Call's Called To Serve: Gate Duty and Wedding of Adam and Marissa

We had a wonderful Sabbath on July 17, 2016 with Ward Conference at the building we call the Sage Building. They had wonderful speakers and lessons given by the Stake Leaders. It was great to sustain our Prophet and General Authorities. We enjoyed a fun night of playing games with Elder and Sister Howard and Elder and Sister Walker, train dominoes was a big success. The Bartons had family staying this weekend.

Monday July 18, we headed to Mirror Lake with Elder and Sister Howard. This is about a hour away and Sister Call's dad Ralph Silver used to take the scouts there all the time when he was scout master and so we wanted to go see how beautiful it was. We were not disappointed, it was in the mountains and trees and gorgeous. We saw Pass Lake, Butterfly lake and Mirror Lake. We had lunch and talked to a few fisherman and enjoyed a nice walk by the lake. On the way home we checked out the golf course in Evanston and the airport that has landing lights right up against the property where we trek.

Mirror Lake

Sister Howard and Sister Call found this kids play cool log to crawl in

Sister Howard had to check out the water

For family night Howard hosted Family Feud TV addition. The Elders won, and we celebrated the 47th Wedding anniversary on Elder and Sister Ekins. We even got a few drops of rain that night, and a beautiful skyline. We could sure use some more rain, The Ranch is sure dry.

Elder and Sister Ekins celebrating their 47th wedding anniversary

Sister Barton enjoying the little bit of rain

Beautiful rain clouds

Tuesday was port-a-john cleaning and we had six sisters this week with 66 port-a-johns to clean. We are getting the system down and it is going a lot more smoothly then a few weeks a go. There was only nine handcarts that needed repairs this week, so the jobs went faster this week. We worked with the Ekins and made another handcart. We are to use up all the knotty maple wood this summer. We had dinner at the trek center with the Ekins and had another round of ROCK, this time Sister Call dominated, it's about time she made a come back. Then the Elders had to zero in the 22 rifle on the back lawn of the Depot. (The difference between men and boys are the size of their toys)

Making more handcarts

Wednesday July 20 was gate duty for us. We only had two treks this week so not too many people coming in or out. Elder and Sister Johnson are usually on gate duty this summer, so we really enjoyed doing this. We have our stop sign and stop all the vehicles and welcome them and send them to the right staging area. We got everyone in from 8:15 to 11:30. We worked on making more carts, watering lawns and trees, washing trucks, We went a visited the Cowans and Bartons who had a family trek from Cedar City. It was so fun to see the little ones and see their cute carts that had covers to keep the sun off the kids who rode. The ward was having a great time, and enjoyed getting to know some more Call's. Every week there is usually someone related to Anson Call. We had dinner at the trek center with the Walkers and Ekins.

On gate duty by the railroad tracks

The Gate at DL&L

The darling handcart covers with the family ward

This little guy loved to pose for our picture

We had Sister Call's two daughters Sharley and Kristen visit us today, and their friend Alisa. We gave them a tour or the ranch and then we left for home in Spanish Fork, Utah to prepare for Adam Call and Marisa Monson's wedding. This is Elder Call's son.

Sister Call and her daughters visit the ranch and Kristen is ready to pull a handcart

Pulling a handcart at the trek center

When you go home there is always lots of yard work to do. We spent four hours wedding, and mowing, so eight hours on the yard. It looks a lot better for one one month until we are done for this summer. It was great to have Elder Call's sister and brother-in-law Corinne and Paul Simpson stay with us while they are here for a family reunion. We had a wonderful visit with them. We went and decorated the church in Draper for the wedding dinner.

Saturday July 23, 2016 the wedding of Adam Call and Marisa Monson at the Draper Utah Temple. It was a beautiful ceremony and beautiful day and beautiful reception. We are so happy for them as they start their life together. They are making their new life together in Sandy, Utah. It was so nice to have all of Elder Call's eight children there for this wonderful celebration