The Book of Mormon

I have been reading the Book of Mormon and I am so amazed at how our country and our people are following the same course as those in this book. I read as the kings and judges allowed the bad people and secret combinations to come into their government and then began to take away the most precious thing they had freedom. I see our country and its leaders doing the same thing and it is so very clear to see the bad people they have within their staff. I pray somehow they will decide to make better choices or we will be in for some awful scary times ahead.

I love this country. This is the land the Lord set aside for his plan of happiness to spring from and it requires freedom. May we be strong and stand up when the need and time may arise.

A great day!

We had a wonderful day today, we went to the church cannery in Sac. WE canned Salsa and we had such a good time. What a blessing to be a part of the the Lords church here on earth one that teaches us to help ourselves by preparing for our needs. When we go to the cannery we not only help provide for our own needs but give service to others by helping there. Knowing that the food we cann there goes to those who are in need. It is so nice to be there with all of the ward members.

Amy came along with us for her first trip to this cannery, she really enjoyed it and will be ready to go back again. We are just so thankful to be apart of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day saints and the truth of the gospel. Boy this week went so fast ready for another sabath day.

Happiness

Happiness comes in so many ways but for me there are 3 main things that bring me happiness. First this is not in order, Being with my husband and family, Good Food,
and knowing I belong to the same church that Christ organized when he was on the earth. What a comfort and a joy not to speak of great peace that comes. With so much bad stuff going on in the world today, I feel so humbled at all the many gifts of happiness the Lord has given me and our family.

As I read the Book of Mormon and see in Ether where the people of that day made such big mistakes such as allowing bad people to get into thier government by voting them in I see how we are no different than them in that we have allowed some of the same people to get into our government also. The kind of people I am talking about only want it their way and want power, and want to tell us the choices to make instead of allowing us to make our own choices. This is NOT God's way!! The whole reason we are here on this earth is because we wanted to be like our Heavenly Father and by comming here to the earth and recieve a body we could show him by the very gift of happiness he gave us Agency to choose.

I am just so thankful that I have the truth of God's plan of Happiness and pray for our country and our leaders to make better choices than they have thus far, for if they don't and we of this country don't stand up we sill have the same fait and those of the scriptures both the Bible and the Book of Mormon we will be in sore shape. Read the history books.

I daily thank the Lord for the gifts of happiness, he blessese me with and I pray for all of us.

More Moving along

My heart is broken again, as I said in my last post I know life must change for that is the one thing it always does. I knew I would never ever be good at it {change} Well today was a very hard day because today I found out that our daughter and her husband and little family will be moving 8 hours away, that may not seem like alot of miles to many but for me it may as well be 1000. This has been a diffacult month for me and my heart breaking. I can't even think of not seeing my three precious little grandbabies or hearing them call me saying Grandma me see you,I be missin you. Grandma you a real good girl, you my sweetpea. I am so sad, I can't express it in words. I know that for them they feel they need to leave and for their own reasons I understand but for me I am numb. Our world and our economy is changing things for many many peoople and many families are having to make many diffacult choices, I just never thought my little family that we love so much would have to be so spread out. We all said as they were growing up that we would all live in a huge huge house that everyone could fit in well that would be a no I don't think that will happen. I just feel so thankful to my Heavenly Father for allowing me to have such a perfact life with them as they grew how hard it is to let them go. I hope we will all make it through it all. I will pray for my sweet little grandbabies to not be to home sick for me as I will be for them. Till next blog Heartbroken grandma signing off.

Boy so much to say, we had a great visit with Brian and Sara. Wish we could say the same for our travel. Never have very good luck with airlines. Frontier is the last of our escapades with airlines. What started to be a fairly cheap trip ended up costing 1400.00 because when we arrived at the airport 40 min before the flight they said we were late so they would not let us take the flight, come to find out they left with 5 open seats. We were put on standby all day and into the night, they over booked every flight for 3 days. They told us if we got to Denver we would have a better chance to catch a standby seat so we pay 385 to get to Denver and still wait all day not wanting to take a chance on not getting on a flight the next day which they said our chances were slim to none we bought a ticket to Sac on South west for 585 at least we got home so ken could go to work. Sara and Brian made our stay very nice, even though i feel bad because Sara did all the cooking and stuff, Thank you Sara. I can now say that little family we had hoped would stay so close knite together is a bit further now. I never thought time would fly so fast and now they are all grown up and it is time to let them all move on and have their own families. I won't pretend to like it because I miss those good wonderful happy times when they were young,how I love them. My heart is sad and I cry often but it is all ok. I am so very proud of each and everyone of our children they are such wonderful people. We have had a simple life but a blessed one. We are so happy to have the happy times, good times yet simple times and to know we don't need much to be happy as long as we are all together and have each other and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you Brian and Sara for such a wonderful time. We hated to leave you . Hope you will always know just how much I love you my handsome one son. How proud we are of you. and just how hard it is not to see you more often all my love Mom

Another wonderful Sunday

What a beautiful day here in Californaia! In the 70's and sunshine everywhere. If it would stay this way I 'd love it. Happy Birthday to our Sara hope you had a great day on your special day
on Friday. Our thoughts were with you.

I have been doing some geneology and am really enjoying it. Finding some intresting people we are related to. We had a hetic day in my primary class but it was all in all a wonderful sabath day. I am really watching this swine flu stuff carefully and am so greatful we have been doing all we can do to be prepared, still need to do alot more but it take a steady course of a little here and a little there. Please if I can only tell all of you my friends and family PLEASE, get some food and keep your car full and stay home if you are sick don't take it out and about other people.

We had the girls with us this weekend and how nice it is to have them with us, they are so good to us and we love them so muchs, how we miss Brian and Sara. Everyone have a great week.

Busy Week

Boy how fast time flys!!! It seems like we just began March and now it is April half way through
April at that! April 24th is Sara's birthday, Happy Birthday Sara we love you!! Sad we can't be there. Today we heard the news that Sharri's mother inlaw died Ruth Heinrich, wow.
I know she is happy as a clam to be with her hubby Pete, and son Terry. We got so much done today poured cement, got siding for shed, lots of little projects done. Whitney and Amy came and were such a huge help. Thank you so much girls we love you so much. Have a great sabath day!