July 19

They tell us that it has been unseasonably dry and warm this spring but last evening it began a light rain that has continued pretty much all night and today. I don’t know what “warm” is for Alaskans on the peninsula but it hasn’t been much over 70 in the daytime and is down around 50 every night so far. Even though we climbed into the sack (again) after 1:00 AM after we finished vacuum-packing smoked and freshly-caught fish we got up before 7:00 AM to get ready for church. They announced that about 50% of the attendance was visitors at the Soldotna Ward. The high councilmen spoke and they both gave very good talks even though it was hard to stay awake to listen to them.