Monday, August 29, 2016

Beautiful!

Even more beautiful!

Alma 58:1-12

1 - The Nephites next object was to take the city Manti.

2 - The Lamanites are more numberous than the Nephites.

3 - The Nephites wait for more provisions and for more men

5 - The Lamanites were receiving strength from day to day.

6 - The Nephites could not come to battle with the Lamanites because of their strongholds.

7 - The Nephiets wait for many months even until they were about to perish for the want of food.

8 - They finally received food and 2,000 men.

9 - The army is grieved because the government didn't send more.

(The reminds me of the U.S. armies in the Revolutionary War.)

10 - They did pour out their souls in prayer to God that He would strengthen the and deliver them out of the hands of their enemies and give them strength to maintain their cities.

11 - The Lord did deliver them with assurances that He would deliver them.

12 - They did take great courage and had great faith that the Lord would deliver them.

GC: "And There Shall Be No More Death" Elder Paul V. Johnson.

Elder Johnson's daughter who

died recently of cancer.

I am home alone at Cathi and Terry's and my car is at Erik's getting new shocks and some other work done.  Terry always says I can use his truck but I really don't have anywhere I need to go.

James is doing a job at the multi-million dollar mansion of the owner of Discount Tire on Camelback Mountain.  This guy is worth over 9 billion dollars!  Adam and Seth are working on the job as well as Christopher Gallagos (Lauro) and another guy.  Sorry he didn't get any pictures of Seth.

Lauro and Adam

Adam and the other guy

This a one day job.  James made over $900.

I watched a video today about the Sapporo, Japan temple and it's architecture.  It was very interesting and the temple is beautiful!

When James got home around 2pm we went to IHOP for something to eat and then he went to Susan Jacobson's to correct some touchup paint that was the wrong color.  She gave him some cookies to thank him.  After he left she texted and said: "I should have gave you more cookies."

Cathi and Terry made pork chops, potatoes and salad for dinner.  It was delicious.

Dave and Laura came over for a FHE visit.  It was fun to visit with them and Cathi and Terry. Sorry, no pictures.

Friday, May 6, 2016

My "book of the month."

In conjunction with my calling as a teacher I am supposed to be reading this manual.  Also we are suppose to have training meetings once a month during the block.  Our ward hasn't started these training meetings yet.  Here are some notes I took from today's study:

Sources of power and support:

The power of the Holy Ghost

"As you strive to live the gospel worthily the Holy Ghost will reveal God's will to you."

"When the Spirit is with you, you will teach with God's power and help bring about the miracle of conversion." (See John 3:2, 2 Nephi 33:1).

The promise of my calling and setting apart.

"Whom the Lord calls, the Lord qualifies."

 This is going to be a great read!

Scripture study: Mosiah 24: 1-15.  How has prayer helped ease your daily burdens?

12 - And Alma and his people did not raise their voices to the Lord their God, but did pour out their hearts to Him and He did know the thoughts of their hearts.  

15 - . . . they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.

At 10:00 I left for my infusion at the AARA office in Mesa.  I was there a little over an hour.  I felt very blessed as I saw some of the people who were so crippled that they could barely walk.

I went back home (Cathi's) and picked up James so we could go shopping at Walmart for the stuff to make the slingshot for my class.  My lesson this week is on Ammon guarding King Lamoni's sheep and teaching King Lamoni the gospel.

I picked up Sheri from Sears where she left her car to be serviced and we met Kim for lunch at Firebirds.  Sheri bought lunch for both of us with the $100 giftcard Dr. Carpenter gave her.

 One of my favorite restaurants!

I had what I always have at Firebirds, coconut shrimp with coleslaw and mango chutney.  Kim has never been to Firebirds before.  She loved the sourdough bread and her club sandwich on jalapeno bread.  Sheri had the delicious shrimp tacos.  We shared a piece of creme brule cheesecake for dessert.  It was a great experience.

The weather has really cooled down since Wednesday.  The high was around 80 today whereas Wednesday it hit 102 and Thursday it was in the high 90's.  
After lunch we said goodbye to Kim and Sheri took me to get a pedicure.  I tried to get a lighter color this time for summer.

Sheri got a dark purple but I didn't get a

picture of her toes.

Back at Cathi's I went with James to take his truck to Erik and then I dropped James back off at Cathi's while I went to Staples to get notebooks and then to Sam's Club to get gas and to get my car washed.  

When I got back to Cathi's she had picked up dinner for us at Panda so I ate dinner and then Dave and Laura came over for a visit.  We all sat around the dining room table and visited.  Cathi and Laura have a new game they like to play but Terry didn't want to play, so we just visited.  The game is called Tenzi.

It's a dice and card game.

 

Trina, Darrel and the kids came over later to bring my mothers day gifts and Trina said she had played the game and that it was alot of fun.

Trina and Darrel brought a beautiful purple orchid, a gift card to Cheesecake Factory and one to Red Lobster.  The kids absolutely loved the dogs, especially Rowan.  He says he wants two dogs, one like Indy and one like Lady.  He and Ruby went outside to see the tortoise, Scooter, but he was burrowed down in his hole.

 

Here is a picture of the orchid they gave me.  It is so beautiful!

 This picture was actually taken on Mother's Day

after I got cards from James, Brian, Sheri's family,

and Kim.