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Book of Mormon
Ether 12:22-41
October General Conference
'Go and Do Likewise'
Elder James E. Evanson
I ordered a couple of things from Amazon this morning and they were paid for with a gift card. I thought I had used up all my gift cards so I proceeded to ask all of my children if they sent me a gift card. No one had. It was a tender mercy.
Today was another beautiful, dry day in Arizona. We are praying for moisture.
James worked on the railings today while I went on ministering visits with Kathy Crane. We drove out to see Cindy Brown. It takes about 40 minutes to get to her house, plus we had to stop for road construction. This time we did not pass up the turnoff into her place.
I always feel like I'm in a model home when I am at Cindy's. Everything is so perfectly in place. She has the most beautiful hand-carved nativity set she bought in Israel. It is gorgeous! No tree because they are leaving on a cruise tomorrow for the Bahamas. This is what they are doing with their kids and grandkids for Christmas.
This afternoon after we leave Cindy and her husband Doug are attending two basketball games in Eagar, one for a grandson and one for a granddaughter. Cindy's husband Doug is 6'8" so they have a lot of tall grandkids who like basketball.
We got to talking with Cindy about the ward party and somehow the topic got around to the pies that Sister Stevens brought to the party. She brought three pies. One was a banana cream pie and Cindy says it is one of the best pies she has ever eaten because the crust was so delicious. Sister Stevens uses a water whip pie crust recipe. I wonder what makes it so good. The water? Whipped water? I looked up the recipe, and it seems it's been around since our grandmothers were making pies. I made a copy of the recipe and put it in my pie crust folder.
Cindy and Doug are going back to China for training in January and then to teach in February for about four months or so. We will miss them.
Our next visit was with Pat Tedder. Her daughter Janna was there with her and Pat had her oxygen on. Pat seemed a little subdued and I thought it was because of the oxygen. Janna told us the story. About an hour or so ago she tripped and fell over the tube to her oxygen mask and hurt her shoulder. Janna wants her to go to the doctor but Pat says she doesn't want to go. She did promise Janna she would go tomorrow if her shoulder wasn't better.
Pat had a gift for each of us. This is what she gave me:
Christmas card:
We had a nice visit with both Janna and Pat. Pat's son and granddaughter from Colorado are coming for Christmas. Kathy said a prayer before we left and we all hugged each other. True friendship is the best.
On the way home Kathy mentioned that she had the piano tuner coming to her house tomorrow. I said I needed my piano tuned and Kathy said she would ask if Deloris, the piano tuner would have time to do our piano too. Thank you Kathy.
James and I went to town when I returned from my ministering visits. Gas is 40 cents off a gallon at Circle K. Our first stop was at Goodwill where James and I both had a bag of clothes to donate. Next James dropped me off at Walmart while he went to Home Depot to get some floor samples for Ravi Gupta to look at. He is redoing the floors in his office exam rooms. James made it back to Walmart in time to help me check out.
Back at home I made James a ham sandwich for dinner. He said it was delicious.
It was another sad day for Stacy's family. Joshua's dog Shipley passed away while she was napping on the couch on a blanket. Joshua found her. I remember when Joshua got Shipley. James and I had taken Max, Evan, Rowan, and Joshua to go shopping for one of their birthdays at the Chandler mall. We went to the pet store and Joshua saw Shipley. She reminded him of their dog Holly who had recently passed away. He brought Paul back to the pet store the next day and Shipley was theirs. She had her quirks but she was always sweet to me and followed me around for some attention when we stayed at Stacy & Paul's. She will be missed, especially by Joshua.
Tom spent the evening in the house with us but when it was time for bed, he wanted to go outside.
LeeAnn Hunsaker's 2nd wedding
Stefani and Alicia happy to find DPZ cream soda.
Bryelle is still looking.
and two friends that I don't know.
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