Valentines Day Four-Wheeling

We had Jon (Dan's brother) and his kids down for the President's day weekend. We went out to Warner Valley on Valentines Day and had a great time riding the winding wash trails. It was a little chilly but we had a nice picnic and enjoyed a great day of riding.

More Funeral Pictures

Here are the links to more pictures from the Funeral:

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=ehkxly4.ayp66us4&x=0&h=1&y=-t9c7n2&localeid=en_US

http://picasaweb.google.com/danflake/GrandpaSFuneral?feat=directlink

Grandpa Flake's Funeral

Dan's Father, Darrell Gardner Flake passed away on January 22, 2009. We left the next day to drive to Tennessee to attend the funeral that was held on Saturday, January 24. We drove 28 hours straight with Dan, Darrell (our nephew), Dawson and myself driving. It wasn't bad although we drove through a blizzard over the rocky mountains near Vail, Colorado.
The funeral was nice with many friends and relatives in attendance. He was laid to rest in the Davis Cemetary in Clarksville, TN. Dan gave the Family Prayer and many other family members participated in the services. Dan's mother, is doing very well and we packed her up and brought her things to St. George where she will live for now. Dan and Darrell drove the full truck home in that terrible ice storm that went across the midwest. The boys and I flew home on Tuesday so we could get back in school. I'm glad that we know that "Families can be Together Forever".

Email February 2, 2009

Oh dear family! How i love you! Thanks so much for the emails. I so appriciate your support! Mother thanks for taking care of everything i asked about. Thank you for the updates bros! i am so proud of you two! and dad thanks for the enouraging words. Can you really tell that i am maturing? because i still feel pretty inmature most the time! HaHa. I soppose thats one reason im out here... :)
sorry i didnt update you much last week.....i ran out of time and my email was erased. but life has been good..... we did have a major trial......the hardest trial of my life actually.....well it could have been....but we recieved priesthood blessings and so we are doing fine...... i didnt really want to say it cuz i didnt want any of you feeling discouraged because everthing is going to work out the way the Lord wants it to. so anyway june, the wonderful women who was just baptised had an old friend rip her beliefs apart. and she invited us over to let us know that she would not be coming to church anymore. Yes it hurt...it hurt bad....and her "christian friend" was there to make sure she went through with it. I have never felt so much coldness....she had been manipulating June and then she manipulated us and told us we couldnt talke to June anymore and then kicked us out of Junes house. I felt like i had just met the devil. we sobbed and then sobbed some more and then got a blessing from the elders and felt much peace and have felt great ever since. June is going through a major trial of faith..... we know that she will come around soon...... she has felt the spirit and so much love from the ward....once this manipulating anti mormon gets out of her life she will come back.....or once she realizes how evertyhing in her life that got better since being baptised gets worse again..... anyway im telling you this so that you can help contribute faith as a principle of power and unite with us and the wonderful ward members here in getting June back into the fold! and dont worry about me because it just makes me want to work harder....seriously i feel so much peace about the whole thing and i just want to save as many people from the devil as i can. so anyway..... tissues any one? haha..... well i know more then ever the truthfullness of this gospel.....i love bearing my testimony to the children of God here in Langley..... its such an amazing feeling to go from house to house bearing testimony to everyone even though most dont listen. The spirit is so stong....it burns with in....and i love it because i love the Lord! and even though it would seem as if were not getting anywhere sometimes the Lord blesses you with the spirit so strong that you just know that what you are doing is what the Lord wants you to be doing at that time. and then you feel how much he loves each person you talk to you and i know there is not a better feeling....and i am just so grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ who has gone through the ultimate rejection and a perfect suffering and i am just so happy to be able to suffer for the cause of bringing the gospel and the Lord makes it so the suffering doesnts hurt....i love Him so much....i wish i could express it to you,.... i love feeling Him so close to me. Thank you all for the prayers and please pray for June.... love, sister flake