OUR FAMILY: Monday, March 2nd, 2020

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

141st operating temple

Dedicated: 17 Mar 2013

By: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Jesus Christ, Judge

2 Nephi 13:14

The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof; for ye have eaten up the vineyard and the spoil of the poor in your houses.

Book of Mormon/"Come Follow Me"

2 Nephi 31:1-12

Saints, Volume 2

Chapter 30

A Steady, Onward Movement

October 2019 GenCon

True Disciples of the Savior

Elder Terence M. Vinson

"Are we true followers of Him who gave His all for us? He who is our Redeemer and our Advocate with the Father? He who was Himself absolutely committed in His atoning sacrifice and is so now in His love, His mercy, and His desire for us to have eternal joy? I plead with all who hear and read these words: Please, please don't put your total commitment off until you get around to it at some nonexistent, future time. Get fair dinkum now and feel the joy!"

I already did this post once but my computer some how lost it, or maybe I forgot to save it. Anyway, here it goes again.

I got up and worked on my blog for awhile before going to get my infusion. Darrel took Addy and Rowan to school. They leave much earlier than Ruby and Lola. Suzy came and picked up Ruby and Lola to take them to school.

James dropped me off at AARA for my infusion. He borrowed my Costco card and said he was going to see if they could fix his hearing aid. He also went to Verizon and got the ringer on his phone fixed. I asked him if he got me a cord like I asked him to and he said he forgot. He said we could go by and get one later. We never did.

I had a few minutes after my infusion to go to Deseret Book and get a book for my friend Karen whom I am having lunch with to celebrate her birthday. I got her Sister Wendy Nelson's book, "The Heavens Are Open." It's the one that I am reading. I was afraid she might already have it and she did. I told her I wanted to get her Emily Belle Freeman's new book on grace but it doesn't come out until March 9th. She told me to take this book back and get Emily's and the next time we have lunch I could give it to her. Will do.

I had what I almost always do when I go to Firebirds, coconut shrimp with mango coleslaw. It is actually an appetizer. Karen used to order it too but now she is eating a plant-based, gluten free diet. She ordered a baked potato and a salad. She told the waiter that I wanted dessert. We both always use to order a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce. I guess she wants to live vicariously through me because she told him that's what I wanted. It was yummy.

I guess when old people get together they talk about their ailments. That's what we did. Karen still does chemo every other Wednesday. She's lucky her hair has not fallen out. She says she will have to do the chemo for the rest of her life. She has some type of kidney cancer.

Lance, her husband, had prostate cancer and did 8 weeks worth of treatments at Loma Linda University in California. This school is run by the Seventh Day Adventist church who are very health conscious.

When it was time to go, it was raining outside so James pulled around by the front door. Karen said it was hailing when she left and she had to wait for about five minutes. I think it was a cloudburst right over the restaurant because we were out of the rain a few minutes after we left.

We went to Chacon's tire shop in Mesa where Mario signed the contract and gave James a check for $6,200.

James hired Duran Thompson, a friend from Chandler that he has worked with before, to survey Mario's lots. His price was under a thousand dollars whereas the guy Mario hired wanted $1,700.

James went by to see Duran before we headed to the Gilbert Costco.

Costco was a big disappointment. I wanted toilet paper and paper towels and they were out of both. I also wanted some fresh strawberries to take home to Darrel's kids. They had none. We got cantaloupe instead. No bread so we got croissants. I got lunchmeat and cheese and some chicken salad to make sandwiches for the kids dinner. Suzy was going to do dinner for them but I told her we would. She took the girls to school and picked them up and then took them to their tumbling class.

When Ruby walked in the door from tumbling she asked what was for dinner. I guess tumbling makes you hungry. Addy had heated up the leftovers from last night and I had stuff out to make the croissant sandwiches. Lola ordered a turkey with cheese.

Darrel came in with a big handful of mail. I guess they don't pick up their mail very often because one of the letters I sent for Valentine's day was in the pile.

Lola wanted to know why I used pink and yellow to color the LOVE card. I told her because that was the colors at her mom and dad's wedding reception. When she heard that she wanted to make a card just like it. She did a pretty good job of duplicating it.

Lola started talking about her birthday and how she wishes it was on the "oneth" of July instead of the fourth. Rowan thought that was so funny. He said, "yeah, you could tell everyone your birthday is the oneth of July!" I told Lola she wouldn't want her birthday on that day because that was Max's birthday.

James and I went to bed pretty early because we are making a trip to Walmart in the morning before going to the temple. James left his dress shoes at home and needs to get another pair. We could have gone tonight but I was already in bed when he made the discovery.