OUR FAMILY: Friday, October 27th, 2017

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Friday, October 27th, 2017

Suva, Fiji

91st operating temple

Dedicated: 18 June 2000

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Appearances, Postmortal

John 20:19

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Book of Mormon

3 Nephi 13:16-34

*How can we make sure we are laying up treasures in heaven?

"By living true to the gospel and following the commandments we can be assured that the kingdom of God will be opened to us." -Alex

"By putting the things of eternal importance first in our lives. Make service and scriptures and prayer and family the most important" -Kim

"I think it has to do with the desires of our hearts. Are we striving every day to be better and to do His will? We have to start with the desire." -Sheri

Doctrine Covenants Scripture Mastery

DC 137:7-10

7 Thus came the voice of the Lord unto me, saying: All who have died without a knowledge of this gospel, who would have received it if they had been permitted to tarry, shall be heirs of the celestial kingdom of God;

8 Also all that shall die henceforth without a knowledge of it, who would have received it with all their hearts, shall be heirs of that kingdom;

9 For I, the Lord, will judge all men according to their works, according to the desire of their hearts.

10 And I also beheld that all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven.

General Conference

Seek Ye Out of the Best Books

Elder Ian S. Ardern

"As we study from the best books, we protect ourselves against the menacing jaws of those that seek to gnaw at our spiritual roots."

James made me some oryx for breakfast. It was delicious. Paul shot an oryx in New Mexico and gave us some of the meat.

This is an oryx. Weird.

I left the house at 8:30 this morning to pick up Shelly A. We are going to the temple together. I was Shelly's Mia Maid advisor a few years ago and now she is getting ready to go on a mission. She has been called to the Baltimore, Maryland mission and is leaving on November 15th. Her farewell is on Sunday. She went through the temple for her own endowments last Friday. Today she is going with me to do initiatories and then do a session.

The two of us did two initiatories and then we each did an endowment all for my ancestors. I had the temple do four other initiatories making 8 in all. Incidentally, I got these names on the name "Take a Name" which Shelly's dad told us about. Shelly is an amazing girl! She has also been called to work in the temple for the two weeks before she leaves on her mission.

An old woman and a young chick.

Shelly introduced me to El Cupido's a few years ago so it was only fitting that we go there for lunch after our time at the temple. We both had the Big Jake burro. I had a soda and Shelly had an horchata to drink. I tried it, not bad.

Shelly told me her dogs left home and they haven't seen them for almost 24 hours.

It was almost 3 pm when I returned home. I had to do 7,000 more steps before bedtime but I made it.

The Hallmark Christmas movies start today! I started watching this evening while I blogged. James sat right across from me at the table reading a Brad Wilcox book. Now that's romance!

We finished our book, "Miss Leslie's Secret." We also watched Heartland, "Man's Best Friend." It was a good episode. Jack's best friend was his old truck. It kept breaking down on him but he had a hard time letting go. That's how I am going to be with Lexy.