and...IF not true why would it be published and who published it?
Very curious.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Is this true????
I've seen this twice and while I would love for it to be true...I question it. I cannot find the original source...I'm wondering why he would go to Vegas at this time...it feels like the Prophet would say this at Conference...and on and on my doubts go. I've googled it thoroughly...well, my thorough, so maybe someone else knows a trick to finding it. there is no mention of it on his FB page.
and...IF not true why would it be published and who published it?
Very curious.
and...IF not true why would it be published and who published it?
Very curious.
Beautiful weather here...
Good morning...wherever you are! What an interesting and fascinating time to be alive and be a part of something that the entire world is aware of and focusing on. We started out, at least it seemed that way to me, united with the attitude of -Houston, we have a problem- to now being fractionated. (did I just create a new word?)
The division is seemingly breaking into 2 camps...
#1-it's a bunch of bunk/handled wrong/scare tactic/politics/flu of the year/political
#2-look at Italy/listen to Doctors/stay home/social distancing/it's real
etc. etc. etc. on both sides.
I thank heaven, literally, for a Prophet. My heart is so thankful for my testimony of being led by a living Prophet and such gratitude for the restoration of the Gospel. I loved his calm reassurance to us of the happenings in that recent brief statement to us. Just a few minutes long but so much information of letting us know and feel of his confidence in the future.
Terry and I, as you know, are hibernating and happy to do so. I'm thankful to be at ease with this. I'm also thankful for friends that check on us and will pick up whatever requires a trip to the store, for something fresh or whatever we feel we need.
I am just enjoying every single solitary change that has come into the Church. It is so livable and so doable and so practical and so enjoyable and so believable and so amazing...to see how President Nelson has been guided to gather us right to this very spot, for this very time. I LOVE it!
Recently, we were listening to some Conference talks, that would fit with the Come Follow Me lesson, and somehow or other, I had the speaker but not the year or the talk title. Terry found the talk that I thought was the right one. Turns out it wasn't the one that I thought it was but it was a timely one! I remembered that talk and how completely overwhelmed I was. How inadequate I felt. How impossible it seemed to do what President Benson said. How defeated I was. It was tough to hear and tough to take it and it was haunting to me. Hearing it 40 years later...I still don't garden and still feel the guilt! Give me a break...blame it on my parents that never had a garden!
How thankful I am to have seen so much history and lived to see so many changes! Want a little trip down my memory lane? Remember...I was pioneering-like in Alaska when I heard this talk and it hit so hard! I was still reeling from the talk President Benson quotes by President Kimball and then this...here This Prophet did not mince words and he left you with no doubt that he meant what he said! He was wonderful!
Today's wonderful Prophet...here
The division is seemingly breaking into 2 camps...
#1-it's a bunch of bunk/handled wrong/scare tactic/politics/flu of the year/political
#2-look at Italy/listen to Doctors/stay home/social distancing/it's real
etc. etc. etc. on both sides.
I thank heaven, literally, for a Prophet. My heart is so thankful for my testimony of being led by a living Prophet and such gratitude for the restoration of the Gospel. I loved his calm reassurance to us of the happenings in that recent brief statement to us. Just a few minutes long but so much information of letting us know and feel of his confidence in the future.
Terry and I, as you know, are hibernating and happy to do so. I'm thankful to be at ease with this. I'm also thankful for friends that check on us and will pick up whatever requires a trip to the store, for something fresh or whatever we feel we need.
I am just enjoying every single solitary change that has come into the Church. It is so livable and so doable and so practical and so enjoyable and so believable and so amazing...to see how President Nelson has been guided to gather us right to this very spot, for this very time. I LOVE it!
Recently, we were listening to some Conference talks, that would fit with the Come Follow Me lesson, and somehow or other, I had the speaker but not the year or the talk title. Terry found the talk that I thought was the right one. Turns out it wasn't the one that I thought it was but it was a timely one! I remembered that talk and how completely overwhelmed I was. How inadequate I felt. How impossible it seemed to do what President Benson said. How defeated I was. It was tough to hear and tough to take it and it was haunting to me. Hearing it 40 years later...I still don't garden and still feel the guilt! Give me a break...blame it on my parents that never had a garden!
How thankful I am to have seen so much history and lived to see so many changes! Want a little trip down my memory lane? Remember...I was pioneering-like in Alaska when I heard this talk and it hit so hard! I was still reeling from the talk President Benson quotes by President Kimball and then this...here This Prophet did not mince words and he left you with no doubt that he meant what he said! He was wonderful!
Today's wonderful Prophet...here
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
my favorite...
I love to study the gospel and I love to learn about the gospel. There are so many wonderful sites available...so many talented people sharing their take on each weekly Come Follow Me assignment. I've watched all of them several times but so far my favorite one tends to be this one.... here Give it a peek and see what you think. It might have an ad at first. I don't know why that happens sometimes.
It's called Teaching With Power. I love his presentation on Jacob 5. IF I had children at home...I'd definitely use his idea for presenting the longest chapter in the Book of Mormon...a chapter than can be mind-boggling and a bit overwhelming.
You can thank me later!
It's called Teaching With Power. I love his presentation on Jacob 5. IF I had children at home...I'd definitely use his idea for presenting the longest chapter in the Book of Mormon...a chapter than can be mind-boggling and a bit overwhelming.
You can thank me later!
Monday, March 16, 2020
Let Us All Press On!
These lyrics and this arrangement are marching through my mind this morning...Fear Not...Courage...If We Do What's Right and on and on. This arrangement is the best ever! I treated myself to hearing the Tabernacle Choir sing it and will now gift it to you! here #243 (Spoiler alert...IF you listen to this arrangement it will forever be in your head!)
A great theme song for these times!
These times...I find myself saying in conversation---when the virus passes over...the virus will come, do it's damage and pass over. That reminds me of the Passover - Exodus 12:21-28 such a simple thing they were asked to do and obedience brought the promised blessings.
Just like one of my all time favorites with Moses and his instruction to make a pole with a brass fiery serpent on it and the people were instructed to look, if they got a bite - Numbers 21:6-9 I know I've written several times about these two incidents because I love the lessons in them...don't discount the simplicity or easiness of the counsel by Prophets...don't doubt-just do it!
Never have I been more thankful for the intensity of my testimony that we are led by a real Prophet!
Come Follow Me...about following the Savior and by doing as counseled by President Nelson?...I am also following him!
Exodus 12:
6 And the Lord sent afiery bserpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
A great theme song for these times!
These times...I find myself saying in conversation---when the virus passes over...the virus will come, do it's damage and pass over. That reminds me of the Passover - Exodus 12:21-28 such a simple thing they were asked to do and obedience brought the promised blessings.
Just like one of my all time favorites with Moses and his instruction to make a pole with a brass fiery serpent on it and the people were instructed to look, if they got a bite - Numbers 21:6-9 I know I've written several times about these two incidents because I love the lessons in them...don't discount the simplicity or easiness of the counsel by Prophets...don't doubt-just do it!
Never have I been more thankful for the intensity of my testimony that we are led by a real Prophet!
Come Follow Me...about following the Savior and by doing as counseled by President Nelson?...I am also following him!
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Exodus 12:
21 ¶ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, aDraw out and take you a blamb according to your cfamilies, and kill the dpassover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the ablood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
23 For the Lord will apass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will bpass over the door, and will not csuffer the ddestroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
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Numbers 21:6 And the Lord sent afiery bserpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
7 ¶ Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have asinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses bprayed for the people.
8 And the Lord said unto Moses, aMake thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall blive.
9 And Moses made a aserpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Beautiful Day...
of Peace and Rest ....those words coursed through my mind. I like to never found the hymn...but I ended up here
I also had Welcome, Welcome Sabbath Morning, take up lodging in my brain! here
True - the lyrics didn't ring true in parts of both these Hymns, for Church at home but the feeling rang true within me!
Our Sabbath was awesome! We both enjoyed ourselves so much!
A few weeks ago I had become dissatisfied with my Sabbath preparation as far as meals go. You know that delight in cooking at this time of my life is not scoring high in the doing with enjoyment
category. You know I enrolled in a class and I'm still taking it and not making high grades there either! I ended up missing the Sabbath feeling after I came home from Church. I also missed how I use to prepare with joy. I missed the joy!
My main valid excuse is blame it on someone else. Hmmmm. Who is nearby that I can blame? Of course!!! Obviously!! It's the Hubby's fault!
He isn't on any schedule because of his health and sometimes he isn't hungry and he sleeps alot...so I could group those things, out of a lot of other excuses, and be justified in just sort of having a whatever sort of meal.
I felt prompted, to make our home Sabbath feeling more inviting... like I use to do. Terry has not been to Church in so long that I can't even remember! I wanted to make our home on Sunday more conducive to the Spirit. Keeping it more Holy. I've told you before how my non-member Mother always kept the Sabbath day Holy and never said so (most likely she didn't even think of it that way). It was really special in our home.
So...I decided to really make the effort. A comment from our daughter really spurred me on. She was telling me how much she loved coming home from Church and smelling the roast when she came in and how good it tasted. I thought...when was the last time I really gave our Sunday meal a lot of thought??? ...when did I last give any thought to how the table was set?
Today we had such a glorious Sunday and the meal was terrific and it was such a special day!!
I set the table on Saturday and it looked so nice...even fresh flowers from our daughter. I cooked a very simple delicious meal and had also baked a long overdue mincemeat pie. Everything was so much appreciated by my sweetheart.
It just added to the specialness of our day, to enjoy that meal together. a bonus...it was a labor of love and I enjoyed planning and cooking it. I'm already looking forward to next week!
We'd talked yesterday about our Sunday plans and were ready for it. We have no children. We don't have jobs to worry about. We are hunkering down until the all clear signal and we can do whatever we want, with no input or concern about children and no school and so many challenges. We just do our own thing! Very nice!
YouTube! We enjoyed so many things. It was wonderful!
Something caught me off guard was the Sacrament. We'd had times that Church was canceled in Alaska so we'd done that before (not with all the wonders of today that are available though!). Terry put on his snowy white shirt. Well, I helped him and as I buttoned it for him...really, even now tears well up. I just always loved him wearing a white shirt and a suit and tie. I loved it today! He hadn't worn a Church shirt in ...I don't even know how long ago. He asked for some things for the Sacrament so I got 2 snow-white napkins and two very small water-filled tumblers and a tiny plate and a cracker. He then arranged it on his walker seat. He'd asked for his scriptures. He then read the prayers and we partook of the Sacrament. It was so wonderfully Churchy!!
We have enjoyed the last 1-1/2 year on the Come Follow Me program!
We are so excited about the upcoming General conference. Wasn't that the most beautiful little video that President Nelson did? I loved how he said this virus will pass in due time and he is optimistic about the future and my most favorite thing was...when he pulled us all back to the upcoming Gen. Conf. then we will focus on the restoration of the Gospel.
My heart is so thankful and so happy because I have a real testimony that we have a living Prophet on the earth and I believe what he says. Feeling the joy!!
I also had Welcome, Welcome Sabbath Morning, take up lodging in my brain! here
True - the lyrics didn't ring true in parts of both these Hymns, for Church at home but the feeling rang true within me!
Our Sabbath was awesome! We both enjoyed ourselves so much!
A few weeks ago I had become dissatisfied with my Sabbath preparation as far as meals go. You know that delight in cooking at this time of my life is not scoring high in the doing with enjoyment
category. You know I enrolled in a class and I'm still taking it and not making high grades there either! I ended up missing the Sabbath feeling after I came home from Church. I also missed how I use to prepare with joy. I missed the joy!
My main valid excuse is blame it on someone else. Hmmmm. Who is nearby that I can blame? Of course!!! Obviously!! It's the Hubby's fault!
He isn't on any schedule because of his health and sometimes he isn't hungry and he sleeps alot...so I could group those things, out of a lot of other excuses, and be justified in just sort of having a whatever sort of meal.
I felt prompted, to make our home Sabbath feeling more inviting... like I use to do. Terry has not been to Church in so long that I can't even remember! I wanted to make our home on Sunday more conducive to the Spirit. Keeping it more Holy. I've told you before how my non-member Mother always kept the Sabbath day Holy and never said so (most likely she didn't even think of it that way). It was really special in our home.
So...I decided to really make the effort. A comment from our daughter really spurred me on. She was telling me how much she loved coming home from Church and smelling the roast when she came in and how good it tasted. I thought...when was the last time I really gave our Sunday meal a lot of thought??? ...when did I last give any thought to how the table was set?
Today we had such a glorious Sunday and the meal was terrific and it was such a special day!!
I set the table on Saturday and it looked so nice...even fresh flowers from our daughter. I cooked a very simple delicious meal and had also baked a long overdue mincemeat pie. Everything was so much appreciated by my sweetheart.
It just added to the specialness of our day, to enjoy that meal together. a bonus...it was a labor of love and I enjoyed planning and cooking it. I'm already looking forward to next week!
We'd talked yesterday about our Sunday plans and were ready for it. We have no children. We don't have jobs to worry about. We are hunkering down until the all clear signal and we can do whatever we want, with no input or concern about children and no school and so many challenges. We just do our own thing! Very nice!
YouTube! We enjoyed so many things. It was wonderful!
Something caught me off guard was the Sacrament. We'd had times that Church was canceled in Alaska so we'd done that before (not with all the wonders of today that are available though!). Terry put on his snowy white shirt. Well, I helped him and as I buttoned it for him...really, even now tears well up. I just always loved him wearing a white shirt and a suit and tie. I loved it today! He hadn't worn a Church shirt in ...I don't even know how long ago. He asked for some things for the Sacrament so I got 2 snow-white napkins and two very small water-filled tumblers and a tiny plate and a cracker. He then arranged it on his walker seat. He'd asked for his scriptures. He then read the prayers and we partook of the Sacrament. It was so wonderfully Churchy!!
We have enjoyed the last 1-1/2 year on the Come Follow Me program!
We are so excited about the upcoming General conference. Wasn't that the most beautiful little video that President Nelson did? I loved how he said this virus will pass in due time and he is optimistic about the future and my most favorite thing was...when he pulled us all back to the upcoming Gen. Conf. then we will focus on the restoration of the Gospel.
My heart is so thankful and so happy because I have a real testimony that we have a living Prophet on the earth and I believe what he says. Feeling the joy!!
Saturday, March 14, 2020
interesting....
here all sorts of "firsts" in the Church...including the first time General Conference was canceled!
Thursday, March 12, 2020
Getting cozy!
Perhaps we were influenced by the phrase, etched in our brains, from the D&C 58:26-29...do many things of their own free will or maybe it's just our brand of common sense but we decided to hibernate at home until this virus does it's damage and dissipates.
There is hype and angst and a barrage of panic, everywhere you turn and everything you read or see that is labeled News, about this event. It's sort of a Lo here and Lo there atmosphere so we decided to remove ourselves from the fray!
One of the marvelous benefits of our Church membership is we have been taught for years to have commodities on hand should we need to stay home. I've blogged about that before- of how overwhelming it was, as a convert, to be told to store a ton of wheat when you'd never even seen a kernel of wheat! Now we only need store 3 months supplies! Very do-able!
We talked about the one thing that seems to be constant in all of the frenzy - the fact of extreme danger for those 80+ years old and having compromised issues to begin with. Check. Check.
Living in Washington State. Hmmmm. Wait to see if thebear virus comes over the mountain from Seattle to our side? Or hole up?
Holing up won out! There are luxuries that come with our stage of life...one is-we don't have to go to work somewhere and punch a time-clock. We just stay here.
We decided we wanted to remove the stress factor and live in peace in our little house. So...I assessed what we had on hand and filled in with Rx and anything else that needed to be purchased....sent a note to the RSP....let some friends know and here we are!
Snug as a bug in a rug. Feeling at peace. We will reevaluate on April 11.
Humming Hymn #14...first verse and 2nd...Sweet Is the Peace the Gospel Brings
There is hype and angst and a barrage of panic, everywhere you turn and everything you read or see that is labeled News, about this event. It's sort of a Lo here and Lo there atmosphere so we decided to remove ourselves from the fray!
One of the marvelous benefits of our Church membership is we have been taught for years to have commodities on hand should we need to stay home. I've blogged about that before- of how overwhelming it was, as a convert, to be told to store a ton of wheat when you'd never even seen a kernel of wheat! Now we only need store 3 months supplies! Very do-able!
We talked about the one thing that seems to be constant in all of the frenzy - the fact of extreme danger for those 80+ years old and having compromised issues to begin with. Check. Check.
Living in Washington State. Hmmmm. Wait to see if the
Holing up won out! There are luxuries that come with our stage of life...one is-we don't have to go to work somewhere and punch a time-clock. We just stay here.
We decided we wanted to remove the stress factor and live in peace in our little house. So...I assessed what we had on hand and filled in with Rx and anything else that needed to be purchased....sent a note to the RSP....let some friends know and here we are!
Snug as a bug in a rug. Feeling at peace. We will reevaluate on April 11.
Humming Hymn #14...first verse and 2nd...Sweet Is the Peace the Gospel Brings
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