Book of Mormon
Ether 2:13-25
D&C
138:1-17
Come Follow Me
"Follow Him"
October General Conference
'The Lord Looketh on the Heart'
Elder Ronald M. Barcellos
James has a meeting at Gupta's with an engineer and Armando today. I decided I wanted to go with him and do a little shopping while he was having his meeting. He told me I needed to be ready to leave somewhere between 7:15 - 7:30. I was ready at 7:30. I did not know that he was meeting with Armando at 10:30. He should have figured out that if there was road construction, which there was, we should have left earlier. Not only was their construction we had to wait for, but instead of hitting the 101 to the 202, he went down Country Club in Mesa and we stopped at almost every light. We arrived at 11:15, the same time as the engineer, hence there was no pre-meeting with Armando. Oh well, better luck next time.
On a side note, someone hit an elk on the 60 just outside of Vernon. The front of the truck was destroyed, and a couple of guys were skinning the elk out on the side of the road. Luckily I didn't see the skinning part, James just told me. We stopped at Circle K and got 30 cents off a gallon on gas. A one time deal for today. We had to go the Payson way because there is blasting the Globe way on Wednesday, beginning at 9 a.m.
After dropping James off and getting in to the car seat I couldn't believe how gorgeous the weather is. It is sunny and 65 degrees, perfect!
I dropped by Stacy's house to take her some Perk, leave Paul's birthday card, some Tramadol, and Stacy's butter mints I bought for her last week. Sophie was upstairs so there was no barking when I came in. Stacy paid me $20 for the Perk as some of it was gone.
I drove over to the Chandler Costco near the 101 to get James some Pom juice and to see if they have any Perk. No Perk but I got two bottles of Pom juice and some of James's favorite Crunch Master crackers. When I showed my receipt at the door the girl noticed that I had been charged for the crackers twice. She sent someone back to get my refund. Now I'm glad they check your receipt at the door!
After Costco I went across the street to the Chandler mall. The mall has three anchor stores, I did not go in any of them, but maybe I should have because the rest of the mall was not very Christmasy. The three anchor stores are Dillard's, Macy's, and Scheels. Lots of things have changed. Lot of specialty stores for younger people and quite an Asian influence. No more Cinnabon, Bobo Tea instead. I didn't see Pottery Barn either, but it's downstairs in the corner and I may have missed it. I was walking back to my car when James called and said he was ready for me to come and pick him up. I thought going down Price Rd. would be quick, but boy was I wrong. It was super slow because of construction.
James was outside the gated area of the neighborhood, walking. When he saw me he stopped and I picked him up. For lunch I wanted to go to Pei Wei. Again, I was disappointed. They use to have a chicken salad that I loved but it was not on the menu. I ordered shrimp with veggies and fried rice. James ordered Mongolian beef with broccoli over fried rice. I also got a drink. Our lunch cost over $36. Wow, it wasn't worth it. James said his Crunch Master crackers tasted better.
We went home the Globe way and began listening to a new book:
"A Casualty of the Heart". On the way we listened to all of the "Follow Him" podcast. I love sections 137-138 of the Doctrine & Covenants and what they teach about life after death and temple work for the dead. They are some of my favorite sections.
It began snowing on us as we came in to Show Low. There was about 2-3 inches at our house. Our first snowstorm of the season.
There was snow all over the deck and Sammy's couch. His water was frozen. I put a new blanket in his little domed house and he spent the night in it. Tom was left inside all day so he wanted to go out, but it was too cold for him so he came back in.
James walked while I watched a Christmas movie, "Christmas Spark". I really liked it, one of the better Great American Family movies.
Kacey took this picture
One of my many loves: Tom
I want one
and Spicy shrimp
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