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?