of them. Now all we need to do is help him not drink anymore haha, but we can do that! So we gotta put everything in order for his baptism this Sunday. Last, but certainly not least we have my new family, the familia Zayes... its been really intense with them, but guess what is happening with them this Saturday?? THEY ARE GETTING MARRIED!!!! How exiting is that! It was a lot of work though. Words can't express how much work it was. We had to calm the doubts of the esposo (husband?), We had to do a lot of legal work concerning the marriage (which, by the way I had to be the translator for), we had to gather enough money to actually perform the wedding, and we had to make plans to marry them by Saturday (which, after much craziness, we found out that it was the only day the bishop could perform it). It was intense and, trust me, I don't EVER want to plan a marriage for anyone again haha, but the worth of soul is too great to ignore so we did it... whew. haha. They will be baptized next week. I'm sooo exited for them!!!!! Wow so what a week haha. Let me tell you I have been humbled by this experience. I have reached a new level of understanding concerning the grace of Christ and ill tell you what ; truly we receive His grace after ALL we can do. I have seen this time and time again. Many times I wondered to myself "Why am I not having success?? Am I working with all I've got.. where are the elect?" But I have come to realize that if the Lord just gave them to me, then what would I have learned? How appreciative would I have been for them? not too much... I am so grateful for the lessons learned... I have just grown so much training, being flushed in, and just working until I have absolutely nothing left. its been a sanctification...