"The direct, personal channel of communication to our
Heavenly Father through the Holy Ghost is based
on worthiness and is so essential that we are
commanded to renew our covenants by partaking
of the sacrament each Sabbath day."
-Elder Dallin H. Oaks
The plan was to go to the temple today. We got all ready only for James to discover that his temple recommend was missing. We said a prayer, and searched for it, but to no avail. He says Heavenly Father doesn't want him to go. I told him that wasn't true, that it was Satan who didn't want him to go. He washed his wallet when he was in Chandler and took out his recommend to dry and put it on the air hockey table downstairs. I told him that was probably where it was.
We went to town to pick up my prescriptions that I forgot yesterday. We also went to Sonic and had lunch and then took lunch to Darrel since we missed him at breakfast this morning. He left early.
On the way to Walmart we noticed that "Meet the Mormon's" was playing at the Show Low theater so we stopped on our way back and went to the 1:45 showing. We loved it! I would recommend it to everyone, both members and nonmembers alike.
My favorite story in the movie was about the missionary mom.
This is what the sky looked like on our way home. I thought for sure we would get a good rain, but we didn't.
While James was taking a nap I made some cast iron skillet cornbread and a meatloaf and talked to Sheri on the phone for about an hour. I also had to stop and chase cows away.
James and I enjoyed dinner together and then read from our book. We did not watch any TV today. James texted Alex trying to encourage him to get his patriarchal blessing.
Rowan was a little upset today. His teacher says he is
intellectually inclined, so she gave him extra schoolwork.
Trina says he has his dad's brain and killer looks.
I love this baby!
It was a sad day for Arizona. Gay marriage is made legal. Jared Ammon and Paul were having quite a debate on Facebook. Jared Ammon posted:
"It looks like AZ is becoming one of those socially progressive states that believes in human rights." I take it from some other things he posted that he believes it is the right of people to marry whomever they want.
I happened to read Elder Christofferson's conference address today and I posted this quote directly from his talk:
" A God who makes no demands is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist. A world without God, the living God who establishes moral laws to govern and perfect His children, is also a
world without ultimate truth or justice. It is a world where moral relativism reigns supreme. If it were not for the reality of fixed and immutable truths, the gift of agency would be meaningless since we
would never be able to foresee and intend the consequences of our actions."
Jared did not respond to my comment or to Paul's when he mentioned marriage being between a man, woman, and God.
