Thursday, December 12, 2019

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019

Vernal, Utah
51st operating temple
Dedicated: 2 Nov 1997
By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Head of Church
2 Nephi 25:14
And behold it shall come to pass that after the Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself unto his people, unto as many as will believe on his name, behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church.
Book of Mormon
Ether 2:13-25
New Testament
1 John 3; 1 John: "God is light and God is love. 1John 2:24-3:3 "I can become like Jesus Christ.



10/19 General Conference

"Be Faithful, Not Faithless"
Stephen W. Owen
"Where do we find true spiritual nourishment? Most often, it is not trending on social media. We find it when we 'press our way forward' on the covenant path, 'continually holding fast to the rod of iron,' and partake of the fruit of the tree of life. This means that we must deliberately take time each day to disconnect from the world and connect with heaven."

RWC: "We will not finish our work until we have saved ourselves, and then not until we shall have saved all depending upon us." - Joseph F. Smith

I began paying creditors this morning with the checks that Amrock sent. The problem is, the amounts are all wrong because they looked at the balances two months ago and we have continued to make payments on all of our accounts. One account we will be overpaying by $396.00. The company will not send us the refund. They will only send it to whomever issued the check, which is Amrock. Amrock told James they would send us the refund. It's just frustrating that they won't send it to us.

We over payed a couple of other creditors and they said they would send us the balance. It took me most of the morning to send out most of the checks. 

We left for the valley around 12:37. We got gas and while I was getting the car washed James walked over to the bank with two checks to pay off our Chase credit cards. 

On the way out of town we stopped at Arby's because James was hungry. He couldn't finish eating his sandwich and began to choke on it so badly that we had to stop. I wonder how long he is going to have this problem.

When we realized we were going to be a little late to Joshua's 5:00 performance, we asked Michael to pick up Evan for us, which he did. We stopped at Darrel's and unloaded our car and picked up Ruby and Lola and headed for Gilbert and Queen Creek where Legacy School is located. We got there just in time. Stacy had saved us seats on the front row. 

It was a class play and very low key. The kids did everything and everyone knew their parts and they all had microphones. Joshua was a good Scrooge. Here are some pictures:


Such a handsome Scrooge

Scrooge's fans:
Paul, Lola, Alexis, Michael, Evan, Stacy, Dallin, Ruby, Grandpa and Grandma

After the play we took Evan, Ruby, and Lola to Chikfila for dinner.
Afterwards we took Evan home and got Ruby home in time to go to her dance class. I asked Evan about school and he said he was studying about World War I. I told him I didn't know much about World War I. How did the war start? He didn't know so I looked it up. 
June 28, 1914. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated by a Bosnian Serb nationalist in Sarajevo. July 28, 1914. World War 1 begins when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

I learn so much from my grandchildren.

Back home at Darrel and Trina's. Oops, I forgot to mention that I asked Evan, Ruby, and Lola what they wanted for Christmas. Lola wants earrings, Ruby a Fitbit, and Evan says he's been asking for a Fitbit for years now and has never gotten one so he's about to give up.

Rowan had a cross country meet this afternoon and that's why he couldn't come to the play. Addy is working on a project for school.

Trina is getting ready for a Christmas Boutique this week. She had all of her leo's out and was getting them ready. When Darrel got home from work he immediately began making Trina another rack to hang her leo's on. He made it out of copper tubing.

James and I went for a walk outside. James also walked to Safeway. I was too tired. I also walked inside the house. While James was at Safeway I played "hide the baby Jesus" with Lola. Addy was watching "The Christmas Prince" on Netflix. I kind of got in to it. It's a trilogy. She started the second one but I didn't watch all of it. I went to bed. 






 Candi is in our ward. She and her husband went down
to help look for Willa.


Decorations at Darrel and Trina's:

 Lola's tree

 Trina's tree

 The stockings were hung by the 
stairway with care...

 The neighborhood was all lit up.

 The biggest Santa I've ever seen!

 Outside Darrel and Trina

Kid's tree. Darrel making a rack and Trina making
tags for the boutique.

Kacey said this was soooo sad.

Charlie says no to Santa,
but YES to Jesus!





These photos made my Christmas!




Such a sweet picture


These two are so adorable!




















Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Sunday, December 1st, 2019

Mt. Timpanogas, Utah
49th operating temple
Dedicated: 13 Oct 1996
By: Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus Christ, Head of Church
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Book of Mormon
Ether 1:1-43
New Testament
Review 1-2 Peter; Read 1-3 John, Jude, using Redheaded Hostess and New Testament Student Manual and "Don't Miss This" YouTube presentation.



10/19 General Conference
"The Message, the Meaning, and the Multitude"
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
"The prayer of every speaker at this conference, the hope of all who sing, the reverence of every guest - all are dedicated to inviting the Spirit of Him whose Church this is - the Living Christ, the Lamb of God, the Prince of Peacer."

This thought came to me as we were driving to church and the snow was glistening as the sunlight shined on it: "I don't like glitter on my floor but I love glittering snow."

I got a text from Rita. Randy passed away at 1a.m. this morning. She asked me to please tell my brothers so I immediately texted Harold and Dennis.

Chuck Crane conducted our Fast and Testimony meeting this morning. Many people were absent today. Some of them are down at Tonto Creek looking for Willa Rawlings. Several testimonies mentioned the sadness surrounding the Rawlings family. Chris Skousen said he knew them well. 

Brother Peeler said something interesting in Sunday School. He said that during the trial of our faith as we pray to the Father, through the Son, our answers come through the Holy Ghost. Of course I knew this but someone said afterwards, Pam Wood's, our teacher: "So that's why it takes so long for our prayers to be answered."

I read about a study that was done regarding diet soda and aspartame. The study is linking aspartame to leukemia and lymphoma. Since I have had bouts with lymphoma I decided it was time for me to quit drinking diet sodas. I had my last Coke Zero today.

I listened to several BYU-Idaho Devotionals and made some calls regarding ministering assignments. So happy that Darla Rider said she would be a companion to Paula Johnson!

Jani Huso Johnson did a post about the Rawlings family and how they owned and ran several theaters in northern Arizona. I had told James before that that the only Rawlings I knew was Bud Rawlings who ran the Show Low Theater. I guess he was a brother to Bill. Bill is Willa's grandpa.

This evening we listened to "Don't Miss This" with Dave and Emily. They gave a lesson on 1-3 John and Jude, our reading assignment for this coming week.



 One of our angels


oops
Another of our angels

 Autumn and Scarlett were at Jared and Kacey's today.
We quit a little early because they were all going to go
look at Christmas lights. 
I love the look on Scarlett's face!





Family Dinner at Serrano's on the 
1st Sat of December


The Rawlings Family












Saturday after Thanksgiving every year