Chicken Roll Ups

By Donna Schwartz

4 Chicken Breasts (cooked/shredded with onion)
4 T melted butter
1/2 tsp salt
2 sticks celery, chopped
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 small onion, diced
Saute celery and onion in butter, then mix well with rest of filling.

Roll out 2 cans of crescent rools thin. Put 1/4 C of filling in rolls. Roll up and tuck in the ends.
Roll in melted butter and then roll in bread crumbs.

Bake at 350* for 20-25 minutes.

Sauce:
Combine 1 can of cream of chicken soup and 1 C chicken broth. Heat and pour over rolls.

Food For Thought

'I suppose every Mormon [man and] woman [have] measured [themselves] at one time or another against [their pioneer ancestors],' wrote Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. 'Am I as stalwart? As self-reliant? As devoted to the gospel? As willing to sacrifice?' Could I leave my wife and children without food or means to support themselves while I responded to a call to serve a mission abroad, or take these same innocent ones, dependent solely upon me for their survival, into hostile territory to set up housekeeping and provide a livelihood for them? Or, were I a woman, 'Could I crush my best china to add glitter to a temple, bid loving farewell to a missionary husband as I lay in a wagon bed with fever and chills, leave all that I possessed and walk across the plains to an arid wilderness?' (Ensign, June 1978, p. 54.)"Some may feel that their lives of relative ease and convenience lack the vigor and fortitude of those who survived the pioneer days, that they can never measure up to the toil, struggles, and challenges our pioneer ancestors faced and emerge the victor."Yet, 'Our challenges are just as important as those of the past. Our testing is as crucial; our contributions may be as great. . . ." 'An essential quality of the first pioneers was optimism, an ability to see new possibilities in a strange and unsettling environment. To beautify the desert, they needed faith in God, but they also needed faith in themselves and in their ability to help shape the world. The need for that faith has not diminished. . . ." 'A pioneer is not [necessarily] a woman who makes her own soap' or a man who grubs sagebrush from the land. Pioneers are those who take up their burdens and walk toward the future. With vision and with courage they make the desert blossom and they press on toward new frontiers. (Ibid., p. 55.)"
David B. Haight, "A Call to Serve," Ensign, Nov. 1988, 82–83

June Spotlight

Andrea Anaya
I was born in Columbia, Missouri. My family moved when I was about a year old to Mequon, Wisconsin where I lived until I was 5. I then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and went to Kindergarten and 1st grade there before moving to Eagle River, Alaska when I was 7 years old. I graduated from Chugiak High School in Alaska. Just after graduation I traveled to Tokyo, Japan where we won two first place trophies at the Miss Drill Team International Competition. Good times. I met my husband when I was in junior high school. He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and had a class with my older sister. Although he didn't make too much of an impression on me then, lucky for me, he kept in touch with my sister and came to visit her in 1994, when I was going through a divorce. He got me hooked up on Compuserve and we emailed and talked on the phone for more than two years while I lived in Colorado and he lived in New Jersey. Then he moved to California and I moved to Utah. We didn't live in the same state until we were engaged! After two and a half years of dating, we married just six weeks after he was baptized. Believe me when I say that he was not a golden contact for the missionaries, seeing no reason whatsoever for religion in his life. However, after he proposed I got hugely cold feet at the prospect of marrying again, so I didn't answer him for a few months. (Terrible, I know). During that time, in an effort to explain the importance of the gospel in my life, I read him the following poem by Carol Lynn Pearson

AT THE ALTAR
The thought of forever
teased my mind
like a mountain
through a thickly misted view.
But today,the veil dissolved to show
Eternity is you.

He wrote it down and prayed for the first time in his life, an event for which I remain profoundly grateful. He is my best friend and my sweetheart and I love "dragging him through life." We'll have been married 13 years in November.
The Lord definitely built our family. Shirsten, our oldest, just turned 18, graduated from high school and is heading off to Emerson College in Boston in the fall. Yikes! She has been such a source of strength to me over the years, as she and I weathered the storms of divorce and single parenting and remarriage together. Gene and I have had a difficult time bringing our own children together in our home. Four in vitro fertilizations yielded two adoptions, Kailea Joy who is 9 in June and Kaelys Nabaahi Zhoon, 6, our beautiful little Navajo warrior, and finally (after nine years) our little Daniel Bitalio who is three. Without question, my children are my greatest joy, motherhood my greatest calling.
Do I work? Ha! I don't know how not to, and if the truth be told, I love to work. I started my own business in 1992, at the age of 22. I wrote a medical transcription home study course which I then put online in 1999. It has exceeded my expectations in every way. I have learned and grown so much through the process of owning and building a company. It's been a lot of fun. When I sold controlling interest in Career Step in February I had 110 employees and more than 15,000 students from all around the world. My problem is that I enjoy working so much, I've ventured off into another couple projects, MyExpertSolution and Design It Boutique. And I still help out at Career Step whenever they need me.
I love history. I love to read. I really love to read historical fiction (put the two together!). We puzzle. A lot. More than we should probably admit to. Just about any time you come to our home, there is a puzzle at some stage of completion or one table or another.
Going to Europe last fall with my family was absolutely magical. We stayed at a 400 year old manor house in the English countryside and then took a cruise throughout Scandanavia and Russia. Wonderfully magical.
We also spend time together in Alaska as a family. I get butterflies just thinking about it. The whales. The otters, eagles, and seals. The beauty and majesty of the surroundings.
I am 6th generation Mormon on three of four grandparent lines. I had a number of ancestors join the church in 1830 and emigrate with the Saints at every stage of church history. My family includes Pratts and Tanners, Passeys and Webbs. If you've ever been to Nauvoo and visited the Blacksmith Shop, that was my great-great-great grandfathers. He and his brother built a number of the wagons which brought the Saints to Salt Lake. I'm grateful for my membership in the church, and I'm grateful to my ancestors for passing it on to me. To be born in the gospel, in this dispensation, in this Country with the freedom we enjoy, seems like all the best that the world could ever offer. Especially having traveled in 3rd world countries. Shirsten and I spent last April in Ghana, where we visited an orphanage and helped to build a medical clinic. It was a life-altering experience, which I hope to pursue many more of in the future.

May Spotlight

Rita MacCabe

I came into the world the fifth of seven children in Logan, Utah, in the old hospital across from the temple. We moved to Vernal, Utah about six months later, and after three years there we moved to northern California, where I spent most of my youth. We first lived in Grass Valley, an old gold mining town, and then Red Bluff, a cow town on the Sacramento River, surrounded by orchards of peaches, plums, nuts, grapefruit and oranges.

After I graduated from high school, I came to BYU where I graduated with a degree in English/Teaching and eventually met Bret. We just celebrated our 23rd anniversary. We have six children: a married daughter, Stacy, who lives in Rexburg with her husband, Sam Robbins; a son, Cody, who is on a mission in Japan; Bryce, who will be a Senior this year; Devan, 15; Quinton, soon to be a Deacon; and Terese, 10. We will become grandparents this October.

We have lived many places during our married lives. We lived in Ketchikan, Alaska when we first got married. We lived in Juneau, Alaska (1995-1996) while Bret studied to get his Master’s. Then we moved to Idaho for six years (1999-2005) while Bret worked on his doctorate. We lived the first three years in Pocatello and the next three in Rexburg. We returned to Salem in 2005 for Bret to take a job with Provo School District as a Special Education Specialist/Technology Specialist. He travels throughout the district fixing computers, training teachers, and helping with the needs of the Special Education students/parents/teachers.



I currently serve as the secretary in the Primary in Salem 2nd Ward. My hobbies include reading, learning about other countries and cultures, gardening, playing the piano and organ, doing family history, hiking, and quilting. I enjoy bird watching and traveling to new places. My greatest joys are spending time with my family (especially Bret) and watching my children grow up in the gospel.