Monday, August 2, 2016

Philadelphia temple

The public is invited to tour the newly completed

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania temple.

Alma 43:27-40

30 - Since the Nephites were defending their homes, families and liberties, Moroni thought it no sin that he should defend them by stratagem.

35 - Lehi leads his army forth and encircles the Lamanites about on the east in their rear.

37 - As the battle begins the Nephites are more protected than the Lamanites because of their armor.

38 - . . . the Nephites did carry on the work of death among the Lamanites.

39 - The Lamanites flee towards the river Sidon.

40 - Lehi and his men pursue them until they cross the river Sidon.

What strategies did Moroni use to succeed with his army?  What strategies do we use to fight Satan?

GC: "He Asks Us To Be His Hands" Sister Cheryl A. Esplin.

I have been working on memorizing The Living Christ and The Family Proclamation as our stake president ask us to do in our last stake conference.  I memorize one sentence a week and recite from the beginning everyday for a week.  I actually had a chance to use one of the sentences from The Family Proclamation when I was visiting teaching Hailey Chaffin last week.  The lesson was on our potential for parenthood.  I said: "The first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife." (sentence #8)  This week I am on sentence 12.

Get in shape!

James and I made a trip to town.  He needed to pick up grass seed and some supplies and I wanted to go to National Bank and close our account.  I also wanted to get my weekly fix of veggies and rice from Panda.  We went to Panda first but it was packed so we headed to Christopher's Garden for grass seed.  I stayed in the car because it was raining and read from "Rise of the Evening Star", the second book in the Fablehaven series.  

Panda was not busy at all on our second try.  Before we went to the bank I checked online to see how much money we had in the account.  I was excited to be getting some cash.  Much to my surprise our account had a balance of -$63.52.  When James changed our Translife supplemental insurance payment he was supposed to transfer the one taken out of this account to my personal Chase account.  Instead he tranferred the one from our business account and so Translife debited $154.85 which made us overdrawn with a $33 service fee.  I was upset but James calmed me down and went in the bank and took care of everything.  

It rained on us on the way home but no rain at our place.  Brian sat outside reading from "The Washington Hypothesis."  Kim was downstairs taking a nap.  James and I went to take a nap too.

Andrew Mancini from The Online Success Team was supposed to call at 10 this morning.  I worked on the things he ask me to do but when it got to be 11 and he hadn't called I stopped.  This afternoon around 5 he called but I didn't answer because I did not want to talk to him.  We will see what happens tomorrow.

I made meatless taco soup for dinner with cornbread.  It was a delicious dinner.  After dinner, James, Brian, Kim and I had some meaningful gospel discussions and we called it F.H.E.  

James told about his angel, Brandon Garvin, who saved his concrete.  We discussed the Nephites in North America, a vision seen by Heber C. Kimball on the night that the Prophet Joseph Smith received the gold plates.  We discussed the Word of Wisdom and most particularly verse 15.  Is wheat to be the staff of life, or is it to be used sparingly.  Kim and I have a difference of opinion.  We need more clarification.  Kim is gluten intolerant and can't eat wheat.  We also talked about our Will and Living Trust.

I texted my friend Pam Giles about making visits to rest homes.  She is a volunteer at Bannon Springs and Angel Wings.  We are kindred spirits.  I love talking to her.  She said it was raining at her house.  We had no rain here but the weather is gorgeous!

Stacy posted some pictures on Facebook that I must share:

Stacy's 21st birthday.  The baby

is Jared Ammon.

Gargantuan Michael holding pee wee

Alex's hand so they can go jump jump.

Also this picture is from three years ago

when I visited my dad's and my grandparents gravesite:

Show Low Cemetery

Kim ask us where we want to be buried.  We are not sure but I think in Vernon.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

No sun on my walk this morning.  Lots of clouds but no rain.  I paid bills this morning and then this afternoon James and I went in to town.  Our first stop was at LaCasita.  We almost couldn't find a place to park but luckily some guy left and we took his spot.  I had my green chili burro fix and then we were on our way.  James dropped me off at Walmart while he did some shopping at Home Depot.  It's so convenient that they built these two stores next to each other. On the way home we made a deposit into our account at National Bank and stopped for gas.  I slept part of the way home and part of the way I read from our new Victoria Holt book "The Captive."  We finished Marie Antionette.  It was so sad!  We all know that it ended badly for dear Marie.  I do have a new appreciation for her and her husband Louis XVI of France.
My car needed washing but James said we weren't stopping at the carwash that he would wash it when we got home, which he did.  Thanks Honey.

 I am going to end this post with a picture that Kim sent me.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

We are down to the top ten on So You Think You Can Dance and I am glad to say that both of my Utah girls, Witney and Lindsey made it.  This week was Mia Michaels week.  It was fun to be reminded of all the cool dances Mia has choreographed but I am not sure I like remakes.  Napoleon and Tabitha had a baby boy since the last session.  They named him London.  I wonder if that was because he was born during the London Olympics. 
Instead of listening to music during my walk this morning I decided to listen to General Conference talks.  I feel like I am multitasking and enjoyed the spiritual upliftment.
I started using the shakes I got from Drea Monday night.  I have one in the morning, and one at night in place of breakfast and dinner.  So far I have lost 3 lbs.  My goal is 30 lbs. by Thanksgiving.

We had to make another trip to town today.  This time we deposited some money from our National Bank account into the Lambson Construction account. While I was picking up some things at Walmart I got a call from our Young Women's President.  We were scheduled to have a presidency meeting at 3pm but she cancelled.  She said she had a tooth pulled on Monday and it was still bothering her.  She also said she would be gone on Sunday and asked if I would give the lesson.  I was actually excited because the lesson is on scripture study, one of my favorite topics.

So far I have had the orange julius shake and the snickerdoodle.  They are both very tasty.  I watched Project Runway while James did something in the bedroom.  Raoul went home again.  I am so glad.  He cannot sew or design and he looks like Eddie Munster.

Monday, August 6, 2012

This morning I worked on updating my Sunday Church journal and I read the Young Women's lesson for next week on the importance of education and obtaining knowledge.  James and I sat on the porch and watched the clouds come in while we read from the Book of Mormon and our Victoria Holt book.  Also, I must confess I have anew addiction.  I love to play Scramble on my phone with Kim and Sheri.  I don't know why I play them because they beat me and they beat me badly.  The game is addicting though.
James and I went in to town this afternoon.  We had forgotten to take our trash to the dump on Saturday so we timed it just right today and got there right when it opened, at 1 pm.  We were going to go to LaCasita but it's closed on Monday's so we went to El Rancho instead.  There green chile burros aren't quite as good but I also had a shrimp taco which was delicious!  I did some shopping at Walmart while James waited in the car.  Afterwards we stopped at National Bank and opened an account.  James wants an account at a smaller bank.
Vickie and Dennis came out this evening.  Vickie brought James a walker and some pills and lots of advice.  It was very thoughtful of her.  We had a nice visit and watched a little of the Olympics.  Dennis, Denise and Denise's mom just got back from a trip to Chicago and now he's getting ready to go to Tennessee.
It rained again today and got down to 63.  The high was 72.