Sunday, March 22, 2015

He is the light of the world.

He carries me through my toughest days, inspire me to be a better person, helps me make the right choices and keeps me on the strait and narrow path.  He lights the way.

Because of Him I have hope and eternal life and joy and love.  He is my Savior, my King, my hero.  Because of Him I have understanding about this life, why I am here and a glimpse of heaven and the future where all my tears will be wiped away.

 

I was up at 5am, an hour late, to prepare for the day.  Today our Primary lesson is on the gift of the Holy Ghost.  I came to the conclusion that I need to do more work earlier in the week. 

 

I packed my Primary bag with: cookies, Playdough, plastic eggs, pictures, my computer for music and a video, plus the lesson outline. 

 

The theme for sacrament meeting today was Young Women's Personal Progress.  The youth speakers was Ciarra Armijo who spoke on Individual Worth.  "I am of infinite worth with my own divine missin, which I will strive to fulfill."

Cammie Soderquist - Virtue - "I will prepare to enter the temple and remain pure and worth.  My thoughtsand actions will be based on high moral standards.

Robyn Rogers - Divine Nature - I have inherited divine qualities, which I will striv to develop.  Only through Jesus Christ can we reach our divine potential.

 

The Sunbeam teacher, Nancy Tolman, was absent today and Sister Casto asked if her three Sunbeams could come with us.  Since we only had six of our children here today we thought we could handle it so I said yes. 

Before getting into the lesson on The Holy Ghost we talked about spring time and how new things are born in the spring.  We showed bird eggs and baby birds and talked about how Heavenly Father blesses our lives.  Later, after the lesson, the kids made nests with their Playdough.  Shade is not pictured here.  He was having a bad day and needed to be with his mom.





Brooklyn

Brooklyn with her mama bird

Taylor

Brielle

Ivy

Isaiah

Sunbeam class:

Riley

Liam

Nelson

 

James and I always come home from church exhausted.  He left immediately with Dave to go home teaching to the Bingham's.  I fixed some lunch: leftover bbq beef and a Chinese ginger sesame salad.  I worked on my blog, took a short nap and then had interviews with Ben and Max about the Book of Mormon.

 

James came home, ate, and laid down for a looooong nap.  I finally had to get him up after 6pm. 

 

My interviews, so far, with Alex, Ben, and Max regarding the Book of Mormon have gone very well.  Last week I interviewed Alex and he shared one of his favorite scriptures: Mosiah 4: 19-26.



Alex

Ben's favorite scripture was

Alma 7:14

Ben

Max's favorite scripture:

2 Nephi 31:20

Max

I am so proud of these boys!

 

After dinner I recorded the Relief Society lesson on Sustaining the Prophet in my Sunday journal.  I also read from Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage.  Here is what I had for dinner:

 

I read to James, per his request, from our book:

 



 







Saturday, March 21, 2015

 

"The very beauty of the word repentance is the promise of escaping old problems and old habits and old sorrows and old sins.  It is among the most hopeful and encouraging - and yes, most peaceful - words in the gospel vocabulary."

-Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

 

Today is the second day of my "diet", which is mainly keeping track of what I eat and limiting my calories. 

 

James asked me again today to go with him to Jared Bowen's office.  We read from our new book "A Lady's Honor" on the way there and back.  We are both excited about this new book and how it captured our interest right from the beginning.  It is interesting how you become familiar with an author's style of writing and start trying to predict who is going to do what based on the last book you read.

 

For lunch we went to the drive-thru Panda Express and I got my teriyaki chicken bowl only this time I also got a side of beef and broccoli.  James ate the beef and I ate the broccoli.  We also picked up an orange chicken bowl with noodles for Stacy per her request.

 

I needed to go shopping this afternoon and decided I would go to Winco instead of Walmart.  When I got home I realized the reason I needed to go to Walmart was to pick up my prescriptions.  Duh!  I guess I will have to wait until Monday. 



Winco has the finest display of Little Debbie cakes that

I have ever seen.  It reminds me of my good friend Kay who had Little Debbie cakes just about every day.

 

James picked up the new windows for the house today and realized that two of them were wrong so he had to take them back.  He was not happy either with himself or with the guy from Lowe's who he placed the order with.  They are low-e double insulated windows.

 

Dallin and his Harrison Fjiord band friends made a trip to California this weekend to practice with the piano player they are performing with at the instrument museum in Phoenix.

 

 

 

We missed Max's first tackle football game today.  He came home just as we were leaving for Michael's track meet to tell me he finished reading the Book of Mormon.  I gave him his $50 and told him he would need to come back tomorrow to share his favorite scripture with me.  He agreed. 

 

Chandler Rotary is the biggest track meet in all of Arizona.  With schools competing from all over the southwest.  Michael did very well in his event, which is the 800 race.  He got 11th out of 40-60 participants and was 2nd in Arizona.  Alexis got 5th, so we are confident they will both go to state. 

Two super nice and talented kids.

It was a beautiful night to be outside and was so fun to watch Michael run.  James and I took Joshua with us and brought him home so Stacy and Paul could stay a little longer.



Thursday, March 19, 2015



One of the books I am reading right now.

 

Stacy wasn't feeling very well today so we did not do initiatories as we had planned.  Maybe tomorrow. 

 

I worked in the kitchen today.  I removed things from the counter and scrubbed it with Softscrub.  I also wiped down the backsplash on the walls.  There is still lots to do, but at least I got a start. 

 

For lunch I was craving Chik-fila chicken strips with honey mustard sauce, so that's what I got.  When James returned from the cabin, which was nearer dinner time, he brought me a mixed burro.  I lost control of my eating today and I don't want to do that anymore.  Tomorrow I am going to start keeping track of what I eat and the amount of calories I consume.  I would like to lose at least 25 lbs. by my birthday which is five months from now.

 

James had to go to Jared Bowen's physical therapy office in east Mesa where he is starting a little remodel job tomorrow.  He asked me to ride over there with him so I did.  We started reading from a new book:

Another Laurie Alice Eakes book.

 

As I was waiting in the car for James I rolled the window down.  It is so beautiful in the evenings this time of year.  There are lots of Brazilian Palo Verde trees in Jared Bowen's parking lot.  I love them with their green trunks and branches and yellow flowers.