OUR FAMILY: Thursday, February 15, 2024: Herd of deer, Tom's doings, James handed in our income tax info, J visits at Waypoint Recovery w/ Collin, Jan Martin on "FH", Abrahamic Covenant

Monday, February 26, 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024: Herd of deer, Tom's doings, James handed in our income tax info, J visits at Waypoint Recovery w/ Collin, Jan Martin on "FH", Abrahamic Covenant

Dallas, Texas

30th operating temple

Dedicated: 19 Oct 1984

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Book of Mormon

2 Nephi 4:20-35

Come Follow Me

2 Nephi 5

I can find happiness in living the gospel of Jesus Christ.

October General Conference

"Seeing God's Family through the Overview Lens" by Tamara W. Runia

Book

"Grace Where You Are" Emily Belle Freeman, p. 21-31

"For every hurt on the Mortality Tree, healing can be found on the Jesus Tree."

Inklings

"Walking in Covenant Relationship with Christ" by Emily Belle Freeman; see footnotes 19-32 in talk; Exalt; "It's not the course alone that will exalt us; it's the companion."

Tom and James see a herd of deer go through our property when they go out to feed Luna. James says Tom was staring at something out in the field and as he looked to see what Tom was looking at, he saw the deer.

Tom comes in the house during the day and sleeps most of the time.

Today he started on one of the high chairs at the table near the entryway. He saw me come in the bedroom and followed me. When I sat down on the recliner with my electric blanket, as soon as I got settled, he jumped up on my lap. He slept there during my nap and when I was ready to get up James came and moved him to the other recliner seat with another blanket. He stayed there a few minutes and then jumped back over to the electric blanket. When James came in to take his nap on the bed, Tom joined him, snuggling up close.

James went into town to take our tax information to our accountant, Cheri Witt. He is so grateful to be handing the information over to someone else. He was going to wash my car but failed to do so. He promised he would wash it at home before Sunday.

When James got home he worked on Applegate's house plans. He says it's going to be a difficult house to build and that the plans are not showing enough detail and the county will never pass them. Not good news for Jimmy & Tamara. Their house plan is quite unique. It has a castle turret and a spiral staircase going up to it. It's going to be the Vernon castle when it gets built.

This evening around 5, James picked up Collin DeWitt and they went to an addiction recovery center at The Ranch. The place is called WayPoint. There are a couple of members of our ward at this recovery center. Collin brought one of them a new pair of work boots because he heard he needed a pair.

A woman named Lori Holland is the head of the center. She is a member but not interested in coming to our ward. Even though she spends most of her time here in Vernon at the center she says she has a home in Eagar and that is where her membership is. There are three other guys who are members, Rob Bigelow who is not interested in attending church, and the two guys Collin and James met with: Bo Taylor and Ben Young. Ben Young is from Chandler and Mike Wallen was his bishop in Chandler 4th ward. Collin made arrangements with Ben and Bo to pick them up on Sunday. James and I will take them home after church.

I listened to Jan Martin on "Follow Him" and really enjoyed her. I blogged for the 7th and 8th of February, walked over 14,000 steps and listened to "Tutored in Love" with James. I also looked up the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 17 and Abraham 2 as part of my lesson preparation for "The Sealing Power."

I was going to go shopping when James went to town today but I just wasn't feeling up to it.