Saturday, August 9th, 2025: Leave @ 5:30 for 9am Chandler Stake Women's Conference, Theme: "...and I will show miracles, signs, and wonders unto all those who believe on my name." (D&C 35:8) honey bees, pheumonia, Easter celebration, fixing a tire, Kim w/ me, Paul listens too, Kim's Nutella bars, goodbye Chandler, hello Vernon

 

Belem, Brazil

174th operating temple

Dedicated: 20 Nov 2022

By: Dale G. Renlund

Book of Mormon

Alma 47:20-36

"Follow Him"

'Stand Ye In Holy Places and Be Not Moved' D&C 85-87

Guest: Robert Freeman

April General Conference

'Faith: A Bond of Trust and Loyalty'

Elder Sandino Roman

Other

21 Days Closer to Christ

The Second Coming of Our Lord

Priesthood Power

Up at 5. Yikes! We are supposed to leave at 5:30. Somehow I managed to get dressed, put on my makeup and raise my arms up to do my hair, which is no easy matter. I drink a shake so I can take my T&T. 

We go the Payson way. I text Kim and ask if Brian can take her to the stake center because we are running a little late. I get there before she does, actually I arrive about 15 minutes until 9. Stacy comes down off the stand and tells me I look beautiful. I tell her she does too. 

Kim and I sit in the back row of the chapel. Paul is there to hear Stacy speak and then he leaves. 

I am so impressed with the theme of this conference and the work that went in to it. The displays are beautiful as are the handouts and the lunch stations. The theme is taken from D&C 35:8 "...and I will show miracles, signs, and wonders unto all those who believe on my name." 

Stacy was the second speaker. The first speaker was a senior from Perry High School. Stacy started her talk by telling about the industry and small things that honey bees do to make a big difference in nature. She told the story of having pneumonia when she was 7. I thought she would tell that she had a blessing and was made well. Instead she said her chest hurt so much that in her little seven year old mind she thought she was having a heart attack and was going to die. She said a prayer and immediately she felt better. She never told anyone about this prayer. I wonder if it was the prayer or the blessing that healed her. Probably the combination of both.

Stacy also talked about being in charge of the stake Easter celebration and how people came together to help. Also, the weather was very hot in the morning so she and Paul kneeled by their bed and asked that the weather would be tempered so that people would want to come. Clouds came, the weather cooled down and people came. Prayers were answered. She also talked about having problems with the tire on her car. She couldn't work and they needed the money that her job brings in. Paul said he couldn't fix the tire. Stacy prayed and the answer came, "Paul can fix it." She texted him and took the car home. When he went out to look at it, something was different and this time he was able to fix it. Another miracle. It was a great talk.

Another sister spoke about growing up in an inactive home. Her grandparents were in the movie "The Windows of Heaven" when she was a little girl. She thought about heaven having windows and that thought stayed with her. Her dad ended up buying a motel and gas station on route 66 in Joe City, Arizona. I guess he didn't know that Joe City is the oldest LDS community in the state of Arizona. One day as a young girl she was out walking by the church when she heard voices singing. The windows were open and she thought, "this must be the windows of heaven." She went inside and became acquainted with the members of the choir and ended up singing with them. Because of this experience she became active in the church. 

The music was great and the Spanish branch did an excellent job decorating. The handouts for the sisters to take home were boxes decorated like bee boxes from Stacy's talk. There was even a gluten free lunch station and takeout boxes for sisters who needed to leave. 

There were service projects set up in various rooms, peanut butter and jelly sandwich for a lunch program, journals for a domestic shelter for women and children and notebooks for police officers to use for people with non-verbal skills. I am so grateful I came. Here are some photos I took:

Bee Boxes

Kim helped me make up a lunch box. Some lunchmeat and cheese, blueberries, cucumbers, carrots and bell peppers. 

James came and picked Kim and I up and Paul picked Stacy up. When we dropped Kim off she gave us Nutella cookie bars to try. I had a couple of bites and immediately texted and asked for the recipe. They were delicious!

We went home the Globe way and we were home by 2:30 in the afternoon. It rained in Show Low, but there was no rain in Vernon. 

Tom came in when we got home and he was in the house the rest of the day. I got my 10,000 steps. Both of our Chase credit cards had to be cancelled because McAfee tried to run a yearly program on our cards for over $212. 

Stacy texted and said Mary Johnson just got $98,000 from the government because Agent Orange was dumped in Globe during the 60's. Everyone in Mary's graduating class got cancer. Stacy said Snowflake can qualify too and dad should check in to it. We definitely will.

James's prayer tonight: "Please heal us of our weaknesses."

"Most important for spiritual growth is the requirement to choose between good and evil."

- President Dallin H. Oaks, AGC 2025

D&C 87:1

Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls.

Finally found the name of the mountain near Superior.

It is called Picketpost Mountain.

Love this family!