Friday, March 29, 2024: Oil change, returns shoes & refund on cat food, Easter treats for sister I minister to, Visit Catherine & Janna w/ Kathy, barbershop accessories ordered, baked beans for tomorrow

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico

73rd operating temple

Dedicated: 27 Feb 2000

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Book of Mormon

Alma 15:3-12

Come Follow Me

"A Living Witness of the Living Christ" by Bishop Gerald Causse

October General Conference

"We Are His Children" by Elder Christophe G. Giraud-Carrier

Book

"Visions of Glory" by John Pontius

 James went into town this morning for an oil change. He also took back the croc shoes I bought because they were too big and wide and looked like I had duck feet.  We realized that we paid twice for our cat food which was over $18 so he needed to get a refund back. Also he picked up my Tramadol. I am grateful he saved me a trip to town. 

I had an appointment to visit Catherine Halcomb at 9:30 this morning and Janna Grombach at 10:30 with my partner Kathy Crane.

I spent the morning making up bags of treats for my sisters and one for Kathy. 

I put these in a flowered cellophane bag

and tied with a bow.

 Kathy picked me up a little after nine. She always wants to drive and she always asks me to make the appointments. 

Our first visit was with Catherine. The visit started out fine. We talked about dogs. Catherine used to raise sled dogs and Kathy loves dogs so they have something in common. I told the story of the red eggs in Emily's book "A Christ-Centered Easter." Catherine loved the story about the grandmothers in Serbia who taught their families about the resurrection of Jesus Christ in spite of the Communist government who forbade Christianity. Here is a picture of Emily's red eggs. She dyes them using onion skins.

The eggs redness represent the

blood that Christ shed for us.

The eggs represent eternal life.

 Things went south when Catherine and Kathy started talking about Ellen, their mutual friend, whom they are trying to get to go to the temple to get her endowments. Catherine mentioned that she, Catherine, wears one-piece garments. Kathy said "Don't tell Ellen about the one-piece garments." One of Ellen's hang-ups is that she doesn't want to wear garments because she thinks they will be too tight and will hurt her legs.  Catherine kept talking and Kathy said about 2 or 3 times more "Don't tell Ellen about the one-piece garments." Kathy knows that Catherine is hard of hearing and I think that is why she kept repeating herself, but it really upset Catherine who evidently heard her every time. She yelled at Kathy, "I know Kathy, I'm not stupid!" When it got quiet I said, "Catherine, Kathy doesn't think you are stupid." 

When we got ready to leave Kathy told Catherine she loved her and only wanted the best for her. When we got to the car and were driving to Janna's Kathy said she didn't know if she was good for Catherine. I asked her if she wanted to continue being her ministering sister. She said, "Not if she is going to treat me like that."

Getting to Janna's was wonderful. We had such a good visit with her and Kathy made the comment that Janna was like a breath of fresh air. We sat in front of the TV where Janna had found an Easter picture on YouTube. We started talking about some of the videos on YouTube and Janna told us about a channel that she and Willy love called Gospel Lessons. She thought is was a Ben Wilcox channel but I looked it up and the guys name is Kevin Prince. 

Janna also told us about a video they watched regarding looking for Joseph Smith's tomb in Nauvoo. I didn't realize at the time, but Joseph wasn't buried in the tomb. 

Kathy's right eye is swollen and red. She said she was going to go to Urgent Care to see if they could help her, which she did. They gave her a Kenalog shot.

When we got home I went in to lie down for awhile. It was short lived because James needed my help. He was trying to buy some equipment for the barbershop job online using my Visa card that as a $30,000 limit. What he was buying cost around $11,500 but Chase kept blocking the purchase because I don't normally make these kinds of purchases with this card. Chase reps spoke with both James and I and they kept saying the lock had been lifted but we could never make the purchase go through. Finally they said because there were so many attempts that they were locking the card until Monday. We understand there needs to be security measures but when they have verified they have spoken to the owners of the card and it is still locked, that is not good customer service. I used two of my other credit cards dividing the cost of the items James needed to buy and the purchase went through. This all took well over an hour.

I watched part of the video about finding what they think is Joseph Smith's alleged tomb in Nauvoo before going in to make baked beans for tomorrow's family gathering.

I made up my own recipe using different elements from two other recipes. They turned out very good. Both James and I liked them. I put them in a crockpot and we put them in the frig overnight.

Tom slept outside tonight so I worried about him most of the night.

Lola and Charlie

Another Charlie memory

Opening night was actually last week.

Exotic Bird