Nova Ashley................silver jewelry artist

This woman has a son who has been in our employment office so many times getting job interviews set up, faxing resumes................he is an ironworker - finally he got a job in Mississippi in a shipyard..........he was so excited.............he needed some final things faxed, so his mother came in the office to have us help her........she was such a sweet lady (in the course of the time she told me she was an inactive member of our church)..........she just fell apart and hugged me and talked.......she wants so much for her son Elden to do well there...........his wife left him and he has 4 children which Grandma is taking care of..............then she told me about her jewelry (her hands were dark from working with silver)..............so I told her to bring some things over and we'd buy some to help her get money for things she needed................the picture is of her.

We find that we are giving money or things often.................but then how can we refuse people who need so much...............we took a bag of things today to the Kaaloa family - they take their baby tomorrow to Flagstaff for his first surgery on his cleft palate........what a darling baby and what a neat family.............they appreciated so much the things we took - just made a care package of things to tide them over while they were there in the hospital (the whole family is going)..........a case of water and then some gas money.............they were so thrilled! Life is good anbd it is good to be able to share............