Hello Again from northern Frozen MN. It is amazing that the weather is still chilly as it was a month ago.
Well I was able to chat with Jill Thursday Feb 20 and it looks like that little niece Mia isn't going to wait for Grandma "Suzee" Peterson to arrive, but that is OK. I chatted with Abby and I tell you what that little girl is so smart. She sang Happy Birthday to me even though it isn't quite my Birthday and told me all about Preschool and what she has been up to like painting her fingers and toes blue and pink. I so am amazed at how she is growing and it is a joy to have her in our family what a kid. I am glad that we have this wonderful family of ours. Although big it is sill a joy. If you say you can't learn from a child and they aren't smart they are wrong. I am doing well in primary and yesterday we played Choose The Right Bingo and that was a blast. We used smarty candies as our game pieced it was so much fun we learned about Prophets and what the Lord has told them to teach us. In our lesion we learned many ways the Prophet has taught us and in our Bingo was many things we are suppose to do and that was so much fun to put together. Well chat soon. Love to all!

Cold up in here

For us the last two weeks have been busy. We got the roof fixed and we are able to some what get to normal. We are greatful that the work was done quickly. That is such a relief. well not much to day chat soon we are staying warm again and that is a blessing.

Well hello. The frozen north is cold yet again and yesterday our furnace went out and we had to get it fixed. we are on a state program for the fuel and electric we get so we were able to get help for the fixing of it through them. tell you what thank goodness the problem was not that bad. it will be good. we are going to be chatting with the same program today to see if we can get help for the roof problem so we are headed in the right direction. All is well otherwise. More later.

Hell Form MN. The frozen north has again taken a tole on the Lutgen's this last week. We had a frighting Sat. night with high winds and warm weather. Sat. night about 5:30 pm we were in at home and had a friend over to watch movies and work on craft projects when we looked outside and noticed that the wind was picking up so we decided to bring in our two dogs. I had to use the bathroom and as I was in the bathroom I heard a loud crack. It was one of the trees in our yard breaking and hitting our trailer witch did damage to our kitchen roof and inside were our table was. Roman and our friend Shayne went out to see what had happened and how big the tree was and then just as we thought it was safe we heard another big crack and it was another tree hitting our trailer this time it hit the master bedroom and part of the tree came inside. Roman called law enforcement. I called Dad in Ill. and told him what happened. as I was chatting with him the power in the whole trailer park went out. shortly after that an officer came took a statement and took pictures of the damage. As they were there we noticed we couldn't get in to the master bedroom so Roman prided the door open we finally got in and things were OK. I tell you that was a fright. Then we called the 1st councilor in the Branch and told him about it and asked what we were going to do about it and the only thing we could think of. Shayne in the meantime went over to the neighbors house and asked him if we could help us get the trees of the trailer. He had a chainsaw and a ladder. He came over and Shayne went up the ladder and looked ant the damage which was quite bad. but in the dark and with the wind still blowing out we decided that there could be nothing we could do in the dark so we patched up the areas we could with left over plastic we had from another project and put buckets under the plastic punched a small hole in the middle so the water could drain out and waite. We all just said a lot of prayers that there would be no other trees falling in the trailer park.
Sunday came and we went to church and let people know about the problem and after church the neighbor and five members of the branch came over to help as well as Roman, Shayne and I. We borrowed some heavy tarps used by Shayne's dad who is a trucker and placed them were the holes were as of this morning there is no water dripping from the holes and we are safe. We owe all of the help we have received from people from our Heavenly Father and know that this is a test of our faith. Surprising enough I am not as upset as I could be so I owe that all to him to for keeping us calm throughout all of this. We will let you know more as we know more until then take care.