Scorching the World

This is the last: Dean Hughes: Life isn't a competition to have the most stuff, better hair, skinnier, who won football, 1st in line, etc. The essence of the gospel is how we treat each other. We need to be more patient. He said when he realized the above 2 sentences, he set a goal to be more patient and focus on treating others the way he should. So whenever he feels himself starting to become irritated and impatient, he tells himself, "Dean, thisis one of those moments." And he realized he can choose how to react to the situation. He told of a situation where his car was in the shop, and they called to say it was done and ready to pick up, so he went there and went to the correct desk, and the woman at the desk looked very stressed, and her desk was just covered with papers, scattered all over, not in neat piles, but just tons of papers all over. He told her who he was and she started looking for his papers and keys. She couldn't find either one, and he began to fee...

Emily Watts (she has written a book called Take 2 chocolates and call me in the morning. She spoke on Mother-Guilt. She said she was in the hospital a while back and got brave and looked at the chart when the nurse stepped out. It said, This is a cheerful, positive, well informed and educated overweight white female. She said you should never look at charts that doctors write. She had been having severe pain, and went to the doctor and he decided it was a kidney infection, so she went on drugs, and it went away, but came back. They did the treatment about 4 times, when the doctor finally said he decided it wasn't an infection, but lower back pain, so he sent her to a physical therapist. She said she hates anything that has the word Exercise in it, so she really didn't want to go, but finally had to for the pain. The 14 year old doctor (she said all professionals now look 14) explained to her that there are muscles in and around your waist, stomach, etc., called the core muscle...

Michael Wilcox: From the song, Tell me the stories of Jesus- one verse says, Tell me in accents of wonder - He said that is how we should teach the gospel and tell about Jesus - with accents of wonder so children (everyone) can see and understand the magnificence of Him and His life. He talked about the temple, and that it is a river that gives life - life to marriages, life to families, to individuals with problems, life for healing body and soul. Isaiah 1 says the temple is a shadow in the day (from the heat of scorching trials), a refuge (protection from tentations) and a cover from the rain and storms of the world. Come home to the temple for rest and protection and to be strengthened. He also talked about who is the real you. When you see someone get angry in a tough situation, you tend to say, now the real you comes out. But he said the real me or you is not us at our worst. The real me or you is me at my best or you at your best. That is the real you. He said the soul of the mot...

Kenneth Cope (I don't think I sent this last time) He sang songs, and said that through his congs what he was trying to communicate is that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us passionately and WILL NOT stop in trying to reclaim us and make us theirs. He said the disturbers of peach are guilt and contention. He said the message of the gospel and the scriptures is to teach us to be as happy and God means us to be. He (or someone else) said that it is like we are trying to build ourselves a nice little house. We have the house plans and we know we can be happy in that house. So we work diligently to get that house built,but someone keeps coming along and knocking down walls, or crashing in the ceiling and re-shaping the house. What we can't see is that He is building us a mansion where He knows we will be truly happy in the mansion. But we feel that things are working against us as we see our little happy house being broken, so we fight against it, and try to control our own ...

Mary Ellen Edmunds: She told of a guy she knows who was traveling on the freeway in Utah, and there was a new freeway being built, but wasn't opened yet. He said he knew that it was all up and good, but they just hadn't painted lines on it yet. So he drove past the sign that said "Road not completed." and got way down the road when he found that the overpass had not been completed. So he made a U-turn and drove back. When he got to the place where he saw the sign, he saw painted on the back of the sign, "I told you, dummy." She said God does allow U-turns. It is Satan's plan to trap us with no hope of coming back. She asked if anyone had ever heard of anyone in the scriptures who had pleaded for mercy and not received it? No, there is not one. Contention, anger, negativity are all caused by pride. she said how can we become peacemakers? We can cultivate an attitude of optimism. The Devil - Good ole what's is 'no face' (because he doesn't...

I am planning to go to the Women's conference at BYU in May. It is something I've wanted to do for years, but couldn't because I was working. It is always on Thu and Fri. But this year I get to go, so I went online to book the flight. I looked at lots of different sites, and found the cheapest one, and booked it. I had put in the dates many times, but when the tickets finally were finalized and printed, I had the wrong return date. The site says all over the place that there are no refunds and changed, but I called them anyway, and found out that it would cost $100 to change it. I decided not to have them change it, and just bought a new return flight for an extra $85. Darn, heck and all those bad words. It is painful to be stupid.

So lately (meaning for about the past year) my R eye has been watering. It just sort of always has a little extra water in it, and if I don't wipe it, a tear drop will run down my cheek. It is a little annoying, but whatever. So Tom and I had gone to lunch yesterday, and afterwards, I was waiting outside while he went to the bathroom. It was a beautiful day and I was just standing there, looking at the fountain. Then a woman came up to me, and was a bit hesitant about what she was going to say. I got the feeling she was going to ask for money or something. Then she said, "I was just wondering if you are ok." I'm sure I looked stunned, and she said, "I saw you standing there, and wiping your eye, and thought maybe, well, I just wanted to know if you were ok." I couldn't believe it. I assured her I was fine, and thanked her for her thoughtfulness. I am constantly amazed at the kindness of other people who do things way above and beyond anything I would thi...

Tanya and I went to a special conference for women sponsored by Deseret Book. It was great! Here are notes from it: Ardeth Kapp: The world is a stage and each must play his part. Then she told about a presentation she went to of Little Annie, and after the play, when everyone was applauding the little star, she suddenly looked over to the side in the audience and yelled "Grandpa!" and headed over to him. The whole audience parted to allow her through, and when she reached him, he wrapped his arms around her like giant parenthesis. MEE (Mary Ellen Edmonds) said she imagined him saying to her, great job, honey. You did a great job. She said there are hosts of people applauding us on the other side of the veil - those who went before us and those yet to come are rooting for us and cheering for us. she talked about the things that bring us joy. she went to stay with her grandchildren while her daughter in law was in the hospital having a baby. After the baby arrived home, the loo...