Testimony

I am grateful for my testimony. I know that God lives and that He loves me. I KNOW that he answers prayers. I know that Jesus Christ atoned for MY sins. I know that he felt all of my sorrows, frustrations, worries and fears. I know that Joseph Smith was called of God to restore the gospel to the earth and because of him we have the fulness of the gospel today. I know that Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon through the power of God and that it is true! I know my purpose here on this earth because of my membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. And I know that families can be forever and my family is a wonderful gift from our Heavenly Father.

These are the things that mean the most to me in this life. How thankful I am for that knowledge.

Gratitude #2

I am grateful for my in-laws. I appreciate the fact that they have taught their children to work hard. I am thankful for the awesome new ranch house that they have built and can't wait to spend Thanksgiving there next week! Love you Pat and Sherry!

Gratitude

Today I am grateful for Finn and Indy and their willingness (not always happily.....)to do all the work necessary to get so many merit badges last night! I am thankful that they have gained a little bit of appreciation of the value of earning their Eagle. Finn is getting very close and Indy is well on his way. All the work will be worth it boys----I promise!

What is truth?

This month for our Relief Society meetings, we have had Sherrie Johnson come speak to us weekly about truth. She is a professor of religion at BYU and an author. I have only been able to get to one class far but it was so good! We have been recording them for sisters not able to make it to the class. So I am planning to catch up! Sherrie taught this class series at Education Week this year. She is an amazing person. If you want to read something inspirational every day check out her blog-sherriejohnson.blogspot.com.

Home

Kurt and I got back Saturday morning from our trip. Gotta love that red-eye flight!!!! I don't have any pictures to post as yet because, wouldn't you know it, we go to turn on the camera the first day and.........the battery is dead! So, until Gina sends me the pictures she took on her camera, I have none.

Anyway, we got home Saturday in time for Indy's championship football game. They won! It was so fun to sit outside on the frozen metal bleachers in the sideways falling snow after just having eaten dinner outside on the lanai in Hawaii the night before! Oh well. It was good to come home and see the kids and sleep in our own bed.

Kurt also remembered, as we driving home from the airport, that we had to give a fireside to his ward on Sunday! How fun is that! I think it ended up okay despite the lack of preparation time.

Now we're back in our routine and so looking forward to Thanksgiving at the ranch. We are taking a bunch of things down this weekend and can't wait to see the new house!

ALOHA

Kurt and I leave to Maui today with the Hunters and Andersons. It's really bad timing and we can't afford to go but we're going anyway. I know we will have a great time once we get there.

Birthday Dinner

We went out to dinner as a family on Monday night for Mom's birthday. Her birthday was almost two weeks ago but we couldn't all get together until now! It has been such a long time since we have all gone out to eat as a family. The little kids tend to get a little crazy in restaurants! So we got our own room at Buca di Beppo where we could have a little privacy. Cache, Isaac and Will ran around the room most of the night. They thought it was great! I think everybody had a fun time.