April Newsletter

Dear Family
Here it is April 6, 2008, the real birthday of Jesus Christ. Being conference weekend, things are not as busy as they usually are. It was good to listen to conference yesterday and participate in the solemn assembly to sustain our new prophet. I can’t help but reflect back on my days in junior high when I shared a locker with Clark Monson, President Monson’s son. At the time, I remember thinking, with President Monson being so young, there was a very good chance that he would be the prophet someday. Sure enough, that happened. I enjoyed hearing President Monson’s first conference address last night at the priesthood session. I couldn’t help but think how well he will pick up where President Hinckley left off.Around our house, baseball has become all consuming. Both Shane and Bryce are playing on little league teams. Shane is on the Angels and Bryce is on the Marlins. It seems like someone has a game or practice every day. The weather has not been real great for baseball the past few weeks. They keep having to play and practice in the shivering cold. Macall has been playing basketball with the ward’s young women’s team. They did very well and took 3rd place in the region tournament. Bethany is enjoying her work at the Intermountain Medical Center in Murray. She is very interested in going into the medical profession. She works in Central Processing where they sterilize the surgical instruments. She gets all excited when they get to see blood and gore that comes down from the surgery floor. The other day she was all excited to tell about the ball joint she got to see from a knee replacement surgery that came down. Austin is enjoying his computer technology and repair class and loves to take apart and put back together computers. He worked along time on installing Windows XP on an old computer that we have. He was pretty happy when he finally got it to work. Miranda and Mollie enjoy playing together and with their friends in the neighborhood. Laurie stays busy in her calling in the relief society, sewing, blogging, scrap booking, baking, and of course everything that goes along with keeping the family organized and in clean clothes.
We love you all and wish you a great month of April.
Darrell, Laurie and kids