Sunday, May 12, 2024: Happy Mother's Day, Our talks went well, Bishop provides fruit salad & granola for RS snack, Sisters tell about their Mothers, My Mother's Day

 

Accra, Ghana

117th operating temple

Dedicated: 11 Jan 2004

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Book of Mormon

Mosiah 11

Come Follow Me

Review

April General Conference

"In Support of the Rising Generation" by Michael T. Nelson

'To effectively serve others we must see them . . . through Heavenly Father's eyes. Only then can we begin to comprehend the true worth of a soul. Only then can we sense the love that Heavenly Father has for all . . . His children." - Elder Dale G. Renlund

I got up at 5:30 this morning to finish up my talk. I finished it and then realized it was too long so I had to cut some things out. 

I got Mother's Day greetings from all of my kids today, including Kacey who was first, Brian, and Trina. James wrote me a sweet letter. It was a nice day. I also got a text from Addy and phone calls from Adam and Michael. 

There were two youth speakers before we spoke today, but no musical number which was kind of a surprise. Ruthy Wilhelm was the first speaker. Her talk was short and sweet. Tyler Finnegan was next and his talk was short too. I cut mine down to fifteen minutes so James would have fifteen minutes for his. All of our material came out of the book, "Mothers of Prophets." We were both so glad when it was over. 

The bishop presided over Relief Society today. We had fruit salad and granola and then several sisters got up and talked about their mothers. Millie Scott talked about her mother and then she talked about bishop's mother, Analee Hunsaker. Our nonmember sister, Debbie talked about her mom and showed some of her artwork. It was a good meeting.

Since we forgot to get steaks yesterday when we were at Walmart, James fixed us tacos for dinner and then we had ice cream sandwiches for dinner. Afterwards we took naps and had quiet time.

James some time this afternoon watering trees in our yard. I sat on the deck and watched the horses as I took a break from working on my blog. 

Tom came in tonight but instead of sleeping on our bed, he slept on one of the high chairs at our high table. 

My view this evening from the deck outside

of our bedroom.