Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

Gilbert, Arizona

142nd operating temple

Dedicated: 2 Mar 2014

By: Thomas S. Monson

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship

Moses 2:1, 26

1 And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven, and this earth; write the words which I speak. I am the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only /begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.

26 And I, God, said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Book of Mormon

Mosiah 4:4-15

New Testament "Come Follow Me"

Matt 17:14-21; Mark 9:14-29 Luke 9:37-42

General Conference

"The Eye of Faith"

Elder Neil L. Andersen
"If we pick and choose what we accept in the proclamation, we cloud our eternal view, putting too much importance on our experience here and now."

I read an article in the Ensign today by Brian K. Ashton, "Three Lessons on Love, Joy and Peace". This quote is from that article: 

By consistently doing the small things, we yield our hearts and minds to God, which purifies and sanctifies us (see Helaman 3:35).This purification and sanctification changes our very nature, little by little, so we become more and more like the Savior." 

Today's bunny report. "I saw none of the bunnies this morning. Either they are hiding or they got carried away by a hawk or owl. Thanks James for that visual image! 

Kathy, my favorite, and Kris did the Book Profits webinar this morning. They both are so very successful it's hard to imagine that we will ever be there. One of the things Kathy stresses is to set goals. She said her goal for her first year in the business, 2017, was to sell $100,000 worth of books. She actually ended up selling $150,000. James and I have a goal to make $2,000 a month our first year. Now we have to sit down and figure out how many books we have to sell per day to accomplish that goal and how much we need to make from each book. 

We had Marie Callendar pot pies for lunch. I had chicken and James had beef. When I looked at the calories on the back I thought it said 400 and something. Well that was for half a pie. The entire pie was over 800. I let James eat half of mine as well as his. He loves pot pies. I saved the rest of my calories for a gingerbread mix I made topped with Coolwhip. Delicious especially while still warm from the oven.

After nap time I walked and finished watching "Christmas Next Door" and started "Surprised By Love" another one of my favorites. Tim Conway is pretty funny as the grandpa who pretends he can't talk to avoid dealing with people. Hilarie Burton and Paul Campbell are always great and this movie is no exception. I think it's one of Kim's favorites too.

This girl can really play the violin.

I enjoyed the music in this movie.

I have three Hilarie Burton movies I love and this is

one of them. The other two are Summer Villa with Victor

Webster, and a Christmas one where she plays 

Krissy Kringle.

I walked over 17,000 steps today until my right knee started hurting and I had to quit. 

James and I both bought books today. I also paid all the rest of the bills on James's last construction project and some personal bills too. I paid down our Amazon Store Card so we could order books and pay with this card instead of using our other credit cards. 

We waited until late to go to the post office today. James went in and a few minutes later he came outside and asked for my help. We had 14 packages of books. Wow! 

James opened all of our packages of books and "cleaned them up" while I started getting our other books ready to ship. Amazon created three shipments from our one shipment but two of the shipments only had one book each. The other shipment going to California had the other 16 books.

James has been doing alot of repricing on books in our inventory and wants me to remove some of them. I can't make the removal process work so I guess I need to call Amazon tomorrow. It worked the last tie I had to remove books but a message keeps coming up that there is an error and they are taking care of it. It's been a few days now and nothing has happened.

It's like Christmas everyday!

These look brand new but we can't sell them new,

we can only sell used books.

Ben's Email:

I love this baby and her happy face. She is cutting

teeth and I can hardly wait until we can see them!

 Lunch with dad at the park.

 Dave and Laura visiting Kevin's family in Texas