The World is a Beautiful Place!

Since it's a holiday weekend, We will just share some pictures of a beautiful garden we went to last Monday.  We are so grateful for beauty no matter where we live.

 Isn't that beautiful?  It was about the size of a grapefruit.

 How many hummingbirds can you count?

 Bats just "hanging" out.

 Gremma and Grandpa by a really beautiful plant!

 See Grandpa way up high on the suspension bridge?

Those are mahogany trees.

 Some really interesting plants!

(And can you see Grandpa?)

 That is a giant fern!

How many birds can you count on those red blossoms?

The French make Chinese food way better than the Chinese do!

We had FHE with these people on Monday.  They wanted to fix us a big dinner.  It was fabulous! Paul is still working on his Moroni creation.  If you look carefully, you can see the tiny gold plates and the hole that they will go in and the rock that will cover the hole in the Hill Cumorah.  He is even had painting some leaves!


While we were waiting for dinner to be cooked, we played Don't Eat Pete, with the kids.  They loved it!  I asked Carol if she had been reading the Book of Mormon.  She said, only a little.  She was only on page 300!  We had given it to her 6 days before and she went away for the weekend! She is reading about Alma the younger now and she says she had a similar experience. When she was 25 years old, she did not believe in God or see a need for Him.  Then she had a "vision".  She didn't say what it was, but she knew that God was there and now she needs "spiritual" in her life.  She says there are many things in the book that she has experienced in her life.  It was amazing!  Now she is up to 500 pages!  (There are more pages in a French Book of Mormon than an English one.)

I know that the Book of Mormon can relate to our lives today, even though it was written hundreds of years ago!  Just like Carol, we can read it and see how the stories apply to us.  I hope that each of us will read out of the Book of Mormon every day.  We should always ask ourselves, "how does this relate to my life?"  Will you do that?

Behind the Blue Door

One day, the missionaries were out tracting.  They walked up a long hill.  They noticed this beautiful blue door and wondered where it went.  They could not see anything else behind it. They felt that they should walk over to it.  They saw a bell so they rang it.  They met the nicest family! Paul, Beatrice, Inez and Chloe live here.  We got to meet this family.  Paul and Beatrice have read and love the Book of Mormon!  In fact, they love it so much that Paul is carving a figurine of Moroni!  While we were there, a neighbor came to pick up her daughter who was playing there.  The mother is Carol and the daughter is Kenzie.  We were able to talk for a long time about eternal families.  They want this so badly!   Carol asked if she could have a Book of Mormon, too!  We are going back on Monday to have Family Home Evening with them.  We are going to play "Don't Eat Pete" with them after the lesson.  Will you pray for us so that these people will feel the spirit and have a desire to be baptized? 

It is always important to listen to what is being said quietly inside your head and your heart.  We are glad the missionaries listened to the spirit and wanted to see what was behind the blue door!

March 21, 2014

We got to go to Mom's last radiation treatment.  She is a trooper!  Then I got a hair cut and pedicure.

March 20, 2014

We left Raymond in a blinding snow storm .  We were so grateful that Lake and Anita Duncan were able to drive us to Great Falls to catch the plane. 

The adventure begins!

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