tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363651292024-03-07T13:12:33.352-08:00Going BerserkMom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-61034078221727152502022-07-02T13:38:00.000-07:002022-07-02T13:38:28.222-07:00Grandma Time!!<p> Sunday July 18 2021, I became a Grandma!<br /><br /></p><p>Well, really I was already a grandma, to George's grandchildren, whom I love, but this new one is a little more special to me! </p><p>Back in December of 2020, we finally got all our kids and grandkids together to take a family picture. We flew Mallory up from Arizona, Jessica and Ross were here from England, Brennan and Liberty came down from the Ogden area. Mike, Kaylee and Christian came from Lindon, Angela and Trev from Payson, and Richard, Marianne and her 5 kids from Lindon also (they were married on Dec 18!). On the 5th of Dec, we gathered at a spot in North Provo, and a friend of George's took our big family photo. After pictures, my kids asked me to meet them at the car to give me my Christmas present! They bought me a big Minky Couture blanket - I've been wanting one - so I was excited about that! Then Brennan and Liberty said they had one other thing, and gave me a small box to unwrap! It was a small box, a Vans shoe box, and had a pair of white infant shoes in it! They were announcing to us that Liberty was pregnant and they were expecting a baby! I don't think they had a due date at the time, but sometime in the summer! Yippee! As I said, I am certainly happy to be Grandma Amy to the Hickman kids, but knowing that I had a biological grandbaby coming, it put me over the moon!</p><p>Fast Forward.. Liberty's due date was July 24! She'd been having lots of contractions for the last month or so, and she wasn't expecting she'd go all the way to her due date! On July 8, her mom and sisters had a Birthing Way or Blessing Way event for her at Mandy's house in Huntsville. This is a Native American tradition that celebrates the maiden becoming a mother! We had a nice dinner prepared by her sisters, and then all the women gathered in a circle to share wisdom, quotes or advice with Liberty. Of course I just cried when I shared - I had been thinking alot that my sweet Mark may have been holding this sweet little baby before sending him down to this family. We were all "linked" together with a string around our wrists, and tied those strings on , to be taken off after the baby was born, to keep Lib in our thoughts. It was a great evening, I had also taken a few bags of baby clothes and blankets and stuff that I had gathered for them. It was almost a two hour drive for me to get there, but I am so glad I went! ( I had been scheduled to go to the temple with George at 4 pm, but I had someone else go in my place.) </p><p>Mallory flew to Utah on July 14 with her friend Alyssa. They came just to get away, and we went to Lagoon on the 15th. We met up with Liberty and Brennan for dinner at the end of the day. Liberty was progressing a bit, having more contractions, and we joked (and hoped) that maybe the baby would be born before they flew home on Saturday evening the 17th. I took Mallory and Alyssa to the airport for a late afternoon flight, and then went home. George had to prepare a talk for church the next day, so he stayed up later, and I went to bed before midnight. I looked at the clock around 2 am when he finally came to bed, I'd had a little bit of sleep. </p><p>At 2:42 am, my phone buzzing woke me up! Brennan was calling - he told me I should come, that things were progressing and Baby Brown Bear was coming! I asked if I had time for a shower... said I'd be on the road soon. I showered quickly and threw some things in a bag, and got on the road by 3:15 am. Listened to a podcast on the way to keep me company, it's a 104 mile drive to their place, about 90 minutes! At 3:54, Brennan called again, asking how far away I was, which was not quite halfway, and he told me that the baby had already arrived! He didn't wait for me! I was a little sad for that, but glad that all had gone well and he was here! I continued on my drive north - there wasn't much traffic at 4 am on a Sunday morning. </p><p>The door was cracked open when I arrived, I dropped my bag at the bottom of the stairs, and someone, I think Lib's sister Em, told me he was upstairs. I went upstairs and found them - Liberty was holding the baby and nursing him, Brennan gave me a hug. Lib's mom Marie is a Doula, and the midwife Chris was also there. Mandy was also there helping out, videotaping, and giving advice. Baby Graham was weighed after I got there, they asked Liberty what her guess was - 7 lbs 2 ounces, and she was correct. Then Marie measured him , 19.5 inches long, and his head, chest and tummy were all around 13 inches. Mandy guided Brennan in putting his first diaper on, so as not to have the tabs rubbing his legs. I don't remember when I first got to hold him, but it was wonderful - so sweet to have this brand new baby boy in my arms - straight from heaven! I like to think that Mark was snuggling on him and giving him advice before sending him down... Mark would be so overjoyed to have been here to love this baby! I know he would be so proud of our kids and the grown ups they are becoming! I sure miss him! </p><p>Someone asked Liberty if she was hungry - I had brought some homemade bread that I'd baked on Saturday - she said a piece of bread with butter and honey sounded great. I went downstairs and sliced it, warmed it up in the microwave a moment, and buttered and put some honey on it. She said it just hit the spot!</p><p>Everyone eventually left, and it was time to get some sleep - maybe around 6 am?? There was a twin bed in the spare room, so I laid down there and tried to rest - the AC was on and I was a little cool, but got some sleep. Brennan came in later and said he was going to make breakfast so we all went downstairs - he handed me Graham - I held him as long as possible before handing him over to Liberty. It was so wonderful to see his eyes, look at his fingers and toes - they are all there! He has a fair amount of brown hair - he is just perfect. Lib thinks he has Brennan's nose. Brennan made some wheat waffles - I asked him for the recipe... </p><p>Later, Liberty's sister Eden and her husband came by to see him and hold him. I went up for a nap before they left. George finished his church meetings and said he'd ride his motorcycle up to come and meet him. When I woke from my nap, Mandy and Jarrod and their kids were all there - taking turns holding Graham. George arrived just before they were leaving, maybe around 3 pm. I had to leave to go back to Payson for a 6 pm meeting by 4:30, so George got a little time holding Graham also. </p><p>Graham Anders Brown, born 7/18/2021, 3:20 am. 7 lbs 2 ounces, 19.5 inches long. This little guy came quick, Liberty started having some pains around midnight, after they'd been up to Mandy's for dinner. She got in the tub to see if contractions would stop, but soon realized things were going. Marie was there about 45 min before he was born, so she help Lib through the birth. Brennan got in the tub with her to support her (a blow up tub for birthing) and after only a couple of pushes, Graham arrived. The umbilical cord was around his neck, Marie quickly removed it, and there were no problems. Liberty had planned to have him at home - Marie's daughters have all had home births, and she has been there for all of them. </p>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-32546670518119430272016-10-29T20:05:00.000-07:002016-10-29T20:05:34.654-07:00Faith not Fear<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I recently had to write a paper for my Pathway English class.. "I Believe In.... " something. Here is what I wrote..</span><br />
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you ever been taught something that you didn’t realize you were being taught?
Or did you think that you knew something completely, but then you learned
more? I recently learned that I was
being taught about faith, without even knowing it. I believe in faith more now, than I ever
thought I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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grew up as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. One of the first principles of the Gospel that
I was taught as a child was faith. Faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. We learned
that “faith was the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) I surely did not
have a problem with that, and I had many experiences with faith throughout my
life. My faith was not tested too
severely, though, and I lived a relatively easy life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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served a mission for the church in England, came home and at the age of 25
married my sweetheart, Mark, in the Mesa Arizona Temple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">We soon were the parents of three sweet
children, a boy and two girls, and we settled in to our home to learn and to
grow. Mark worked hard to support our
family, and we were happy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">About
five years ago, Mark’s work environment had become toxic and he wanted to quit
his job. As a child, my parents endured
several job changes and financial hardship, therefore, I was hesitant to agree
to let him quit the job without another job lined up. So, he stayed and endured a while
longer. Eventually the work situation
got worse, and I could see it was detrimental to Mark’s emotional well-being
and happiness. This time we decided to
trust Heavenly Father and have faith that He would provide. We prayed and asked for help to find new
employment so that our family would not go without. Our faith overcame the fear
I had. Almost immediately after quitting
the job, Mark found a temporary contract job that would provide for our
family’s needs. Within 6 months, Mark
had three permanent job offers. We again
trusted in God to help him choose the job that would be best for our
family. He began a job with Banner
Health in January of 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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really enjoyed the new job, and he thrived there. He had a great rapport with
his staff, and was using his financial expertise to help the company. In April of that year, Mark experienced a
pain in his leg. He thought it might be a stress fracture, so he went to the ER
to have it checked. Unfortunately, it was not a stress fracture, but something
far more serious. Within a short time,
he was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a cancer. We were floored. The surgeon initially told us that Mark had
months, not years, left to live. We learned
not to listen to the surgeon, but to listen to the oncologist. A chemotherapy regimen began quickly, and we
realized we needed more than ever to have faith. When friends asked Mark how he
was doing, he was quick to tell them his motto was “Faith, Not Fear,” because
faith and fear cannot exist together. He
shared this message far and wide, in person, and on Facebook with family and
friends. It buoyed him up during the awful times of chemotherapy and
radiation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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September of 2014, Mark had been struggling to breathe. Initially, the thought was that he had
pneumonia, and he was admitted to the hospital.
By midweek, chest scans and x-rays were done and it was determined that
the cancer had spread throughout his lungs.
On October 4, 2014, my sweetheart finished his earthly journey and
graduated to the next life. From the fifth floor hospital room, the illuminated
Gilbert Arizona Temple was visible in the dark night; a reminder that the
promised blessings of the temple had sealed our family together for
eternity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
September of 2016, President Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the First Presidency spoke
to the women of the church regarding faith. He said, <span style="color: #333333;">“The
purpose of faith is not to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">change</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>God’s
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will. Faith is trust—trust that God sees what we cannot and that He knows what
we do not. Sometimes, trusting our own vision and judgment is not enough.” Hearing that phrase was an “a-ha” moment for
me. Mark and I had been professing
“Faith Not Fear” for two and a half years, and I hadn’t fully realized what
that had done for me. When Mark died, I
was not angry with my Heavenly Father. I
was not mad at the doctors that they had not done more to help Mark and find
new treatments. I did not yell and
scream that I didn’t want to be a widow and raise my children on my own. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The purpose of faith is not to change God’s will, but to empower
us to act on God’s will. I think this
also means to <i>accept</i> God’s will. By talking about faith for so long, my
acceptance of God’s will was encouraged.
Because of Heavenly Father’s Plan of Happiness, I know that I will see
my dear husband again. I know that my
Heavenly Father is aware of me and my family, and He loves me. I know that my
husband still loves me, wants me to be happy, and wants me to have joy while I
am here, even while he is not. I believe
that faith and fear cannot exist together, and that the best choice is to have
faith. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-52191896708698851332016-05-28T21:46:00.000-07:002016-05-28T21:46:37.397-07:00Stand Strong and Courageous!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my studies this week in the Book of Mormon, we covered the story of Samuel the Lamanite. </span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was reminded of a song that I first heard 25+ years ago while I was on my mission. It was sung by a group called Afterglow- a couple of guys who started singing together in high school, They eventually presented firesides and concerts prior to serving missions for the LDS church in Japan and St Louis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had an album of encouraging missionary songs, and since our choice of music was limited as missionaries ( to religious, uplifting or classical music, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and the like) we often listened to the same music over and over. Therefore, almost 30 years later, I can remember the lyrics and sing along. </span></div>
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Click here to hear the song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIqkSitzGH8&list=PLDC5F2BD27E70DF73&index=2" target="_blank">AfterGlow Go and Do</a> ..</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"><b>Go And Do</b></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Words and Music by Laurie Fischer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">----------------------------------------</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">For I know the Lord will bless the work that I do,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">and fill my basket to the brim.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">----------------------------------------</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">He got the plates that Laban had</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">While his brothers stood without the wall</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">----------------------------------------</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Give all you've got to the work that you should do.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Hold fast to the iron rod that leads you along,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">And the Lord will make you strong.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; 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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;">Samuel stood firm and courageous in his beliefs. He was not afraid to share the gospel, and speak the truth. That is what I believe our Heavenly Father expects me to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;">On Friday at work, there was only two of us in the office for the day, and my coworker is Catholic - ( I work for a school tuition organization that provides scholarships for Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Phoenix. ) As we discussed a man in Colorado who is a self proclaimed prophet, I was able to share with my coworker my belief in a modern day prophet. I explained that The Family - A Proclamation to The World, that was given in 1995. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;">The Proclamation was given, defining our beliefs in families, and regarding gender roles, and the characteristics of what mothers and fathers should be. I believe that my friend and her Catholic faith have many of the same beliefs and I suggested that I could share a copy of the Proclamation with her. So, that is on my list of things to do - I will commit to getting her a copy of the Proclamation within the next week or two. </span></span></div>
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Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-52743875408686938692016-05-14T18:55:00.002-07:002016-05-14T18:55:08.234-07:00Mothers Who KnowIn 1983, Janice Kapp Perry, a prominent LDS composer, wrote a song called We'll Bring the World His Truth (Army of Helaman). It was likely introduced to the Primary aged children (ages 3-12) at that time, but I was 16 years old then, so past the time I would have learned it in church. I probably became familiar with it later on, after I was married, and serving in the church as a chorister to those Primary children. <br />
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To goodly parents who love the Lord.</div>
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We have been taught, and we understand,</div>
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That we must do as the Lord commands.</div>
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2. We have been saved for these latter days</div>
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To build the kingdom in righteous ways.</div>
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We hear the words our prophet declares:</div>
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"Let each who's worthy go forth and share."</div>
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3. We know his plan, and we will prepare,</div>
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Increase our knowledge through study and prayer.</div>
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Daily we'll learn until we are called</div>
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To take the gospel to all the world.</div>
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We are as the army of Helaman.</div>
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We have been taught in our youth.</div>
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And we will be the Lord's missionaries</div>
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To bring the world his truth.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">In October 2007, Julie B. Beck, the Relief Society General President, said the following, "In The Book of Mormon we read about 2000 exemplary young men who were exceedingly valiant, courageous and strong. 'Yea, they were men of truth and soberness, for they had been taught to keep the commandments of God, and to walk uprightly before him.' (Alma 53:21) These faithful young men paid tribute to their mothers. They said , 'Our mothers knew it.' (Alma 56:48) I would suspect that the mothers of Captain Moroni, Mosiah, Mormon and other great leaders knew. "</span></span></div>
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At the time of Sister Beck's Talk, in 2007, my children were ages 12, 10 and 6, and still fairly impressionable. We regularly attended church as a family, and taught our children in the home to follow the teachings of our Savior, Jesus Christ. </div>
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Needless to say, there are likely times in every mother's life that she feels that she is not doing enough, or she has failed in teaching her children. Sister Beck's talk was encouraging to mothers around the world, to remind us to remember how important it is to KNOW - how to be an influence for good on the lives of our children, and also the world.</div>
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You Can read her full talk <a href="https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2007/10/mothers-who-know?lang=eng" target="_blank">Here </a> . </div>
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My children are now 21, 19, and 15, and they are not too old to be taught. I worry still with some of the choices they make, but hope that they will always return to the things that we have taught them throughout their lives. The world today is in turmoil, and there are fiery darts of the adversary being tossed at them from every turn. </div>
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I have enjoyed reading the account of the Stripling Warriors, and being reminded how great of a responsibility it is to continue teaching my family. I feel the weight of it a little more as a single parent now, but I know that with the help of my Heavenly Father, and diligence in following the commandments, I can try to make sure that my children know that I am a Mother Who Knows..</div>
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Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-88750935966001335742016-04-30T21:49:00.000-07:002016-04-30T21:49:24.995-07:00May Our Hearts Be Drawn Out in Prayer ContinuallyIn our Pathway class this week, we discussed chapters 30-35 in the Book of Alma, in The Book of Mormon. In Chapter 31, we learn about the Zoramites, an apostate group of people in a land called Antionum. They were dissenters from the Nephites, having been taught the word of God, but failing to keep His commandments. <br />
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They had taken up the habit of public prayer - had built a tower upon which only one person could be admitted. While upon the tower, whoever desired to worship must stretch his hands toward heaven, and recite a given prayer...<br />
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<a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="15" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15 </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140001" node="140001" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">Holy, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140002" node="140002" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">holy </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140003" node="140003" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">God; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140004" node="140004" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140005" node="140005" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">believe </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140006" node="140006" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140007" node="140007" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140008" node="140008" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">art </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140009" node="140009" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">God, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140010" node="140010" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140011" node="140011" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140012" node="140012" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">believe </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140013" node="140013" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140014" node="140014" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140015" node="140015" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">art </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140016" node="140016" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">holy, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140017" node="140017" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140018" node="140018" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140019" node="140019" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140020" node="140020" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">wast </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140021" node="140021" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">a </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk140022" node="140022" paranum="14" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#15a" id="footnote21" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=15a&volumeUri=bofm" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spirit</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk140024" node="140024" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140025" node="140025" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140026" node="140026" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140027" node="140027" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140028" node="140028" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">art </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140029" node="140029" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140030" node="140030" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">spirit, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140031" node="140031" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140032" node="140032" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140033" node="140033" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="33">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140034" node="140034" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="34">wilt </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140035" node="140035" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="35">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140036" node="140036" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="36">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140037" node="140037" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="37">spirit </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk140038" node="140038" paranum="14" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="38">forever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">16 </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150001" node="150001" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">Holy </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150002" node="150002" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">God, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150003" node="150003" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150004" node="150004" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">believe </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150005" node="150005" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150006" node="150006" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150007" node="150007" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">hast </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150008" node="150008" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">separated </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150009" node="150009" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150010" node="150010" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">from </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150011" node="150011" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150012" node="150012" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">brethren; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150013" node="150013" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150014" node="150014" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150015" node="150015" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">do </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150016" node="150016" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">not </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150017" node="150017" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">believe </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150018" node="150018" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150019" node="150019" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150020" node="150020" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">tradition </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150021" node="150021" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150022" node="150022" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150023" node="150023" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="23">brethren, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150024" node="150024" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">which </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150025" node="150025" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">was </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150026" node="150026" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">handed </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150027" node="150027" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">down </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150028" node="150028" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150029" node="150029" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">them </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150030" node="150030" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">by </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150031" node="150031" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150032" node="150032" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">childishness </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150033" node="150033" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="33">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150034" node="150034" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="34">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150035" node="150035" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="35">fathers; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150036" node="150036" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="36">but </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150037" node="150037" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="37">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150038" node="150038" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="38">believe </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150039" node="150039" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="39">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150040" node="150040" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="40">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150041" node="150041" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="41">hast</span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk150042" node="150042" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="42">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#16a" id="footnote22" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=16a&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">elected</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk150044" node="150044" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="44"> us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150045" node="150045" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="45">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150046" node="150046" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="46">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150047" node="150047" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="47">thy </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk150048" node="150048" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="48">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#16b" id="footnote23" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=16b&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">holy</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk150050" node="150050" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="50"> children; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150051" node="150051" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="51">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150052" node="150052" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="52">also </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150053" node="150053" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="53">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150054" node="150054" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="54">hast </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150055" node="150055" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="55">made </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150056" node="150056" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="56">it </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150057" node="150057" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="57">known </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150058" node="150058" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="58">unto </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150059" node="150059" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="59">us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150060" node="150060" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="60">that </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk150061" node="150061" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="61">c</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#16c" id="footnote24" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=16c&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">there</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk150063" node="150063" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="63"> shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk150064" node="150064" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="64">be </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk150065" node="150065" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="65">d</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#16d" id="footnote25" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=16d&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">no</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk150067" node="150067" paranum="15" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="67"> Christ.</span></span></div>
<div class="chunked" id="para16" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/bofm/alma/31.17">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="17" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17 </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160001" node="160001" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">But </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160002" node="160002" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160003" node="160003" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">art </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160004" node="160004" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160005" node="160005" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">same </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160006" node="160006" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">yesterday, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160007" node="160007" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">today, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160008" node="160008" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160009" node="160009" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">forever;</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160010" node="160010" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160011" node="160011" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160012" node="160012" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">hast </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk160013" node="160013" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">a</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#17a" id="footnote26" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=17a&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">elected</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk160015" node="160015" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15"> us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160016" node="160016" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160017" node="160017" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160018" node="160018" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160019" node="160019" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160020" node="160020" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">saved, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160021" node="160021" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">whilst </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160022" node="160022" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">all</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160023" node="160023" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="23">around </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160024" node="160024" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160025" node="160025" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160026" node="160026" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">elected </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160027" node="160027" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160028" node="160028" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160029" node="160029" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">cast </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160030" node="160030" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">by </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160031" node="160031" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">thy </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160032" node="160032" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">wrath </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160033" node="160033" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="33">down </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160034" node="160034" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="34">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160035" node="160035" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="35">hell;</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160036" node="160036" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="36">for </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160037" node="160037" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="37">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160038" node="160038" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="38">which </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160039" node="160039" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="39">holiness, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160040" node="160040" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="40">O </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160041" node="160041" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="41">God, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160042" node="160042" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="42">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160043" node="160043" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="43">thank </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160044" node="160044" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="44">thee; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160045" node="160045" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="45">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160046" node="160046" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="46">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160047" node="160047" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="47">also </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160048" node="160048" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="48">thank </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160049" node="160049" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="49">thee </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160050" node="160050" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="50">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160051" node="160051" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="51">thou </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160052" node="160052" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="52">hast </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160053" node="160053" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="53">elected </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160054" node="160054" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="54">us, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160055" node="160055" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="55">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160056" node="160056" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="56">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160057" node="160057" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="57">may </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160058" node="160058" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="58">not </span><span class="chunk hl-id-37507593" id="chunk160059" node="160059" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="59">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160060" node="160060" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="60">led </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160061" node="160061" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="61">away </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160062" node="160062" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="62">after </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160063" node="160063" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="63">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160064" node="160064" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="64">foolish </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160065" node="160065" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="65">traditions </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160066" node="160066" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="66">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160067" node="160067" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="67">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160068" node="160068" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="68">brethren, </span><span class="chunk hl-id-61272045" id="chunk160069" node="160069" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="69">which </span><span class="chunk hl-id-5872120" id="chunk160070" node="160070" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="70">doth </span><sup class="studyNoteMarker" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="chunk" id="chunk160071" node="160071" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="71">b</span></sup><a class="footnote" href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/31?lang=eng#17b" id="footnote27" rel="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=31&noteID=17b&volumeUri=bofm" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; line-height: 25.2px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">bind</a><span class="chunk" id="chunk160073" node="160073" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="73"> them </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160074" node="160074" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="74">down </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160075" node="160075" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="75">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160076" node="160076" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="76">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160077" node="160077" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="77">belief </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160078" node="160078" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="78">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160079" node="160079" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="79">Christ, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160080" node="160080" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="80">which </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160081" node="160081" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="81">doth </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160082" node="160082" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="82">lead </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160083" node="160083" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="83">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160084" node="160084" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="84">hearts </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160085" node="160085" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="85">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160086" node="160086" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="86">wander </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160087" node="160087" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="87">far </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160088" node="160088" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="88">from </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160089" node="160089" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="89">thee, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160090" node="160090" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="90">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk160091" node="160091" paranum="16" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="91">God.</span></span></div>
<div class="chunked" id="para17" style="background: 0px 0px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin-bottom: 26px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" uri="/scriptures/bofm/alma/31.18">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="18" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; color: #0091bc; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a><span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18 </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170001" node="170001" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">And </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170002" node="170002" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">again </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170003" node="170003" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170004" node="170004" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">thank </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170005" node="170005" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">thee, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170006" node="170006" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">O </span><span class="chunk hl-id-38832073" id="chunk170007" node="170007" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">God, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170008" node="170008" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170009" node="170009" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170010" node="170010" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170011" node="170011" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170012" node="170012" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">chosen </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170013" node="170013" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170014" node="170014" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170015" node="170015" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">holy </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk170016" node="170016" paranum="17" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">people. 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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;">The Zoramites were certainly a self-righteous people, full of pride, for after each man would offer this selfsame prayer, they would go to their homes and never speak of God again, until they assembled again. (Alma 31:23)</span></div>
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After hearing the Zoramites pray, and observing their habits, Alma and those who were with him were astonished. Alma saw that their hearts were lifted up unto great boasting, in their pride. (Alma 31:25) He then proceeded to pour his heart out to God that he and his brethren might have success in bringing the wicked Zoramites unto Christ, because they believed there was NO Christ. His heartfelt pleading asked for blessings upon himself and his brethren, as well upon those whom they would teach. </div>
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Following this event in the Book of Mormon, Alma goes on to teach the poor whose afflictions had humbled them. I imagine that Alma and his brethren had their hearts continually drawn out in prayer for the people they taught and hoped to teach. In Chapter 33, Alma reminds us that Zenos, a prophet of old, taught that men should pray and worship in all times and places. </div>
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A modern day apostle, Henry B. Eyring, has said <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px;">“</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 30.6px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When God has commanded us to pray, He has used words like ‘pray unceasingly’ and ‘pray always’ and ‘mighty prayer.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Those commands do not require using many words. In fact, the Savior has told us that we need not multiply words when we pray. The diligence in prayer which God requires does not take flowery speech nor long hours of solitude. …</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">“Our hearts can be drawn out to God only when they are filled with love for Him and trust in His goodness” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2001, )</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"> This is some thing that I need to work on - which I think requires a little more humility on my part. Most of the time, I remember to pray morning and night, and if a special occasion where I need a little extra help arises, but I often just go through my day doing my own thing, and don't always remember my Heavenly Father. I need to remember more often, that for all I have, and all that I am, I am indebted to my Him. As I remember to thank Him for all that is good, and ask for help in all that I do, I will become more reliant on Him to guide and direct me in my life. <br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;">If we can ALL try to be a little more prayerful in our live, and personally speak with our Father in Heaven, what a better and kinder place this world would be. </span></div>
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Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-88168952964163125152016-03-12T21:17:00.000-08:002016-03-12T21:17:10.405-08:00God doesn't want to wrestle with us!For I don't know how long, I had thought that the scripture in Enos (in the Book of Mormon) said that he wrestled WITH God.... It was brought to my attention this week that it was not the case.<br />
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Enos Chapter 1, verse 2, says "And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God, before I received a remission of my sins. <br />
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I suppose that at some point in my life it had been discussed before, in Seminary or Institute class, but for some reason this really just hit me this week.<br />
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Looking back, I was trying to think of when I had my own wrestle before God. When I graduated from High School, I was fortunate to receive a scholarship to attend the University of Wyoming - tuition paid for four years. My original plan had been to work to save money to attend Ricks College later, so I was grateful for the opportunity to go to UW. I didn't totally have a plan of what I wanted to do with my life, but went off to college. My major was undeclared for awhile, and then I finally decided to study Home Economics, because that related to things that I liked to do - my mother had taught me how to cook and to sew, and I had hoped that I would meet someone at college and get married and start a family. <br />
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I met a young man in choir that first year, he was not a member of the church, but we sort of dated for awhile. I brought him home with me on one of the school breaks, or for a weekend, and he sang in church with me. That weekend my father said to me that he thought I would serve a mission. I, of course, said , No Way! That is not something I was interested in, and I was a little irritated that he would mention it when my friend was there. That summer, I went to visit my friend for a week in his home town, and we had some good discussions (we were just friends at that point.) At some point during that week, I mentioned something about my belief that families could be together forever. I did not remember that being a significant moment, but later he told me that it was. My friend joined the church about 9 months later, with some other friends playing a role in his conversion also. <br />
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School continued, I studied, still trying to figure out what I wanted to do. Dietetics & Nutrition was a possible major, but there was too much science for my liking. I approached my 4 year of college, just a little behind schedule for graduation. I also had not met anyone to marry, so I was perhaps a little bewildered as to where my life was going. That comment that my dad had made a couple years earlier still was being tossed around my mind. I wanted to use the scholarship money that I had been blessed with, so I decided to bargain with the Lord. Big mistake on my part. I told Him that IF I did not meet anyone to marry during that fourth year... THEN I would go on a mission. So there.. I had told Him. Silly me.<br />
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That year I met a couple of returned sister missionaries at the Institute of Religion, where members of the church attending college gather. I became friends with them, and learned about their missions and the growth they had had as they served. So, those thoughts of a mission were often in my mind. But I didn't really want to serve.. I didn't think I would have the courage to open my mouth and share the Gospel! I thought I had done my part in bringing that one soul (my friend) into the Gospel (D & C 18:15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days... and bring but one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy.) I figured I had done my part.. but I still kept thinking about it.<br />
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I suppose that my Heavenly Father finally got tired of watching me wrestle with myself. One Sunday in the fall, October probably, I was sitting next to the Bishop's wife in church. I usually sat with my friends, but this particular Sunday I was not... so not checking out the cute guys or talking. It apparently was the perfect time to receive personal revelation. The impression came to me that I needed to serve a mission. I felt as if I had been bonked on the head... I KNEW that I had to go. It was an answer that I needed.. I don't remember how much I had prayed about it, but Heavenly Father probably knew I couldn't make that decision on my own. When I saw my friends after the meeting, they could see that I had been crying and asked what was the matter. I said I had to go on a mission. I wasn't sad about it, but relieved that I was done worrying or wrestling with the decision. Within a few weeks, I had everything ready, my papers submitted, and had my mission call by the end of November. I packed up my things at the end of the semester and went home to Arizona, then entered the MTC on February 1, 1989 , to serve in the England Leeds mission.<br />
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I hadn't really thought about my wrestle before the Lord until this time reading in Enos. I am sure that my wrestle was not as great as was Enos's, but it surely was a significant time in my life. I am grateful that I was open and receptive to that revelation that I received to serve a mission. I have talked about it in the past as being bonked on the head... but now I truly see what it was, personal revelation and an answer to my prayers.Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-19818919818107341212016-02-27T21:24:00.000-08:002016-02-27T21:24:11.071-08:00Staying in the Straight and Narrow Way.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Th</span>i<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s week in my Pathway class we studied the final 6 chapters of 2 Nephi. In chapter 31 we learn why Jesus Christ was baptized - to be an example, and to fulfill all righteousness, and that we also must be baptized ourselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In verse 9 of chapter 31, it says "And again it showeth unto the children of men the <i>straitness of the path and the narrowness of the gate</i>, by which they should enter, he having set the example before them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are then encouraged to repent, and be baptized, and do the things which Christ has done, keep the commandments and endure to the end. Then in verse 18, "And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life; yea, yea have entered in by the gate; ye have done according to the commandments of the Father and the Son; and ye have received the Holy Ghost."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I searched the question and found something from Biblehub.com, where it said that "narrow is the way" means "<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Literally, </span><span class="ital" style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #a44200; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">pressed</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">, or hemmed in between walls or rocks, like the pathway in a mountain gorge." I thought that was interesting - because that might suggest that it is easy to stay on that path, because the borders on each side would keep the traveller contained therein. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #001320;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In the same commentary, the difference between "straight" and "strait" is addressed. Straight is meaning "not crooked" and strait means </span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"pent up, narrow, difficult to be entered."</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> So the choice of using "strait and narrow path" makes sense. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Here is a quote from the Biblehub site "</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This is the word used here, and it means that the way to heaven is "pent up, narrow, close," and not obviously entered. The way to death is open, broad, and thronged. The Saviour here referred probably to ancient cities. They were surrounded with walls and entered through gates. Some of those, connected with the great avenues to the city, were broad and admitted a throng; others, for more private purposes, were narrow, and few would be seen entering them. So, says Christ, is the path to heaven. It is narrow. It is not "the great highway" that people tread. Few go there. Here and there one may be seen - traveling in solitude and singularity. The way to death, on the other hand, is broad. Multitudes are in it. It is the great highway in which people go. They fall into it easily and without effort, and go without thought. If they wish to leave that and go by a narrow gate to the city, it would require effort and thought. So, says Christ, "diligence" is needed to enter life.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> "</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I hadn't previously thought much about that symbolism. From another commentary on the page, "</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way,.... And so, difficult to enter in at; and when entered, the way is unpleasant to the flesh to walk in, being hedged up on each side with afflictions and tribulations". At first I was thinking about the walls being there helping to guide us, in regards to the first definition of "narrow", but this gives a different insight, that suggests it is difficult an unpleasant to walk that strait and narrow way. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Being a member of the church all my life, it has been an easy path for me. I have not struggled in my faith, and have not ever had the temptation to go astray, there has not been anything that has caught my eye that would tempt me to leave the path. I have felt the blessings of the gospel throughout my life and will continue to stay. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In verse 19 of 2 Nephi 31, we are asked if that now that we are in the strait and narrow path, is that all? </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; color: #001320; line-height: 20px;">"</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">faith</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;"> in him, </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">relying</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;"> wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">save</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">." I have felt this more in the last two years of my life. With Mark's illness and passing, I have come to more fully understand how we must rely on our Savior Jesus Christ. If not for the promise of the Atonement and eternal life, and the knowledge I will see my dear husband again, I don't know that I would have the desire to go on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); line-height: 25.2px;">Verse 20:" </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">Wherefore, ye must press forward with a </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">steadfastness </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">in Christ, having a perfect brightness of </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">hope</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">, and a </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">love </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">endure</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;"> to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">eternal life</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px;">." This is what I must do. I will not give up hope, I will live a righteuous life so that I may see him again. I am working on the "love of all men"... some days it is a challenge. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Every year my parents took me to visit Aunt Ruby and Uncle George, who lived on a farm. I enjoyed visiting them because there were so many things to see and do. I played in the barn, helped feed the animals, rode on the tractor, and explored their big red shed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">One time when I was nine years old, I was helping Uncle George feed the animals in the barn. “You sure are quiet this morning, Justin,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“I was thinking about what my Primary teacher said last week,” I told him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“What did she say?” Uncle George asked as he threw some hay to one of the cows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“She said making right choices will help me keep the promises I made to Heavenly Father when I was baptized. But it’s hard to <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">always</span>make the right choice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Uncle George nodded. “It <span class="emphasis" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span> hard to always make correct choices. But when we live the gospel standards and follow the ‘strait and narrow path’ like the scriptures tell us to, the Lord will help us.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I thought about the “strait and narrow path” for the rest of the morning. When we finished feeding the animals, Uncle George said, “Thanks for your help, Justin. What would you like to do now?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">“I’d like to go over to my friend Jeff’s, but Mom and Dad usually take me there.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Tilting his hat back on his head, Uncle George said, “They’ve gone into town with Ruby. I can’t take you either, because I have to fix the tractor.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">He put his arm around my shoulders and led me to a big dry ditch. “If you get in this ditch,” he said, “you can follow it all the way to Jeff’s house. Can you do that?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I told him I was sure I could. Before I left, he gave me two warnings. One, I was to stay in the ditch. If I got out, I could get hurt or lost. Two, I was to keep going, even if I got tired. Then he promised me that if I followed his instructions, I would have no trouble reaching my friend’s house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">At first I was nervous. The grass on both sides of the ditch was so tall I couldn’t see over it. But soon I began to see interesting things all around me, and I wasn’t afraid of being in the ditch. I found a small white snail shell and a lot of interesting plants. Then I found a pebble and put it in my pocket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">After a while, though, it wasn’t interesting anymore, and my legs were getting tired. My faith in Uncle George’s words began to waver. Maybe I had already passed Jeff’s house. Maybe I wasn’t even going in the right direction. My uncle’s warnings were still clear in my mind, but I carefully climbed to the top of the ditch so I could see over the tall grass and find out where I was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Happily, I saw that only a fence and a large pasture stood between me and Jeff’s house. All I had to do was walk through the pasture, and I would be there. With my goal in sight, I forgot my uncle’s warnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I slipped through a hole in the fence and started across the pasture. All I thought about was the fun Jeff and I were going to have. I paid no attention to what was going on around me until I heard a loud snort and the snapping of breaking sticks. I turned around and saw a large bull charging toward me from the edge of the pasture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Now I had a new goal—to reach the fence before the bull reached me. I knew the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, so I ran straight toward the hole in the fence I had climbed through earlier. I ran so fast I could hear the air whistling around my ears. All the time, I was silently praying that Heavenly Father would bless me to run faster than the bull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The fence was getting closer, but so was the bull. I was sure I felt his hot breath on my neck as I dived through the fence to safety. He snorted loudly as he pushed his nose through the hole and realized he couldn’t reach me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My life had been spared. Heavenly Father had answered my prayer. My heart was full of <a class="no-link-style" href="https://www.lds.org/topics/gratitude/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #147ea7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">gratitude</a> to Him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Now all I wanted to do was return to the “strait and narrow path” and follow my uncle’s instructions. I knew there were no bulls in the ditch. It was a safe place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I had learned that my Primary teacher and Uncle George were right. There is great safety in choosing the right and following the correct path. I realized Heavenly Father would always help me stay on the “strait and narrow path” if I would listen and obey.</span></div>
Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-84977659442738396882016-02-13T19:33:00.002-08:002016-02-13T19:33:46.457-08:00What Joy There Shall Be!One of the greatest blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the knowledge of the Resurrection. It is something that I have known from since I was a young girl, since I grew up as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Because of the fall of Adam and Eve, we are subject to physical death, which is the separation of the spirit from the body. I was taught from when I was young from the scriptures, that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all people will be resurrected and saved from physical death. In 1 Corinthians 15:22 it says,<br />
<span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span>
<span class="verse" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> "</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210001" node="210001" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">For </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210002" node="210002" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">as </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210003" node="210003" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210004" node="210004" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">Adam</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210005" node="210005" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5"> all </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210006" node="210006" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">die</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210007" node="210007" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210008" node="210008" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">even </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210009" node="210009" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">so </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210010" node="210010" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210011" node="210011" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">Christ</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210012" node="210012" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12"> shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210013" node="210013" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">all </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210014" node="210014" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210015" node="210015" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">made </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk210016" node="210016" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">alive</span><span class="chunk hl-id-24295623" id="chunk210017" node="210017" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">."</span><br />
<span class="chunk hl-id-24295623" node="210017" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="chunk hl-id-24295623" node="210017" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What a glorious doctrine that is! The end of this life is NOT really the end. Resurrection is the reuniting of the spirit with the body, in a perfected state, where we will not be subjected to illness or death. </span></span><br />
<span class="chunk hl-id-24295623" node="210017" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span class="chunk hl-id-24295623" node="210017" paranum="21" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In The Book of Mormon, in Alma chapter 11, verses 42-44, the Resurrection is described vividly: </span></span><br />
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<span class="chunk hl-id-19668026" id="chunk180000" node="180000" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="0">“The </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180001" node="180001" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">death </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180002" node="180002" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180003" node="180003" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">Christ </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180004" node="180004" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180005" node="180005" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">loose </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180006" node="180006" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180007" node="180007" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">bands </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180008" node="180008" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180009" node="180009" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">this </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180010" node="180010" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">temporal </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180011" node="180011" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">death, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180012" node="180012" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180013" node="180013" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">all </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180014" node="180014" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180015" node="180015" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180016" node="180016" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">raised </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180017" node="180017" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">from </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180018" node="180018" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">this </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180019" node="180019" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">temporal </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk180020" node="180020" paranum="18" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">death.</span></div>
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<span class="chunk" id="chunk190000" node="190000" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="0">“The </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190001" node="190001" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">spirit </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190002" node="190002" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190003" node="190003" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190004" node="190004" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">body </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190005" node="190005" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190006" node="190006" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190007" node="190007" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">reunited </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190008" node="190008" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">again </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190009" node="190009" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190010" node="190010" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">its</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190011" node="190011" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">perfect </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190012" node="190012" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">form; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190013" node="190013" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">both </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190014" node="190014" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">limb </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190015" node="190015" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190016" node="190016" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">joint </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190017" node="190017" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190018" node="190018" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190019" node="190019" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">restored </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190020" node="190020" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190021" node="190021" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">its </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190022" node="190022" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">proper </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190023" node="190023" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="23">frame, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190024" node="190024" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">even </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190025" node="190025" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">as </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190026" node="190026" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">we </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190027" node="190027" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">now </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190028" node="190028" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190029" node="190029" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">at </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190030" node="190030" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">this </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190031" node="190031" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">time; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk190032" node="190032" paranum="19" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">…</span></div>
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<span class="chunk" id="chunk200000" node="200000" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="0">“Now, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200001" node="200001" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">this </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200002" node="200002" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">restoration </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200003" node="200003" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200004" node="200004" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">come </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200005" node="200005" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200006" node="200006" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6">all, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200007" node="200007" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">both </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200008" node="200008" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">old </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200009" node="200009" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">and</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200010" node="200010" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">young, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200011" node="200011" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">both </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200012" node="200012" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">bond </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200013" node="200013" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200014" node="200014" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">free, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200015" node="200015" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">both </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200016" node="200016" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16">male </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200017" node="200017" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200018" node="200018" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">female, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200019" node="200019" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">both </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200020" node="200020" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200021" node="200021" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">wicked </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200022" node="200022" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200023" node="200023" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="23">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200024" node="200024" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">righteous; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200025" node="200025" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200026" node="200026" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">even </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200027" node="200027" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">there </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200028" node="200028" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200029" node="200029" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">not</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200030" node="200030" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">so </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200031" node="200031" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">much </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200032" node="200032" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">as </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200033" node="200033" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="33">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200034" node="200034" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="34">hair </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200035" node="200035" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="35">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200036" node="200036" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="36">their </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200037" node="200037" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="37">heads </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200038" node="200038" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="38">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200039" node="200039" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="39">lost; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200040" node="200040" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="40">but </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200041" node="200041" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="41">every </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200042" node="200042" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="42">thing </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200043" node="200043" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="43">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200044" node="200044" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="44">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200045" node="200045" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="45">restored </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200046" node="200046" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="46">to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200047" node="200047" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="47">its </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk200048" node="200048" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="48">perfect </span><span class="chunk hl-id-19668026" id="chunk200049" node="200049" paranum="20" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="49">frame”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some time ago, my husband and I were postulating about what we might all look like when we are restored to our "proper frame". Does that mean we are all going to be the same height and same weight and be PERFECT? Whatever perfect might be? We came up with the thought that when we pass on to the other side, we will not be subjected to the same worldly ideas and perspectives that exist here - that that person weighs too much, they are not attractive, they are too tall or too short. We decided that we will likely be much the same as we are now here on earth. Surely, of course, those with physical ailments or disabilities or shortcomings will be healed from those imperfections, but we will be able to see other's through our Heavenly Father's eyes. I also believe those who may have battled addictions that led to physical problems will also be restored to a more proper frame - i.e. food addictions that led to obesity. But perhaps for a majority of us, we will retain the proper frame/body that we have been blessed with here. </span></div>
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In considering the doctrine of the Resurrection, we may also remember how Great is our God. How blessed we are that He loves us so much, that we may be blessed with this great plan. In our studies this week for my Pathways religion class, is 2 Nephi 9:13 - "<span class="chunk hl-id-86067934" id="chunk120001" node="120001" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="1">O </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120002" node="120002" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="2">how </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120003" node="120003" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="3">great </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120004" node="120004" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="4">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120005" node="120005" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="5">plan</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120006" node="120006" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="6"> of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120007" node="120007" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="7">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120008" node="120008" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="8">God! </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120009" node="120009" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="9">For </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120010" node="120010" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="10">on </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120011" node="120011" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="11">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120012" node="120012" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="12">other</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120013" node="120013" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="13">hand, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120014" node="120014" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="14">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120015" node="120015" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="15">paradise</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120016" node="120016" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="16"> of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120017" node="120017" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="17">God </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120018" node="120018" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="18">must </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120019" node="120019" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="19">deliver </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120020" node="120020" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="20">up </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120021" node="120021" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="21">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120022" node="120022" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="22">spirits </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120023" node="120023" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="23">of</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120024" node="120024" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="24">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120025" node="120025" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="25">righteous, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120026" node="120026" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="26">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120027" node="120027" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="27">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120028" node="120028" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="28">grave </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120029" node="120029" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="29">deliver </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120030" node="120030" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="30">up </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120031" node="120031" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="31">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120032" node="120032" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="32">body </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120033" node="120033" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="33">of </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120034" node="120034" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="34">the</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120035" node="120035" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="35">righteous; </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120036" node="120036" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="36">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120037" node="120037" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="37">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120038" node="120038" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="38">spirit </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120039" node="120039" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="39">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120040" node="120040" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="40">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120041" node="120041" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="41">body </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120042" node="120042" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="42">is </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120043" node="120043" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="43">restored</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120044" node="120044" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="44"> to </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120045" node="120045" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="45">itself </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120046" node="120046" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="46">again, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120047" node="120047" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="47">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120048" node="120048" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="48">all </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120049" node="120049" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="49">men </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120050" node="120050" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="50">become </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120051" node="120051" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="51">incorruptible, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120052" node="120052" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="52">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120053" node="120053" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="53">immortal</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120054" node="120054" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="54">,</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120055" node="120055" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="55">and </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120056" node="120056" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="56">they </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120057" node="120057" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="57">are </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120058" node="120058" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="58">living </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120059" node="120059" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="59">souls, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120060" node="120060" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="60">having </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120061" node="120061" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="61">a </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120062" node="120062" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="62">perfect</span><span class="dontHighlight" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120063" node="120063" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="63">knowledge</span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120064" node="120064" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="64"> like </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120065" node="120065" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="65">unto </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120066" node="120066" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="66">us </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120067" node="120067" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="67">in </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120068" node="120068" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="68">the </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120069" node="120069" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="69">flesh, </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120070" node="120070" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="70">save </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120071" node="120071" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="71">it </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120072" node="120072" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="72">be </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120073" node="120073" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="73">that </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120074" node="120074" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="74">our </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120075" node="120075" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="75">knowledge </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120076" node="120076" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="76">shall </span><span class="chunk" id="chunk120077" node="120077" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" wrapper="77">be </span><span class="chunk hl-id-86067934" id="chunk120078" node="120078" paranum="12" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; 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What a glorious thing! I like that it says " our knowledge shall be perfect." We are sons and daughters of a Heavenly Father who loves us, and once we pass to the other side of the veil and are resurrected, we will have much of the same knowledge as He does, and can receive eternal life.</div>
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I am so thankful for this knowledge, that I will return to live with my Father in Heaven, be resurrected and see my loved ones once again. </div>
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After some time of travelling in the wilderness, they came to the land Bountiful, where they beheld a sea. (1 Nephi 17:5) . After they had been there for the space of many days, Nephi was commanded to build a ship, to carry the family across the waters to a new land (1 Nephi 17:8). His older brothers didn't think that he could do this, but Nephi went to the Lord and asked where he should go to find the materials to build the ship. With the help of his humbled brothers, he built it not after the manner of man, but after the manner that God commanded him (1 Nephi 18:2).<br />
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Once the ship was finished, the ship was load with provisions of fruits and meats from the wilderness, and an abundance of honey, along with seeds and other provisions that the Lord had commanded them to bring. The family set sail and were driven forth with the wind towards the Promised Land (1 Nephi 18:8). <br />
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After several days at sea, Nephi's older brothers, and other men and their wives on the ship began to make merry, dancing and singing, and speaking with much rudeness. They forgot by what power, the Lord's, that they had been brought forth out of the land. Nephi was afraid that God would be unhappy with them, and he began to speak soberly to them, perhaps to chastise them. They were not so thrilled that their younger brother was being a ruler over them. Laman and Lemuel took cords and bound Nephi so that he could not move. <br />
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The family had been guided throughout their journey by the Liahona, a ball of curious workmanship, a compass of sorts which only worked when they were righteous. Once Nephi was bound, the Liahona ceased to direct them which way to point the ship (1 Nephi 18:12). A storm also arose, and the ship was tossed by the waves and they were driven back for three days. The older brothers began to fear they would be drowned in the sea, but still they did not loose the bands restraining Nephi.<br />
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After four days, the tempest grew exceedingly strong, and the ship was about to be swallowed up by the sea. Nephi's brethren finally realized that they must humble themselves and repent of their wickedness so that they would not perish (1 Nephi 18:15). They finally released Nephi from the bands on his hands and his feet. Nephi's hands and feet were swollen and exceedingly sore. <br />
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1 Nephi 18:16 says "Nevertheless, I (Nephi) did look unto my God and I did praise him all the day long; and I did not murmur against the Lord because of mine afflictions.<br />
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I try to imagine what Nephi may have felt during those 3-4 days of being tied up by his brethren. Because he was a humble and obedient man, I doubt that he was continually berating his brethren, or telling them how dumb they were and how great he himself was. He didn't tell them that they had better let him go, or "I hope you learn your lesson. " I doubt also that he continually complained in prayer to God... wondering why he had to endure this trial at the hands of his brethren.. "Why me?" perhaps never crossed his mind. Nephi had seen visions of the future, as had his father, and he had faith in the Lord that he would be delivered. <br />
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What can we learn from Nephi about enduring trials? When this trial was over he still praised God. Because Nephi had been taught of goodly parents (1 Nephi 1:1) he had seen visions and had a great knowledge of the Lord and His goodness. He had been blessed throughout his life and knew that God was aware of him. Therefore when those trials came, he endured them with patience.<br />
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Several years ago, I suffered from a condition called Trigeminal Neuralgia. It is a condition that causes sharp electrial pains in my face that were almost debilitating. I could not take over the counter medications to relieve the pain, since it was nerve based, but eventually I received prescriptions that somewhat helped. The pain would often interrupt my speaking, and eating, as I cringed and rubbed my face to try and relieve the pain. I couldn't drink from a straw, and it was often hard to even kiss my husband, because my face was very sensitive to touch. I tried not to complain, and perhaps that saved my children from knowing how badly it really hurt. My husband, of course, was aware of my struggles. It also did not help me feel better if I complained, nor did it make any of the pain go away. I assumed that there must be something that I needed to learn from that trial, but that lesson came years later.<br />
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After a few years of inconsistent periods of flare ups, I was able to receive a life altering procedure, called Gamma Knife surgery. This deadened the nerve that was causing the pain... it was amazing, and made life so much easier.<br />
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I firmly believe that I was given that trial to endure so that later, when Mark was enduring the pain and suffering of his cancer and it's treatments, I was much better able to have compassion for him. I think I was a better caregiver because I understood what it was like to be in pain. When he had times that he was grumpy and irritated because of what he was enduring, I did not take it personally and get grumpy back. I'll also say that he pretty much kept his complaining between the two of us, and kept a face of faith to those around us. He received many Priesthood blessings to help give him courage and strength to endure. Although Mark's deliverance from the trial he endured was death, he was an example to me of humility through an awful trial. Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-10431613871762026662016-01-16T16:26:00.000-08:002016-01-16T16:26:34.228-08:00Back to school again...Here I am resurrecting my blog for the purposes of completing an assignment.<br />
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Last summer, in June maybe it was, I received a new church calling. I am a counselor in the Relief Society Presidency in the Kimball Stake in Mesa Arizona. Metzie Phelps is our President, an amazing lady I am happy to socialize with. Lottie Montgomery is the 1st counselor, and I am the 2nd, and Maelynn Warren was the secretary... she has since moved from the stake and we'll be getting a new counselor this weekend. <br />
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In the fall, we attended the ward conferences in our Stake - and as part of the 3rd hour meeting, the RS Presidency was asked to share some time with the Pathway missionaries in the area, as they made a presentation to each ward. So, I heard the Pathway message 7-8 times in a few weeks. The Pathway program is run through BYU-I online, and is a way for individuals in the LDS church to attend college and finish their degree at a greatly reduced cost. Pathway students attend a gathering each week, and work online to complete a religion class and another class ( general studies, English, Math) for 3 semesters and then they may matriculate on to BYU-I online. As I heard this message again and again, I started getting that nagging that it was time for me to complete my schooling.<br />
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A little background, I attended the University of Wyoming starting in 1985, after I graduated. I had a scholarship that paid for my tuition, and so that determined I would go there. (there's a little irony in that I had initially thought I would attend Rick's College in Rexburg, which eventually became BYU-I. ) After 3 years of UW, I began the next fall semester, and was a little frustrated - hadn't found that special guy, and was struggling a little in my major. My dad had once told me that he thought I would go on a mission, and I resisted that idea. At the beginning of the semester, I prayed and told Heavenly Father, that if I didn't meet someone by the end of that year, THEN I would consider going on a mission. Well, of course, He had different plans. Sometime in September, or October, I was sitting next to Sister Hurst, the bishop's wife, during sacrament meeting. I was not sitting by my friends, so perhaps I was more open to the Spirit. During that meeting, I got the distinct impression that I needed to go on a mission. I didn't really WANT to go, but after that, I knew that the Lord wanted me to go, and so I did. I had my mission call by Thanksgiving, and on February 1, 1989, I entered the MTC to head to the England Leeds mission. Not a bad way to derail the finishing of college. <br />
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When I returned home, it was to Mesa Arizona. My family had moved there from Wyoming in May of 1987. So, it was far from Wyoming, and I had no money to return to college. I began working at waitressing again, and found a position with a bank soon after that. I met my sweetheart Mark Brown in the fall of 1991 in a singles choir, and we married in August 1992. I worked full time in the banking industry for many years, as Mark finished his schooling and he became an accountant. Our beautiful children were born along the way, Brennan in 1994, Jessica in 1997, and Mallory in 2001. I loved taking care of my husband and children, and working, though occasionally the thought would come of someday finishing my degrees. I was established in my profession, and was making good money, so it wasn't terribly important at the time.<br />
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Fast forward a few years, and a wrench was thrown into my plan of my happy family life. My dear Mark was diagnosed with a Ewing's Sarcoma tumor in his calf, in May of 2012. After two and a half years of battling that awful cancer, he died in October of 2014. I was fortunate to have been working part time during those few years, as he was working at Banner in Healthcare Finance to support our family, and therefore able to spend a good amount of time taking care of him and our family. I was also fortunate upon his passing to have the means to pay off our mortgage, and therefore our monthly budget wasn't as strained with only my salary. I was approached by my employer, a non profit tuition organization, to work full time, and receive insurance benefits, which I accepted and am grateful for.<br />
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So, now, as I have sent my Jessica off to college at Utah State University in Logan, Brennan has returned from his mission in Sweden and started classes at Arizona State University, and Mallory is a freshman at Mesa High School, I found myself ready to continue my education again. I am certain that the time was not right when my children were younger to complete my degree - it would have taken me away from spending time with them, and also the time I had to be with my sweetheart. I do believe that the Lord had a hand in that. <br />
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So...as I have begun this classwork through Pathway, one of the assignments is to Put it All Together, and I am going to do my best at that. (hence the resurrection of the blog...)<br />
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The lesson assignment for the Religion class, The Book of Mormon, was 1 Nephi 1-5. Now, I probably couldn't count how many times I have read those first five books of The Book of Mormon. Probably more times than I've read the END of the Book of Mormon. <br />
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The Book of Mormon contains accounts of many people who lived in ancient times, beginning with Lehi and his family. They left Jerusalem after the Lord warned them to leave, after Lehi prophesied to the people concerning their iniquity, and they sought to take his life. Lehi had four sons, two of whom were murmurers, not so happy with what their father was requesting them to do, and two of whom were more righteous, and willing to follow their father, and they knew he was following the Lord.<br />
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So, Lehi, took his family and departed into the wilderness, by the Red Sea. They left behind their home and property, and many belongings. The older sons, Laman and Lemuel, were not so keen at having to have left all their things, and called their father a visionary man. 1 Nephi 2:12 says they "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">did murmur against their </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">father</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">. And they did </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">murmur </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">because they </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">knew not</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;"> the dealings of that God who had </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">created</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;"> them."</span> On the flip side of that coin, Nephi was more in tune with the Spirit of the Lord. Verse 12 in the same chapter - "<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">I, Nephi, being exceedingly young, nevertheless being large in stature, and also having great desires to know of the </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;">mysteries</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #333333; font-family: Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', Pahoran, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 25.2px;"> of God, wherefore, I did cry unto the Lord</span>" - he was more open to the teaching of his father, because he had faith.<br />
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As we discussed these few chapters in our class gathering this week, we talked about the difference between these brothers. We decided that it came down to Pride... Laman & Lemuel were very prideful. Perhaps being the older brothers increased their pride, and they apparently enjoyed the wealth that their family had accumulated. So, it was quite a blow to them when they had to leave it all behind. (They were later sent back to aquire some of those belongings, but it wasn't the easiest task to complete. ) On the other hand, Nephi and his brother Sam were much more humble. They were not ruled by pride. They had faith and believed in the words that their father had prophesied, and knew that he would do the best for their family.<br />
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I am looking forward to a more in-depth study of the Book of Mormon. It has been a few years since I have studied it individually, or with my family. As our children grew and more involvement in school and work came about, we weren't as diligent with family study time. I am thankful for the opportunity to learn, to teach and to share the things that I am learning with my family and others.<br />
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AmyMom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-57379209714204717652012-12-30T14:19:00.001-08:002012-12-30T14:19:24.445-08:00Whoops... it's been awhile..I can't believe it has been SOOO long since I updated my blog... well, I CAN believe it... I've been too busy on Facebook, and I don't consider myself much of a blogger. I must say that I HAVE written in my journal several times in the last while, so I'm not a TOTAL slacker at writing...<br />
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If I were to sum up the year 2012...<br />
In January, Mark started a new job at Banner Health Corporation. After he left his job at Bridgeway, he always had contract work, and we had no financial impact. There were three jobs to choose from, and the Banner job turned out to be the biggest blessing. We prayed intently to choose the job that would be best for our family.<br />
In February, I turned 45... not such a bad year... I still feel young. We passed the 6 year mark of my mother's passing. I still miss her.<br />
In March, the kids & I went camping at Workman's Creek during Spring Break with our neighbors, the Haws family. It was pretty cold at night, but we had a great time, doing a little hiking, some game playing, some movie watching, bread baking, and target (balloon) shooting. Mark didn't get time off work since he just started his job. I also ran my first official 10k race at the Phoenix Marathon event. I actually came in 3rd place in my "Athena " category (over 150 lbs) and was 7th in my age category.<br />
In April, I travelled to California with a bunch of ladies I did not know, save one, and ran in the Ragnar SoCal relay- it was one of the hardest things I have ever done, but it was lots of fun, too! I got to know some new ladies/friends, and pushed myself thru a 10 mile leg in 90 degree heat that I thought was going to kill me. While I was travelling back home from CA, I got a call from Mark that began a new chapter in our lives...<br />
In May, Mark was diagnosed with a Ewing Sarcoma (cancer) tumor in his leg, with some lesions also visible in his lungs. He had a port installed and began a Chemotherapy regimen of 17 cycles, in which has infusion every 3 weeks. The hope is that the tumor will be shrunken enough to operate & remove it, but there is still the likelihood that he may lose part of his leg. We are, however, looking on the bright side of things and striving to live with faith, not fear. We had a good family picture taken on Memorial Day prior to Chemotherapy starting which would cause Mark to lose his hair.<br />
In June... Jessica went to Girl's camp and Especially for Youth in Flagstaff- Mallory went swimming alot, and Mark began chemo at Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center. It is the best place.. it is only 3 miles from our home, and the benefits thru Mark's employer are very good. Brennan went on a scuba diving trip to California that he had prepared for with his Priest's Quorum.<br />
In July, we were sad to have to stay home from the Golding/McCabe/Sullivan reunion that was held at Flaming Gorge in Utah. We'd been looking forward to it, but with the new job and chemo starting, we just could not get away. Later in the month, Mark somehow got Cellulitis in his leg, which forced a 5 day hospital stay for IV antibiotics, and two weeks of home health care IV antibiotics.<br />
In August - school started again, we have Senior- Brennan, a Sophomore - Jessica, and a Sixth Grader - Mallory! Brennan & Jessica leave for have an A Hour class which starts around 6:45, so they leave around 6:20 for school. They have been driving my car, since I've been driving Mark to work. <br />
In September..... can't find that much that happened in September - nothing stands out.. school and work and chemo.. that's about it!<br />
In October - Since we were not able to go to the family reunion in July, or take any other vacations, I was looking to get out of town. I was able to secure two sets of two tickets for General Conference in Salt Lake City. So Mallory & Jessica & I left Friday afternoon, Oct 5th and headed for Utah. We stayed the night in St George with the Clements, then made it to SLC for Sat afternoon session - Mallory & I attended. Then we had a quick visit with niece/cousin Annika's family, then to Cache Valley. Mallory stayed overnight with Lexi Hall in Wellsville, and Jessica & I went back to SLC in the morning for Conference. Back to Hyrum to spend the night. Drove up to the Cabin to see Josh, Alyssa & Wesley on Monday and play games. Tuesday we headed south, visited with Marcy's family in Bluffdale, saw Grma & Grpa Brown there. Weds morning we stopped to see Josh & Melissa Gustafson & Trevor & Shelly Brown & all their children - great to see them & meet their kids! On the way home to AZ, we stopped in Cedar City to see Jenai Christensen Axelson, a mission friend who had terminal breast cancer - so glad to see her as she passed away not long after that. It was a quick trip, but was glad to get out of town, Brennan tried to take good care of Mark & help him out while I was away.<br />
In November - Ragnar Las Vegas was my main event - about 4 weeks prior I was approached by Jon Jamieson who needed runners for his team! I was crazy enough to say yes, so the 8th-11th was taken up by travel time and relay running! Had a great time- more new friends! It was COLD and WINDY in Vegas, but having a place to sleep & shower made a difference - (didn't have that in So Cal). My first leg I was running into 35mph wind just about the whole 5+miles - it seemed like it was uphill, but it was not. Enjoyed meeting new friends on this co-ed team! Just prior to me leaving - my dad came for a visit - he needed a getaway, and I hadn't seen him since February - it was nice to have him her for a week. <br />
In December - it seems that I always wait til the last minute to get ready for Christmas.. We got the tree up, but it took several days before it got decorated. My job gets pretty busy this time of year, so I get a little occupied with that. Mark's had a cough, we've been trying to keep him from getting sick- last week of the month he found out that he's anemic & his blood counts are really low, which means his immune system is compromised. He's stayed home from work & church, hoping to avoid sick people and infections that could be really bad for him. Christmas was not the best ever, we had some struggles, but we were together. I had my family come for waffles on Christmas morning - so my siblings families came - fed everyone - then when they all left, The Brown family went to see The Hobbit together - it's been awhile since ALL FIVE of us went to the movies together. As our children are getting older they are doing more on their own, so I was glad to do this activity together. I am thankful for my sweet family, as trying as it may be sometimes. I am grateful to be a mother - and a caregiver at this time to my husband. We strive to have faith that this challenge will be to our benefit - that we will learn from it and that all will be well in the end.<br />
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I don't know if anyone ever reads my blog anymore... let me know if you do happen to stop by! <br />
Happy New Year to all! With love, from the Brown Family!<br />
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<br />Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-13007181452732339922012-02-09T13:58:00.000-08:002012-02-09T14:01:10.013-08:00My Oh My!!It's been more than a year since I have blogged... I knew it had been awhile, but wasn't aware really how long it HAD been. I've gotten too involved in Facebook, so have not blogged.. It's easier to post pictures there, so that's what I've been doing..<div><br /></div><div>Perhaps I need to try to get back here more often.</div><div>I don't fancy myself a writer, so that may contribute to the</div><div>fact that I don't blog much... </div><div><br /></div><div>One of my cousin's kids, a cousin as well, asked if any of us</div><div>had blogs... so she inspired me to look... here it is! She may not</div><div>learn much about my current life, but there may be a few things </div><div>from the past few years that she might find... </div>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-41839082642557015442011-01-16T14:27:00.001-08:002011-01-16T14:45:43.493-08:00It's just a bucket...When my mother passed away, my dad was able to sell their house, and nearly all of their belongings were packed up in a big crate, and stored away. The Lakeshore Ward Relief Society ladies came and helped pack things up, after we'd taken some of the things we wanted or that couldn't be packed. One of the things that came to my house was Mom's flour bucket. It was a clear, restaurant quality, 16 quart bucket with a tight lid - she may have had one for sugar too, but I don't know what happened to that one. It had been stored in her hall closet, so whenever she baked, which was often, out came the bucket. I'm sure a time or two she sent a grandchild to the hall closet, around the corner from the kitchen, to fetch flour for a recipe.<br /><br />One habit, or practice, of my mother's that I have tried to carry on, is bread baking. She used her Grandma Bloomer's recipe - but adapted it to use powdered milk, from food storage. This is the same recipe that I use today. <br /><br />Grandma Bloomer - is my Great Grandma Bloomer. My grandfather's father, Frank Arthur Mauzy White, was killed in the War (in 1918, I think..) , shortly before my grandfather, Frank Arthur White, was born. His mother was left with him as a baby, and eventually she married George Bloomer, who raised my grandfather as his own. So, my mom had her Bloomer grandparents, and she got the bread recipe from Grandma Bloomer - I am also glad that I have this recipe written in my mother's handwriting...<br /><br />Anyway.. back to the bucket... I have kept it on my shelf, full of flour, or empty of flour if I've baked alot. The other week I found myself with an empty bucket, needing to go to the store for more, when I figured I should wash it out. It was getting a little grubby on the outside... after, yes, nearly 5 years of not being washed. I don't recall ever washing it since it has been here, I'm sad to say ( but flour doesn't leave stuff that dirty...you know? ) So it made me think that there were possibly some of my mom's fingerprints that I was washing from the outside of the bucket...and it got me thinking about her. I'm grateful for the little remembrances I have of her around my house, there are plenty... I'm thankful for the skills she taught me, and the recipes she left - I made her rice pudding recipe this afternoon. I hope that I am teaching my children good practices, and habits, and skills... sometimes it feels like I'm banging my head against the wall... but I know that she is cheering me on... but I still miss her.Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-61873721713875762522011-01-01T17:15:00.001-08:002011-01-01T17:22:30.082-08:00Happy 2011!!I have neglected my blog for far too long... thanks to that fun spot called Facebook! I don't know if anyone still checks my blog anymore, but I am going to make a concerted effort to post more often! Wish me luck!!<br /><br />For New Year's Eve, Mark & I took our girls, and cousin Aspen to the Family Dance at the Kimball Stake Center - 7-9 pm - Yahoo! There was to be a 5 stake Youth Dance afterwards, so decorations did double duty! We had fun doing all kinds of dances - the Chicken Dance, the Electric Slide, and we even tried to pull off Thriller! I learned some of the moves going to an exercise class at the church this fall, and a couple of the gals were there - Holly Ashby, who taught it to us, was not, be we tried to do what we could remember! <br />We came home and watched the movie Salt, with Angelina Jolie, in a spy thriller - I must have enjoyed it because it kept me awake! Normally, if we start a movie after 9 pm, I usually miss quite alot of it.<br /><br />Mark & the girls went outside to ring in the new year by banging pots and pans, and seeing who in the neighborhood set off fireworks! Mark saw some floating lanterns set aloft - said it was cool! I was a chicken.. I stayed inside... it's been too cold for me. We've had some freezing temps here in AZ, which are not very often. <br /><br />Brennan spent the evening, well, the night, at his friend Tanner's. He said they just listened to music and "hung out" . We tried to encourage him to go to the Youth Dance , but he and friends were not interested...<br /><br />So.. there is my first post for 2011 ! Happy New Year, Friends!Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-38387487467355067612010-06-23T11:40:00.000-07:002010-06-23T11:51:21.010-07:00I'm going back in time!This year marks the 25th year since I graduated from good ole' Evanston High School in Evanston Wyoming! 2 years after graduating, and 2 years of University of Wyoming, my family packed up and headed for Arizona... looking for work. And now... it's home.<br /><br />Anyway... I have NEVER been to a high school class reunion, because it is so far to go. However, we have been in Utah visiting in-laws during the reunion times, which is always 4th of July weekend... but I've never had the desire to go. I've kept in touch with my close friends from high school anyway.<br /><br />With the advent of Facebook, I have also recently gotten in touch with many of my friends from Junior High School - from Vernal Utah. It has been great seeing where they have gone on their paths in life. When I graduated from EHS, the next day I drove to Vernal to see my friends graduate from Uintah High School . I'd wanted to go there SOOO badly. My friends Carol Jo and Paulene were older than me, so they'd gone, and told me about all the fun they had their. I'm certain I was fairly devastated when we moved after 9th grade to Evanston, and I didn't get to go to UHS. <br /><br />I had lived in Vernal from 2nd grade thru 9th, so I knew alot of people and had many friends. It has been fun getting into contact with them on Facebook. I stopped to see Kim Wall and Cory Hacking in Utah last summer and really enjoyed that. So, I've become an honorary member of the UHS class of 85, and now??? I'm going to attend THAT class reunion instead of my own. I am really looking forward to it. One of my Jr High choir buddies Dana Day Romeny lives in Tucson, and we are going to drive up together the end of July!. One of the reunion activities is going down the Green River from Flaming Gorge - something I used to do with my family. I'm really looking forward to it!! I'm hoping that many of my friends from 9th grade choir will be there also...<br /><br />YahoO!!! I'm excited!Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-65713982317561490992010-06-09T14:28:00.001-07:002010-06-09T14:31:35.878-07:00Lame... I knowI have been a terribly lame blogger lately.<br /><br />Things have changed, I am no longer employed.. so one would think that I would have time to blog. I spend far too much time on Facebook. I don't know if anyone still checks on me over here.<br /><br />I knew back in December or so that my job would be ending - due to work demands my position was to become full time, which I did not want to do. It originally was going to end in January... but it took a bit of time to find my replacement, and then I was kept on until the end of May, preparing things for a move of the department to a new location. It worked out nicely, I took the last two working days of May off, went to Colorado with my family for a family reunion, and school is out so I am here with the kids!<br /><br />They are busy with Volleyball camps, and swimming, I'll have to write more later.<br />I really need to get busy planning for my Cub Scout den meeting tomorrow! Ack!Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-17467339195962051472010-03-08T18:07:00.001-08:002010-03-08T18:16:36.285-08:00Yum, yum, Yum!<div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center">I am so not a food blogger, but LOOK!!!</div><br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446450103343949634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi257GYW9BcYwjhNnTqEwcERslvEFwhdq0clRmqLABalJyqVUoVZNI22CuyaqOaqT5dyENX5KPBm9hljdoUQ_1GV7uzGN6x7LtDVyZSq5AdDggYYSRbNplTJwTlMhyTkSOU4EvI/s400/Feb+March+2010+079.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div align="center">Mark is usually the one who peruses <a href="http://foodgawker.com/">Foodgawker.com</a> looking for </div><div align="center">yummy things to eat. He happened to leave it open the other day,</div><div align="center">and I saw <a href="http://pixie-baker.blogspot.com/2010/03/gingersnaps-with-lemon-ginger-cream.html">this </a>Recipe for Gingersnaps with Lemon-Ginger Cream Filling.</div><div align="center">My most favorite cookie is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Carrs-Ginger-Lemon-Creme-7-05-Ounce/dp/B000AYDHTM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=grocery&qid=1268100838&sr=8-2">Carr's Ginger Lemon Cremes</a>...</div><div align="center">SO, what could be better than HOMEMADE! I made them this afternoon</div><div align="center">and they are Delish! However, only getting 20 cookies out of all that work, hmmm..</div><div align="center">gotta enjoy them. Maybe next time I'll make them a little smaller to get more! </div><div align="center">These'll be in the fridge, due to the Cream Cheese... now I have to decide who I'm going to </div><div align="center">share them with... Who's been good lately?? </div>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-8469063482446357252010-02-17T15:01:00.000-08:002010-02-17T15:12:26.263-08:00Two down, one to go...Mom's birthday, and today is mine, one more birthday girl for this month.<br /><br />Mark and the girls put together Lemon Bread pullaparts last night, we baked them this morning. It was kind of funny, though frustrating... the house was filled with smoke, as the angel food cake pans used to bake the bread tend to leak sugary juices in the oven. Three pans made, one bundt and two angel food (removable insert) pans, one for my work, one for Mark's work, and one for home... and then I didn't get the oven cleaner turned on this afternoon. Will have to plan to do it when we'll be away, because it basically burns it all away.... yep, stinky...<br /><br />I took it in to work, though my coworkers didn't seem too excited. It was really yummy to me however, so it doesn't really matter!! Thanks family!<br /><br />Mark & the kids also got me a sport cover for my new HD Zune - so I can clip it my belt, or it has an armband as well. It will make it easier for me to take on walks or rides, so that I don't have to just put it in my pocket. Yeay! At least it is getting warmer, so I can ride more... just have to get the motivation going again.<br /><br />I love all the Facebook birthday wishes! I really enjoy being in touch with so many people from all stages of my life! Probably my oldest friend (longest, not age oldest) is my 2nd grade teacher Kris! I've mentioned her here before. We moved to Vernal Utah from Magna, where I knew her. Then I've had wishes from friends in Vernal, then Evanston - high school friends, then Laramie college friends. Mission friends from England = got called a bonnie lass by Steve Cain from Jarrow . Lol ! Of course friends from Arizona, Oregon, and also several of my online friends from RTVW *waves* most of whom I've never met or spoken to! They are mostly the reason I have a blog! <br /><br />I feel very blessed today - thankful for my life - it's not the best ever, but I'm trying to make the most of what I have. <br /><br />I asked Mallory yesterday - "Do you know how much I love you?" She said... "more than anyone else..." which is so true. I'm glad she knew that. Sometimes, oftentimes, my kids are grumpy and don't get along, don't always speak politely... but I'm glad above all, that she knew that.Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-85901115096237355312010-02-09T17:42:00.001-08:002010-02-11T20:11:55.280-08:00Remembering MomSunday the 7th was my mother's birthday.... she would have been 67 years old. Of course, it is nearly 4 years since she passed away.<br /><br /><br /><br />On Monday night, we got all the family in town together at Nathan's house to celebrate her birthday. I made a Pineapple Cheesecake that she used to make - I rarely make it because my family doesn't care for it, but I always liked it. I do know that it is a recipe that her mom used to make as well. I couldn't find the original recipe in my recipe books or box, but I found a similar one online that worked out pretty well.<br /><br /><br /><br />Pineapple No Bake cheese cake<br /><br /><br />1 lg. lemon Jello<br />1 c. boiling <a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/water">water</a><br />8 ounce. <a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/cream-cheese">cream cheese</a><br />1 lg. can crushed pineapple, liquid removed<br />1 can Pet lowfat <a href="http://cookeatshare.com/ingredients/milk">milk</a>, chilled (<span style="color:#cc0000;">I added Whipped Topping instead) </span><br />Graham cracker crust<br />1/2 c. sugar<br />Directions<br />Mix <a style="COLOR: #0039b3" class="tokosmix" title="Jell-O" href="http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Jell-O?as=clink&ac=1131" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" old_onclick="null" kmap_score="1.45397447049618e-02">Jello</a> and boiling water till dissolved. Chill. Then beat.<br />Beat cream cheese and sugar till creamy. Add in beaten Jello to cream cheese. Beat Pet <a style="COLOR: #0039b3" class="tokosmix" title="Milk (Varieties and brands)" href="http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Milk%20(Varieties%20and%20brands)?as=clink&ac=1131" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" old_onclick="null" kmap_score="0.282246679067612">lowfat milk</a> to thick, mix in cream cheese. Add in liquid removed pineapple. Put <a style="COLOR: #0039b3" class="tokosmix" title="Graham cracker" href="http://www.kosmix.com/topic/Graham%20cracker?as=clink&ac=1131" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" old_onclick="null" kmap_score="0.036991823464632">graham cracker</a> crust in 9"x13" pan. Pour mix in chill.<br /><br />It really needs probably overnight to set up well enough - I didn't give it quite long enough so it was a bit soupy.<br /><br /><br /><br />I asked my children to write any memories that they had of her, to share that night.<br /><br /><br /><br />Mallory's is as follows.. (with her spelling)<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Grandma Nancy</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">What I loved about Grandma was she would always read to me Pickles to Pitsburgh. I also loved when she gave us orange creamcicles. </span><span style="color:#000099;">I remember sitting on the swing when we got out of the pool. And I remember sometimes going to there house and getting babysat. I do love being with her because she was always kind and loving to everyone. I loved her very much. She was pretty fun to be with. I remember going into a room holding her hand while she was gone. (<span style="font-size:85%;">when she passed away) </span><span style="font-size:100%;">. Those are things I remeber. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Pretty good spelling for a nearly nine year old. Mallory is a great reader - she tries to hurry a little too fast sometimes. </span><br /><br /><br /><br />Jessica wrote a poem - lets see if I can find it.<br /><br />Well.. havent' managed to get it from her, but wanted to get this posted anyway....Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-84936574575813281812010-01-22T20:33:00.000-08:002010-01-22T20:57:52.289-08:00Mashed Potato CakeOkay , yes I have been a LAME blogger lately.. I really don't consider myself a writer.<br /><br />On Facebook, friends have said I should blog my recipes, since I'm always cooking..<br />I'm by no means a professional, but figured I could share some of the things I make.<br /><br />Mashed Potato Cake is a recipe from my mom... I'm not sure if she got it from her mother or not.. When I mention it, I get funny looks from people, but really.. it's just a starch, like flour, I suppose. It's a great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes, even if you put salt and pepper in them.. makes no diff, but not if they are garlic... (obviously...)<br />It is a cake that needs no frosting, but is more like a snack cake. <br />Cocoa, raisins (optional, but we like them) and cinnamon, nutmeg & allspice make it almost a spice cake, I suppose.. so.. here goes<br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Mashed Potato Cake</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Preheat oven to 350 degrees</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Grease and Flour a 9x9 pan</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 cup shortening</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1 cup sugar</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">2 eggs</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1 cup mashed potatoes</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 soured milk or buttermilk</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 cup raisins</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1 1/2 tsp vanilla</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1 cup flour</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">6 Tbsp cocoa</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1 tsp baking soda</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 tsp ground nutmeg</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 tsp cinnamon</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">1/2 tsp allspice</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Mix together sugar, shortening, eggs & mashed potatoes. </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Mix dry ingredients together and then add alternately with </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">milk and vanilla to sugar mixture. Then stir in raisins.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Bake in a greased and floured 9 inch square cake pan</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">at 350 Degrees for 20-25 minutes.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">Do not frost it... we never have.. it is yummy best just out of the </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">oven with a glass of ice cold milk! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">I hope someone is daring enough to try it.. let me </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#663333;">know if you like it! </span></div>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-6419971243999082332009-12-07T21:59:00.001-08:002009-12-07T22:06:53.995-08:00Alternate Stockings!<div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc0000;">Many years ago, I saw this cute little craft</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">and always wanted to do it. I've carried the </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">pattern around for at least 15 years, and finally</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">got around to making some for my family!</span></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMcDNPQukYeDKsS3eJHezP5VBfUyq8p8QuNLQrft67vZ1gyD2x5qG0lmwMqdVrSoi5dLrW4X1b6_caf3gXM0vbjN9xG3JMxBSbMoWqIOD1ZbRpGJTxx_wJDzhVefwKal8AIMU/s1600-h/004.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412741879866818674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 217px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMcDNPQukYeDKsS3eJHezP5VBfUyq8p8QuNLQrft67vZ1gyD2x5qG0lmwMqdVrSoi5dLrW4X1b6_caf3gXM0vbjN9xG3JMxBSbMoWqIOD1ZbRpGJTxx_wJDzhVefwKal8AIMU/s320/004.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">The tag says, Dear..... We searched for another stocking</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">but couldn't find a spare, so we stuffed this long underwear! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">Merry Christmas! </span></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYLOipopGRpOcqOHitoy0Zn1dT6129FqUgmipV8UNrHTBuRLnJSJMUwiq6gEukb2Ml928gvoPPJLl8mUr1fZflTW83vKtos8hgdGyLvR13QmK4Aw6uJs__V5gTTVe-yW6Oo9P/s1600-h/003.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412741750368696082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 282px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYLOipopGRpOcqOHitoy0Zn1dT6129FqUgmipV8UNrHTBuRLnJSJMUwiq6gEukb2Ml928gvoPPJLl8mUr1fZflTW83vKtos8hgdGyLvR13QmK4Aw6uJs__V5gTTVe-yW6Oo9P/s320/003.JPG" border="0" /></a> <span style="color:#cc0000;">It is two pieces of felt, hot glued together, </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">with the "seat" drawn on and buttons, pom poms </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">and the ribbon tie glued on! </span></div><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">It's been too long since I blogged! Hope you like my treat! </span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#cc0000;">And if I don't get back here soon... Merry Christmas! </span></p><div align="center"><br /><br /></div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAYjlWXStD1ZjDqGn9mMUFqjnT06P2qJLQvRqyLUtd_u-9WGr5RYHAw83z1HjyER8FoN-_4tcklMSUFbj8-IOjR3AZ-CO6nkz9KLMKdX98QzZmggdYNWCAP2xhH6IuoeladAB/s1600-h/004.JPG"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-2402339670453690422009-11-11T15:39:00.000-08:002009-11-11T15:40:25.131-08:00The Meanest Mom<a href="http://themeanestmom.blogspot.com/2009/11/thief-in-night.html">This</a> has got to be one of my favorite posts... The Meanest Mom is a great blogger!Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-19416275350629975492009-10-23T19:47:00.000-07:002009-10-24T09:50:39.161-07:00Soft Pretzels!!<div align="center"><a href="http://http//weltekcheesehead.blogspot.com/">Weltek </a>inspired me! </div><div align="center">She made <a href="http://http//rpc.blogrolling.com/redirect.php?r=44fe9596518bf7d8be78a863d623b660&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshadesofboo.blogspot.com%2F">Alton Brown's soft pretzels</a> to take </div><div align="center">to an Oktoberfest this weekend! </div><div align="center">Mark has been eyeing a pretzel recipe lately</div><div align="center">from somewhere else... so I thought I'd make them!<br /></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395998806641613794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56Ngb5gTp2GQGoK5M6ltGyHQCVzDiSQ85Zals-TQ78ZYPKOSwDgPhIxapzqtSNhOmhywxEL4QbwMsX3Fh5NWrM6cBfrhXDaBtgRF4G_oyJanNNqzPsqc24WnobLZLQa30Tj7X/s320/001.JPG" /> <p align="center"><span style="color:#663300;">I am soooo not a food/blogger/photographer, but I </span></p><p align="center"><span style="color:#663300;">think these look pretty good, no?</span></p><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395998899817159266" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ZdjMuVAG0WSTpQez0gbjwKPoe0A17XoeXWepJy8l2VJJMKT2uKPWSXW0NPlVB6ortmxYU10wMyuhuImHEtlRmM7vO-PvGJKTmPlP0K9W8XTACxqtex41xul_nLEsTCfpxX2y/s320/002.JPG" />Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-11096312755339168352009-10-20T14:09:00.001-07:002009-10-20T14:20:58.402-07:00We Brown Girls...<div align="center"> <span style="color:#006600;">This little miss got new glasses !</span><br /></div><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394792516427422946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1EH0iwFFsbW6WibWTgwiDiLgASOdIoKRWPvDtGmZua_GyzQygiI9eCXbAuu3tPuMicMUMfXQC4dOyx1QYgGjRy1gh-85botdN8tMtjaKOPHkVDmV1HCUmcgBNKMB2Btad2Nwi/s400/003.JPG" border="0" /></div><br /><br /><p align="center"><span style="color:#3333ff;">This little miss slept with curlers in her hair...</span> </p><br /><br /><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394793146170041346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 362px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8r-JwomphX2UlVrwsDGOfmnZN-5Z0bgKqe_iYsWXqX-3wxnbTzAw-XhFZtPq4LzFIStzCWMrQMBRwCduutRTjXdLfAoRV3zwp5aVGcdkap67e10-co8zEG8-v-iQ5zSstVt2/s400/005.JPG" border="0" /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">This little miss isn't sure whether she likes brown hair or not..</span><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394793647061966434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PsX-DxsufgJvIm5y86gDiPjzRF2Qq4gQxEyoMYRfh0Vg3AMd-4WGcT-FbXRTykOL0r2takd_AweZJqx7Q-DrFBO3KoQIFOh7360UX-jqA_7GF5_FvbF6A3uAfkZlHuiNPpPy/s400/066.JPG" border="0" /><br />For comparison... thoughts anyone??</p><p align="center"><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394794978173812386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6IJgCde_Zf6uVxtgp_lTcvQZf-LD-_B9_5THgAaMVwuSKyYtfVdvGvMAxl71UH-H7eqhIKklDEneQ0bZvxW1Z3hvPx50URj0896IvlubJo0hPAxAlY0EtcyUpT84LVnfgxZgx/s200/062.JPG" border="0" /><br />Bonus points to the first person who knows</p><p align="center">where this was taken! </p>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36365129.post-35464539649069508522009-09-18T15:36:00.000-07:002009-09-18T17:01:32.874-07:00Some summer faces...<div align="center">I wonder if they were really having fun....<br /></div><div align="center">This summer we went to Lagoon - an amusement park in Utah..</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">It was WARM for us Arizonans.. because we</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">don't normally stand around in the sun.</div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Cousin Alissa and Uncle Fon went with us, we really did have lots of </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">fun, despite the faces below..<br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382944209098387586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_nixPL7BxgABzrSn4H2Uqfsbo2fJ_B4DvFevfA0RbpBPkS7NXB_kqFJ_ZgfxkoquL8hNmhLQGVTMMMiO5o5KH_rbjewlqeNzP1bjnqlE5wjMkCiX9K333LNMWsdM6m5yDkLLg/s400/IMG_5099.JPG" border="0" /><br /><p align="center">Brennan wasn't super thrilled to have to go on the Tilt-a-Whirl,<br />and Mallory was just tired of waiting. </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382950592686487442" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeWBZ1ZOQvRoZ0va5xgNuiKUd0KKYm6dVCt2svXMWGgr0aiL1U_WWXwlTMyAQaEz5PavW4piNtCDYU6A9sl6ePI3onRtEpQYzsV1cPLv5YxB9Id2dNkvO8HkggsxxRT52cBbK2/s400/IMG_5113.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"> Brennan and Alissa did the daredevil stunts -<br />flying and the catapult! </p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382959533772615122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPbPcT2Zmq-K_xsmLlfOPI44XLAPrSDgekQyvKoykfUYiiHlbyiN6hyphenhyphenXTrRva7sTqhBY2NMIm34xDswhaVakKd8LHMaGa4sgJn3PlwB57zQJm5SO5m20X02PMMA8VW_ImJGfzO/s400/Vacation+July+2009+219.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"> I think they loved it!<br />I'd consider the flying, but when they let you go, you end up face down, feet up..</p><div align="center"></div><div align="center">That? I don't think I could take..<br /><br /></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382945067631750226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZXkywj9KbaCPk9M41qC9ZXfjyfBKjT23OywpzmdjhHfegErH4IoPQ8U-kw1euKEFOmnwaV9-yACpLRjVZl9UyEz8M_WeByM0z2d2TpV-quJuONpNk4ex1LhzgRuvB2QQnSlK/s400/IMG_5123.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center"> I found that I LOVED the Blastoff - Mallory, not so much!<br />My BIL Fon had fun on it as well - was good at encouraging Mallory..<br /><br /></p><p align="center">Yes - we got pretty wet!</p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382961075726759234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8f-PIdnzTvNUbwmp6YAWkJSk9qTX8V9F2P1HTQNRjaEzMi6iaRIr8uQo6sUWfpPwKjdJOy1wMVYL1_z_oIIOEiddzwnBRaOhRDjSdGG4HGt0xO2vG-sVEeBv3nxvDvImUhZpt/s400/Vacation+July+2009+205.JPG" border="0" /> <p align="center">Rattlesnake Rapids<br />Perhaps Brennan & Alissa enjoyed it the most!</p><p align="center"></p><p align="center">I'll have to soon get some of Brennan's football pictures up.</p><p align="center">I've put them on Facebook. I'm really proud of him.</p><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382947736027679570" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHeBDfhA7on9zVm0BjR3npkbIo1G18XX9mQPH7RHCnHfkE1TE2FfjlM56mUhDBe-HjyjKMq3W-linaEph90sSUedYRMxVdj9in1DG4x_41uwp2A2zQfq69q6M3vfLzLYK-AMaF/s400/015.JPG" border="0" /> </p><p align="center">He has never played organized sports, </p><p align="center">except for an afterschool basketball team in 5th or 6th grade.</p><p align="center"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382948776288531842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMJsj6luftyjYRDXASFbqlnOp1FQRTS3eFB4mNpmXQ0JAXbyP8AePdvMil6a4BR-K0QhvaMMJ4otktRccfulWjEN86OWPxgPzz2tq-xJbETPPglDn_K28qE63sOgDs0ZPOvBEa/s400/059.JPG" border="0" /><br />But this year he has gone out for 9th grade football, and </p><p align="center">has been the punter for his team. He has really gotten into shape, and enjoys it! </p><p align="center">My little boy is growing up..</p><p align="center">See...<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382960398792816386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNu07mZI-kDDywE1VqsZmzEEcYnnP8c-Ih3zxJbo6TV9rJg2j-Bbd6It5oj9VUFpfGsEAc08FqPZ2W1j8NipbnGoJSdYQ7XZyC-oga_wl5k8xASqDxwKBC1ou0GfJMRbJ-_anE/s400/008.JPG" border="0" /><br />He's taller than me...<br /><br /></p>Mom2BJM(Amy)http://www.blogger.com/profile/11516317235328281892noreply@blogger.com12