The weeks just keep marching by and we are seeing more and more visitors. It has been warm this week. A couple of days were in the 95's and now we are suppose to cool down to the 60's.

Happy Father's day to all you wonderful fathers out there. We are certainly grateful for our fathers and for Paul. What a wonderful man he is and how he has blessed our family. We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful priesthood holder in our family to bless and lead us. We are also so very proud of our son, Kory, and our sons-in-law, Gary and Rob. What great men.

Today we visited the Lyons Ward with Elder & Sister Simons. It is always fun to go to other wards. There are so many people we know as ordinance workers at the temple or patrons who come regularly. We was fun to get to the the Simons better also. They are from Las Vegas.

Paul stopped off at the Palmyra Ward for a baptism on our way home and I came home to get dinner on the table. We had invited the Crookstons and Perkins for dinner. We had a lovely dinner and visit with them.

Thursday evening we stopped by the classic car show in Canandaigua to visit the Lockwoods. Their grandson is serving in the Ventura Mission and will be home in August.

Saturday Paul and I joined a few of the sisters from the RS to pick strawberries. I have three gallon freezer bags full. I need to make some jam. Anyone have a recipe to make our own pectin? It costs way too much at the store, there must be a way we can make our own. It sure tastes good. We served in the temple from 12:30 to 5:00, went for a little drive and ended up back at home for dinner. I stayed up and cleaned the berries. Across the street from the berry farm is a horse ranch. They had four sets of mothers and babies running around. They were so beautiful.

Heather Wildey has the two kids and is our 2nd counselor in RS. We got to baby sit for them a few times.

Monday for FHE we met at the Palmyra City Hall for a tour by Lynn Green a member of the Church and city clerk. The city hall was the former LDS chapel in Palmyra. We learned much about it's history, the history of Palmyra. Both Sister Green and her husband, Dick Green our HP group leader, are converts to the Church. Bro. Green grew up here in Palmyra and didn't join until her was in his mid twenties. Pres. McKay dedicated the building in 1961. It has wonderful acoustics and Lynn directed the first performance of "From Cumorah's Hill" a musical written by Steven Perry and Michael Wilcox. It has been performed two Sundays around pageant for the last 17 years. I got to sing in it last year and what a thrill. The Church decided it had outgrown the building and built the new stake center across from the Smith Farm and temple in 2001 or 2002. At that time they sold the building to the city of Palmyra who were dire need of a city hall.

Sister Hamilton has her back to us, Sister Lynn Green our speaker and Sister Cederlof, Assistant Matron.

Tuesday we went to find the spillway in Palmyra. Very nice hiking trails beside the creek and Erie Canal.

It has been a busy week with lots of families and visitors coming to the temple. We have had several families bring their children to the temple to do baptisms and that is always a special treat for us. Have a wonderful week, remember every time you go to the temple you will be better, schedule (calendar) , frequently- stay close to the Lord. May you be blessed for your efforts.

We saw a couple of deer grazing in the parking lot of the Hill Cumorah. They get a little skittish when you get out of the car.