valentines...

Normally we do these...

This year we did these...(thanks to my friend Keri...)

                                                  

                                     (Aren't they the cutest???)

Always filled with love and gifts of service to each other.

My GPS

My husband got a GPS as a gift last Christmas. He loves using it. I don't know why though. He doesn't listen to it. He thinks he knows better. (I think it is because it has a woman's voice giving him directions.  Funny.)

One day, my sister in law and I were taking a car full of girls to Hollywood. My husband set up the GPS for the trip. The visiting started. We talked and we talked and we talked. We paid ZERO attention to the GPS and soon we were lost. Well, we'd missed the street we were supposed to turn on. Fortunately, the GPS did not give up on us. It kept giving us directions to get us back on track. When we finally stopped talking and started paying attention to the GPS, we got to our intended destination. We did have to learn how to listen to it though.

I think the gift of the Holy Ghost is like a GPS. We can choose not to listen to him because we think we know better. Or, we let the distractions in our life speak louder than he does. The more we allow the Holy Ghost to guide us, the more we familiarize ourselves with his voice, the easier it is to hear him. The Holy Ghost will always be there to help us get back to our intended destination. We just have to take the time to listen, learn how to listen and then follow the promptings we do receive.

"We need such inspired knowledge as we live our lives, as we seek to find God and apply his teachings, as we seek to find marriage partners, as we perform our responsibilities of parenthood, as we help others around us learn gospel truth and find God for themselves, as we seek understanding from scripture, as we implement present-day prophets’ counsel, as we contemplate the signal time in this dispensation in which we live, and as we seek to endure faithfully to the end. In all these and many more matters—indeed, in all aspects of our lives—we need guidance and knowledge from the Sure Source."  -Marion G. Romney, "Receiving and Applying Spiritual Strength" Ensign,  Feb. 1984

what will you be?

No matter our age, circumstances or abilities, each one of us can create something remarkable of his life.


David saw himself as a shepherd, but the Lord saw him as a king of Israel. Joseph of Egypt served as a slave, but the Lord saw him as a seer. Mormon wore the armor of a soldier, but the Lord saw him as a prophet.


We are sons and daughters of an immortal, loving, and all-powerful Father in Heaven. We are created as much from the dust of eternity as we are from the dust of the earth. Every one of us has potential we can scarcely imagine.

-Joseph B. Wirthlin April 2006 General Conference

A good one!

An elderly couple was attending church services.

About 1/2 way through the lady handed her husband a note.

It read, "I just let out a silent fart. What should I do?"

He scribbled back, "Get new batteries for your hearing aid."

thought for the day

                                
 Even with baby steps you can get to the mountain top.

A Belated Christmas Tale

This story was shared with me and I just so loved it...hope you all do too!

An elderly couple that I know was at Costco right before Christmas. One of the things on their Christmas list was bananas. They searched and searched for bananas but couldn't find anyway. They shrugged their shoulders and thought, "Oh well. Guess we won't eat our daily breakfast banana this week." Well, at the check out line, they noticed the gal in front of them had some bananas in her cart. They asked her where she had found them. She replied that she actually had picked up the last of the them. The banana pallet was empty.

When this elderly couple got to the register, the clerk handed them a bunch of bananas and said that the lady in front of them paid for them and wanted to wish them a Merry Christmas.

Really, don't these great stories just want to make you be a better person???

visions of families danced through my head

I started indexing on Family Search this weekend. It is my new passion.
I find it interesting how I am able to read all sorts of names in all sorts of handwriting. Sometimes, not at first, but i close my eyes, open them, and then I "see" the name. It is like a mini-miracle.

After 2 days of indexing, last night I really did dream of families...and they did seem to be dancing. I woke up happy.