Jenni and Brent are making major decisions about buying a home; it's so hard and they have been forced to buy a certain home....
It makes me so grateful for our home.
It's been paid for many years and that's such a blessing.
It's a lovely home. Perfect for us.
And, I am so grateful. I know it is God's way of blessing us and I feel that love and blessings.
Thank you, Dear Heavenly Father.
The elders came over last week.
They asked us to record a spiritual experience that we had. I'm happy to do that.
Allen and I watched a training video for family history consultants. It featured Elder Gong and Elder Bednar and a few other church officials.
At the conclusion of the video, Elder Bednar makes an earnest plea that he hopes the people watching will have gained some insight and felt the spirit. As Allen and I watched that video in our bedroom in our evening vespers, I felt absolutely NOTHING at all.
So, on Sunday, when we had the meeting with the consultants and watched the same video, I focused on the message of the meeting, that JESUS is first; all we do is linked to HIM. From Baptism, temple endowments, proxy work for the dead - it's an opportunity to lead people to Christ and for them to return HOME to Him.
When President Bednar asked that we - the participants - be touched, I was so touched and moved by the message of that meeting. I had been indifferent before, but NOW, I was so inspired by the magnitude of our calling. It was a poignant, profound moment. And, an answer to a prayer that I had in my heart to have a divine moment this week, as the missionaries had requested. And, I had had it.
So thankful for that brief moment in my other wise ordinary life in which I just plod along. Now, to go out and do something about that inspiration.
Credit card - LOST ..... again.
Allen searched everywhere....over and over again.
He went twice to the place where it was last used...
No luck.
He searched his wallet, pockets, jackets, the pick-up. Again and Again.
No credit card.
I was prompted to do my own search of his wallet.
FOUND....hiding between some other cards that he rarely used and in a slot where he never put it.
Oh, I was so very grateful.
Thank you, Heavenly Father.
Sometimes I wonder how people raise such amazing kids.
And, then I look at Jenni and Kristi.
They are both incredibly amazing.
And, sometimes, it's not really what the parents do or don't do; it's just how the kids come.
And, I'm so very thankful for those two amazing daughters or ours.
