Fort Lauderdale, Florida
143rd operating temple
Dedicated: 4 May 2014
By: Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Jesus Christ, Mission of
Alma 5:27
ye walked, keeping yourselves blameless before God? Could ye say, if ye were called to die at this time, within yourselves, that ye have been sufficiently humble? That your garments have been cleansed and made white through the blood of Christ, who will come to redeem his people from their sins?
Book of Mormon
1 Nephi 22:11-31
"Come Follow Me"
DC 10:34-52 The Lord's "wisdom is greater than the cunning of the devil."
OctGenCon
'Eyes to See'
Sister Michelle Craig
First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency
As with all gifts the Father so willingly offers, seeing deeply requires us to ask Him - and then act. Ask to see others as He does - as His true sons and daughters with infinite and divine potential. Then act by loving, serving, and affirming their worth and potential as prompted. As this becomes the pattern of our lives, we will find ourselves becoming "true followers of . . . Jesus Christ."
Others will be able to trust our hearts with theirs. And in this pattern we will also discover our own true identity and purpose.
P5 S4
As a companion scripture to the Bible, the Book of Mormon testifies that all human beings are sons and daughters of a loving Father in Heaven, that He has a divine plan for our lives, and that His Son, Jesus Christ, speaks today as well as in days of old.
I have a bad pain this morning in my sciatic nerve. I took tramadol and food at 4 a.m. It was still hurting when I started to blog at 6 a.m.
Between four and six I slept and then sat on my heating pad and listened to an article from the Ensign. I like this statement from the article I read in the Ensign:
Forgiveness is not earned, it is only received as a gift from the Savior.
We are still praying that our friend Tom will be able to get off the ventilator the hospital has him on and come home. His vital signs are strong but he refuses to wear an oxygen mask so that's why he is on the ventilator.
As James was getting ready to go to the valley I was sitting at my computer in the bedroom working on my blog. I had my day all planned out. This afternoon I was going grocery shopping. As I thought about going to the Show Low Walmart I got a funny feeling in my stomach. I thought about all of the nice grocery stores in the Chandler/Gilbert area and made the decision to go with James. He told me he would make sure I got to go grocery shopping. It took me about 15 minutes to get ready to go. Such a simple thing made James so happy! We left in the truck around 7:30 a.m. pulling the trailer with the Cat on it. We stopped at the Burger King in Show Low for our croissant breakfast sandwiches. James got ham and I got bacon.
Of course if it's James's choice which way we go we are going to go through Salt River Canyon and Globe. We listened to Brother Halverson and when we got to the canyon I took a little nap.
The gas in Show Low is around $2.43 a gallon. In Globe it was $2.19, so we filled up. When we got to the valley we went straight to Konkle's on Mai Lane off Ocotillo and 156th street, which is right next to Perry High School. This is the high school that Sheri wanted Evan to go to but Joshua insists on going to Chandler so I guess that's where they are both going.
James parked the truck in the back of the house and unloaded the Cat and unhitched the trailer from the truck. It's lunch time so we headed to Olive Garden since we still have lots of Olive Garden gift cards.
This time we went to the one on Gilbert and Germann and they had James's chicken marsala, which he ordered. I got the same thing I did the other day with Sheri, soup, salad and breadsticks with the chicken gnocchi soup. I also ordered one of their mini desserts, strawberries, whipped cream and white cake. Very tiny but just enough to satisfy my sweet tooth.
James had a meeting with Armando back at the job. He dropped me off at the Fry's on Gilbert and Ocotillo before meeting Armando. Oh how I love shopping at a nice store with a full produce department!
I have three main meal recipes to fix this week and that is what I focused on. I also have two salads I am fixing. Funny how I shopped for the perishable food first and then forgot some of my non-food items.
James arrived before I was finished and began checking out while I went to grab a couple of more items. He went through the self-checkout but one of the clerk's must have been bored because she came over and started checking and bagging for him. I needed to use the restroom which was clear down on the other side of the store by Starbuck's. (Is Starbuck's in every grocery store?) I was not even tempted to buy a pink drink because I knew I was going to ask James to take me to Swig's to get one and theirs don't have caffeine.
When we were loading the groceries in the truck I realized I didn't have my phone. James called it and the information came up on his truck's bluetooth, but still no phone. I realized I had been carrying it in the back pocket of my pants and I may have lost it in the bathroom stall. I hurried back into the store, this time I forgot my mask so I put my hand over my mouth. Luckily I didn't get caught and sure enough, there on the floor in the bathroom stall was my phone. What a relief!
I guided James to Swig's drive-thru on Market Street. I was tempted to buy one of their delicious sugar cookies, but I figured the drink was enough. It was strawberry and coconut, cost $3.39 for a large and we should have got two because James loved it as much as I did.
Since we were closer to Highway 60 than the 202 I told James we could go home through Globe even though he had said we would go through Payson. Today in the valley it was around 80 degrees. I guess it was around 60 at home although it did rain some. It's always nice to be home and of course Luna was waiting to be fed. That's the first thing James did.
I walked and watched a movie while James indexed before going to bed. Oh, I forgot one thing, Becca and Tim had a baby girl today. They named her Alice. When James called to congratulate Gail he said it was his 21st grandchild. We have 22 and 1 great so he's getting close.
It's been a year Jace.
