Thursday, September 11th, 2025: Up at 2:55, Salt & Hart RMN cards, Janna & Pat lunch at Persnikkity's, Show Low Museum, J fixes my KitchenAid mixer, Rain, beautiful weather & clouds, clean sheets, beans on for James

 

Antofagasta, Chile

207th dedicated temple

Dedicated: 15 June 2025

By: Gary E. Stevenson

Book of Mormon

Helaman 2:1-14

D&C

100:14-101:21

Come Follow Me

D&C 99-100

The Lord takes care of people who serve Him.

Revelations in Context: 'John Murdock's Mission to Missouri', 'I Quit Other Business: Early Missionaries', 'A Mission to Canada'

April General Conference

'True to the Faith That Our Parents Have Cherished'

Elder Hans T. Boom

Other

Lesson - "Faith: A Bond of Trust and Loyalty" Elder Roman

A.S.K.

Liahona

"Follow Him"

"Fishers of Men"

I was up at 2:55 this morning. Perk and prayer are first on my agenda. 

I went to the post office today and received the cards I ordered from Salt & Hart. They are cards with quotes by President Nelson and the invitations and promises associated with the quotes. I love them!

I was invited to lunch today by my friend Pat Tedder. She said she wanted to buy my lunch and asked me where I wanted to go. I said Persnikkity's. She asked if she should invite Janna and I told her that was up to her. She did invite Janna and Janna was our driver.

We got to Persnikkity's before the lunch rush and were able to sit in the "quiet" room. I ordered my favorite, the sesame chicken salad without the wontons. It is delicious! Janna ordered avocado toast and Pat had a chicken salad sandwich on a croissant.

Pat had lemonade to drink and Janna had

Prickly Pear cactus. I had water.

Somehow we got to talking about Pat and I growing up in Show Low and one of them asked if I had ever been to the Show Low Museum. I told them, no, I hadn't. They said I needed to go and ask if today would be a good time. I agreed that it would. Pat said her brother Pete Whipple was volunteering their today.

Pete was sitting at the front desk when we walked in and was happy to see us. I went to school with Pete and also remember him as a friend of Rita's when I still lived in the valley and came up to visit.

He welcomed us and said there were 17 rooms in the museum and that the miniature train was running today. The train room was our first room to visit. A miniature Winslow and McNary were set up for the train to travel around. I have always loved train sets and I really enjoyed watching the train travel around the track.

The Shell gas station located on the corner of

Deuce of Clubs and White Mountain Blvd.

Owned first by Bill Huso and then by

Aunt Gene and Uncle Clair Tenney

This was when Nick's was across the street from

our store King's Market. There were no good pictures of our store.

My Mom & Dad remodeled after owning it for awhile and renamed

it Double M Market (Marlin Maxwell).

My friend Geneice Jennings uncle owned

Bill's Bar and Geneice lived there with him.

My mom and I would spend hours in Eb's store which was filled with antiques, etc. What a fun place to "shop." Eb Lewis was also

my bishop for awhile when I lived in Show Low as a teenager.

The Nikolaus's were in my ward. I played ball with Lamar's daughter Lorraine and Elizabeth Nikolaus was the Relief Society president.

They were a very nice family.

Monte was born in the Josephine Goldwater hospital.

The old Ross's Cafe

I dated Ross's son, Kay Adams.

I watched many a movie at the Show Low theater in

downtown Show Low. James and I went to the drive-in a

few times.

Hal Butler's sons, Gary and Greg worked in our store.

His youngest son was David. My mom said Peggy Butler

Hal's wife, was our very best customer.

This is my friend Pat Whipple Tedder.

The Adams' Family

I was good friends with Beverly Welch Adams.

Georgia Adams was Chet's sister. She married

Dutch Kay, my dad's best friend. They had a daughter

my age, Nora Jean.

My cousin Randy Tenney who looks like a teenager here

was the mayor of Show Low.

Law Enforcement Officers back in the 60's 

when I was a teenager.

Dennie Thompson's son Leon worked in our store.

Dennie took photos at our wedding reception.

Gary worked in our store. He was a couple of years older then me. He dated my best friend Polly Brookbank.

He was chief of police after I was married and gone.

My grandparents owned the Paint Pony 

much, much later.

Eb's brother Lamel Lewis now has a

"junk" place in Linden

We lost our cabin in Pinedale in this fire.

Mohammed Ali trained in Show Low in the 80's.

My grandparents, Arlee & Verdie Maxwell 

owned the Maxwell House where he stayed.

They are standing in the upper left-hand picture.

I'm glad I went to the museum. It was a first and I really enjoyed it.

James fixed my Kitchen-Aid mixer this afternoon.  A pen came out and he was able to put it back in. 

I changed the sheets on our bed. I always love having clean sheets.

I also put Navy beans in the crockpot tonight for James. They cook all night and by morning they are soft and yummy.

I loved the weather and blue sky and beautiful white clouds.

"God's strongest mortal help was His provision of a Savior, Jesus Christ, who would suffer to pay the price and provide forgiveness for repeated sins."

- President Dallin H. Oaks, AGC 2025

D&C 98:13

And whoso layeth down his life in my cause, for my name's sake, shall find it again, even life eternal.