Service Project and Dinner with the Missionaries

Daniel and Patricia selling tickets & Jewel bunji jumping








A gorgeous day in NJ. A day when EVERYTHING was scheduled. Jewel had a Primary program which was followed by the Heritage Day fair in North Brunswick park. Our ward members help out by working the games, selling tickets and cleaning up all day. This was followed by dinner with the Missionaries at a buffet place... (Home Town Buffet) perfect for young men to eat many plates of food. Dakota and Daniel went to the Stake youth dance in Princeton and Patricia stayed home with Jewel who had a fever.

News from RU: Dakota stayed home to study (he has a slight cold) and to work on a research assignment for BioMath. He's modeling a 'budworm' and looking at the DNA of a cancer strand. He's not been afraid to seek the professor out, to ask questions and get clarification on concepts. He thinks it's so funny that he's in a 300 math class and the work is so abstract that he hasn't used a calculator yet. He loves abstract math and hates computations. BioMath so far uses discrete math, linear algebra, differential equations, calculus 1, 2, and 3, some Chemistry, Physics and Biology all in one study. Really fascinating!! Dakota says the work is VERY hard and VERY challenging, but we're happy that he's up to the challenge and is facing it head on, giving it everything he's got. He's happy to be on the University choir and he's singing 'bass' at age 14. He's got his daddy's deep voice...

gratitude thought: grateful for restaurants and the joy and ease they bring to one's life. After a day of running around and working in the park, it was a blessing not to have to cook and clean up.