16 April 2015

Hi everybody,
    Aunt Venae's surgery went really well. It was supposed to take 6 hours, but they were finished in an hour and a half! She will be released to come home one day this week. I hope that the shorter surgery time, will also mean a shorter time she'll have to be off work too. She had been told she'd be off work for 12 weeks, and she's been quite worried about that. I'll let you know more later.
    Sister Delana Marler passed away the other day. She was 55; she is the oldest daughter of Ruth Orr, and the mother of Lisa and Jenny, who had been in Ben's and Sam's classes, when they were all young. She and Steve had moved to Teton a few years ago, and neither of them have had good health, but I thought that he would go first. They both have diabetes, heart problems, etc... Dad and I will go to her viewing this evening at Bidwell's.
    Dad got his new call sign! It is a short one that only Extra Class Hams can get, it is N7SN, or, November 7 Sierra November. He used it on Wednesday night when we checked into the local Net. 
    Dixie was in Savior of the World this past week, in Elko. Dad and I each got to go down (not at the same time exactly), and got to see it.  It was a wonderful production, and Dix did a lovely job. I think Dad will be making copies on DVD for anyone who would like to see it. 
    I'm pretty excited; I've learned how to do blind hemming! Maybe you girls all know how to do this already...but it's something I had never learned to do. I would look at the directions again and again, and just couldn't get it right!  So the other night, I watched a couple of YouTube videos about it, and realized what I was doing wrong. I've hemmed 4 pairs of pants since then, and they turned out great! 
    Our new Relief Society presidency hasn't been put in yet...the one I've chosen for my second counselor, has a Stake calling, with her husband, and the Stake hasn't found anyone to replace them yet. So it will happen when it's supposed to! 
    We're having really pretty weather, kind of windy though. Ben, Lynsey, and Joseph...I've been seeing on the news, what kind of weather you've been having!  I hope you get Spring soon! 
    Love to you all!  Mom/Johanna/Nana

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