Sunday - July 13

Bonnie:  I gave my talk and it was about 17-18 minutes, which is a record for me.  I'm so glad it is over.  At the end I told our "tithing" story from the Dawn Drive house.  Which of my kids remember it?  After church, we had a delicious pot luck dinner.  It was great to visit with the Branch Members.  Saturday is a "Walk" and then a waffle breakfast.  We will be going into town (New Liskeard about 40 miles away) four days this week, which will really use up the gas! Tuesday is shopping day, Wednesday we are meeting the Wiwchars (I'm spelling it right; he is Ukrainian) to go see a camp owned by members of the Church from Orem on the other side of Lake Temiskaming, about 45 miles from where we attend church.  This Brother Sorensen puts on presentations for fourth-graders all over the west as a mountain man when he is  home in Orem. He wrote a book with letters from fourth-graders to him, and signed it for us!  It is a wonderful book that I will show my grandchildren when I see them.  More Wednesday on that adventure!  Then, Thursday we are going to the Toronto Temple with an older sister from the Branch.  We'll be back on Friday.  The Branch "Walk" is Saturday, of course.  I think it will be an exciting week!  I'm looking forward to  it.

Bob: Taught the lesson on baptism in Priesthood today. Went pretty well. Most everyone participated and there were NO disagreements. I have been to 4 Priesthood lessons so far and disagreements do come up. Skype worked somewhat today for the first time. Not all of our conversation was getting picked up at Shannan's and the video we were watching made people look as though they were moving like robots, but the 1st mate was so excited. We got a good rain last night and I bailed a good bit of water out of the boat today. Winds have died down and it is rather peaceful outside. Campground is emptying out some also. Several people here in cabins right now. I counted 9 boat trailers earlier today. Several boats are pulled up on shore as the camps main dock only has room for 6 boats. They will eventually need to add some more dock space I think.
As Bonnie listed above there are several things going on this week. The Wednesday trip will be about 2 1/2 to 3 hours one way into Quebec. The temple trip is about 5 1/2 to 6 hours one way. Staying all night with another sister in Toronto who rents rooms to temple patrons. They Saturday back to the Branch for the walk and waffle breakfast. Suggested to Karl and the Brother Sauve today that we need some eggs with the waffles. Think we'll do that, but I may be the cook!
Mentioned to Brother Sorensen that I went fishing with Karl yesterday. He asked me if we went to Heart Attack Lake. Took me a few seconds to understand. The lake we went to (Sunday Lake) is where Karl had a heart attack in 2013. After he had the attack he had to pull his boat, motor and gear back to the truck and load his 4 grand kids. Then he drove to the hospital in Englehart, about an hour away. Doctor told him he didn't know why Karl was still alive. Some pictures of Sunday (Heart Attack) Lake are below. There is nothing around the lake but trees as you see. One cabin is on the lake. There is a road back to the cabin, but the cabin sits on top of a very steep bank. It is easier to drag your canoe/boat through the bush as we did than to drive to the cabin and drag the canoe/boat down the hill. Obviously, dragging the canoe/boat UP the hill would be the BIG problem. This lake is on the road to Cooke Lake where my dad fished many years ago.