November 11 Pahrump, NV

Jim got stopped by the highway patrol. I guess it was a 'curtosy check'. The highway patrolman stood in the door and asked for several papers, registration, etc. Jim handed them to him one at a time, as he asked. A gust of wind came up and caugh a couple papers. Mr. Highway Patrolman had to get in his truck and back down the highway until he could catch them. He said that if they hadn't got caught by sage brush, he might still be looking for those papers. He didn't give us any tickets.

We're in the same motel as the last trip through here. We got an upgrade to a nice big room. It's very comfortable.

November 10 Las Vegas, NV

Jim believes in sharing. So Now I have a cold too. Funny how miserable a cold can make a person.

I went back to bed after breakfast for about a half hour. Not really long enough.

I love the road in southern Utah and into Arizona. The mountains are solid rock and hundreds of feet tall.

We hurried to get to Vegas in time for our 4:30 sale. We forgot about the time change, so we were an hour early. So our 2 1/2 hour sale actually lasted about 4 hours.

We stopped to eat at a vegetarian restaurant before our sale. It had some vegetarian dishes, but more meat dishes. It actually was a Chinese Restaurant. Jim was happy. I went out to the truck and read while he ate. I have to be very hungry to eat Chinese.

By the time we closed shop and went to our motel, we didn't see any place to eat that we could park, so I ended up with a bowl of cereal for supper.

November 9 St George, UT

The ground was still white this morning. But you'd have to work hard to make a snowball. By the time we were an hour south of town, the snow was gone.

We had a noon sale at Enoch then on to St George for an evening sale. It was a good day.

November 8 Fillmore, UT

It started acting like it was really winter today. While we were working at the cold storage today, we had rain, sleet and snow. It was was and nasty inside and outside too. To make it feel worse, Jim has a cold now. So he feels miserable to boot.

Driving in this wet stuff wasn't fun either. It was wet and overcast all the way. It was just a dark and gloomy day.

By the time we got to Fillmore, it was snowing hard. I was watching it while Jim was getting gas. It was beautiful. You could see each individual snowflake coming down. Some were bigger than the others, so fell faster.

During the time Jim was in the motel getting our room, the ground turned white. It's not cold enough to stay unless it turns colder overnight.

November 7 Salt Lake City, UT

What a mix up! Our sale was from 12 - 2:00. We got a call on our way over, asking where were we? First they had a flier saying the wrong day and time. Somehow they thought it was 9:00 this morning for the corrected time. And of course, today is the first day with the time change. The neat thing is that they worked as a team around the Church while waiting for us. Again, no one was mad. They're just so glad we come.

We made our goal for the weekend sales!!!!!

November 6 Salt Lake City, UT

We changed motels this morning. I have bug bites all over my body. We aren't seeing bugs, so really don't know if it's bedbugs or what. I just know that I don't need to stay there any longer.

I feel like I've been running - fast! The school had their Fall Festival tonight in conjunction with our sale. When we got there a half hour early, there were people in line waiting to get in. They came in all at once and filled the trailer. I can't even imagine how they can find what they want to buy. But they seem to. And no one complains about it being crowded or anything. What a fantastic group of Christians. They even complimented us on how much selection we have. But, but by the of the evening, I had put everything I had for the Spanish on the shelves and still had big empty places. And I had boxes of Spanish books to restock with.

Now I'm in trouble, since we have several more Churches with Spanish before we get home. We need to figure out where to get more books sent to us in Las Vegas.

November 5 Salt Lake City, UT

We went over tot he Cold Storage first thing this morning to pick up the school's order. We had to deliver it to the school by 11:00. After a quick lunch at Marie Callendars', we spent the rest of the day back at the Cold Storage and restocked the truck as much as we could. We have 5 pallets of canned food and a couple pallets of frozen food. Basically we were stocking for this weekend here in SLC. On Monday we'll try to get the rest of the food in the trailer for the rest of our trip. We have less than two weeks left before we get home, just in time for Thanksgiving.