Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Name that temple

3 Nephi 24:1-25:6

What blessings are promised to those who pay their tithing?

* Those who live the law of tithing show their faith in God.  Obedience to this law brings the blessings stated in 3 Nephi 24:10-12. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland shared five reasons why every member of the Church, in any kind of circumstance, should obey the law of tithing: "I suggest five reasons why all of us, rich or poor, longtime member or newest convert, should faithfully pay our tithes and offerings.  First, do so for the sake of your children.  Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church.

Second, pay your tithing to rightfully claim the blessings promised those who do so.  Third, pay your tithing as a declaration that possession of material goods and the accumulation of worldly wealth are not the uppermost goals of your existence.  Fourth, pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due.  This leads to a fifth reason to pay our tithing and offerings.  We should pay them as a personal expression of love to a generous and merciful Father in Heaven.  Through His grace, God has dealt bread to the hungry and clothing to the poor.  At various times in our lives, that will include all of us, either 

temporally or spiritually." (Ensign, Nov. 2001, 33-35).

GC:     'A Witness of God' by Elder Neil L. Andersen

" The God of heaven," Daniel said "shall set up a kingdom, a stone cut out without hands, that will become a great

mountain and fill the whole earth, never to be

destroyed but to stand for ever."

The guy who shot officer Reed yesterday is now dead.  He took his 15 year old hostage and hid in a cabin at the Lake of the Woods for 6 1/2 hours before he was shot and killed by the police.  His hostage was unharmed. 

  

There was a processional for officer Reed today as his body was
brought back from the medical examiners in Tucson.

I quote James: "The cows made huge holes in our grass.  They are the blackberry leaves, the leaves off the grape vines, and the apple tree leaves and trampled the raspberry vines into the ground."

The cow posse strikes again.

James and I had lunch at the China Buffet today.  We also bought a quart of hot and sour soup to bring home.  It is the bomb!

Stacy raking and Jared, well, I am not

sure what he is doing.

Not sure where the cake is.

I watched a few Christmas movies today.  "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" starring Brooke Burns and Henry Winkler.  This is one of my favorite light-hearted Christmas movies.  

"The Nine Lives of Christmas" about cats, and a lonely fireman who finds his true love.

This evening James and I watched "A Christmas Detour" starring Candace Cameron Bure.

This would make a cute guesthouse.

There has been lots of backlash because Trump won the election.  People are rioting and protesting in the big cities.  This is one of the reasons I don't watch the news!

Cinderella's advice, and mine too!

An interesting article I found on Facebook.  

Thursday, September 1, 2016

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Oregon

Alma 60:1-13

Moroni writes again to Pahoran. 

2 - Moroni reminds Pahoran of his responsibility to provide provisions and soldiers for the war.

3 - He tells Pahoran of the sufferings of those involved in the war.

5 - Great has been the slaughter among our people and great has been your neglect toward us.

6 - Why are you neglecting us?

7 - Are you sitting upon your throne in a thoughtless stupor?

8 - You could have saved thousands from falling by the sword.

13 - For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that His justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; Ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their God.

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

Mormon Helping Hands

Deep Thoughts:

These thoughts are taken from an article about prayer that was published in Meridian Magazine:

"The tidy pretense of being a good person did not hold up to the painful reality of my fallenness."

"O Jesus, thou Son of God, Have mercy on me." (Alma the Younger)

"If I make myself humble He makes me clean."

"Prayer is not a polite beg-a-thon.  No, it is a lost and confused child in a hostile and foreign land calling home for directions."

"Begging for mercy is different from presenting our demands."

James and I seem to have good timing.  We have been deciding it's time to go to town right around lunch time. Today we went to Grumpy Jake's.  It was our third choice but Persnikkity's and Darbi's were too busy.

I had the pulled pork sandwich.

James dropped me off at Walmart while he went to Home Depot.  It was raining hard, but we didn't get any rain in Vernon.  On the way home we finished our book, "With Every Breath."  We liked it.

We had a quiet relaxing afternoon.  Even though we didn't get any rain, it was overcast and cool.

This is a picture of Rainbow Lake in Lakeside, just

down the highway from Grumpy Jakes.

 James's dad had 12 brothers and sisters, having one sister who died in infancy.  Now there are only two siblings left, Elton Kay, and Delbert.  Today is Delbert's 93rd birthday.  We hope he has a great day!

A World War II prisoner of war, a poet,

and an artist.

Delbert Dempsey Lambson

Elton Kay Lambson,

the baby of the family.

He is an artist too.

During my gospel study today I came across this diagram in the gospel doctrine Sunday School manual.

This is called the Pride Cycle and was the

downfall of the Nephite society.

I wonder if we will follow their example, or

learn from their mistakes.

My desires have evolved from wanting James to build a playhouse to having him build a guesthouse.  Here is one I like because of the porches.

James said the flat roof might not work too

well when it snows.

Someone posted this on Facebook today:

I love it!