Field Trip

Here I am by President Benson's grave Aug 2009

Kate and I drove up to Whitney,ID last night which is about 8 minutes from here. Whitney, ID is famous for being the birthplace of Ezra Taft Benson 13th President,prophet, seer and revelator of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints :)

If you look really close you can see me by this sign. you can also see how busy this town is...

Ezra Taft Benson was prophet from when I was 11 -20,I did not join the church until I was 25 though. It is just interesting to me, that IF I had been a member of the church then, I would have know President Benson as well as I know President Hinckley and President Monson.

I also want to mention that President Benson, married a lady that went on a mission to HI :)... he WAITED for HER!...

I found so many cool President Benson quotes that I did list on my FB:)

gospel

here are some quotes I liked from my morning study:
1. " Now is a time to do what is right, regardless of the consequences that might follow. It is a time to be found keeping the commandments. It is a season to reach out in kindness and love to those who need help. It is a time to be considerate and good and decent and courteous to one another. In other words to become more Christlike" Gordon B. Hinckley

2. "First fill your mind with truth; second fill your life with service; third, fill your heart with love" Thomas S. Monson

I know we have all seen quotes like these before but I just thought that I needed to see them again and hear them again

This story also touched me out of the Joseph F. Smith manual
" I pray that you will know how to approach God in prayer, It is not such a difficult thing to learn how to pray. It is not the words we use particulary that constitute prayer. Prayer does not consist of words, altogether. True, faithful, earnest prayer consists more in the feeling that rises from the heart and from the inward desire of our spirits to supplicate to the the Lord in humility and in faith, that we may receive his blessings. It matters not how simple the words may be, if our desires are genuine and we come before the Lord with a broken heart and a contrite spirit to ask for that which we need"
Joseph F. Smith, that is from his gospel doctrine book

that really touched me, I am really working on my prayers and what I say and how I say it and when I say it and if I really mean it or need it and this quote really pierced my heart.

TODAY I AM GOING TO PRAY THAT I PAY ALL MY BILLS
GET MY HOUSE CLEANER
GET CINDY's BDAY GIFT DONE!

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This morning when I had my morning study I found these quotes that I really liked:
"believe me when I say each of us is doing better than we think. We need to recognize and celebrate what we are doing right" ~ Bonnie D. Parkin

"We must not let things that matter most be at the mercy of things that matter least"~ President Harold B. Lee

I also read a story in the Joseph F. Smith manual about how when he was nine and they were camped on the banks of the MO river, they woke up and could not find their oxen and him and his uncle looked EVERYWHERE... so they went back to camp and Mary Fielding Smith his mom was kneeling praying and she prayed that God would help her to find those oxen and that she would be able to get to SLC etc... she told them to go ahead and eat breakfast, they told her that they had all ready looked for the oxen, she just smiled, then she went and asked a local person, he told her that he thought they were in one direction Mary walked in the other direction and shortly found the oxen in some willows

Joseph F. Smith said that this gave him a testimony of sincere prayer...

about a month ago I got up and Spike was GONE which I found wierd because every other time that Spike has gotten loose he has just waited by the front door. so I started driving on the route that Spike and I walk I saw some city workers and they said they had seen a boy between the ages of 11-14 walking with a dog like Spike with a cable wrapped around his waist... so I started driving on the route Spike and I walk on he had no collor on or anything... I got to a four way stop and prayed, Spike and I had been left and right but NEVER straight... I felt like I should go straight which was really wierd for me because we had never been that way I went straight and ONE block later found Spike in someones front yard with a cable wrapped around his waist and a young man and his parents, they said "oh is this your dog" "we thought he might belong to someone".... so for better or for worse depending on how you look at lil boy Spike I took him home...
It gave me another witness of prayer though to know that Heavenly Father DOES HEAR AND ANSWER OUR PRAYERS!

book

OK guess what I LOVE CELEBRITY BIOS! I just do OK, so Danielle got me Mommywood for my birthday! it was a quick read and I have LOVED watching Tori and Dean this season. I did not miss an episode. I think Liam and Stella are DARLING and would love to dress my little girl as cute as she dresses Stella:) I really identify with how Tori wants to just be Tori but has to realize that she is not like everyone else, and I want to be like everyone else but I am just not and realizing that is a huge step for me and Tori..... and on a side note... Dean is hot!

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I read Tatum O'Neal's bio. I will admit I knew nothing about Tatum before I read this book, I did enjoy it and have a respect for this woman and think that she is doing GREAT considering all that she has been through... and I think she was telling the truth about John McEnroe and her dad...( I think I need to also admit that I am into celebrity bio's:))

Henry B. Eyring | This Day | April 01, 2007 | BYU Broadcasting

Henry B. Eyring | This Day | April 01, 2007 | BYU Broadcasting

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I climbed in this sheep pen to get a pic

Cowgirl Keli!

Cache County Fair and Rodeo 2009!~

Cindy and I in front of a fake

horse

Cindy and I went to the Cache County Fair and Rodeo last night. I want to take this time to say I really like fairs and I like rodeos, if I had someone to go with I would go to things like this more often.

Cindy and I got to the fair and walked around the booths, there was a booth selling big flowers and headbands and caps that you can put on your baby or little girl. Cindy and I both stated that we hope that these things are still in style when we have little girls. They are just SO CUTE! we stopped at a few booths, Cindy bought two large rings and two different booths. I always wonder about those people that sit there in those booths, I hope that they make enough money to cover there costs of being there.

For dinner we looked at all the booths selling food and decieded on the gyro booth, Cindy got a gyro and I got a DELICIOUS philly cheese steak. A couple booths down I got a limeaide that some kids made right in front of me fresh, it was SO GOOD! that Cindy got two:) ( one then and one later) we met up with Cindy's family. ( mother, father, sister, and two nephews) We all shared a yummy funnel cake and chatted.

Cindy and I then went over and looked at the stuff that people had entered, I had a goal last year of entering SOMETHING in the fair, I did not make that goal. I have changed a lot since last year and I really hope to achieve that goal of entering SOMETHING in the fair. It will probably be baked goods but I would really like to achieve this. We went over to the 4H area. I think that 4H is AMAZING, those kids work so hard to make all those things, I look so forward to being a mom and having children and having them involved with 4H! We went and looked at the animals, That is another part of 4H that I look forward to my kids raising animals. I think that will be a really neat thing to do with my children. I saw someone in my ward who has kids involved in 4H and he told me to go and look at his daughters cookies that she won grand champion for. I did not I had all ready been in there and well a cookie is a cookie from the looks of it... Cindy and I went over to the rodeo grounds and waited for her family. The rodeo was great, we saw bareback riding, bronco riding, bull riding, team roping, BARREL RACING ( l like that one) steer wrestling, calf roping, and MUTTON BUSTIN! the only thing I don't like about the rodeo is the CLOWN... I can't stand that kind of humor... I also want to have my little kids involved in mutton bustin and all that stuff, Cindy said that one day in the future it would be a busy day for me at the fair, I would have kids raising animals for 4H and kids baking and making things for 4H. I know that I will be a much prouder parent than that guy in my ward, so I would probably MAKE someone go see my daughters cookies hahahaha... and I would have my daughter in rodeo royalty and kids team ropin and kids mutton bustin. I think that sounds like a GREAT DAY! so a great time was had by all at the Cache County Fair