First a little catch-up of some things that have happen in our family.  First, Sam and Lilli had a little girl, Kayla, on April 21.  She is now at 14 pounds! She was our 12th grandchild.  Then on July 12th, Robert and Cheryl had a little boy, Austin.  He makes grandchild #13.  And this week our son Chris became engaged to Josie Richardson from AZ.  So our family continues to grow and we are so delighted!!

This week has been almost things as usual.  Almost!  We have not had hot water this week because it is shut down for maintenance.  So we wash up by filling soda bottles half full of water and then finish filling them with boiling water.  It takes two large ones to shampoo the hair and four to wash the body.  Fun, fun!!  But hey, it works!!!  Then on Friday Elder Shrope had to go to Darkhan with Pres. Clark and some other brethren, so I had to go to the school and teach Altan by myself.  Then I had to go to the office alone.  There were no lights in the office for most of the day.  The computers were still on, but with no window in our office, there was not enough light to see the keyboard.  So I sat in the dark and talked to one young lady about her score on her English proficiency test and what she should do now, talked to another young lady about her requirements to renew her visa so that she can return to BYU-Hawaii to finish her schooling, (She is here doing an internship right now) and discussed some business with Miigaa, our secretary.  Elder Shrope did not get home until after 10:00 pm.  On Sat. we walked to the American Goods store.  It was very sunny and hot.  A few hours after we returned, we heard thunder and then the sky turned dark.  It started to rain and then hail.  "The pic is of the pea size hail out on our bacony. That lasted for a short time and then the sun came out again.  Love this weather because you never know what you are going to get.  Like I said, it was almost a usual week.