Toren's Arrow of Light Cub Scout Award

When:	Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Where:	Our Stakehouse

When: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:30 PM-7:30 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada).
Where: Our Stakehouse

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Tentative date and time for Toren's bridge from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts. Will keep you up to date. This is the current date and time. Under an hour with treats!

He had a very nice ceremony tonight.  He has one more week of Cubscouts—the Space Derby next week.

Chinese or Mormon Apricots

SWEET PIT, Chinese or Mormon - An early-bearing, heavy producing variety. Fruit is of good quality and medium size with yellow to medium orange color. Good flavor and smooth texture. Trees do well in colder climates. Good pollinizer. Ripens mid-June through mid-July. Does well in late frost areas. Skin color is orange with red blush. (Mid-late season/self-fertile.)

Myrna wrote: This is the kind I had as a child. We just ate the inside of the pits, the seeds, which tasted like almonds. We also baked with them--two crops for the price of one.


Eric wrote: Steve's parents have been tree fruit farmers since Darwin came crawling out of the primordial soup. The apricots do have to be sweet pit only, the others have high traces of cyanide good if you are a spy. The sweet pits pit taste very similar to almonds. I like them good enough to eat plain.

E.


Myrna wrote: Are these the kind his folks have--Chinese or Mormon?

Your dad, LH, also remembers eating sweet pit nuts. Do you think that, maybe, they used to be more common when folks started trees from seeds?  I don't know if they breed true or not. Actually, I have never had luck with starting apricot seeds and getting anything to grow.

Our poor apple tree (maybe a Jonathan?) may not have apples next year. It had to be severely pruned. It was so loaded with apples this year that, when that big wind came through, it broke a lot of the big branches. They had to be cut back. Poor thing looks like an amputee. It looks like the shade trees the Greeks at home liked and I didn't. I used to call them "screaming trees" with their dying fingers clumped together and pleading with the sky for help.

I guess we need to have Eric and Steve come and look and offer wisdom. How about it?


Eric wrote: I'll ask I'm sure he will he is quite fond of my parents.

E.

Photos of Leonard and Helen

Myrna wrote: 
Dear Jim and Karma: Tim (LH) said that these photos were actually taken in Michigan. He was traveling home from his mission in Denmark and stopped by to see Helen. If their mission president allowed, they could do that back then. She was studying to earn a further degree in nursing and was at Ann Arbor. This is actually not the ocean but the lake.

Love, M

Gladys and Henry in Photos From Jim and Karma Dixon

Gladys is First on Right on Fourth Row in the Ladies Local 001.

Gladys in Kenilworth as Older Lady

Gladys Rostron Trauntvein by Car.

Gladys During Wedding Summer.

Gladys' Funeral. 

These Photos Have Id Under Them.

Searching the surname Trauntvein: this I did not know

Eric wrote: I did not know this, just searching the name,"Trauntvein," I did this years ago and not much came up, now it is crazy. scroll down to Trauntveins.
http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearchresults/1,15792,4017-1-84,00.html

Go there and type in the Trauntvein surname and it takes you to the three names listed below. It lists the pioneer company they traveled in and their ages at the time.

E.

MORMON PIONEER OVERLAND TRAVEL


PERSON
Trauntvein, Jens Herman
Birth Date: 4 June 1828
Death Date: 17 June 1876
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 36

PERSON
Trauntvein, Julia Marie Jensen Nielsen
Birth Date: 23 July 1835
Death Date: 16 March 1907
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 29

PERSON
Trauntvein, Junius Herman
Birth Date: 29 May 1862
Death Date: 15 July 1921
Isaac A. Canfield Company (1864), Age 2

Myrna wrote: You didn't know that they were pioneers or you did not know about the list?


Eric wrote: I didn't know they were pioneers and I didn't know about the list.

E.

Sorina's Talk

Sorina's Primary Program Sacrament Talk

We wanted to share Sorina's talk. (We recorded her at home.) We tried to email it, but our email "freaked" out and would not send it.Enjoy.

Else and Erling

Thank you for making the effort to visit with us. It was much appreciated. It was good to see you both once again. It was also good to meet your friends.

Trauntvein said to tell you that he apologizes for not having you bear your testimony, in Danish, to our ward members in Sunday School class. He thinks that would have been great, especially since it was Fast Sunday.

We love you! M


Else wrote: You do not have to thank us for visit you, we are just sorry that it did not work out better, so we would have had more time to sit down and visit. And Trauntwein should not apologize for not having me bear my testimony in Danish, That would really have made me imbarest me. I am glad that we were at list able to say hi to you. We had a very nice tour and saw a lot of our, good friends. I was also able to go and see my old missionpres. vife, That was very nice. And all my old missionary compagnions. It was so nice. But it was hart to plan, since we are not able to drive ourselves, and we did not know if there was busses going around. I Wrote to elder brown one of the missionaries I worked with in Århus when I was on my mission, but he was also back with his wife on a mission, and had just come home from a mission in China. I wrote and asked if he could tell us if there were busses to st. George, and he wrote back, that it was so lucky that he and his wife were going to Ceder City, and on Saturday he was going to be in triathlon in St George, so we arrange it so Linda and her husband picked us up in Ceder City and delivered us there Monday morning, Then sis and ældste  Petersen said they would take us down san Pete County, but we really did not know when, and we had a hard time getting in contact with them. We were also going to se a Danish couple in Gunnison, that we did not get to see, because they were in Salt Lake, when we were down there. But Strates were happy, because it gave some more time with them. I did not know you were working 2 days at the temple, if we hat just known that, we could have met you there. But that is life. You will have to come and visit here. Then you can also get to see sis Jensen. She is real happy to here from you, and we are also mailing to each other after we   found out that we both know you.

Love Else and Erling

This is what happens....

Oh, that I should flirt with the devil and then offer up my grievances toward heaven. Such human pride stays the hand of my deliverance and even as I walk naked before God, I will not suffer that he should know my heart. Is it not selfish of me to partake in the love of God, but lust so heavily for that of man? I find my actions to be intolerable in the highest degree and my worth less than that of a particle of dust which itself, in the hands of The Master, could do more to save mankind that I. To be as malleable in his hands as nature would require the forfeit of myself. I would consider it a love of myself. Which is not love by a love of the mans love, which is also not. For if I truly loved myself and the world. I would gladly do the will of God, who has greater love for one than I have for all.

From David Childs About Health Scare

Hi Myrna and Tim,
I started to put this on Facebook, but apparently it is too many words for the comments, and I'm not sure how to use it anyway.  I didn't know what I was getting into with  Facebook,  but I'm pretty sure I don't want to spend most of my days on  it! :)  Anyway, I'll put the short version there, and this can be the longer version.
My doctor was treating me for  high blood pressure, and  had told me a couple of visits ago that my Creatinine levels (Creatinine levels are used to indicate how well the kidneys are functioning) were getting somewhat  high, and if they continued to rise, we would need to check it out.  It continued to rise, so I had an appointment at the end of July with a Nephrologist, who told me that my kidneys were functioning at 30%  of normal.  I also complained of being  dizzy (as opposed to ditzy, which  is my normal state), and weak and short of breath.  At this  point I  expected a future of hoping the kidneys didn't fail too fast, so that I could delay the start of dialysis and possible need for a transplant.  I thought, based on what I could find on the web, that there would not be any recovery of the damage already done to the kidneys.  The Nephrologist reduced my blood pressure  meds and ordered a sonogram of my kidneys about a month later.  We went back near the  end of August and the  doctor gave us the good news!  My Creatinine levels were back down near to the levels it should be and my sonogram showed that there was nothing  wrong with my kidneys. Apparently, the problem has been that I have been taking too much medication for the high blood pressure for quite some time now, and my blood pressure was too low!  Because of the low BP there was inadequate blood flow to all parts of the body that needed  it.  (the medical term is "Perfusion").  He further reduced the BP medicine, and noted that I was "slightly anemic" and suggested that I take a vitamin D supplement for awhile.  Kim thinks I look better and have more color (I was too pale...), and I certainly feel better.  I am able to work outside in the yard without feeling like I am about to pass out, or habing to rest ever two or three minutes to catch my breath.  More importantly, I purchased a float tube and chest waders and have been out on the lakes and streams paddling about trying  to catch fish!  (I'm a lousy fisherman, I would hate to try to live on what I can catch ;) )  
I have another appointment on the 29th, and hopefully, it will continue to be good news.  This all happened because apparently, I have what is called the "white coat syndrome".  When I take my blood pressure at home, it is significantly lower than when I have  it taken at the doctor's office.  So, every time I went to the doctor, he felt that because my BP was still too high, and he should increase the medication.
All in all, it's been a time of nervousness and trepidation, but I feel like I've a second chance - It's a great feeling!

Love,
Dave