Yesterday I took a meal to Tri-cities, for Kip and Kim and family. He is still dealing with massive pain and she is still
very pregnant! I bypassed stair-climbing and didn't see Kip (I think he needed his own space anyhow. When soldiering through pain...you need your privacy a lot) Thursday he will make his first trip down the stairs. What goes up must come down but then how is that reverse going to work??!! Kim and I talked about the possibility of me going to the hospital if baby Jack decides to enter mortality and her Mom has perhaps, not yet arrived! I'm going back on Thursday with another meal.
You know that I'm trying to figure out food for Hubby/me and I ask...what motivates a person to then cook and deliver a meal like I did and then to do another one? and who knows what else? It must be Spirit-driven! one word?---Love!
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Did you read this amazing FB message by Elder Anderson? Wowzer! He and his wife have been traveling with the Prophet and his wife while in Canada. Each night he shared the happenings of the day. This one is unlike any I've ever read!
After returning to Salt Lake City late last night, Kathy and I have continued to think about and talk about the experiences of the past few days with deep appreciation for the unparalleled experience of being with President and Sister Nelson. Listening to Sister Wendy Nelson bear testimony of President Nelson’s prophetic calling and having her give a glimpse into what it has been like in their home since he became the Lord’s prophet, strengthened the faith of those who listened. Sister Nelson spoke of her own witness of President Nelson’s prophetic calling.
She said, “Two days after President Monson departed the Lord gave me a singular, most distinct experience with my husband. So distinct, so vivid, so clear. Every detail of that experience is seared in my mind and heart forever. Two days later it happened again exact same experience again” (to her alone).
She said that it was “too sacred to share over the pulpit,” but that “because of that I can take any witness stand and testify that Russell Marion Nelson is the Prophet of the Lord. Russell Marion Nelson is the living prophet of the living Lord.”
For Kathy, for me and for many other saints, her comments about revelation were powerful and reinforced our belief, “whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my servants it is the same.”
Sister Nelson explained that in their 12 years of marriage, she had watched the process of revelation and inspiration upon her husband but that since becoming the president of the Church, those revelations have “expanded exponentially.”
She explained, “He keeps a lined yellow pad of paper beside his bed.” Then she declared, “In the morning he holds up a half page to one and a half pages of notes with joy.”
Although she said that sometimes she remains close to him when this process is happening, sometimes she does not. She recounted a night in January when “I got the prompting, ‘move out of bed now.’”
“Two hours later he emerged from the room. ‘Wendy, you won’t believe what’s been happening. The Lord has given me detailed instruction on what I am to do.’”
Sister Nelson said that during the “last eight months it has been an experience to send my husband off to work. He comes back, different than when I sent him off in the morning. I have seen him change at the pulpit. I have heard him use phrases he hasn’t used before. I’ve seen him make changes at the pulpit.”
She said that just a few weeks ago speaking to young adults in a sacrament meeting, “I saw 30 years fall away.”
I, too, would add that it was amazing to me that a man fewer than three weeks away from being 94 years old could go to the pulpit last night in Toronto with no notes, never repeating himself and speaking for 45 minutes, with the audience of 8,000 riveted on him and his message. When I commented on this after the meeting, President Nelson said, “Well, these people have come from a long way. They come prayerfully. The last thing they want me to do is come to the pulpit and read them a talk.” It was an experience of revelation.
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If that doesn't grab your attention, then go splash cold water on your face and read it again! Think about what you just read! Whoa!
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teaching/using tech with my Primary class
here I tell you what...I love my Primary class. I do believe that newer programs are coming down the Pike to teach these children!
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today I will finish the border on my 3rd quilt top. I like old-fashioned looking blocks. Like a nine-patch but I'm trying a few different ones. One I'm looking forward to is a doing a Crazy Quilt! Actually that sounds so apropos because...at one of the worst and darkest times and overwhelming and challenging times in my life...I felt the need to create beauty of some sort. I took an all day class and learned to make a log cabin quilt with a strip quilting technique. The needed focusing, that pulled my frazzled mind into colors and fabrics, was so calming and I could get lost in it. I called it...Basket-Weaving at the Mental Institute!
Now I'm doing this project, as a last ditch effort (I guess), to make something for the people I love with all of my heart, my family. Then I think of others that are friends and then I get all Co-d and calm down and just sew and enjoy it.
today I read this.
here This isn't any type of quilt that I want to make but I so enjoyed the article of what it can do for your brain! go brain!! I went on to read these
top 5 amazing benefits to health by quilting
here
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First day of school here! I'm thinking of all the Mom's, and Dad's, with the hubbub and preparation to make it all happen today. Also thinking of all of the teachers and their dedication and desire to teach. Life and it's cycles is comforting with the sameness and routine, and yet the newness, of another school year!
