Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020

Billings, Montana

66th operating temple

Dedicated: 20 Nov 1999

By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, King

Acts 17:7

Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

Book of Mormon/"Come Follow Me"

Alma 5:27-56 and "Don't Miss This"

April General Conference

"Ensuring a Righteous Judgment"

Elder James R. Rasband

"A vital and peace-giving contribution of the Book of Mormon to our understanding of the Savior's Atonement is its teaching that Christ's merciful sacrifice fulfills all the demands of justice. As Alma explained, "God himself atoneth for the sins of the world, to bring about the plan of mercy. to appease the demands of justice, that God might be a perfect, just God, and a merciful God also." The Father's plan of mercy - what the scriptures also call the plan of happiness" or the plan of salvation - could not be accomplished unless all the demands of justice were satisfied.

"Hope Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ"
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
October 1998

James left early this morning. He went by to check on his job and then drove to home to Vernon. The main reason for going home was to mail the book that someone ordered, which he did. He also found Luna and fed her. He watered plants and then headed back to Show Low to pick up his prescription that he did not realize he was out of. He went by the UPS store and mailed the Razr engine which cost him $96. The company we ordered the new engine from said if we could mail the old engine it would save us $800. I wondered if that counted the postage. 

There is one thing James forgot to do. He forgot to deposit the $27,790 check from Mario. He needs that money in his account because he has subcontractor's to pay. I guess we will have to do it down here when he returns.

The girls were in bed until after 10 am. I thought they were asleep but when I went to check on them, they were watching TV in bed.

I had them get up and have some breakfast. They both chose Captain Crunch Cereal. After breakfast we got ready and went down to the pool. All of the good table spots were taken so I set our stuff up on a couple of lounge chairs. The attendant filled their "donuts". He handed the pink donut to Ruby and Lola let him know that the pink one was hers. 

The girls loved the donuts and Ruby used her goggles. Lola used hers until the strap came loose. They swam for about two hours while I sat in the shade and worked on my blog. It go to be pretty warm so, for my sake, we went in. I see alot of older people in the pool who don't look much better than I do. I think next year I am going to bring a swim suit.

As we got ready to leave the pool area our favorite pool attendant, the one who threatened to throw me in, gave the girls some Dots ice cream. They came home and ate their ice cream and then I fixed some lunch. Lola wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and mac and cheese. Ruby only wanted mac and cheese. They both had Sprite to drink. 

Lola wanted to watch TV while she was eating so we turned it on. Funny how you will allow grandkids to do what you wouldn't allow your kids to do. When Lola was finished eating she wanted to make the couch in to a bed so she could watch "this" TV and be more comfortable. So we made the couch into a bed. It's a little crowded when the couch is a bed but I didn't care if they didn't. 

There was a knock at the door and when we answered a resort employer with a mask on, they all have masks on, handed me two envelopes. The envelopes had the pool schedule for the weekend, beginning Friday inside. We  have green wristbands. There were two slots on Friday where pink & green wristbands were scheduled. I called Aaron at the front desk and asked if there was a pink and green wristband and he said yes so I assumed we were not scheduled. I thought the only time the boys were going to be able to swim this weekend was on Saturday morning when green was scheduled. I called Sheri and Trina and Trina said she would bring the boys over tonight and pick up the girls tonight instead of in the morning. I then wrote a letter to the general manager and told that swimming one slot on Saturday and no slots on Friday was unacceptable. She wrote back to me and said she was confused because she gave pink and green two slots on Friday. I told her I thought that was for a pink and green wristband especially after talking to Aaron at the front desk. I apologized for the misunderstanding. Now I feel bad that I had Trina come and get the girls although they did not seem upset. 

James got home around 5 p.m. and went straight in to take a nap so he missed our visitors and didn't know the girls had left. He was sorry he didn't get to say goodbye. When Lola left she said, "Be sure and tell grandpa I said goodbye."

Joshua was not able to come because of Covid so we just have Max, Evan, and Rowan. Max and Evan had already eaten but Rowan hadn't. We cooked the Red Baron cheese pizza we had in the freezer for him. We had family prayer with the boys and James told them he did not want them staying up past 7 a.m. Why would he say that? Oh well, I guess that's one of the joys of being a grandparent. 

I finished walking and James and I watched "Lark Rise to Candleford." 

Ruby and Lola with their Donut floaties

So very cute and grownup looking!

Remodel of our house built in the 70's