Thursday, September 1, 2016

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Oregon

Alma 60:1-13

Moroni writes again to Pahoran. 

2 - Moroni reminds Pahoran of his responsibility to provide provisions and soldiers for the war.

3 - He tells Pahoran of the sufferings of those involved in the war.

5 - Great has been the slaughter among our people and great has been your neglect toward us.

6 - Why are you neglecting us?

7 - Are you sitting upon your throne in a thoughtless stupor?

8 - You could have saved thousands from falling by the sword.

13 - For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that His justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; Ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their God.

GC: "He Asks Us To Be His Hands" by Sister Cheryl Esplin

Mormon Helping Hands

Deep Thoughts:

These thoughts are taken from an article about prayer that was published in Meridian Magazine:

"The tidy pretense of being a good person did not hold up to the painful reality of my fallenness."

"O Jesus, thou Son of God, Have mercy on me." (Alma the Younger)

"If I make myself humble He makes me clean."

"Prayer is not a polite beg-a-thon.  No, it is a lost and confused child in a hostile and foreign land calling home for directions."

"Begging for mercy is different from presenting our demands."

James and I seem to have good timing.  We have been deciding it's time to go to town right around lunch time. Today we went to Grumpy Jake's.  It was our third choice but Persnikkity's and Darbi's were too busy.

I had the pulled pork sandwich.

James dropped me off at Walmart while he went to Home Depot.  It was raining hard, but we didn't get any rain in Vernon.  On the way home we finished our book, "With Every Breath."  We liked it.

We had a quiet relaxing afternoon.  Even though we didn't get any rain, it was overcast and cool.

This is a picture of Rainbow Lake in Lakeside, just

down the highway from Grumpy Jakes.

 James's dad had 12 brothers and sisters, having one sister who died in infancy.  Now there are only two siblings left, Elton Kay, and Delbert.  Today is Delbert's 93rd birthday.  We hope he has a great day!

A World War II prisoner of war, a poet,

and an artist.

Delbert Dempsey Lambson

Elton Kay Lambson,

the baby of the family.

He is an artist too.

During my gospel study today I came across this diagram in the gospel doctrine Sunday School manual.

This is called the Pride Cycle and was the

downfall of the Nephite society.

I wonder if we will follow their example, or

learn from their mistakes.

My desires have evolved from wanting James to build a playhouse to having him build a guesthouse.  Here is one I like because of the porches.

James said the flat roof might not work too

well when it snows.

Someone posted this on Facebook today:

I love it!

Monday, August 2, 2016

Philadelphia temple

The public is invited to tour the newly completed

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania temple.

Alma 43:27-40

30 - Since the Nephites were defending their homes, families and liberties, Moroni thought it no sin that he should defend them by stratagem.

35 - Lehi leads his army forth and encircles the Lamanites about on the east in their rear.

37 - As the battle begins the Nephites are more protected than the Lamanites because of their armor.

38 - . . . the Nephites did carry on the work of death among the Lamanites.

39 - The Lamanites flee towards the river Sidon.

40 - Lehi and his men pursue them until they cross the river Sidon.

What strategies did Moroni use to succeed with his army?  What strategies do we use to fight Satan?

GC: "He Asks Us To Be His Hands" Sister Cheryl A. Esplin.

I have been working on memorizing The Living Christ and The Family Proclamation as our stake president ask us to do in our last stake conference.  I memorize one sentence a week and recite from the beginning everyday for a week.  I actually had a chance to use one of the sentences from The Family Proclamation when I was visiting teaching Hailey Chaffin last week.  The lesson was on our potential for parenthood.  I said: "The first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife." (sentence #8)  This week I am on sentence 12.

Get in shape!

James and I made a trip to town.  He needed to pick up grass seed and some supplies and I wanted to go to National Bank and close our account.  I also wanted to get my weekly fix of veggies and rice from Panda.  We went to Panda first but it was packed so we headed to Christopher's Garden for grass seed.  I stayed in the car because it was raining and read from "Rise of the Evening Star", the second book in the Fablehaven series.  

Panda was not busy at all on our second try.  Before we went to the bank I checked online to see how much money we had in the account.  I was excited to be getting some cash.  Much to my surprise our account had a balance of -$63.52.  When James changed our Translife supplemental insurance payment he was supposed to transfer the one taken out of this account to my personal Chase account.  Instead he tranferred the one from our business account and so Translife debited $154.85 which made us overdrawn with a $33 service fee.  I was upset but James calmed me down and went in the bank and took care of everything.  

It rained on us on the way home but no rain at our place.  Brian sat outside reading from "The Washington Hypothesis."  Kim was downstairs taking a nap.  James and I went to take a nap too.

Andrew Mancini from The Online Success Team was supposed to call at 10 this morning.  I worked on the things he ask me to do but when it got to be 11 and he hadn't called I stopped.  This afternoon around 5 he called but I didn't answer because I did not want to talk to him.  We will see what happens tomorrow.

I made meatless taco soup for dinner with cornbread.  It was a delicious dinner.  After dinner, James, Brian, Kim and I had some meaningful gospel discussions and we called it F.H.E.  

James told about his angel, Brandon Garvin, who saved his concrete.  We discussed the Nephites in North America, a vision seen by Heber C. Kimball on the night that the Prophet Joseph Smith received the gold plates.  We discussed the Word of Wisdom and most particularly verse 15.  Is wheat to be the staff of life, or is it to be used sparingly.  Kim and I have a difference of opinion.  We need more clarification.  Kim is gluten intolerant and can't eat wheat.  We also talked about our Will and Living Trust.

I texted my friend Pam Giles about making visits to rest homes.  She is a volunteer at Bannon Springs and Angel Wings.  We are kindred spirits.  I love talking to her.  She said it was raining at her house.  We had no rain here but the weather is gorgeous!

Stacy posted some pictures on Facebook that I must share:

Stacy's 21st birthday.  The baby

is Jared Ammon.

Gargantuan Michael holding pee wee

Alex's hand so they can go jump jump.

Also this picture is from three years ago

when I visited my dad's and my grandparents gravesite:

Show Low Cemetery

Kim ask us where we want to be buried.  We are not sure but I think in Vernon.