Abbey and I went on a backpacking trip with the Laurels this weekend. We had a good time and hope to do this again with our family. Here are a few pictures.

It looks as though the backpack weighs more than she does.


They slept under the stars ALL night!

We had our Smith family reunion the beginning of August. We stayed at Oakley Ranch. We had some pretty good rain, but had a wonderful time. We spent an afternoon at the City of Rocks.

Marissa and her cousin Kayla

Cassie and her cousin Brittney

Karie

The entire Rushton crew (minus David)

Kamery and Marissa

Grandpa and Grandma Smith and Kamery

Andrea and baby McKenna

Grandma Collins was laughing at her and she did not appreciate it!

Great Grandma Smith and Abbey

Letter from David July 27, 2009

Dear Family,Everything is going well here ive learned that there is only two kingdoms the kingdom of Tonga and the Kingdom of Heaven Elder Fonua is a pretty funny guy. Not much has changed here unfortunatly it looks like winter is on its way its been in the 50s all week and raining so summers almost done here i think. We have a cool russian weve been teaching these last couple of weeks which has been fun its pretty funny the first couple of times we went over there he offered Vadka to us it was pretty funny at first fonua said yes then he realized what he said it was pretty funny so we just laughed and talked about the word of wisdom. thats really our only investigator right now were probably gonna have to drop the rest there not proggressing at all. we have been able to work with the members alot lately and are teaching alot of less active families which is fun. well have a good week.

LOve Elder Rushton