I spent the day getting things done outside so that the snow can fly. Now I’m just wondering where the snow is? It should have been here by now. The only certain thing is that it will snow.

The motor home now has the cover on it and is put to bed for the rest of the year. The bird bath is now plugged in and should not freeze over anymore for the birds. I drained the gasoline from the lawn tractor, pulled the battery, and wrapped it up for the winter. The biggest job was getting the cover on the motor home, which takes both Nina and I to do it.

This is also the day for football rivalries. The big game here in this area was the BYU at Utah game. BYU came into the game with a 9 win 1 loss record while Utah started with a ten game and no loss record. Nevertheless, BYU was favored. They shouldn’t have been as Utah methodically took the BYU team apart. Meanwhile, the Idaho State University Bengals won their first game of the season this afternoon. It was definitely an interesting football day, but in the end it makes no difference in any eternal sense.

Mother and dad drove over here on Wednesday afternoon, spent the night, and went with us to the Rexburg Temple on Thursday. The sessions there are every 45 minutes which means I have to calculate what time sessions start. My math was right and a session did start at 9 a.m. with all four of us in attendance. The temple there is beautiful and quite simple. There is a wheat theme throughout the building, an indirect reference to the Savior being the Bread of Life. The session was well attended and we enjoyed our time there. Next will be a trip to Twin Falls so we can do a session there. It may not be many more months before dad will not be able to make these trips anymore. These things do have eternal implications.