Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Bern, Switzerland

9th operating temple

Dedicated: 11-15 Sept 1955

By: David O. McKay

Jesus Christ, Condescension of

Alma 19:13

For as sure as thou livest, behold, I have seen my Redeemer; and he shall come forth, and be born of a woman, and he shall redeem all mankind who believe on his name. Now, when he had said these words, his heart was swollen within him, and he sunk again with joy; and the queen also sunk down, being overpowered by the Spirit.

Book of Mormon

Alma 19:12-21

*Why do you think Abish waited to make her conversion known to the Lamanites?
-In Matt 7:6 the Savior taught "neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Abish was waiting for the right time to share her testimony. She was waiting until the Lord prompted her. There has to be people ready to listen to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1-2
1 The genealogies and family ties from Adam to Abraham are given - The posterity of Abraham is listed.
2 The descendants of Israel, Judah, Jesse, Caleb, and others are listed.
General Conference

His Spirit to Be With You

President Henry B. Eyring

"My hope today is to increase your desire and your ability to receive the Holy Ghost. Remember, He is the third member of the Godhead. The Father and the Son are resurrected beings. The Holy Ghost is a person of spirit. (See DC 130:22.) It is your choice whether to receive Him and welcome Him into your heart and mind."

Russell M. Nelson 10/17 #70 The Book of Mormon: What Would Your Life Be Like Without It?

"In a most miraculous and singular way, the Book of Mormon teaches us of Jesus Christ and His gospel."

Ensign: "The Savior Heals Our Hurts" and "Place Your Trust in Him." 

I got up at 5, my regular time, for the first time in a few days. 

I asked Sheri if Ben had sent in his mission papers yet and she said President Johansen sent them in last night. I think they are sent electronically.

Here are some of the guesses as to where he is going: 

Grandma: Scotland/England or the Philippines.

Grandpa: Borneo, Mongolia or the big island of Hawaii. He remembers going to church there and how wonderful the people were.

Brian: North Carolina so he can convert the Avett Brothers.

We actually probably have relatives in North Carolina. That's where my grandpa Strickland was from. Brian also guessed Virginia.

Michael: Bulgaria or Korea

Kim: New Zealand

Adam: California or Washington

Stacy: Georgia

Anyone else want to guess?

James sent his old phone back to Verizon today. He got his mailing label in the mail but I did not get mine. Trying to get this mailing label is like pulling teeth. I tried several times to get it online and James called Verizon and they said he had to get it online. He finally went to the Verizon store and used their phone to order another one. 

James also went to the dump and did some other errands in town while I stayed home and worked on stripping the polish off the wood floor. Another task that is as hard as pulling teeth. That polish does not want to come off. Sometimes I have to scrape it off because the remover doesn't get it all. Not a fun task. I also ordered some more finish so when I get the old polish off, I can put a new satin finish back on.

James and I watched one of the Hailey Dean mysteries this evening. It was a good one. She finally found out who killed her fiance. His best friend was the mastermind behind it. The killer was supposed to have killed her. I don't usually like murder mysteries but I like these. The stories are written by the reporter, Nancy Grace and she appears in all of the episodes as a TV news commentator.

I want these purple flowers all over my yard.

So funny!

I hope this means he can feed himself now.

I want one of these for our family!

Rain and lightning over the 

Grand Canyon.

Relief Society 4th Sunday lessons

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

St. George, Utah

1st operating temple

Dedicated: 6-8 Apr 1877

By: Daniel H. Wells

Jesus Christ, Condescension of

Romans 8:3

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Book of Mormon

Alma 14:23-15:4

*How does your faith in Christ give you strength?

- It gives me strength because I know he is always there for me and will take care of me if I do my part. It is a very comforting thing.

Old Testament

2 Kings 11-12

11 Ahthaliah destroys the royal family in Judah and reigns herself in Judah - Joash is preserved and crowned king when seven years old - Jehoiada the priest destroys the house of Baal.

12 Jehoash (Joash) reigns in righteousness - The breaches in the temple are repaired - The safety of Jerusalem is purchased with the hallowed things in the temple - Joash is slain and Amaziah reigns.

General Conference

The Elders Quorum

Elder D. Todd Christofferson

"Years ago, President Boyd K. Packer observed that 'the priesthood is greater thann any of its offices. ...The priesthood is not divisible, An elder holds as much priesthood as an Apostle. (See DC 20:38.)

When a man has the priesthood conferred upon him, he receives all of it. However, there are offices within the priesthood - divisions of authority and responsibility. ... Sometimes one office is spoken of as being 'higher than' or 'lower than' another office. Rather than higher or lower, offices in the Melchizedek Priesthood represent different areas of service."  Brethren, I devoutly hope that we will no longer speak in terms of being 'advanced' to another office in the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Russell M. Nelson 4/15 #65. The Sabbath is a Delight.

"How can you ensure that your behavior on the Sabbath will lead to joy and rejoicing.?"

Dale G. Renlund The Melchizedek Priesthood. Chapter 24

Conclusion

James started out this morning to help Brother Howard's neighbor. Brother Howard caught him and asked if he could fix his waterline as they have no water so he did that first and then went to the neighbors with Big Cat and did some grading for $50.

Your ward's youth trek starts today. Sister Allen said they would be coming by our house. I will look for them.

I actually caught up on my blog today after several weeks of being behind. It is a good feeling!

I texted Amaron's mother Laurann today. Here is the text I sent.

Hi Laurann. I wanted to talk to you about Amaron. Initially the reason I wanted to help him with his reading was because he struggled reading in our Primary class and lacked confidence in his ability. I know you have not asked for my help and if you would rather I didn't, just tell me. I will not be offended. I have realized I can't do much good just seeing him once a week. If I am going to continue, I will need to give him things to do and read at home to you on a daily basis. He needs to practice everyday. I can reserve a room at the library on Thursday evenings where I can meet and work with him. He is such a sweet boy and I want him to feel the excitement and success of being a good reader. I am afraid if we don't help him he is going to get further and further behind. Please let me know how you feel about this. We could start next week as I am going to the temple at 4:30 this Thursday with Deborah Brewer. Think about it and let me know. Your friend, Karen.

I never heard back from Laurann today and I thought maybe I had offended her. I thought about it until I finally went to sleep tonight.

I decided that tomorrow I would text her again.

This afternoon I finally got the Whitecap account username and password straightened out so that I could pay that bill. James made several calls about returning our phones and when I went to town to get groceries he stopped by the Verizon store and they contacted Verizon and they are sending us labels to return our old phones.

On the way to town I drank my green smoothie because I knew I couldn't go shopping on an empty stomach. I picked up the Treewax floor polish remover I ordered. I thought I had ordered six bottles but it ended up being 12 because two bottles are wrapped together. They cost $76.

I'm going to be busy the next few weeks.

After putting my groceries away this evening I walked over 10,000 steps. It feels good to be able to walk my steps again!

I also spent 25 minutes reading from Children Learning Reading, then practiced with my caligraphy pen by writing my ancestors names on a family tree I found while cleaning.

I had to make it extra large so you could see the names.

We went to bed with open windows and turned the AC off. We are supposed to have rain on Friday and Saturday which is highly unusual for this time of year. We can hardly wait!

Happy 46th Birthday Ian!

If you think Ian looks young in this photo it's

because this photo was taken last year.

I sent his card yesterday. He didn't get it today.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Remembering is so important.

So many more than listed here lost their lives.

This is the prayer President Hinckley offered in General Conferences just a few weeks after this occurred:

 "O God, our Eternal Father,    whose children we are, we look to Thee in faith in this dark and solemn time  please, dear Father, bless us with faith.  Bless us with love.  Bless us with charity in our hearts.  Bless us with a spirit of perseverance to root out the terrible evils that are in this world.  Give protection and guidance to those who are engaged actively in carrying forth the things of battle.  Bless them, preserve their lives, save them from harm and evil.  Hear the prayers of their loved ones for their safety. . . .

"O Father, look with mercy upon this, our own nation, and its friends in this time of need.  Spare us and help us to walk with faith ever in Thee and ever in Thy Beloved Son, on whose mercy we count and to whom we look as our Savior and our Lord.  Bless the cause of peace and bring it quickly to us again, we humbly plead with Thee, asking that Thou wilt forgive our arrogance, pass by our sins, be kind and gracious to us, and cause our hearts to turn with love toward Thee.  We humbly pray in the name of Him who loves us all, even the Lord Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and our Savior, amen."  (Ensign, Nov. 2001, 90).

Helaman 2:1-14

How do you avoid being deceived by the flattery of men?

Through the inspiration of the Spirit.  We must stay spiritually centered and remember what really matters.  (See "Why Way Do You Face?", October 2014 General Conference.)

GC: 'Whoso Receiveth Them, Receiveth Me' Elder Andersen

"We recognize the many good parents across the world, of all faiths, who lovingly care for their children.  And we gratefully acknowledge the families in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are wrapped in the care of a father and mother converted to the Savior, who are sealed by the authority of the priesthood, and who are learning in their family to love and trust their Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ."

Today was high council Sunday in sacrament meeting.  Brother Justin Tregaskes and his daughter Kylie were our speakers.  Kylie is a temple worker and has been called to serve a mission in Peru.  She spoke on D&C 46:3-33.  We are never to cast anyone out of our public meetings or sacrament services.  We must recognize the needs of others.  "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are in the service of your God." Spiritual gifts are given so we can serve others.  Verses 11-29 of section 46 is a list of spiritual gifts.  Sometimes it takes others to help us recognize our gifts.  Give thanks for gifts and blessings.  I really liked Kylie.  She mention Veggie Tales, The Lego Movie, and Cinderella in her talk.  She talked about being kind and having courage, which is what Cinderella's mother tells her as she, the mother, is dying.

Justin Tregaskes of the Country Club Manor ward.  He reminded us about what our stake president ask us to do in the last stake conference.  We are to use Find, Take, Teach in our temple work.  Find names, take them to the temple, and teach others to do the same.  I helped Vickie and James has recently helped Brian.  We will continue to work on this as we do more research and try to get others involved.  He also reminded us that President Williams ask us to study "The Living Christ" and The Family Proclamation.  I am doing this in my personal gospel study everyday.  I am on sentence 16 on both of these documents.  I think that is about half way, or maybe a little less.  Brother Tregaskes spoke about keeping the Sabbath day holy and gave some personal examples from his own life.  He then ask us to ask ourselves: Why am I here today?

To deepen my relationship with the Savior.  Are our Sunday activities uplifting and strengthening our testimonies?  Reach out to the lonely.  Be examples of the believers.  Honor the Sabbath all day long.  Is what I am doing outwardly expressing what I believe inwardly?  It was a great talk!!

Today I had Tana Westbrook and Madison Deatherage in my class.  Denice Hall, their teacher, was sick today.  I also had Kacey, Curtis and Zemira.  I am not sure why Braylin wasn't here.  When I texted his mom she said everyone was fine.

The lesson today was about Jesus teaching the Nephites the Beatitudes.  I made this chart:

The kids in my class got a chart similar to this one to take home and work on.  If they bring it back completed, they get to

chose something from the treasure basket.

Curtis was awesome today.  He even helped with his favorite song, "Book of Mormon Stories", during singing time.  

After church James drove Curtis and I to the Penrod's to see Braxton.  We gave him some cookies I had made and a Book of Mormon with a couple of Pass-along cards.  Curtis says he has known Braxton most of his life.  I am not sure why his family doesn't come to church.

I love this quote by President Uchtdorf

As I am working on my family history I am trying to come up with a clever way to display family pictures.  I found this:

I want James to draw one for me on the wall in the hallway,

but first I have to convince him it will look good.

Today was a wonderful Sabbath day except that an old permanent crown fell out of my mouth.  It is probably because I have had a temporary crown on the other side of my mouth for so long that I have been doing all my chewing on the side of the mouth where I lost the crown.  James helped me put it back in.  Sorry, no pictures.

Buckelew Falls

This picture was taken in September of 2013.

We have not had enough rain this year for the falls to run.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Remembering is so important.

So many more than listed here lost their lives.

This is the prayer President Hinckley offered in General Conferences just a few weeks after this occurred:

 "O God, our Eternal Father,    whose children we are, we look to Thee in faith in this dark and solemn time  please, dear Father, bless us with faith.  Bless us with love.  Bless us with charity in our hearts.  Bless us with a spirit of perseverance to root out the terrible evils that are in this world.  Give protection and guidance to those who are engaged actively in carrying forth the things of battle.  Bless them, preserve their lives, save them from harm and evil.  Hear the prayers of their loved ones for their safety. . . .

"O Father, look with mercy upon this, our own nation, and its friends in this time of need.  Spare us and help us to walk with faith ever in Thee and ever in Thy Beloved Son, on whose mercy we count and to whom we look as our Savior and our Lord.  Bless the cause of peace and bring it quickly to us again, we humbly plead with Thee, asking that Thou wilt forgive our arrogance, pass by our sins, be kind and gracious to us, and cause our hearts to turn with love toward Thee.  We humbly pray in the name of Him who loves us all, even the Lord Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and our Savior, amen."  (Ensign, Nov. 2001, 90).

Helaman 2:1-14

How do you avoid being deceived by the flattery of men?

Through the inspiration of the Spirit.  We must stay spiritually centered and remember what really matters.  (See "Why Way Do You Face?", October 2014 General Conference.)

GC: 'Whoso Receiveth Them, Receiveth Me' Elder Andersen

"We recognize the many good parents across the world, of all faiths, who lovingly care for their children.  And we gratefully acknowledge the families in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are wrapped in the care of a father and mother converted to the Savior, who are sealed by the authority of the priesthood, and who are learning in their family to love and trust their Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ."

Today was high council Sunday in sacrament meeting.  Brother Justin Tregaskes and his daughter Kylie were our speakers.  Kylie is a temple worker and has been called to serve a mission in Peru.  She spoke on D&C 46:3-33.  We are never to cast anyone out of our public meetings or sacrament services.  We must recognize the needs of others.  "When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are in the service of your God." Spiritual gifts are given so we can serve others.  Verses 11-29 of section 46 is a list of spiritual gifts.  Sometimes it takes others to help us recognize our gifts.  Give thanks for gifts and blessings.  I really liked Kylie.  She mention Veggie Tales, The Lego Movie, and Cinderella in her talk.  She talked about being kind and having courage, which is what Cinderella's mother tells her as she, the mother, is dying.

Justin Tregaskes of the Country Club Manor ward.  He reminded us about what our stake president ask us to do in the last stake conference.  We are to use Find, Take, Teach in our temple work.  Find names, take them to the temple, and teach others to do the same.  I helped Vickie and James has recently helped Brian.  We will continue to work on this as we do more research and try to get others involved.  He also reminded us that President Williams ask us to study "The Living Christ" and The Family Proclamation.  I am doing this in my personal gospel study everyday.  I am on sentence 16 on both of these documents.  I think that is about half way, or maybe a little less.  Brother Tregaskes spoke about keeping the Sabbath day holy and gave some personal examples from his own life.  He then ask us to ask ourselves: Why am I here today?

To deepen my relationship with the Savior.  Are our Sunday activities uplifting and strengthening our testimonies?  Reach out to the lonely.  Be examples of the believers.  Honor the Sabbath all day long.  Is what I am doing outwardly expressing what I believe inwardly?  It was a great talk!!

Today I had Tana Westbrook and Madison Deatherage in my class.  Denice Hall, their teacher, was sick today.  I also had Kacey, Curtis and Zemira.  I am not sure why Braylin wasn't here.  When I texted his mom she said everyone was fine.

The lesson today was about Jesus teaching the Nephites the Beatitudes.  I made this chart:

The kids in my class got a chart similar to this one to take home and work on.  If they bring it back completed, they get to

chose something from the treasure basket.

Curtis was awesome today.  He even helped with his favorite song, "Book of Mormon Stories", during singing time.  

After church James drove Curtis and I to the Penrod's to see Braxton.  We gave him some cookies I had made and a Book of Mormon with a couple of Pass-along cards.  Curtis says he has known Braxton most of his life.  I am not sure why his family doesn't come to church.

I love this quote by President Uchtdorf

As I am working on my family history I am trying to come up with a clever way to display family pictures.  I found this:

I want James to draw one for me on the wall in the hallway,

but first I have to convince him it will look good.

Today was a wonderful Sabbath day except that an old permanent crown fell out of my mouth.  It is probably because I have had a temporary crown on the other side of my mouth for so long that I have been doing all my chewing on the side of the mouth where I lost the crown.  James helped me put it back in.  Sorry, no pictures.

Buckelew Falls

This picture was taken in September of 2013.

We have not had enough rain this year for the falls to run.

Sunday, August 21, 2016

I love this family tree and want James to draw

me one in our hallway.  The only problem,

he doesn't like it.  Boohoo.

Alma 53:18-54:12

What can we learn from the stripling warriors courage?

18 - Two thousand warriors took the oath to defend their country.

19 - They became a great support to the Nephites.  Helaman was their leader

20 - They were all young and exceedingly valiant for courage, strength and activity.  They were true at all times in whatsoever thing they were entrusted.

21 - They were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God and to walk uprightly before Him.

22 - Helaman marched at the head of his 2,000 soldiers.

23 - The 28th year ended.

Alma 54

1 - Ammoron wants to exchange prisoners with the Nephites.

2 - Moroni wrote to Ammoron:

3 - Repent and withdraw your armies into you own lands.

7 - An awful hell awaits to receive such murderers as thou and thy brother unless you repent and return with your aries to your own lands.

11 - Thou art a child of hell.

GC: "Fathers" by Elder D. Todd Christofferson.

Today was high council Sunday.  Montana Westbrook gave her first talk in sacrament meeting since turning 12.  She spoke on her favorite scripture story, about Lehi and Nephi as recorded in Helaman 5.  She did a great job.  This is one of my favorite scripture stories too.  Cory Davis was the next speaker.  I believe he is a recently returned missionary.  He spoke on priesthood keys and authority.  Rob Jones was our high councilman speaker.  I know his wife Fawne.  She was the stake young women's president when I was in young women's.  They live in Clay Springs.  The first thing Brother Jones did was remind us of the blessings President Williams promised us at the end of our last stake conference if we would participate in the Find, Take, Teach family history program.  Here are the blessings: 1) We will receive help beyond the veil, 2) Our burdens will be lighter, 3) We will feel more forgiveness and we will forgive others more easily, 4) We will have a deeper testimony of prophets, priesthood keys, and others around us will notice this about us.  President Williams also ask us to memorize the Family Proclamation and The Living Christ.  This is something I work on every morning during my gospel study.  

 Thank you President Monson!

Today my Primary class consisted of: Braylin, Curtis, Kacey, Zemira, and a visitor from Eagar, Joely.  I think Joely is related to the Grap family.  Our lesson was on "Signs of Jesus Christ's Birth in America" covering 3 Nephi 1-2.

During sharing/singing time I was sitting by Curtis.  Braylin drug his chair around to my other side and started talking to me about the Fablehaven book series that he just finished reading.  He knows I am reading it too.  On the other side of me Curtis starts telling me about the series he is reading called "The Amulet".  It was like stereo book report all during singing time.  I tried to quiet them down but it wasn't easy.  On the one hand I am glad they want to share what they like with me, but I don't think singing time is the appropriate time.  It was funny.

James and I came home and had a salad for lunch before he left to go home teaching with Brother Rick Lauritzen.  They visited George and Ruth Wallace, and the Kip Hunsaker family.  When he returned home a couple of hours later we had some pesto flatbread and then James went in to take a nap.  I texted Randy to see how Aunt Gene was doing.  They are putting her in ICU tonight to keep a better watch on her.  I plan on going to see her tomorrow.

Michael left for college today.  Joshua was still asleep and was very sad when he woke up and Michael was gone.

Moving is hard work.

Michael's space.

Nice blanket.

Joshua was so upset he didn't want to go to church.  It was just him and Stacy because Paul went with Michael.  At one point he got up to go to the bathroom and told Stacy he was leaving to walk home.  She looked at him and said, "You better not."  He has never done anything like that before so she really didn't think he would.  He never came back and when she went to look for him he was nowhere to be found.  She went home, and there he was, sitting on the couch with Shipley.  He probably walked a mile and had to cross McQueen Rd.

On Sunday evening James and I usually start working on our lessons for the next week but this week we didn't need to.  Next week Michael is being ordained an elder and we are going down to the valley.  We read and James called Ed Miller to teach his class.  I will talk to Hailey Chaffin tomorrow to see if she is available to teach my class.

 Clouds over Mt. Mentoso

Baby Lola

She has changed quite a bit in two years!

Guest house of the Day:

Sunday, August 14, 2016

That is my goal but I have a long ways to go.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Ten candles make quite a blaze.

Joshua wanted to eat hamburgers with his brothers and

watch the newest Star Wars movie with these friends.

Just a couple of years ago we were at Joshua's baptism.

A happy day!

Alma 50:21-40

21 - The Nephites quarreling and contentions, and their murderings, their plunderings, their idolatry, whoredoms, and their abominations which were among themselves, which brought upon them their wars and destructions.

22 - Those who were faithful in keeping the commandments of the Lord were delivered at all times, while thousands of their wicked brethren were consigned to bondage or to perish by the sword or to dwindle in unbelief, and mingle with the Lamanites.

23 - There never was a happier time since the days of Nephi, among the Nephites than in the days of Moroni:(This pertains to the people in the Church).

26 - A warm contention arose in the 24th year between the people of Morianton and Lehi.  The people of Morianton took up arms against their brethren to slay them.

27 - The people of Lehi, who had done no wrong, appealed to Moroni.  

29 - Morianton convinces his people to flee to the land northward

35 - Teancum slays Morianton and defeats his army.

37 - Nephihah dies.

40 - Nephihah's son Pahoran becomes the cheif judge.

GC: "Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins" by Elder David A. Bednar

In our Primary class today our lesson was on "Samuel the Lamanite."  We have a new class member, Kaden Singleton, Nadine Singleton's grandson.  Zemira and Curtis were the only other ones in class today.  

In sacrament meeting Aaron Windsor, returned missionary from the Reno, Nevada, spoke.  Before the meeting Aaron told me he knew Vernon Lambson.  It's a small world.  Aaron said he went to the temple this past week to pray for guidance as to what to say today. 

He received the answer: "Testify of me."  He spoke on the Savior's Atonement and then shared an experience on his mission.  He was in a members home with his companion and they had just taught a discussion to an invesigator.  They had knelt down to pray and as Elder Windsor got up he looked into a mirror on the wall.  Instead of seeing his image, he saw the image of the Savior.  He was reminded that as a missionary he was the Savior's representative on the earth.  This was a powerful message to him that what he was doing was accepted of the Savior.  James said he thought of the scripture: "Have ye received His image in your countenance?"

Aaron acknowledge his weaknesses and says he doesn't know why he was given that experience, but he is grateful for it.

After the block today Zemira and I went to visit a boy in our class who does not attend, Cameron Kenyon.  We took him a plate of cookies and invited him to attend.  Cameron is a sweet boy and he said: "I am going to ask my dad to wake me up early so I can come."  

Zemira took home a plate of chocolate chip cookies for himself and his family.  He told me last week that they were his favorite.

This is my sister-in-law Laura's family tree.  

I want James to make me one for our family pictures.

James and Rick Lauritzen went home teaching this afternoon.  They visited Jerry and Millie Scott and Virgil Cooper.  Millie sent us some apricot pineapple jam and some apple butter.  Jerry encouraged James to read a book by Cleon Skousen called "The Cleansing of America."  James asked me to order it and I told him I already had it.  This made him happy!

I read a chapter from "The Painter's Daughter" to James.  I also read from "The Power of Everyday Missionaries", and "Christ in Every Hour."

It was a wonderful Sabbath day.  I will be leaving Vernon early on Tuesday to spend most of the week in the valley.  I can hardly wait to return.

The road to Vernon.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

I love this family tree!
I want James to draw one on the wall for me.

Alma 35:1-16

1-2 The missionaries go to Jershon.

3 - The more popular Zoramites were angry with the word because it did destroy their craft; therefore they would not hearken to the words.

4 - They consulted with the people in the land concerning the word.

6 - Those who were in favor of the words spoken by Alma and his brethren were cast out of the land, and they were many.  They came over to the land of Jershon.

7 - Alma and his brethren did minister unto them.

8 - The Zoramites were angry with the Ammonites.  The chief ruler of the Zoramites was a very wicked man and ask the people of Ammon to cast out the Zoramites who came into their land.

9 - He breathed out many threatenings against them.  The people of Ammon did not fear his words.  They received all the poor of the Zoramites and did nourish the and did give unto them lands for their inheritance, and did administer unto them according to their wants.

10 - The Zoramites stir up the Lamanites to anger against the people of Ammon.

13 - The people of Ammon departed out of Jershon and went to the land of Melek.  The armies of the Nephites tay in Jershon so they could contend with the armies of the Zoramites and Lamanites.

14 - Alma and his brethren return to Zarahemla.  The converted Zoramites stay in Jershon to help the Naphite army.

15 - Alma is sorrowful because of the hardness of the hearts of so many of his people.

16 - Alma counsels his sons individually.

GC: "A Sacred Trust" by President Thomas S. Monson.

My knee still hurts today and I walk around most of the morning without bending it.  As Sheri was fixing breakfast I told her I thought I was just going to stay in my sweats today.  I went in to take and shower and changed my mind and my clothes.  It's hard to be slothful after you have taken a shower.

Sheri ran 6.5 miles today.  I am very proud of her.

The Trezise's like the game show network.  Today they watched "Let's Make a Deal."  Someone won over $200,000.  

I played Five Crowns with Sheri, Ben, and Max before they left for home.  I finally won one game and Sheri won one, taking down Ben as his reign as champion.

Sheri fixed quesadillas and cheese crisps for lunch.  I had Joshua take a shower before leaving for home and then he went on a Razr ride with Ben and Evan and Max, and they all got soaked in the rain.  Grrr.

Joshua and the Trezises' minus Alex.

I think the only one who really wanted to go home was Joshua.  He said he missed Shipley and his family.

Mary Carroll had her baby boy today.  

Maxwell Gray Carroll

I like the first name.

Dallin says it's easy to fall in love at first sight.

Eden and Ander Hoose,

two of Rebecca and Brent's grandchildren.

It was overcast this afternoon but we got very little rain.  As we are leaving for the valley in the morning I spent the afternoon studying for my Primary lesson.  For dinner we had homemade beans and coleslaw left over from the Saladmaster presentation on Saturday night.