244. Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Sheathing and exterior cladding underway; windows installed;
construction estimated to be completed
in 2027.
Book of Mormon
3 Nephi 7:15-8:4
D&C
119-120
October General Conference
'The Atoning Love of Jesus Christ'
Elder Neil L. Andersen
It was 8:00 Texas time when James and I got out of bed. That bed and pillow are just too completely!
Breakfast, journal, and prayer. Jared's going to Sam's Club. I told James I wanted to go and he said he would go too.
We followed Jared's red Toyota to Sam's Club because we wanted to go to Walmart afterwards. We got Fairlife shakes. James got a new brand of shakes called Raw. These shakes have stevia instead of sucrose and they taste good. I hope they have them in Arizona. I got some Snap dill pickles for myself, and a tuxedo cake for tomorrow's family dinner desert. I also got some crackers called Catalina Crunch which are low carb with protein. Jared is doing steak bites for tomorrow Sunday dinner so he bought several steaks. He's also doing smoked potatoes au gratin and vegetables. We said goodbye and James and I headed next door to Walmart. He dropped me off at the door while he went to get gas.
I went specifically to get some Beddar Cheddar smoked turkey links but they didn't have turkey so I had to get the sausage. They were just as delicious but maybe not as healthy. I got some cheese, pastrami lunchmeat and AWZ. I went out and unbeknownst to me, James went in. He figured I would forget to get him some cereal so he went in to get some cereal and oat milk. He actually left his personal credit card and didn't realize it. After our dinner at Abuelo's this evening he realized it was missing and he looked everywhere for it. He came back to Walmart Sunday afternoon and someone had turned it in. There are still some honest people left in the world!
Back at Jared & Kacey's we had a short rest and then it was time to get ready for the baptism and leave for Tyler. We are supposed to go early for pictures and it takes about an hour to get there, so we left around 1:45.
Autumn & Palmer are members of the Tyler 1st ward and attend church in the Shiloh building, an older building. Kacey's sisters, Loren, April, and Christina were there along with Mo, April's husband and their son, Macy, Loren's daughter, and Isaac, Christina's son. They all came from Arkansas. Christina's older son Tristan, just left for a mission in Ohio, and Kacey & Jared went to his farewell so I guess the family support goes both ways.
Summer and her fiance, JB came, and with us and Jared & Kacey and Charlie that rounded out Autumn's family. Oops, I almost forgot. Taylor, Autumn's half sister from her dad and Taylor's twin teenaged daughter were here too. Palmer's family included his parents and two sisters, one is single, and the other brought her kids, I'm not sure if her husband was with her.
The opening was in the chapel. The bishopric is out of town on a youth outing so the elder's quorum president, Ron Freeman conducted the meeting. His name represented him well. Not only is he a Freeman he is also a free-spirit. He did have nice hair though. Later Palmer said he and his wife are both hairdressers.
The opening song was "I Will Walk with Jesus". Autumn gave the opening prayer and then Kacey gave the talk on Baptism. It was a great talk. Kacey had given things for Scarlett to study this week regarding the covenant promises she will make at baptism and the promises Heavenly Father makes to her. She also gave her a bracelet representing those promises. (Later Kacey Scarlett her own pink scripture quad.)
We all went to the baptismal font to witness Scarlett being baptized by her dad, Palmer Child.
Back in the chapel Charlie and Scarlett sang their song accompanied by Jared on the piano. The song: "When I Am Baptized." They did a very good job. Charlie is a little shy but she sang out and so did Scarlett.
Palmer's mother, Malinda Child, gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. Scarlett calls her Grammy and Scarlett calls Kacey, Lolli.
Palmer's mom told a story about a pack of dogs following her and her children when they were walking to a neighbors. She was prompted to pick up a big stick and yell at the dog. She said she knew that was a prompting from the Holy Ghost. She also talked about Scarlett's favorite stuffed animal, Nosey. Scarlett loves Nosey and wants to take him everywhere. He is a small stuffed black, orange, and white dog. Palmer's mom then said that the Holy Ghost is a friend that we can take everywhere.
The Primary presidency gave Scarlett a keepsake box. It has the promises made at baptism in the front and then you open it and put in all of the memorabilia from the baptism. So nice, I loved it!
Scarlett also got a stuffed bear so she can remember the 3 bears:
1. Bear the name of Christ
2. Bear others burdens
3. Bear your testimony
After the closing song, "Baptism", there were refreshments which Autumn had made.
She made these for Charlie's birthday:
After refreshments most of the family members went to Abuelo's for dinner. I had a grilled chicken salad with golden raisins, almonds, and one piece of avocado. James had mahi-mahi without sauce - it was dry. He used some of my honey mustard dressing on it. I got to sit by Benson and across from Kacey. Benson was so good. He fell asleep in his carseat.
After Abuelo's, which means Grampa's by the way, we went to Autumn & Palmer's for a short visit. Lore, Macy, Christina and Isaac are staying there but I'm not sure where because their house is small. I was impressed with how Autumn had made this house their home.
We didn't stay long, soon we were back in Longview. Jared needed to go shopping and Kacey was going to go with him because she was going to make a salad for tomorrow night. Instead she called Summer and ask her to bring a salad tomorrow night. Jared went to the store to get French bread, zucchini, squash, and ice cream, Bluebell of course. They were out of squash so he bought extra zucchini.
Jared had the TV on going between the Dodgers game and the BYU vs. UofU game. The Dodgers and BYU both won. Jared & Kacey had "Come Follow Me" with Charlie, the children's section which was a story of Jane Manning walking 800 miles to Nauvoo. Family prayer and then off to bed for James and I.
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