Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Mosiah 27:18-37

How does it feel to have your soul "redeemed from the gall of bitterness and the bonds of iniquity"? This is the conversion story of Alma the younger and here are a few of my favorite verses:

24 - For, said he, I have repented of my sins, and have been redeemed of the Lord; behold I am born of the Spirit.

25 - And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters;

28 - Nevertheless, after wading through much tribulation, repenting nigh unto death, the Lord in mercy hath seen fit to snatch me out of an everlasting burning, and I am born of God.

29 - My soul hath been redeemed from the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity.  I was in the darkest abyss; but now I behold the marvelous light of God.  My soul was racked with eternal torment; but I am snatched, and my soul is pained no more.

31 - Yea, every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess before him.  Yea, even at the last day, when all men shall stand to be judged of him, then shall they confess that he is God; then shall they confess, who live without God in the word, that the judgment of an everlasting punishment is just upon them; and they shall quake, and tremble, and shrink beneath the glance of his all-searching eye.

36 - And they traveled throughout all the land of Zarahemla, and among all the people who were under the reign of king Mosiah, zealously striving to repair all the injuries which they had done to the church, confessing all their sins, and publishing all the things which they had seen, and explaining the prophecies and the scriptures to all who desired to hear them.

Wow! What a change.  I wish I could see this dramatic change in some of my grandsons. 

 

During our morning study time:

While he's huddled around the heater, I am sitting under the fan.

 

Today is a smoky day.  For some reason the forest service thinks they have to do burns to protect the trees.  James and I are both frustrated.  We are wondering why they can't chip the trees, etc. and sell them to the chipping plant in Show Low.  The smoke makes us miserable, especially James who has such bad allergies.

 

James needed to get some materials for the shed in town and wanted me to go with him.  On the way we read from Sarah M. Eden British Isles Collection.  We never finished the last story and James wants to finish it before we go on to the next Narnia book.  The story is called "A Lesson in Love."

 

I shopped at Walmart and probably spent too much money while James was buying roofing materials.  When he was finished he picked me up and I went with him to Home Depot.  While he was buying building supplies I bought a new filter for our refrigerator and some air filters for the air conditioner.  The items I bought were right around $100.  Keeping up a home is expensive!

Oh yes, James heard from Erik and my car does have a warped head gasket so that's probably going to cost us around $1,500.  Let's just say that it's expensive to live.

 

On the way home we listened to Elder Mervyn B. Arnold's conference address, "To the Rescue: We Can Do It" Here is a quote:

"The Son of Man is come to save that which was lost . . .

"For it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."

 

On a little lighter note:

Our choices for President of the United States are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.  I honestly don't know who to vote for.

 Is there a decent third party running.  We will have to wait and see.

Laura says we need to vote Republican because of the Supreme Court nominations, but can I honestly vote for someone who I think is incompetent?

Kaeli Nicoll and I went to visit Claire Mercado this afternoon.  We even met beforehand and had prayer.  I took Claire and her daughter Marlie a basket of fruit an Claire seemed very appreciative.  She ate one of the bananas while we were there.  

 

After our visit I couldn't get in the house so I called James to let me in.  He was still outside working and so I told him not to worry about it.  As I was walking around to the back of the house where the door was unlocked he came charging through the garage and ran into a wall.  He was a bloody mess when I saw him.  He has a big gash between his eyebrows.  He probably needed to have stitches.  He spent all day on a ladder and never got hurt and then this happens.  He wouldn't let me take a picture.

 

I fixed cabbage and broccoli for dinner and we both loved it!  While we were settling in to watch our movie Dallin and Joe were performing with Alpin Hong at MCC.

Dallin is singing on the far right.

These two are very talented if I do say so myself!

 

Here is the movie we watched.  Another one with Ed Asner as the grumpy, wise grandpa.

Some gorgeous northern California

scenery in this movie.

 

 

Friday, July 5, 2013

It was overcast this morning and looked like it might rain.



James went out and chopped down another dead tree and hauled it away to be burned later.



I tried to do some catchup on my blog.  I am 18 days behind.

The boys played Rockband and Alex took a break to meditate.



Brian has a sinus infection and his medicine is not working.  He went into town to get a new prescription. 

Kim was in the kitchen making spaghetti tacos and I was sitting at the dining room table when a bat flew through the room close to her face, and then to mine.  We yelled and James saw where the bat went out through a crack in the ceiling near a log in the living room.  He had the boys bring in the big extension ladder but then realized he did not have any foam to seal the hole.  Another reason to go into town today. 

When James and I went in to town we made the following stops: Walmart, Home Depot, Express Fuel for gas, Big 5 Sports for a ping pong table, (obviously we took James's truck), and Show Low Motorsports to see about getting a windshield for the Razr.  We talked about full or half and decided we would come back tomorrow and get a half windshield.

Owen Taylor came by for a visit this afternoon.  He has a Razr just like ours!  He has a half windshield and mud flaps.  He told James he got them on Ebay a lot cheaper than what they are selling them for at Show Low Motosports. 

Around 5:30 or so, before dinner, James, Kim and I went on a Razr ride to Buckley Springs.  James was so happy.  He loves being out in nature and he loves the new Razr.

Antelope



 When we got home I was putting my jacket on a hook in the entryway when I heard a loud crash!  James had climbed up on the ladder to put foam in the crack where the bat came in and the ladder falls and his leg gets caught between two of the rungs as he comes down.  He broke it in three places.  You could see a bone sticking out.  I think that is called a compound fracture.  The sad thing is the room was filled with people who could have held that ladder for him but he didn't ask.  Kim was at the table doing a puzzle, and the boys were playing Rockband.  Brian was also in the room. 

We decided it would take too long to call an ambulance to come and get him so I put the seats down in my car and made a place for him to lay.  Brian and the boys helped him out to the car.  Alex got him a jacket because he was shivering, probably from shock.  I gave him two hydrocodone pills to help with the pain.  Michael came with me in case there was anything he could do to help.  He is so sweet!, and Brian followed behind in his car.  Brian also called ahead to the hospital to alert them that we were coming.

James said the worst pain he felt up to this point was when they put an air cast on him before they lifted him out of the car.  They tried to straighten his leg before putting it in the cast and that was what was so painful.

 Putting the cast on.

 

 

He was taken to a room in the emergency area of the hospital.  They took some x-rays and determined that he needed to be air evaced to Scottsdale because of the nature of the injury.

 

 

Sheri and Ian and the rest of their boys were on their way up when this happened.  Sheri had Ian drop her off at the hospital so she and I stood and watched the helicopter leave before going back to the cabin. 

 

 

Darrel and Paul met James at the hospital and gave him a blessing before his surgery.  Trina came and waited until the surgery was over and they had him in his room before she left.  I am so grateful to all of them for being there with James when I couldn't be.  I went home and tried to sleep so I could go down early tomorrow morning.

 

I was also grateful to Brian and Michael for going with us to the hospital and for Sheri for driving me home.  It has been a long day.









Sunday, February 24, 2013

James left for his high council meeting this morning at 5:15 in the middle of a blizzard.  First I got a call asking me where we are suppose to be in the scriptures.  James wanted to listen to his scriptures on the way to his meeting.  At 5:30 I got another call asking me to come and get him because he had run his truck off the road and couldn't get out.  He missed the turn just this side of the school yard and ran of the embankment and then in to a fence.  Oh yes, he also hit a sign.  Thank goodness he didn't get hurt, except for his pride.
We went home and then James took me back to the church for ward council. 
Brother MacArthur from the high council was the main speaker in our sacrament meeting.  He is the CEO at the Summit Healthcare Center better known as the Show Low Hospital.  Natalie gave the lesson in young women's on the premortal life.  James had six people at church volunteer to help pull his truck out.  He and Sean Hunsaker arranged to meet after church to do the job.  On our way home from church we noticed that the truck was gone.  James was a little upset but I tried to calm him down and told him not to get upset until we had more information.  Alicia Hunsaker called and said she noticed it was gone so she had called the sheriff's department.  A deputy McCall found the truck and had it towed to Springerville.  When James spoke with him he was very rude.  He said he towed the truck because there was damage to personal property (the fence), and he (James), hadn't reported it. 
We located the towing company and made a trip to Springerville in a blizzard.  As James was driving the truck home and I was driving behind him, in the blizzard, I noticed the truck was smoking very badly.  I tried calling him but he didn't answer.  So I began honking my horn and he finally pulled over.  He grabbed some stuff out of the truck and we left it by the side of the road.

 It was hard for James to desert his truck.

Well it cost us $225 in towing fees and then the gas to go to Springerville to get a truck that is not drivable.  I think I could say that this was not James's best day.

We went home and had some dinner and then watched a light-hearted Hallmark movie called Elevator Girl.  It was a good way to end a sad day.