Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020

Santiago, Chile

24th operating temple

Dedicated: 15-17 Sept 1983

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Judge

DC 43:33

And the wicked shall go away into unquenchable fire, and their end no man knoweth on earth, nor ever shall know, until they come before me in judgment.

Book of Mormon/"Come Follow Me"

Mosiah 4:17-26; Sunday journal

April General Conference

"A Perfect Brightness of Hope"

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"Because the Restoration reaffirmed the foundational truth that God does work in this world, we can hope, we should hope, even when facing the most insurmountable odds."

"As A Child"

Henry B. Eyring

April 2006

I am happy to say that some of my 23 pending book orders have been completed. Amazon is just a little slow because of the pandemic. 

James left this morning to go to town. He invited me to go with him but I was not ready. I was still in my comfy clothes working on my blog. 

He took the truck because he was taking the generator in to be fixed. He also had to get bloodwork done. After he had been gone for an hour or so, I texted him and asked if he was going to Walmart. He surprised me by saying he had already been. I asked what he got. He said a pan to put the oil in when he changes the oil in my car. He was in the line to get his prescriptions at CVS. I asked if after getting his prescriptions he could go in and get me a drink. He said he would. Afterwards he said he had a difficult time getting his truck started after going in and that the truck died three times at the traffic light. Now I felt guilty. He needs to get his truck fixed!

When James returned home he had lunch, took a nap and then walked while I read to him from "Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch." Afterwards he went out to change the oil in Lexy. By doing this, we will be saving over $50.

After changing the oil James went to work at the Howard's. He came home with 7 - $100 bills in his pocket. He gave one to me and said, "Here, this is for you to spend on yourself." How sweet. I am sure I will use it to buy groceries. He said that he had earned over $1,000 but he told Tom to only pay him $700 because he wanted to put the rest towards the saddle Tom had given to him. I am sure that Tom was grateful.

James showed me how to feed Luna as he is going to be gone tomorrow. After feeding our sweet Luna we came back in the house and watched an episode of "Lark Rise to Candleford." James then took a shower and I walked, finished my audio book, "His Lady in Hiding", and then began my gospel study. 

I came across this question in the "Come Follow Me" Individual/Family lesson for this week, Mosiah 4-6 "A Mighty Change." Here is the question: "How does sharing with the poor help us retain a remission of our sins?" I asked James and he didn't know. I told him I would find the answer and he said when I did to please come and tell him. I searched Elder Bednar's talk, "Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins," but I couldn't find anything dealing with sharing with the poor that would answer my question. I then looked in the "Preach My Gospel" manual under "The Attributes of Christ." It talked about having charity and the Lord blessing those who bless others, but I wanted something more specific. I then decided to look under the scriptures topical guide. I finally found a scripture that I thought might apply, Mosiah 4:26. If I had only read the scriptures before trying to answer the question I would have found my answer. Here is what it says in Mosiah 4:26:

"And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you - that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God - I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants."

When all else fails, read the scriptures that go with the lesson. Of course I shared this scripture with James.

Happy Earth Day

 Havasupai Falls

 East Fork of the Black River

 Kaibab

Sonoran Desert

So many beautiful places in Arizona!

 One of Trina's favorite new trails, 

Watson Lake Loop

Saturday, July 19, 2014

And when he had said these words, the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he said: Helam, I baptize thee, having authority from the Almighty God, as a testimony that ye have entered into a covenant to serve him until you are dead as to the mortal body; and may the Spirit of the Lord be poured out upon you; and may he grant unto you eternal life, through the redemption of Christ, whom he has prepared from the foundation of the world.

-Mosiah 18:13

 Today's sunrise

For breakfast I made a loaf of banana nut bread.  James loved it and told me that banana nut bread is his favorite sweet.  He may have enjoyed it too much because later he got quite a headache.

He left to go to town around 9am.  He went to get a new tire and wheel for his trailer, and a thermo-cuplar for the downstairs hot water heater.  On the way up here Thursday evening at one point the trailer James was pulling began to swerve and he had a difficult time getting it under control.  He didn't realize he had a flat tire and consequently he ruined the tire and the wheel.  

James also stopped at LaCasita and brought me home my favorite meal: green chili chicken enchilada and refried beans and their wonderful chips and salsa.  I just can't get enough!

Bad news.  James spent over an hour installing the new thermo-cuplar and the water heater still does not work.  Our only choice is to call a repairman who won't be able to come until next Friday when James returns.  Darrel & Trina are coming tonight and we will only have hot water in one shower.  

James is so frustrated with the water heater that he goes outside for some tractor therapy.  He makes a huge pile of branches and brush to burn.

I think this is a Bobcat, not a tractor.

 While I was outside taking this picture of James I noticed how beautiful the clouds in the sky were.

You would think with all of these clouds that we would have gotten some rain, but it wasn't meant to be.  As you can see it rained quite hard on Sierra Mentosa, but never got to us.

As we were reading on the porch in the early evening from our book Blackmoore, we heard a car drive up and thought it was Darrel and his family.  It was the missionaries, Elder Stott and Elder Knight.  They came to issue us a challenge.  They want us to look through our Facebook friends and find someone whose name we can give to them or use as a referral.  I told them I would do it and I think James will too.

Darrel and Trina and the kids arrived right after the elders left.  I got to hold Lola!

What a sweet baby!

 Addy and I started this puzzle.

We got the edge pieces put together.