The view out our window in June 2014
Alma 24:7-18
7 - The King: (Is this Anti-Nephi-Lehi? Didn't the other king already die?) I thank my God my beloved people, that our great God has in goodness sent these our brethren, the Nephites, unto us to preach unto us, and to convince us of the traditions of our wicked fathers.
8 - . . . I thank my great God that He has given us a portion of His Spirit to soften our hearts, that we have opened a correspondence with these brethren, the Nephites.
9 - . . . we have been convinced of our sins, and the many murders we have committed.
10 - I also thank my God, . . . , that He hath granted unto us that we might repent of these things, and also that He hath forgiven us of our many sins and murders . . . , and taken away the guilt from our hearts through the merit of His Son.
12 - . . . let us stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren.
13 - . . . perhaps if we stained our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God . . .
14 - . . . the great God . . . loveth our souls and our children, . . ., in His mercy He doth visit us by His angels, that the plan of salvation might be made known unto us as well as unto future generations.
15 - . . . let us hide away our swords that they may be kept bright as a testimony to our God at the last day. That we may be clean.
16 - . . . if our brethren destroy us, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.
17 - . . . the people buried their swords deep in the earth.
18 - . . . covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their brethren, they would give up their own lives . . .
I listened to Elder Paul Johnson's conference talk on the resurrection this morning. I also listened to an article in the New Era about missionary work by Elder Bednar. He says that the missionaries are to teach and the members are to find. I guess I better start finding.
I looked out the kitchen window this morning and saw Thelma and Louise over in front of the Crane's. These are the two cow elks that we have seen periodically. I like naming my critters.
James is reading this book called "Moroni's America." According to the guy who wrote it Joseph Smith said that the ancient Nephite city of Zarahemla was located in Quincy, Illinois. I think I have been there.
For lunch today I made some "chili" from some canned beans and Rotelle, a cheese crisp, and avocado and cottage cheese. I think giving up meat is going to be easier than giving up my cottage cheese and other cheese.
7 - The King: (Is this Anti-Nephi-Lehi? Didn't the other king already die?) I thank my God my beloved people, that our great God has in goodness sent these our brethren, the Nephites, unto us to preach unto us, and to convince us of the traditions of our wicked fathers.
8 - . . . I thank my great God that He has given us a portion of His Spirit to soften our hearts, that we have opened a correspondence with these brethren, the Nephites.
9 - . . . we have been convinced of our sins, and the many murders we have committed.
10 - I also thank my God, . . . , that He hath granted unto us that we might repent of these things, and also that He hath forgiven us of our many sins and murders . . . , and taken away the guilt from our hearts through the merit of His Son.
12 - . . . let us stain our swords no more with the blood of our brethren.
13 - . . . perhaps if we stained our swords again they can no more be washed bright through the blood of the Son of our great God . . .
14 - . . . the great God . . . loveth our souls and our children, . . ., in His mercy He doth visit us by His angels, that the plan of salvation might be made known unto us as well as unto future generations.
15 - . . . let us hide away our swords that they may be kept bright as a testimony to our God at the last day. That we may be clean.
16 - . . . if our brethren destroy us, we shall go to our God and shall be saved.
17 - . . . the people buried their swords deep in the earth.
18 - . . . covenanting with God, that rather than shed the blood of their brethren, they would give up their own lives . . .
I listened to Elder Paul Johnson's conference talk on the resurrection this morning. I also listened to an article in the New Era about missionary work by Elder Bednar. He says that the missionaries are to teach and the members are to find. I guess I better start finding.
I looked out the kitchen window this morning and saw Thelma and Louise over in front of the Crane's. These are the two cow elks that we have seen periodically. I like naming my critters.
James is reading this book called "Moroni's America." According to the guy who wrote it Joseph Smith said that the ancient Nephite city of Zarahemla was located in Quincy, Illinois. I think I have been there.
For lunch today I made some "chili" from some canned beans and Rotelle, a cheese crisp, and avocado and cottage cheese. I think giving up meat is going to be easier than giving up my cottage cheese and other cheese.
My meatless meal
This is actually dinner. I can tell because of the
coleslaw instead of the cottage cheese and avocado. The coleslaw is shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, and some pineapple chunks that I put in the blender. James really liked it.
The Trezise family headed for California yesterday. Today they went to their favorite beach, Salt Creek Beach Park.
Don't hardly recognize Evan without his glasses.
Everything was going great until they got ready to leave and Ben was hit by a 20 ft. wave. When Ian saw it he said: "I just lost a son." I hope he was kidding. Ben was pretty shook up and banged up and wanted to go home. That kind of ruined the day for him. So sorry Ben.
As I was cleaning today I kept asking Kim for Good Old War songs to download. By the time I was finished I had downloaded all four of their albums. Now I have something to listen to on my trip to the valley tomorrow.
"Amazing Eyes" is on this album.
I paid bills this afternoon and then around 5:30 I went to visit Randa Covert and take her a bowl of cherries. I was excited to finally here back from her after texting her on Sunday. We had a short visit but I am so glad I went. We talked about the quote I brought about keeping covenants and having the Holy Ghost and the ability to love more deeply. Randa also said that cherries are her favorite fruit.
On the way home I saw lots of mamma elk with their babies down by the wash. James was so excited because he hasn't seen any babies that he had to go check it out for himself.
I finished the preparations for Primary and took all of the materials over to Alicia Hunsaker who is teaching my class. I am a little jealous because this lesson is about putting on the armor of God, complete with a guy in armor!
We had an interesting sunset tonight. It was all over the sky.
The actual sunset
The "reflection" in the other direction
Not sure what this is
It looked like there was lots of rain towards Greens Peak, the ski run, and Greer, but not here.
We are "right on the edge"
We even got a rainbow but no rain
James has been wanting to watch a movie all day. We finally settled down and watched "Stop the Wedding."
For refreshments I had a bowl of cherries and some Pero.
