Addiction

Addiction is a problem in our home. As you can see, another Dutch Oven. Do you think that Elder Lybbert should be teaching the Addiction Recovery Classes or should he be a student? His excuse  is that he only had two ovens here and that he needed a deep 12 inch.

One thing Arizona has lots of is fascinating scenery.  A few weeks ago we visited Canyon de Chelly about an hour east of here. This is Spider rock which is 800 ft. high. The Navajos have a legend about it you can find on google. The canyon has been home to Navajos for centuries where they grow corn mellons, fruit etc. The public are not allowed to go into the Canyon unless taken there by a friend or family that live in the canyon or a guide who lives in the canyon. A less active couple we were visiting with this week said they camped with their family every year and we said thats what we like to do. They invited us to go with them and said they go to the canyon because one of the family married someone from there. It would be a great experience so we hope it works out.

This is our week day Relief Society. Our president, Sister Ute is on the right and two of our school teachers to the left, busy sewing aprons for the kitchen in the church.

This is what we got up to Tuesday morning. Some snow lasted till Thursday so it wasn't a good week for driving but we did some cleaning in the church and visited members here in Pinon.

Sketch by Victor

Since we have been here Victor has been working towards going into rehab. Last week he was with us and wanted money because he was worried about going to rehab and not having paper and pencils to draw. We do not give money because it often goes to appease the addiction rather than what it should go for, so we stopped and bought him some paper and pencils. On the way home in the van Victor drew this picture for me. On Monday his mother phoned and wanted us to go get him at Bashas, and thats a story in itself, but while he was with us he borrowed our phone to phone his case worker and ask when he could go to rehab. Wednesday his case worker phoned us to say she had a place for him, since thats the number she had. I phoned his mother to tell her we would come to get him but he was totally out, so we phoned the case worker and she sent a van to take him to rehab. We just hope everything goes well for him. He is such a tallented person and wants so much to do better but it is hard when family and friends all around him are encouraging him otherwise. Last week he gave a talk in church about faith that was very good. He wanted to give it before he left and has had a hard time getting everything together to do it so we were really happy when it all came together.

Time is slipping away faster so that is a good sign that we are keeping busier and becoming more involved with the work. The gospel is  such a blessing to those who will live it.

Love to all
Elder and Sister Lybbert