Dandelion Jelly

  Today at church we were given a jar of freshly made West Virginia Dandelion Jelly.  I am still trying to figure out it's flavor. It's color is a lovely light yellow and because Pat and I could not come up with what it tastes like I referred to the .com. It suggests that it is somewhat the flavor of honey with a hint of lemon. The funny part is that you can actually find many recipes, but they mostly come under the heading of "Cooking with Weeds."  Ugh.
Dandelions are everywhere which makes them plentiful for picking, boiling down and making jelly. To think, I am 68 years old and I have never known about Dandelion Jelly.

Wednesday March 28th we drove to Charleston Airport to pick up William. We had a short but good visit here in Huntington with him. We taught our Institute/Pathway lessons on Thursday night then on Friday we drove back to Charleston to meet up with Emily and Erik's gang for the Easter / General Conference weekend. We all stayed in a VRBO ( called Blackberry Farm) owned by the parents of a gal in Emily's ward in Virginia. We had a great time all together. We loved seeing the grandchildren and playing with baby Rosie.

 3/31- 4/1 OK, let's talk about General Conference. Did anyone else, besides me, have to take a deep breath to just to stay on the same page with President Nelson? My, my what an inspiration he is to the church and the world. This new Presidency and the Quorum of the 12 will be wonderful.
  After the announcements of 2 new Apostles, changes in the Quorum of the Seventy, and the Priesthood changes, etc,  we were wondering what the Sunday meetings would bring.
  Emily had slipped out to feed the baby and was watching the conference on her phone. Upon hearing the announcement to change HT/VT to ministering, Emily sends a text to all her siblings which read, "There's a new sheriff in town". Well said girl. We had all better get on our horses and be ready for the ride.

4/3 Tuesday we drove to the Columbus Ohio Temple. Pat was asked to be the escort for Tait Nelson as he went through for his endowment. Tait was in our Institute class all last year and as well as this semester. He enters the Mexico City MTC this Tuesday. He will be serving in Cancun, Mexico. We had a great day with him and his mom and grandmother.
 Our only problem was that we drove through the worst rain and wind ever. It was only after we got home and had the news on and saw pictures and reports of the tornado we had driven through.

4/4 We worked on our lessons in the morning, worked with our literacy learners at 1:00P then at 3:00 tied a quilt for the two YSA's that were in our class last year and were married I the Payson Utah Temple. There is an open house for them this Saturday.  We are excited to see them this week.

4/5 We picked up two new members to our virtual Institute class this past Thursday night. These fellows are both returned missionaries. One from Nampa, ID and one from Madagascar.
 This virtual Institute is such a blessing to those who live so far from any institute programs and would otherwise have none.

  4/6 We drove the Sister Missionaries to Charleston for transfers. One of our sisters was returning home and we got a newbee straight from the MTC. We took them to lunch as we got back into Huntington/Barboursville.

 4/7 Pat and I celebrated our 47th wedding anniversary today. We marked the occasion with dinner  at Jewel City, a fresh fish restaurant ( a favorite place), frozen yogurt and a movie yesterday.  We are ready to sign up for another 47 plus years( it's actually called eternity). We are up for it.

Monday April 6th we crossed off another month here in West Virginia. We are 14 months here. Time is moving to quickly now. We love you all.
Almost Heaven, Traynors

PS, Did you all enjoy John's last Sunday night jam with Cameron singing "Almost Heaven"?
 It truly was. hanks John and Cam. I loves it.