We just can't believe how fast the weeks and months go by, but the days are quite long.  How does that work?  Here it is almost June!  We missed Bodhi's birthday, Mother's day and we will miss Casy's birthday on the 30th.  We wish we could be there for everything!!  But it won't be long.

We enjoyed a visit from Emma and Rich on a Sunday after his sister's college graduation.  It was so fun to see them and give them hugs!  We had dinner ready when they arrived after Church and then we went for a walk along the beach.  We hated to see them go - but they had a long drive ahead of them back up to San Francisco!  They are now in Maui - and oh, how we wish we were there!

We went through another transfer and had to say good-bye to Elder Reece, who had been an assistant since January.  He headed home to Canada to plant their family farm.  Here is a picture of Elder Reece, Elder Jenkins and Elder Kleinman.  We thought we would have Elder Jenkins (from Alaska) with us in the office until he went home in August, but he was needed in another area up north and we are sure he will help that area.  Now we have Elder Kleinman and Elder Lee for a while.  Elder Lee is from Lindon and Elder Kleinman from Orem.  In fact, I think that Elder Kleinman is from our old Windsor stake.  Elder Lee isn't shown in this picture.  We will have to get one of him - next time they are in the office.

Last weekend we drove to see Grandma and Papa Ruse and George.  It is always good to see them and hear what they are up to.  Papa Ruse has invested in RootsMagic to help with his geneology.  In fact, a package arrived today and thanks to his generosity, we now have the RootsMagic package.  We will have to study up the materials so we will be ready to get busy on geneology when we get home!

While we were in Riverside, we met up with Jana and Bill and visited the grave site of mama and daddy and that is always a wonderful experience.  We sure are glad that they put a bench right by them because that is how we find it!  Remember kids - to put a bench by our grave site when our time comes!  We haven't been to their cemetery since we have been on our mission and the cemetery has really grown!  That whole dirt area is now full (it is true - people are just dying to get in there) and they are continuing to build up that area where they are buried.  Every grave site had a flag on it and it was beautiful.  They say that this is the largest national cemetery - even bigger than the Arlington one in DC.  You can tell that the lack of water has had an affect - which is too bad.  Everything looks dry.

On Memorial Monday, we took the day off because there wouldn't be any mail.  Elder Ruse decided to go deep sea fishing and that I could have the day to myself!  I was a little lost and lonely, but it was a good day.  Elder Ruse loved his fishing trip and finally caught....10 fish!  He is loving his fish.  I dropped him off at 7:00 a.m. and picked him up at 4:00 p.m.  The far left picture is his boat coming in.  I took about 4 pictures of other boats because I wasn't sure which was his boat - so I deleted them.  Then when I saw him walking up the plank, I could tell by his walk that it was him.

Here is a picture of Elder Ruse and our bikes - while I take the picture.  Don't you love my bike?

On Tuesday of this week, it was Missionary Leadership Council (MLC) meetings here in this building.  On the Fridays before MLC (which is once a month), the zone leaders are to call me by 3:00 in the afternoon with their supply orders for their zones.  Then I pull their orders and box them up and put them in the hallway for each zone.  It is usually 2 good size boxes of pass along cards, DVDs, media bibles, triples, various pamphlets, etc., and however many boxes of Book of Mormons that they order.  Here are pictures of our supply room:

These pictures just show some of the shelves.  I also have to pull boxes of book of mormons depending upon how many each zone wants.  However, I ask the missionaries who come to do emails in this building on the Monday after I take the orders - which is the Monday before MLC - if they will put the boxes in the hallway for me according to zone - because the boxes are soooo heavy and it usually amounts to about 40 boxes.  The missionaries are very kind to do this, and I usually have donuts or cookies to give them.  One zone didn't have their order in to me until Tuesday morning when they came to MLC.  So, they apologized, handed the order to me and went to their meeting.  They didn't have a very big order - but they had on their list 1 box of english book of mormons, and 11 boxes of spanish book of mormons.  So, I thought, I am not going to carry these boxes all the way to the hallway, so I put them on our dolly and left them there and then they could roll it out to the car when the meetings are done - and, they won't have to load them on the dolly.  When they came to get their supplies and they saw the dolly, they said they only needed 2 boxes of the spanish book of mormons.  The "11" was actually 2 hash marks.  I couldn't believe it because I had killed my back moving those boxes.  They felt really bad and I felt "dumb".  So they put them all back for me.  Here is the picture of our spanish books of mormons:  The english ones are on the other side behind a filing cabinet.

That was the excitement for this week.