New Bishop and . . . . .

August 17, 2009

On Aug. 9th we got a new Bishop. Our new Bishop is Jeff Cox, 1st Counselor Thomas Yearsley and 2nd Counselor Jim Cotterell. It's always exciting to get a new bishop, but we really feel for the old bishop and his wife, Curtis and Torri Burtenshaw (who are good friends of ours). It's so hard to be released from a calling like that. You feel kind of empty and it's hard to stop worrying about all the people who've meant so much to you for the last 5 years. Change always comes with a new bishop. I'm looking forward to what is to come.

The last few weeks have been spent reorganizing my house. We have moved Advon out of the basement. I now have my whole family room back. It is so nice! The office upstairs now holds what is left of Advon. The Junk room is becoming the guest/sewing room. I'm making a scrapbook area in the family room. The area is all set up I just have to move the scrapbook stuff down there. I'm so excited, I hope to get it done soon so I can use it. After that I will start on the kitchen. Hopefully I'll be able to work on it a little each day. I just don't have enough energy to do too much at one time. I'm so grateful Kirsti came and helped us with the family room. She was only here one day, but I was amazed at how much she got done. She worked 10 hours straight. We had the little trailer overflowing with stuff for the dump. And my garage is full of stuff for a garage sale or DI. I'm also grateful for Torri Burtenshaw who came over and helped me clean out the Junk room. I would of never been able to do it without them.


The last 2 weekends we've helped a little bit cleaning out Rick's Moms house. It has sold and will be closing Aug. 21st. Daniel and Denett have worked so hard in not only getting to sold, but cleaning it. They have done a great job. The house looks really good. We were able to bring the rest of the things Rick gets from his Moms house. It took us two trips with the trailer to our house and one trip to the dump. I'm so glad that is done!!

Lineberry's House Aug. 6 - 8, 2009

We spent a couple days in Boise. We wanted to see Tommy's new apartment plus spend some time with my sister. We had a really fun time even though the weather was the coldest in has ever been in Boise in August. It rained most of the time. The high was 54 degrees all day at Becky's house on Friday the 7th.

We arrived just in time for dinner on Thursday the 6th. My sister is a really good cook and I love eating her food. We visited and watched a movie til bed time.

On Friday the day started out with a family breakfast. Clark, Todd and his girlfriend, Derrek and his girlfriend, Tommy and Sam, Rick and I, plus Becky and Scott were all there. It was fun meeting everyone's girlfriends and just being together as a family. Unfortunately the photo's I took of the breakfast didn't turn out so you can't see everyone. Darn! But the food was delisious and we had fun visiting.

Next we took Tom and Sam to Wahooz (a family fun center). We played arcade games for a few hours. We were hoping it would quit raining so we could play some miniture golf, but it just didn't happen. I think lazer tag was played a couple of times, plus Rick and Tommy played on the bumper boats once and yes it was raining. We grabbed some lunch and went to see Tommy and Derek's new apartment. Wow is it big!! They live in a duplex near downtown Boise. It was a nice apartment close to BSU and it cost less a month then they were paying before. I was glad to see where he lives, but he really needs to spend some time cleaning and oraganizing. I know I taught him how to clean. I don't know how Derek can stand having a messy roommate. At least Derek's cleaning was done.

We went out to Iggy's for dinner with Becky and Scott. They had never been there before. It was good food and better company and of course lots of visiting. Never too much visiting.

On Saturday we went to Emmet to a flea market. The drive was beautiful. I'd never been there before. After the flea market we went to find apricots for Becky and then got a snack. We did a lot more visiting. I love being with my sister!! I wish she lived closer. We had a early dinner so we could leave to come home. We wanted to be home by Sunday, because we are getting a new bishop.

Our drive home seemed long. We went through 2 really bad rain storms. It wasn't raining when we got home, but the weather was cool. I'm so grateful to my Mom for staying at our house and watching the dog and cats so we can go away every once and a while.

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The Rest of July...

This month a couple in our ward that went on a mission to Russia, the Carlson's, had a lady they baptized and now call their adopted daughter from Russia, Julia Kotsubchik and her 10 year old son Mark, come and spend the month with them. On the 19Th they both spoke in sacrament meeting. Julia speaks excellent English. She teaches English in Russia. First her son bore his testimony, while she translated so we could understand. Wow what an amazing young man!! Then Julia spoke and told us of her conversion and baptism. What a strong testimony she has. She is a very special person. I was amazed by them both. They are the only members in their city of about a half a million people. They had never been in a ward or even seen a ward before. It has been so fun watching them each week in the different class. My heart just went out to them. They were so overwhelmed seeing so many people in one place at the same time that have the same beliefs as they have. On Fast Sunday Aug. 2 (The last Sunday they would be here.) Julia bore her testimony in Relief Society. She said "Giving makes living more loving". I loved that statement so much I had to write it down. I don't want to forget it. She was so grateful for the sisterhood she felt in our RS meetings and just being with us each week. She was grateful for the strength she felt from each of us. She said she could now go home and know she had her Shelley 7Th Ward sisters. Then she said she would be praying for us. I was amazed by that statement, yet very grateful. I just had to go up to her afterwards and let her know I would never forget her and would be praying for her. I know she is raising one of the future church leaders of Russia. I think of her often and hope I'll be able to see her again someday.

On the 25Th I was able to go to the "Preparedness Store" in Idaho Falls and take a wheat class. I learned to make whole wheat bread (got amazing recipes), cinnamon rolls, pizza crust, bread sticks and pancakes. Everything was made with the Boshe Mixer and the pancakes were made with the blender attachment. I was amazed at how fast and easy it was. I can hardly wait to get my kitchen dejunked and reorganized so I can bring the Boshe Mixer I got from Ricks Mom. It's going to be so fun to use!!