Showing posts with label Ben's email. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben's email. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Gilbert, Arizona
142nd operating temple
Dedicated: 2 Mar 2014
By: Thomas S. Monson

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship
Moses 2:1, 26
1 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven, and this earth; write the words which I speak. I am the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only /begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.
26 And I, God, said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Book of Mormon
Mosiah 4:4-15
New Testament "Come Follow Me"
Matt 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29 Luke 9:37-42


General Conference
"The Eye of Faith"
Elder Neil L. Andersen
"If we pick and choose what we accept in the proclamation, we cloud our eternal view, putting too much importance on our experience here and now."

I read an article in the Ensign today by Brian K. Ashton, "Three Lessons on Love, Joy and Peace". This quote is from that article: 

By consistently doing the small things, we yield our hearts and minds to God, which purifies and sanctifies us (see Helaman 3:35).This purification and sanctification changes our very nature, little by little, so we become more and more like the Savior." 

Today's bunny report. "I saw none of the bunnies this morning. Either they are hiding or they got carried away by a hawk or owl. Thanks James for that visual image! 

Kathy, my favorite, and Kris did the Book Profits webinar this morning. They both are so very successful it's hard to imagine that we will ever be there. One of the things Kathy stresses is to set goals. She said her goal for her first year in the business, 2017, was to sell $100,000 worth of books. She actually ended up selling $150,000. James and I have a goal to make $2,000 a month our first year. Now we have to sit down and figure out how many books we have to sell per day to accomplish that goal and how much we need to make from each book. 

We had Marie Callendar pot pies for lunch. I had chicken and James had beef. When I looked at the calories on the back I thought it said 400 and something. Well that was for half a pie. The entire pie was over 800. I let James eat half of mine as well as his. He loves pot pies. I saved the rest of my calories for a gingerbread mix I made topped with Coolwhip. Delicious especially while still warm from the oven.

After nap time I walked and finished watching "Christmas Next Door" and started "Surprised By Love" another one of my favorites. Tim Conway is pretty funny as the grandpa who pretends he can't talk to avoid dealing with people. Hilarie Burton and Paul Campbell are always great and this movie is no exception. I think it's one of Kim's favorites too.

This girl can really play the violin.
I enjoyed the music in this movie.

I have three Hilarie Burton movies I love and this is
one of them. The other two are Summer Villa with Victor
Webster, and a Christmas one where she plays 
Krissy Kringle.

I walked over 17,000 steps today until my right knee started hurting and I had to quit. 

James and I both bought books today. I also paid all the rest of the bills on James's last construction project and some personal bills too. I paid down our Amazon Store Card so we could order books and pay with this card instead of using our other credit cards. 

We waited until late to go to the post office today. James went in and a few minutes later he came outside and asked for my help. We had 14 packages of books. Wow! 

James opened all of our packages of books and "cleaned them up" while I started getting our other books ready to ship. Amazon created three shipments from our one shipment but two of the shipments only had one book each. The other shipment going to California had the other 16 books.

James has been doing alot of repricing on books in our inventory and wants me to remove some of them. I can't make the removal process work so I guess I need to call Amazon tomorrow. It worked the last tie I had to remove books but a message keeps coming up that there is an error and they are taking care of it. It's been a few days now and nothing has happened.


It's like Christmas everyday!


These look brand new but we can't sell them new,
we can only sell used books.

Ben's Email:









I love this baby and her happy face. She is cutting
teeth and I can hardly wait until we can see them!



 Lunch with dad at the park.



 Dave and Laura visiting Kevin's family in Texas








Thursday, March 28, 2019

Monday, March 25th, 2019

Panama City, Panama
127th operating temple
Dedicated: 10 Aug 2008
By: Thomas S. Monson

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship
Luke 1:35
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
Book of Mormon
Jacob 5:70-77
New Testament "Come Follow Me"
Matthew 14:1-21; Mark 6:14-44; John 6:1-14
"The Grandeur of God"
Jeffrey R. Holland



General Conference
"The Father"
Brian K. Ashton
"There is much we do not understand about becoming like the Father. But I can testify with certainty that striving to become like the Father is worth every sacrifice. The sacrifices we make here in mortality, no matter how great, are simply incomparable to the immeasurable joy, happiness, and love we will fell in God' presence. If you are struggling to believe it is worth the sacrifices you are asked to make, the Savior calls to you, saying, 'Ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath ... prepared for you; ... ye cannot  bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along."

Here is the letter that Ben sent to his mom this week:










I think Ben is a natural born speaker and preacher. 

I ordered several books today and was able to get my tramadoll prescription refilled.

A sister in our ward had to go in for emergency surgery. Her name is Sister Campbell and she had cancer surgery a couple of weeks ago. We had a sister willing to pick her up from the hospital but her husband was able to do it. It's always nice to know that people are willing to help if needed.

James made lots of phone calls today to schedule work for the next phase of the Chacon job. He made the comment to me: "Let's do something fun," but we got so busy we never did. Hopefully sometime this week we can go to Buckelieu Springs and see the water falls. We did read from our book today and watched "Campfire Kiss" on the Hallmark channel.

I inventoried, sourced and set buying alerts in our book business besides buying several books. Things are beginning to happen and we finally feel like we know what we are doing. We have sold over 30 books but that's just the beginning.




A look of pure joy on that face

 This sweet family from our ward was recently
sealed in the temple. Sister Nichols is the sister
who made the delicious chicken salad for our
Relief Society birthday party.



An explanation of Spring:



 These pictures were taken in Carefree just
north of Scottsdale.

Doing her stretching exercises

 Last Friday after their hike

 I love this picture!









Saturday, March 23, 2019

Monday, March 18th, 2019

San Antonio, Texas
120th operating temple
Dedicated: 22 May 2005
By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship
DC 36:8
I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God; wherefore, gird up your loins and I will suddenly come to my temple. Even so. Amen.
Book of Mormon
Jacob 2:17-35
New Testament "Come Follow Me"
Matthew 131-23; Luke 8:1-15
"Parable of the Sower" by Dallin H. Oaks, April 2015



General Conference
"The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead"
President M. Russell Ballard
"On this special 100th anniversary, I invite you to thoroughly and thoughtfully read this revelation. As you do so, may the Lord bless you to more fully understand and appreciate God's love and His plan of salvation and happiness for His children."


 James left for the valley around 4:30 a.m. The Chacon job is finally starting! He has been waiting on the City of Mesa to approve all of the permits since December. It is almost too much to believe this job is actually going to happen. 

One of the first things I did this morning was to write an email to Ben. I also got an email back from him. 




 who we are. I love you! - Elder Trezise

I guess I am being punished for walking so much yesterday because today I have a bum right knee. It was a slow day for me but in spite of my bad knee I still got over 12,000 steps hobbling around the house.

James had problems on the job but he talked the inspector out of shutting down the job with his great reasoning skills. 

I'm reading Peter Valley's online Book Arbitrage book and I'm learning a little. 

I miss James.

 I miss this show too.













 Poor baby is still sick