Each month Sister Wideman prints out a "Spotlight" on someone or a couple that is working in the English Connect program. This month was our turn. We have grown to love all of the students in our class and look forward each week to our classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights. It takes a lot of time to prepare the lessons, but it is more than worth the effort. This past week, on Tuesday night, we had a student show up that hasn't attended a class in 2 months. After class was over, he told me that he works long hours each day pouring cement and doesn't get off until 8 pm, so he has been missing our class. He asked me if I would be willing to teach him English privately if he paid me. It really touched my heart that he is so sincere and determined to learn English, and understands how important it his for him to be successful in getting a better paying job. Of course, I told him that I would be happy to work with him when he was available and I wouldn't charge him anything. So we made a deal. This Sunday, he will meet us at the same church building at 8:45 am and he will attend the Spanish Ward that meets there at 9 am with us.  After the meeting is over at 10 am, I will spend the next two hours teaching him English. He is a very nice young man, and very humble. We are looking forward to working with him.
I took this photo yesterday (Friday August 16th) at around 3 pm.  I mounted the sensor for this thermometer in the shade out on our balcony where the sun can never shine on it directly. The heat has been a little hard to handle, but we are only out in it for a few minutes at a time, so it hasn't been that bad. The worst time is when we have to park out in the north 40 at Walmart to go in and pick up a prescription. It really feels good to get back into the car and turn on the AC.  There are a lot of cowbirds in the parking lot that hang out under the cars to wait for someone to drop something that they can eat. They can't even stand to be out in the sun. They look like a large blackbird. We used to have them on the ranch in Montana. 

We have been quite busy at the employment center with more people than usual coming in for help. I am also in the process of training 6 new Service Missionaries. Three of them will be working at a Satellite office in Conroe, TX., and 3 of them will be working in the Employment Services Center with us. We enjoy all of the missionaries that we work with. It has really been a great experience getting to know them. Elder and Sister Sealy will be finishing their mission at the end of August. It will be hard to say goodbye, but since they are service missionaries and live close by, I'm sure we will get to see them every once in a while. 

We will be going over lesson 22 this week in English Connect, and there are a total of 24 lessons. We are planning on having a little graduation party for the students during the last class on Thursday the 5th of September. We leave the following day to go to an Employment Services Manager's Conference in Salt Lake. We will get to go to our grandaughter's (Eily, Adam and Sara's daughter) baptism on Saturday the 7th, which is also her birthday. So we will get to celebrate her birthday and also Joseph's which is on the 14th. We will be returning back to Houston on Sunday the 15th. It is quite a blessing to get to come home and see everyone when we are half way through our mission. We are really looking forward to it.

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