First there was a youth speaker, Will Butcher. A scary name, but a good speaker. The crux of his message was: "Living a Christ-like life is the key to joy."
The next speaker was Nate Hawkins, a former member of their bishopric, who is now on the high council. He mentioned seeing the Butcher family at "Lamb of God" last night. He highly recommends going to see "Lamb of God."
Brother Hawkins talk was about Centering our lives around Christ and sharing our knowledge and testimony of Christ with others. He asked us to pond the question, "Have you had any special moments with Christ"? Are we listening to Christ's voice? It is the most prominent voice we hear? In Lehi's dream as recorded in 1Nephi 8, it says many went off on strange roads. Brother Hawkins thinks this means they lost their focus on Christ and other things became more important. They became distracted and stopped centering their lives on Christ. How can we keep from doing this?
Brother Hawkins said he had two favorite conference talks, both given by President Nelson. One was the "Hear Him" talk and the other was from this last conference, "Let God Prevail." Am I letting God prevail in my life and do I hear Him?
James said he got permission from Bishop Hunsaker to minister the sacrament to us here at home. I am so grateful for a worthy husband who honors his priesthood.
After the sacrament Stacy went downstairs to rest and James and I each chose our particular resting spots and took our naps.
James began fixing "dinner" around 1:45. Stacy wants to eat at 2:30 and then head for home sometime after 4. I made some Bisquick biscuits and James made his venison gravy. We had a delicious early dinner.
Stacy wanted to go on a Razr ride before leaving. James was still resting so I took her. She is very good at spotting wildlife. We had just gotten to the top of the hill on Forest Rd. 61 when she spotted three deer under a tree. We drove on a little ways further and then we noticed we were low on gas so we turned around. The three deer we saw earlier ran right in front of us. Stacy also saw an elk that was way across the flat at the top of the hill. She tried to get a picture but he was too far away. On the way home she saw the antelope in the field off the 60 across from the Vernon post office.
This evening James attended the "Come Follow Me" discussion at the Crane's. I was just too tired and pained to go. The Goodman's were not there either. Kathy sent home some strawberry shortcake for me and a loaf of her famous cinnamon bread.
James and I watched the newest episode of "When Calls the Heart." It was a little disappointing, at least that's what we thought.
Mary has lost four people close to her in the
last year.
