Wednesday, July 31st, 2024: Up @ 4, I wonder if my right arm will ever stop hurting, cancelled our temple trip because of James's hand, Armando's dad's surgery is 12 hrs long, Tom's lizard and bee, Chipped my front tooth, "The Lady Glass"

Logan, Utah

2nd operating temple

Dedicated: 17-19 May 1884

By: John Taylor

Book of Mormon

Alma 37:1-14

Come Follow Me

Alma 37

The scriptures have been preserved "for a wise purpose."

"The Blessings of Scripture" Elder D. Todd Christofferson

Video: "Alma Testifies to His Son Helaman"

April General Conference

"Rejoice in the Gift of Priesthood Key's" President Russell M. Nelson

D&C 109:58

58 That from among all these, thy servants, the sons of Jacob, may gather out the righteous to build a holy city to thy name, as thou hast commanded them.

I was up at 4 am. I wonder if my right arm is ever going to stop hurting? It's mostly my elbow that bothers me and limits my range of motion.

We cancelled our temple appointments for today. James cannot use his right hand. I guess we forgot that little fact when we made the appointments. Neither one of us is feeling very well but we still would have gone because we had invited Virgil. James is his ministering brother and the one thing Virgil asked of him was that he would take him to the temple. We were sorry to disappoint him but he seemed to understand. 

Kristine Hipps has been sick for awhile and now James says she has pneumonia and has to be on a breathing machine. I hope she gets well soon. She is one of my favorite people in the ward. 

Armando's dad had surgery today to put skin grafts on his burns. The surgery lasted 12 hours. Now we are praying that the skin grafts will "take." 

We got no payment from Daryl Johnson after he promised. It's been two weeks since we lent him the money and he promised to pay it all back in two days. 

James said Tom was playing with an alligator lizard today having a fun time tossing him in the air. I'm not sure what he did with him when he was finished. He also had a bee dive bomb him on the back. As soon as the bee made contact, Tom jumped several feet into the air and swirled around. He is so quick on his feet! I wish James would have taken a picture.

I was reading online that if a cat sticks his rear end in your face that means he likes me. Tom does this to me every morning when he comes in from outside. I guess that means he really likes me!

I am pretty miserable today and on top of everything else, I chipped my front tooth. It goes right along with the big gap between my two front teeth. Just call me Ma Kettle.

I need to get an x-ray on my right shoulder, see a dentist, and call Arizona Arthritis and tell them I am having flare-ups.

I finished "For Elise" today and started "The Lady Glass."

Notes and Quotes

 "I hope you will repeatedly study the messages of this conference throughout the coming months."

"Joseph Smith's dedicatory prayer of the Kirtland Temple is a tutorial about how the temple spiritually empowers you and me to meet the challenges of life in these last days. I encourage you to study that prayer, recorded in Doctrine and Covenants section 109. That dedicatory prayer, which was received by revelation, teaches that the temple is 'a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.'"

- President Russell M. Nelson

'Rejoice In The Gift Of Priesthood Keys'

Yum!

James, Rowan, Ruby, Molly, Anna, Emmy, Addy

That looks like Aunt Gene's yellow Cadillac in the parking lot!

I went here almost everyday after school and got a baked ham sandwich, and a fresh limeade all for seventy-five cents.

Loved this car so much when I was

a teenager.