Veterans, Hot Springs and Pumpkin?

I was released from my calling in our Ward's young women's program, so that frees me up to attend the YSA Branch. I have always attended the Family Home Evening activities with Tom, but now I get to go to all 3 hours of church with the Young Single Adults too. I love attending their branch, there is a great spirit in their meetings. They alway have great, well-planned activities. Last Monday we delivered "care packages" to the State Veteran's Home. The Activities committee had made fleece scarves out of patriotic fabric, and home made star sugar cookies and they put them in little chinese take out boxes with plastic flags. We drove down to the Veteran's home and walked around and handed out the packages. The Veterans loved them. It was such a great way of saying thank you.

Last night we drove up to Roy Stone Hotsprings. It is midway between Horseshoe Bend and Sweet (kind of out in the middle of nowhere). It is privately owned and the activities committee reserved the whole pool so we had the place to ourselves. It was a cold evening so the hot springs felt great. There were some great games of PIG on the basketball hoop and "Marco Polo". I figure that hanging out with the youth in our stake will help keep us young :)



Today after church, the Branch had a "Linger Longer". Everyone was asked to bring a pumpkin food item. There was a great variety of pumpkin dishes, pumpkin chili, pumpkin soup, pumpkin roll, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin eggnog, pumpkin brownies, pumpkin cake, pumpkin whoopee pies and pumpkin empanadas. Everyone was supposed to vote for their favorite pumpkin dish. It was hard to chose because everything was delicious. Who knew there were so many ways to cook with pumpkin??