Happy  Labor Day (one day late)!   Today was Fast and Testimony Sunday which I love.  In the Marshallese Branch, another sweet miracle happened......one of the members who participate in my "Daily Dose" English class stood and courageously bore her testimony all in English.  Many of the Marshallese speak much better English than they think they do because of their shyness.  What a  joy to see her standing there, head held high, expressing her love of the Savior in almost perfect English.  I love teaching those classes and try to make it as fun as possible.  They all have a delightful sense of humor once they lose some of their timidness.  "Refrigerator" has been a real challenge to learn to speak correctly.  So this week I lined everyone up and appointed them "cheerleaders".  We made the word refrigerator into a cheer/chant and put in little dance moves to go with it and laughed ourselves to hysteria.  As they were leaving the church building, I saw them swaggering down the hallway doing the "Refrigerator Cheer".  It's one of those things that you had to have been there to appreciate the experience, but it has brought me many a smile in the past few days.  John and I are really getting into "a groove" in teaching this "Strengthening Marriage and Family" course.  We teach each session 3 times a week to 3 different groups.  It's always a little challenging to team teach with anyone but initially it seemed a big challenge to teach with our spouse considering that we both have very different teaching styles. I'm happy to report that we are surviving this experience very well and are developing a true appreciation of each other's way of thinking and presenting material. We  had a wonderful weekend last week in Walnut Creek for our grandson Sam's priesthood ordination into the Aaronic Priesthood. He is developing into a very fine young man who has a wonderful, unique sense of humor and is so veeeeery smart!  What made it even more special was our surprise from Denver.  I was playing with Bea and Simon and Amy (my daughter) came in and said, "Mom, I have 2 friends I want you to meet."  I looked up and there stood Josh holding Booker (almost 3).  I, of course, starting yelling (not really yelling yelling) and crying with joy.  Booker kept gripping his Dad and trying to get as far from me as possible. :)  I haven't seen him for over a year so he was probably wondering who is this crazy old woman?  Then Jessica, Josh's wife, came around  the corner with sweet little Eloise, 5 weeks old!  What a joyous time it was!!!  Life is good and we are blessed!  How grateful I am for my membership in His church and the many opportunities to serve that we have had.  The next 6 months will probably go faster than the last 12 did.  Much more to write but out of space.  Sure love ya!!!