Griffin Family

1/22/11 So funny, building snowmen in bare feet! Gotta love Washington Utah! Hi Aj!  How are things going? Things are pretty much the same here.  Busy Busy Busy. Cassandra Swapp and Amanda Turner Let's see, what to tell you about this week. I taught in YW on Sunday.  Always scares me to teach.  Not my comfort zone, ya know?  I think it went pretty well.  Brother Baker came to class and that made it extra special scary for me.  It was on having the spirit with you all the time and not just on Sunday.  It was a pretty good lesson.  It talked about doing things that invite the spirit and not doing things that drive it away.   Tomorrow is Stake Conference so I get a week off of all my early meetings and don't have to worry about YW etc.  That is nice. Me and the girls went to the pool today but it was too cold for my liking.  I went in up to my ankles and turned around and went back out to my...

1/14/2011 How are things on the other side of the world? Totally LOVED your last letter.  So full of enthusiasm and information.  Really enjoyable.  Keep up the good work! So things are pretty much the same here.  The week has flown by full of activities and work and housework etc.  It's Friday night and everyone is doing the usual Friday thing.  Dad and Dallas are in Hurricane doing Snow Canyon v Hurricane game.  Bryce has a nasty cold and is "vegging",  the girls have played all day and just finished their jobs and settled in to veg with Bryce.  We made some M&M cookies and the house smells yummy. We had a busy week in court -- about 45 customers.  Took about 2 1/2 hours.  Seems as though we are getting more tickets lately which means more phone calls, more paper work etc.  I guess that's good.  I don't get bored at work! Job security! I found out this week that my brother died.  In Septemb...

1/7/11 Things are about like always here.  Katie and Holly are enjoying choir and piano lessons and girl scouts.  We get to start selling girl scout cookies soon.  We are going to a "cookie kick off" party tonight to find out about cookie sales.  Katie starts Polynesian dancing next Thursday and there is a LUAU in April that she will dance at.  Sounds kind of fun.  I'm excited to go to that. The boys are staying super busy with band and YM.  They have been faithfully reading their scriptures...thank you for helping them develop a habit before you left.  It should serve them well if they will continue...and so far they are! Court was super busy this week since a lot of people like to blow things off during the holidays.  Time flies when you are busy though so that was good. YW we had 4 non members and 3 members Wednesday night...so I was pretty happy with that turn out.  We actually just got 2 more non-members s...

1/1/11 The New Year has come in pretty quietly.  We went to Grandma and pa's house and played mexican train dominos and ate goodies.  We had a nice time.  The kids have just been sitting around the house playing games and veggin.  It has been SO cold here.  We got snow and it has stayed on the ground for 3 days now.  It has been so cold that our hot water pipes are frozen in our bathroom.  We didn't have hot water until noon today.  Luckily the pipes haven't burst. It really has been a dull quiet week here.  Just anxious to hear from you and hoping you survived your grueling travel schedule.  We facebooked your mission mama and she said you arrived and that your companion was Elder Weaver (where is he from, how long has he been out, tell us a little about him).  She told us what city you were serving in.  We googled it...looks like a pretty big city.  Probably bigger than anywhere you've ever been, right? ...