Monday, September 12th, 2022:James's blood test, my dentist appt, Taco lunch, Town Dollar Tree & Book Barn, Text from Ruth, Glendale Airport contract,

 

St. Louis, Missouri

50th operating temple

Dedicated: 1 June 1997

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Seed of

Moses 6:68

Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons. Amen.

Book of Mormon

Helaman 3:1-18

"Come Follow Me"

Isaiah 13-14; 24-30;35 "A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"

Isaiah 13-15

AprGenCon

"Conversion To The Will Of God"

Elder Quentin L. Cook

Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

For the Savior's mandate to share the gospel to become part of who we are, we need to become converted to the will of God; we need to love our neighbors, share the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and invite all to come and see.

James left around 7 am to get his quarterly bloodwork done to check his cancer numbers. Last quarter they had gone way down to .8.

I had a dentist appointment with Pierce at 9 a.m. Pierce is an amazing dentist. I thought I had lost a cavity but he said it was part of a tooth. He fixed it and then fixed the gap in my lower two front teeth. He wasn't going to let me pay him because he said James was going to do some work for his brother-in-law at their family reunion on the 23rd. Instead of writing him a check I just gave him the $40 that was in my pocket. I told him to buy lunch and he laughed.

James and I met back at home. He brought me two tacos from Jack-in-the-Box so I had some lunch. After I ate I told James I wanted to go to town and see if I could find a birthday gift for Tamara's birthday tomorrow. Her birthday is the same day as my Mom's. 

My first stop in town was at Dollar Tree where I bought several frames for the plaques I make. My next and last stop was at the LDS bookstore, Book Barn. Brother Lance Rhoton, our stake executive secretary was minding the store. I looked at the Willow Tree statues. They are beautiful but I decided I didn't want to buy something that Tamara had bought me. I found an Isaiah commentary by Kerry Muhlestein and thought that since we are studying Isaiah in Sunday School this would be a good gift for someone like Tamara who loves to study the gospel. It is called, "Learning to Love Isaiah." I bought it, and felt good until I got home and by then I had talked myself out of it being a good gift. I decided I would keep it myself even though I already have a couple of Isaiah commentaries. Now, what to get Tamara. I thought that I would go to town again tomorrow and pick out a nice scented candle. 

I think Brother Rhoton must have graves disease, or some other eye disease because his eyes are always red. Poor man. He looks like he is miserable.

This afternoon I made some banana bread and some pumpkin bread from some box mixes. Yes, I cheated. I did add bananas and walnuts to the banana mix and it was quite delicious. I baked the bread in 4" cake pans and they made four little mini cakes for each flavor. I wrapped two of the banana mini cakes for James and Greg to take to Globe. One of the mini pumpkin cakes is for Tamara, one for Chelsea, and one was supposed to be for Rosie Lauritzen for her birthday but I decided I was just going to send Rosie a flower card instead. I ate the other two pumpkin cakes, over a coupe of days.

I got a text from my friend Ruth Gale about going to the temple. Normally we go on the 3rd Tuesday but the temple will be closed that day so Ruth suggested that we either go Wednesday morning or anytime Friday. I talked to James and he wants to go to and said Friday afternoon is best for him. I scheduled our appointments for the 3:30 session, this Friday, September 16th and told Ruth. She said she had an appointment in Holbrook that day to use someone's quilting machine but she thought she could make it back for the temple session. We will see.

I texted with Jared and Kacey this afternoon. I had asked if they would be coming for Christmas and Jared said he did not think they would make it. I told him I had to try, just in case. I asked how Tanner was doing and if Charlie likes preschool. Tanner is doing great and Charlie loves preschool and Kacey says her 18 month olds are pretty sweet and she has enjoyed them. She also said they take naps, which is very helpful.

It rained most of the afternoon and evening. James says it rained until 10:30 p.m. Greg says he can't go to Globe tomorrow because his pond flooded and he has to stay home and work on it. 

While we were on the front porch this evening we heard our first elk of the season bugling. James got his elk call and his binoculars and went upstairs to check and see if he could see him. He said he was a big 6x6 and was right down our road next to our fence. He thinks he was debating on whether he should jump the fence but something made him decide not to. Needless to say this made James's day!

James and I watched an Up movie before going to bed called, "Finding Love In Big Sky." It was about a ranch in Montana called Bright Star Ranch and how the two people who save it, fall in love. Not bad entertainment even though it was quite predictable.

Trina and her mom in northern

California where they went to visit

Suzie's sister.

I never get tired of the clouds.