Friday, July 8, 2016

Philadelphia temple

Happy Birthday Jared Ammon!

I don't know the girl, but she is cute.

Yes, that is a bird on his head.

The boy had wisdom beyond his years
at such a young age.

Alma 30:12-28

12 - Korihor preaches that there shall be no Christ.

13 - Why do ye yoke yourselves with such foolish things, he asks the people.  Why do ye look for a Christ?  No man can know of anything which is to come. 

14 - Your prophecies are only foolish traditions of your fathers.

16 - You can't know of things you can't see.  Therefore ye cannot know there shall be a Christ.  Ye say ye look forward to a remission of your sins.  But behold, it is the effect of a frenzied mind.

17 - There is no atonement.  Everyone fares in this life according to the management of the creature.  Whatever a man does is no crime.

18 - He lead away the hearts of many to commit whoredoms.  He told them that when a man was dead that was the end thereof.

19 - Korihor goes to Jershon.

20 - The people of Jershon bind him and carry himm before Ammon who was the high priest.

21 - Ammon causes Korihor to be carried out of the land.  The same thing happens in Gideon.

22 - The high priest in Gideon ask Korihor why he went about perverting the right ways of the Lord.

23 - The high priest was Giddonah.

24 - Korihor says the people are in bondage because of their religious beliefs.

26 - Ye say that Christ shall come.  I say that ye do not know that there shall be a Christ.

27 - Ye lead this people away after foolish traditions.  Ye keep them in bondage that ye may glut yourselves with the labors of their hands.  What a lie!!

28 - The people are afraid of offending an unknown God.

BMSM:

"Korihor insisted on a strictly rational and scientific approach to all problems; anything else being but the 'effect of a frenzied mind' (Alma 30:13-16).

GC: The Healing Balm of Forgiveness by Elder Duncan.

Here is a quote I like: "The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss." - Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

Today's News:

Police officers shot in Georgia and outside St. Louis.  Will this never end?

Trina, Lexy, and Suzy took Addy, Rowan, Ruby, Lola, Kylie, Kayla, Kreed, and Ivy to Fossil Springs today.  Here are some pictures:

Everybody except Lola is in this picture.

Three awesome girls!

Lola helping herself to Ivy's Cheetos.

Kreed 

Beautiful girls

Here come the boys

Go Ruby!

Two cute mom's and their babies

Rowan goes for a swim

Alex and James Hayden went on a Black River trip with the Galveston 3rd ward priests.  Alex caught 108 fish and James caught 40.  They didn't take any pictures except these that Alex posted on Instagram.

This last one was a video.

Tonight James and I watched the latest Hallmark moving starring Jack Wagner.

I don't know how good it was because I fell asleep.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

One more picture from yesterday's trip to the Black River.

 

How true!

 

Zach and Julie Turvey spoke in sacrament meeting today.  They are probably in their late 20's and he has an awesome English accent.  They spoke about testimony and continuing revelation.  Both are returned missionaries and they both have deep and abiding testimonies based on the Book of Mormon.  Zach read the Book of Mormon 18 times while he was on his mission and each time when he was finished he would kneel down and pray to know if it was true.  He said he received a confirmation every time.  It is refreshing to see young people with such powerful testimonies of the gospel.  They are Ben's Sunday School teachers.  Lucky Ben.

 

We only had four children attend our Primary class today: Ryder, Brooklyn, Taylor and Callie.  Shade was there but he was in one of his "moods" and refused to come to class. 

This is Taylor she told us all about her pet owl.  When I asked her dad about it he said:  "You can't really believe everything she says."

She has quite an imagination.

After church we came home and had beans for lunch and then took a nap.  

Evan came down to play with Joshua but he had to read his scriptures first.  While Joshua was reading from the Book of Mormon, Evan read from The Friend.



 At 5:30 we attended the Chandler Stake seminary graduation.  We sat by Kim, Brian and Joe.  We are proud of Joe for filling all the requirements to graduate from seminary.  It was a very nice program and their were 44 youth that graduated, including E.J. Castillo.  Mitch Jones came down and spoke to us which made James feel really good.  They went to college together and were on the same wrestling team at MCC for a year. 

The highlight of the program was a musical number entitled" Until He Comes."  It was a duet and the girl, Moira Leon, had an absolutely beautiful voice.  Joe says she is in choir and he is friends with her. 

 

Afterwards we drove to the Galveston stake center and attended our stakes seminary graduation.  We had five youth graduate from our ward, which was nice, but we were really there for Seth.

Erik, Aaron, Seth, Kit, and Kit with his best buddy, Alex.

Our stake is quite a bit smaller than the Chandler stake.  We only had 22 graduates.  I am proud of Michael, Ben, and Joe and Alex.  They all read the D&C this year which was the assigned text for the year.

Addy posted this picture of Lola on Instagram and I thought it was so cute I had to post it here.



  Lola the ballerina