Elder Schwitzer gave a talk April 2010 Conference, entitled, Developing Good Judgment and Not Judging Others.  This talk has meant a lot to us lately, as we can relate to Martha.  We are learning not to be so hard on ourselves because we aren't the "Mary" in the mission.  In his talk he talks about needing both the Mary and the Martha, and that Martha isn't just always in the "kitchen".  She does have a spiritual side which we see evident in the scriptures.  We know the mission needs someone to do the Martha work and we are happy doing that.  It has been very hard on Elder Ruse to be the "Martha", but he is getting better.  Go and read his talk as it is very good.

Here are a few more pictures.  My other blog showing the Green family visit - was too full, I guess.  It was so windy on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, that we were glad we did as much as we could on Thursday.  When we went to the beach on Saturday, Jana was with us, and the wind was sooo bad that the kite boarders had to come in because it was too windy.  At one point, one of our buckets blew all the way across the beach to the houses behind us and so when we left, I asked Nate to drive around by the houses - and there was our red bucket - just blowing around in the street!

Here are the girls at the American Girl store lunch.  They even let Ava choose a baby and then they had baby seats for the babies to sit in at the table.  Ellie had her Kit and she even got Kit's ears pierced!

We have a really nice mall in Ventura and they had a train that the kids wanted to ride in.  You can see Nate in the caboose with the kids - he had to go because Ava is under 3, but Ava didn't want him in their car, so he had to go to the blue car.  This picture was taken before Ava kicked him out.

And, here is the windy beach scene.  I can't tell you how windy and cold it was.  I sure hope the kids come back when it is warmer on the beach.  However, don't anyone come in June because apparently here in June they call it gloomy June because that is the month that is foggy all month!