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

Monday, April 8th, 2019

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

141st operating temple

Dedicated: 17 Mar 2013

By: Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship

Moses 1:33

And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created themm, which is mine Only Begotten.

Book of Mormon

Mosiah 3:19-4:3

New Testament "Come Follow Me"

General Conference review day

General Conference

Seeking Knowledge by the Spirit

"We should learn to discern the truth not only through our rational minds but also through the very still and small voice of the Spirit."

James is so concerned about the little bunnies. He could only find four this morning. He brought the tiniest  one in because he didn't think he had been fed. We tried to feed him with  eye drops bottle but I don't think he wanted the cows milk we were giving him.

 When we put him in the box he just nestled in

and was going to go to sleep.

Notice the worried look on James's face.

We sold two more books today, including, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" which was one of the first books we listed.

I watched "Cooking with Love" today, one of my favorite Hallmark movies. Kelly says to Stephen when he says he's right: "Sometimes being kind is more important than being right." I love the movies than involve children which this one does. 

Because of Kelly's kindness and good heart she changes Stephen. He has an opportunity for his own television show but in order to take the offer he has to leave New York and Kelly. In the end he says: "I can leave New York, but I can't leave you."

Cheese at it's best.

James jumps on the Cat and heads down the road to do some more work. A few minutes later he calls and says he's broke down and to please come and get him. I am already to go to town and pick him up on the way. The only problem is he has to come back to wash up and change his clothes. I am a little peeved because I had told him I wanted to leave by 11 so we could have lunch at Persnikkity's before it gets too busy.

When we got into town sure enough, the parking lot was full at Persnikkity's. James said, "that's ok, I wanted to go to the bank first anyway. (I had $8,800 in cash in my purse. That's how Mario paid James). 

After the bank we continued to head toward the UPS store. A few blocks down we turned down a side road and parked in front of the restaurant called, "The House." 

I have been here a couple of times before but don't really have a favorite. I decided to try The House Burger which comes with a green chili, cheese, and chipotle sauce along with an 8 oz. burger. 
James ordered the prime rib sandwich. 

Both of our sandwiches came in boxes which James didn't really like. 

The House Burger. Those are crunchy onion rings

and homemade potato chips.

Lunch was good but not our favorite. James said he would have rather gone to Firehouse Subs. Sorry honey.

Next stop, the UPS store. I got out of the car and helped James carry in the packages and then told him I was walking to Walmart. He said okay and that when he was finished here he would go to Home Depot and look for boxes to ship more books in. 

While shopping at Walmart I saw my friends the Howard's. Jean gave me a big hug and said that Tom's mother and sister had gone back to Illinois and they were back in Vernon for awhile. It was great to see my good friend.

On the way home we picked up 12 books from the Vernon post office. James came home and opened each package while I put the groceries away. 

This afternoon I walked, rested, and inventoried all of those 12 books, which took awhile. While doing this I watched "Morning Mystery Show" starring Holly Robinson Peet and Rick Fox, and
"Appetite for Love" starring Taylor Cole and Andrew Walker.

Ben did missionary work because tomorrow will be P-day and the missionaries are going to the temple. I guess we will here from him tomorrow.

 Charlie was gone from social media but she was

never gone from our hearts.

 Take me Mama!

 I love this picture of Joshua and Evan.

Look at the snow stuck to Evan's pants.

 I told Sheri I needed some pictures of her boys for my

blog, so she sent these to me today.

Sunday, April 7th, 2019

Calgary, Alberta

140th operating temple

Dedicated: 28 Oct 2012

By: Thomas S. Monson

Jesus Christ, Divine Sonship

DC 76:25

And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son,

Book of Mormon

Mosiah 3:1-18

New Testament "Come Follow Me"

General Conference

General Conference

The True, Pure, and Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ

M. Russell Ballard

"Loving God and loving our neighbors is the doctrinal foundation of ministering, home-centered, Church-supported learning; Sabbath-day spiritual worship; and the work of salvation."

It was an absolutely beautiful spring day in the 60's. Best of all, there was no wind. I know this but didn't really experience it except for looking from the inside out. My day was spent watching general conference and working on catching up this blog.

Here is how conference went today:

Sunday Morning Session

19. Dale G. Renlund

20. Sharon L. Eubank

21. Quentin L. Cook

22. D. Todd Christofferson

23. Tad R. Callister

24. Russell M. Nelson

Sunday Afternoon Session

25. Dallin H. Oaks

26. Juan Pablo Villar

27. Gerrit W. Gong

28. David A. Bednar

29. Kyle S. McKay

30. Ronald A. Rasband

31. Russell M. Nelson

It was an inspiring and faith-filled day. 

During Elder Gong's talk a stained-glass picture of the Savior holding a sheep came up on the screen. This exact stain-glassed is in the foyer of the Snowflake temple. Recently we had a visitor to the temple that James spoke to. He was touring the temples in the United States looking for this stained-glass picture which is also in the Provo City Center temple. When he walked into the Snowflake temple on this particular Saturday he looked at the picture and said, "There it is I have been looking everywhere, and here it is."  

The only changes for this conference came a few days before conference regarding the blessing and baptism of children of gay couples. It was a decision rescinding a policy made in 2015 and was done as, I believe, an act of love.

James gave me the bunny report first thing this morning and brought two of them inside for me to see.

 See they will be going out into the lone and dreary world.

The smaller ones are pretty mild.

 I wish we could keep one.

 I know, I'm obsessed!
It's my personality.

She listened to President Nelson,
then it was time for a nap, and then,

 a ride on her horse.

A Hallmark movie to end the day.