Aba, Nigeria
121st operating temple
Dedicated: 7 Aug 2005
By: Gordon B. Hinckley
Jesus Christ, Light of the World
Luke 2:32
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
Book of Mormon/"Come Follow Me"
Alma 40:1-14; "Book of Mormon Central"
April General Conference
"Come and Belong"
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
We invite all of God's children throughout the world to join us in this great endeavor. Come and see! Even during this challenging time of COVID-19, meet with us online. Meet with our missionaries online. Find out for yourself what this Church is all about! When this difficult time has passed, meet with us in our homes and in our worship places!
We invite you to come and help! Come and serve with us, ministering to God's children, following in the footsteps of the Savior, and making this world a better place.
Come and belong! You will make us stronger. And you will become better, kinder, and happier as well. Your faith will deepen and grow more resilient - more capable of withstanding the turbulences and unexpected trials of life.
We were worried that the deposit we made yesterday would be rejected because James signed the back to be deposited into the business account yet it was deposited into the personal account because we used the debit card at the ATM. Also, the check was made out to Lambson Construction. One time before they rejected a deposit for this reason. This time they did not! Our happiness with Chase Bank was short lived though.
James wanted to use Zelle to pay someone he has not paid before. This man's name was Sal Hernandez and he asked us to use his sister's name to pay him using Zelle. I set up the transaction to be taken out of the business account. Everything seemed to be fine as the transaction went through. About a minute or so later I got a message that our transaction had been cancelled. Not only did they cancel our transaction but they locked our account so we couldn't get into it. In order to get our account unlocked I had to call and wait on the phone for over 30 minutes. When a woman named Kat asked if she could help I told her our problem. She asked for my name and then declared that I was not a signer on the account so she couldn't help me. I told her I had been signing checks for over 40 years and the bank had always accepted them. That knowledge made no difference to her. She told me I needed to go into a branch and sign a signature card. I told her I would do that if I could find a branch open and then I handed the phone to James.
After a long process to prove James's identity she then asked how she could help. She told us she would unlock the account and that we should be able to make our Zelle transaction in about five minutes. We tried and it was rejected again so James just wrote a check and took it to the post office. So much for our love for Chase Bank.
When James went to the post office he brought back 10 packages. Seven of the packages were books and the other three were other things I had ordered including some dust masks for James.
James went to town to get pellets and hay for the horse, check on getting cabinets for Mario's, and to buy me some cherry Dilly bars. Of course he had to stop for the paving and make a stop at the Grapp's for the stuff he left there. He came home with Dilly bars and a homemade loaf of bread from Cammy. She makes the best bread! I took the opportunity to mop the kitchen, dining room, and hall-entry floors while James was gone.
Erik had told James to call him before using the Razr. He forgot to connect some kind of hose and James had to do this which was a little difficult. He did manage to get the job done though. When the hose was connected he hopped on the Razr to chase cows away and then to go get Luna at the Elkins.'
James went outside to feed the horse and saw something amazing. Here it is described in his own words:
"At twilight, just before dark, I went outside to check the water I was filling in the horses' trough. I was walking toward the corral and I heard a sizzling noise and looked up toward the north and saw what appeared to be a large bright, almost white, glowing ball of fire moving from west to east. It was huge! Although it seemed like about two or three miles away, it appeared larger than a basketball and I thought...that has to be bigger than my house. I knew right away that it was a meteor. All of a sudden, for about 8 to 10 seconds, there was an orange tail about 4 or 5 times its' length trailing behind and it glowed bright orange and was the same diameter as the meteor at the beginning, tapering to a cone shape, but uneven. After a short time the tail went out and separated into a dozen large orange sparks about the size of an orange, from my point of view, then the tail disappeared but the glowing bright meteor fire ball continued on, now at a slightly downward arch and went between Mount Montoso to the north east and the slightly smaller peak with the tower to the north of Montoso, proving to me that it was only a few miles away and about a quarter of a mile above the ground where I first saw it and possibly no more than 15 or 20 yards below the top of the lower peak. As it descended at an angle it disappeared on the east side of the peaks descending quickly because of the angle of its' trajectory. I imagined that it crashed into the side of one of the volcanic cones beyond, or close to the highway between Springerville and St. Johns. It was magnificent."
I got another shipment of books ready to ship today.
