Beautiful Saying!

"I have been happy my entire life but this is the happiest I’ve ever been.  I wouldn’t trade places with anybody in the whole world!"

Wow!  what a beautiful statement!!  Found this in a magazine.  I thought how wonderful it would be to be able to say that and mean it!  But the truth of the matter is that life isn't always fair and many  cannot say that in all honesty.  Life has away of taking a tow on even the best of people.  I think everyone at some point in their life will have to go through something. Stay strong and until that test comes in your life embrace all the sweetness life has to offer!  love , mamashap  

A Baby Shower

Air Conditioner Broke

 

Well about a week ago our air-conditioner burned out.  It was nice and cool outside so was no big deal!  That was a week or so ago.  Now its a big deal!!  the weather went back to being like 85 the last three days so its been hot and I am hoping it will turn cool out again real soon.   Nights are awesome!  We really get a nice breeze coming through our  bedroom window at night so its been great! I am trying to have patience as we wait for the check to be deposited into our bank, as a signal we can start the process.    The company said they are ready and  set to go when we make the call. ha. Can't live in Florida without air! Waiting to see a thumbs up!!

Todd Kids

 Ask the guys and gals in the family to give me some tidbits of info on themselves when they were growing up, here is what I have received as of now. Hope all will answer my request.

Frankie-
Joe-
Roscoe-
Jean- 
Sarah- Said she loved dancing and started working at a early age.  Said she and Jean would fight over clothes. Jean had more than she.  Sarah loved to play softball and was only girl on a all boys team. There were no girl  teams back then. 
 Roy Rogers was her favorite movie.   She also had a speech problem and when she would ride the city bus to go to the movies downtown the bus driver always wanted to know what movie she was going to see. He told our Mom he liked to hear her say Roy Rogers.
Donna -was called "My little bed bug." guess she had some little bites on her , said as a endearment.  Donna was told also that mom left her crying in the crib after trying to get her to stop and finally just left her and walked downtown and back.  When she returned she was sound asleep.  [wonder how true this is?]
Dottie -I remember going to Sat. morning movies downtown by collecting milk labels and sometimes bottle caps. Bump and I would take this same path uptown and cut through this one block that was kinds wooded in where there was this hump covered in dirt that we had to walk over and we always pretended a dead person was buried there. ha. We spent are summers going to movies, skating, riding our bikes and exploring the neighborhood. Once we decided we would move out of the house into this old short trailer dad had outback.  We worked everyday fixing it up and proud of how good it looked.  Well after finished i think we only stayed in there two nights and got scared and moved back into the house. ha.
Paul-What he wrote here made me cry. Here it is.

JUST OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD,  TWO OR THREE THINGS COME TO MIND..

 ONE THING THAT STANDS OUT,  WAS WHEN I JOINED THE AIR FORCE AND WAS LEAVING VINCENNES FOR MY 4 YEARS IN THE SERVICE....THERE WAS ABOUT 10 OR 15 FROM MY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS THAT JOINED AT THE SAME TIME AND WE REPORTED TO THE BUS DEPOT TO SHIP OUT FOR BASIC TRAINING.....ALL THE OTHER GUYS  MOM'S AND DAD'S WERE THERE, GIVING THEM  HUGS AND SEEING THEM OFF..   I WAS THE ONLY ONE SETTING ON THE BUS BY MYSELF, WAITING TO SHIP OFF TO BASIC TRAINING,  I FELT VERY ALONE.....THEN A RAY OF SUNSHINE CAME WALKING ONTO THE BUS WITH A BIG SMILE,,,,,IT WAS "DON CLARK".......HE GAVE ME A BIG HAND SHAKE AND A HUG,  AND ASK IF I NEEDED ANYTHING "MONEY" TO HOLD ME OVER UNTIL I GOT TO BASIC TRAINING.......I HAVE LOVED THAT MAN WITH ALL MY HEART SINCE THAT DAY,  I WAS NOT EVEN HIS SON,  BUT HE SHOWED UP AND MADE MY DAY.............

WITH LOVE,,,,,,YOUR BROTHER PAUL  /   BUMP

The Church of Jesus Christ

Christ said he would give the Keys of the Kingdom  to his diciples and they would have Authority to act in His Name and His church would be called by His Name!

To think Christ would establish his church and call it by any other name  other than His own,  or of any man, no matter how faithful and wonderful he might be is just not right.  It is the church of Jesus Christ/  and not the church of any other person.  its his gospel and his church and should be called by whom church it is.   The  disciples of old called upon the Lord to know what name the church should be called and were told " And how be it my church save it be called by my name." if it be Moses its Moses church, if man/ its called by his name /  but if its my church it will be called by my name....if it so be that they are built upon my gospel!  ////////////wow!  so what are people doing calling these churches all these different names?  the Lord speaks of the Keys to the kingdom / you will find this memtioned time and time again in the scriptures, but  most have no idea what the Keys to the Kingdom even are.
 keys of the kingdom of heaven.”Said Jesus to his apostles of old: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matt. 16:19.)

Prophets of old held these keys , You can read about it.  Authority to do all the things they did!!
  Like John the Baptist held keys to baptize , moses , abraham , they all held keys to do certain things and when the heavens were opened  these keys were given again.  on down to the Prophet today!
These keys give one divine authority upon which to act and build His Church!  there was no divine revelation, nothing for nineteen hundred yrs. all the denominations relied entirely on the dead letter of Bible for their authority. They didn't look to the heavens for divine guidance which later lead them to division, subdivision and multiplication of many churches. Each went their way blindly and confused on doctrine and the power of Priesthood was lost and the gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ ceased to exist any longer.  No prophet, no revelation , no divine instruction.   From that time of the apostles of old until the Lord opened the heavens again and sent holy messengers to restore that which had been taken away.  Wow!  I would do same if i were a God.  I would go and find a righteous person  strong enough to bring it back and re establish  my kingdom again on the earth and thats just what the Lord did.  Search it out.  Its no mystery!  John held the Keys, that word again and said  one was coming mightier than he who holds the Melchizedek Priesthood and Keys to the kingdom of God.  Book of Mormon and Bible go hand in hand to bring the world his truth!!   Great Knowledge to have!!






















































































































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A RICH MAN

A truly rich man is the one whose children run into his arms when his arms are empty”.

The latest buzz

The latest buzzzzzzzz that i am excited to post is that our Leslie and Stacey are both expecting a baby here in the near future. Leslie is due in April and the buzzz is she "may" being having a girl!!!(not sure yet) and our Stacey is due sometime after Christmas and its a boy.  

Congratulations girls!!