Griffin Family

1/28/11 Well the weeks keep flying by.  Are they for you too!? I have really enjoyed reading your mission mama's blog.  You even showed up in one of the photos!!!! You look like you are enjoying your time there.  Are you getting to know all the other elders?  Are you doing pretty well with the language now? I swear it has been a super busy week but I'm trying to think what to tell you about and there just isn't much coming to mind. Tomorrow we are going to EFY for some spiritual classes.  If there is anything super cool I'll write to you about it. This week in YW we had 8 come out.  Pretty good crowd.  4 non-members, 4 members.  I have 2 new non-members who are out of town on Sunday at dad's house but are supposedly going to start coming on Wednesday.  They are sisters and pretty cute girls.  Their names are hard though.  Hadia and Nagila or something like that.  They are black.  1/2 anyway.  Re...

2/25/11 Katie singing for talent show Katie wrote you a note.  She wanted me to type it up for you but I thought you'd enjoy figuring out what she's saying yourself!  Holly drew that picture of me.  Beautiful, aren't I?! So late night our neighbor was arrested for DUI at about 8:30 p.m. right outside his house in our circle (Holm's -- the dad)...it's just not safe to be out after 8 p.m. in our neighborhood apparently!!!  Crazy, huh?! We had 9 girls at YW this week and they all seemed to have a really nice time.  I'm excited.  I hope I can convince them all to come to camp and youth conference.  They are luke warm on both right now.  What's up with that??? Free camp and it's FUN?!  I don't understand why they don't want to go.  What happened before I got here?   Seriously??!  Why WOULDN'T you want to go?    Anyway, things are going well here.  Tomorrow the Girl Scouts are committed to man ...

2/20/11 The neighborhood was shook this week with a double murder and an attempted suicide just 8 houses from ours this week.  It was on wagonwheel drive over straight across our street and then 3 houses in on the next block.  A 47 year old man (Richard Jones) killed his wife (Michelle Jones) and her 19 year old son (his step son) Christopher Ellis Friday night.  He gunned down his wife in the driveway and the son was found in the garage and then tried to kill himself and he was found in his bedroom.  So far he is still alive, last I heard, but with gunshot wounds to the head...who knows how long he'll last. I didn't know any of them.  Did you?  I think they may have moved here within the last couple of years.   Not sure. We had one of those in December in St. George.  Sad.  All the ugliness in the world today. We had ward conference today and it was pretty good.  Although a LONG time to sit.  They had the gro...

2/13/11 Hi Aj! It has been another crazy busy week but things are good.  I saw the stake president today and he was asking about you.  So was Brother Melessa.  I told them you were doing awesome and loving it.  So did you get transferred?     Do you read the lessons for Sunday school? This weeks lesson made me think of you. It was about the apostles going and serving the Lord and the blessings they would receive.  It talked about how they don't take anything with them and they will be provided.  It made me think of all the people that feed you each night and take care of your needs.  If you haven't read it you should.  I think it was lesson 5 or 6 out of the New Testament. We had the worldwide training meeting last night and one thing that stuck out in my mind was "When you are about your Father's business, you can expect your father's blessings."  How cool is that?  Earlier I think it was said we had ...

2/6/11 TO AJ FROM ANDY Hey AJ, How's mission life? Hope all is well and you're staying healthy. We are getting ready for our Super Bowl party. Gma and Gpa plus Eldon and Diane are coming. By the way, Eldon and Diane have reconciled all their differences and seem happy. She rides her bike next to him while he runs and she has lost like 70 pounds or somwthing. Plus, she comes with him to So. Utah all the time now. I dunno if they are completely changed. They still fight some, but it is good that they are both trying a lot harder now. You prob heard Jonny is married and living in Malaysia now. If you do something like that, i will ring your neck! I have been writing a lot for DNews. They pay less, but I am getting more stories, so maybe it will even out a little. Yesterday I did a player report card about the BYU game (they beat UNLV by 14, swept them this year). My deadline was 15 minutes after the game ended. It was a rush. I just watched the game from here an...

2/5/11 Holy Smokes this week flew by.  I swear there was something going all the time. We of course went to G'ma and pa's last week.  B & L and Nick and Bree and Jared and the kids all came too.  Austin and Lyndsie didn't though.  We had a nice visit with a family home evening after dinner. I had my biggest month ever at work last month.  We did over $50K in January and 325 tickets.  All time high in money and tickets filed.  No wonder my phone is ringing off the hook all day every day! Wednesday we took the girls to the temple.  I had 4 members go do baptisms and 3 non-members go with me to the visitor center for a tour.  The girls said they had never been there before.  Surprised me since they are all from here.  I think they enjoyed the experience.  They have a cool game there where you point at a map as it tells you a temple name and guess where the temple is.  Then it tells you how far off you ar...