Wednesday, May 28, 2025

DON AND JEAN CLARK


 THIS IS OUR NEIGHBORS JEAN AND DON CLARK WHO LIVED ACROSS ST. FROM US BACK WHEN BUMP AND I WERE  KIDS  GROWING UP AND WE HUNG OUT AT THERE HOUSE ALOT!! TWO GREAT PEOPLE WHO BUMP AND I WILL NEVER FORGET FOR AS LONG AS WE LIVE FOR ALL THEY DID FOR US AS WE WERE GROWING UP.  THEY FED US, HELPED US WHEN WE WERE SICK AND LET US HANG OUT TILL LATE  AT NIGHT AND WE WOULD WATCH TV TILL TIME TO GO HOME TO SLEEP.   WELL NOT SO SURE DON LIKED  IT ALWAYS US SPENDING SO MUCH TIME BEING THERE FOR  WE STAYED WELL INTO THE EVENING..... WE WOULD HANG OUT  WITH JEAN MORE THAN HIM AND  WATCH JACK PARR.   THESE TWO DESERVE A CROWN FOR SURE ! 


MORE TO WRITE ABOUT THESE TWO LATER. 💕

MY BABIES

 





JENNY

 WE LOVE THIS PICTURE OF ARE JENNY.....LOOKS SO HAPPY!!!

❤️😘❤️

SHE GAVE ME MY TWO KITTIES PLO & DEW AND I WILL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL TO LOVE FOR THAT!

                                  ❤️

Thursday, May 22, 2025

GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE 

JAREDITES CAME EARLIER THEN....

LATER JERUSALEM CAME TO BE SEPARATED  AND  TO BECOME NEPITES AND LAMANITES

ALL DESTROYED EXCEPT FOR LAMANITES,,,INTERESTING STORY OF THESE TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND THE HISTORY THEY LEFT FOR US.


1000 YRS. PASSED AND MORMON  AT THE END OF A TERRIBLE BATTLE OF THE TWO NATIONS HE WROTE ABOUT IT ALL AND HANDED IT DOWN TO HIS SON MORONI AND AT THE ENDING OF A BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO PEOPLE MORONI HIDE THE RECORD UP IN HOPES ONE DAY SOMEONE WOULD FINE IT AND READ IT AND BELIEVE!


YEARS LONG BEFORE ALL THIS THE APOSTLE PAUL SPOKE AND WARNED THE CHURCH AND THOSE WHO BELIEVED THAT AFTER HIS DEPARTING GRIEVOUS WOLVES WOULD COME ..... PEOPLE WOULD BE 

THROWN TO THE LIONS 

BURNED AT THE STAKE 

KILLED FOR THEIR FAITH  

LEADERS WOULD ARISE AND SPEAK PERVERTED THINGS TO DRAW AWAY DISCIPLES AND FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST.

MANY PROPHETS OF OLD TALKED TO GOD AND TRYED TO TURN PEOPLES HEARTS  TO CHRIST.....MANY WERE PUT TO THE TEST AND EVEN  GAVE THEIR OWN LIVES FOR CHRIST.  


 BUT JESUS DID MUCH GOOD WHILE ON THE EARTH TEACHING HOW WE NEED TO LIVE OUR LIVES.

                          MIRACLES OF JESUS

  






Jesus Turns Water into Wine at the Wedding in Cana


First Miraculous Catch of Fish on the Lake of Gennesaret  
 

Jesus Cleanses a Man With Leprosy
 

Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Paralyzed Servant in Capernaum
 

Jesus Heals a Paralytic Who Was Let Down From the Roof
 

Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand on the Sabbath 

Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son From the Dead in Nain   

Jesus Calms a Storm on the Sea
 


Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd With an Issue of Blood
 
   Jesus Raises Jairus’ Daughter Back to Life
 

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men   

Jesus Heals a Man Who Was Unable to Speak
  

Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda   5:1-15

Jesus Feeds 5,000 Plus Women and Children

Jesus Walks on Water

Jesus Heals Many Sick in Gennesaret as They Touch His Garment
  

Jesus Heals a Gentile Woman’s Demon-Possessed Daughter  

Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man 
  

Jesus Feeds 4,000 Plus Women and Children
  

Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida 
 

HABITS WE HAVE....

   OK, MY LAST ENTRY TODAY IS FUNNY AND CUTE SAYINGS THAT ALOT OF PEOPLE SAY AND MAY NOT EVEN REALIZE IT..... HERE THEY ARE

JOE MY BROTHER...SAYS THESE LINES ALOT-----QUOTING HIM 

THIS , THAT, AND THE OTHER

YOU KNOW ME

SO ON AND SO FORTH

EVERYONE SHOULD DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO

SAID AT HIS FUNERAL HE WANTS IT SAID "I DID IT MY WAY!😉


BUMP...SAYS "EXACTLY"  WILL TRY TO FIND OTHERS.😄


DONNA....


SARAH.....CALLS EVEYONE  SWEETIE!!😇


DOTTIE.....

JOEY....

FRANKIE....I WANT OUT OF HERE! IS IN A ASSISTED LIVING HOME.😟 FRANKIE ALSO SEES EVERYTHING!  HAS ALWAYS WANTED EVERYTHING CLEAN AND PERFECT! SHE CAN SEE THE SMALLEST THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE THAT YOU AND I MIGHT NOT EVEN  SEE.





WORTH REMEMBERING THIS.....

WE HEAR ALOT ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST.....WHAT IS IT....WE ARE .TOLD IF WE FOLLOW ITS PROMPTINGS(A STILL SMALL VOICE) ITS LIKE A PILOT IN AN AIRPLANE.


 



AIRPLANES PILOTS FOLLOW DIRECTIONS/  A FLIGHT PATH/ THEY FOLLOW A PATH AS WE DO IN LIFE..... WHEN WE LISTEN TO THAT STILL SMALL VOICE JUST AS A  AIRPLANE PILOT DOES IN FLIGHT ...AND YES HE HAS RULES AND WATCHES AND LISTENS AND  GETS INSIGHT  AND YES DIRECTION WHAT PATH HE IS TO GO ON. TO KEEP ALL SAFE.  HE LISTENS AND IS CAREFUL  TO PAY ATTENTION WHICH WE SHOULD DO THE SAME.... LISTEN TO THE PROMPTINGS AND THAT ENTER STILL SMALL VOICE THAT GIVES US ALL DIRECTIONS!





 

TAKE TIME TO WATCH THESE STORIES

 SOME THINGS YOU MIGHT ENJOY  WATCHING SO LOOK THEM UP:

          THE BIRDS... BY PAUL HARVEY 

         THE MORMON CHOIR  / BLIND ANDREA BOCELLI  SINGS "THE LORDS PRAYER" 

         DAVE MCULLOUGH.... CHRISTMAS WITH THE MORMON T. CHOIR

        CHRISTMAS WITH TABERNACLE CHOIR....  TELLING THE STORY AND THIS SONG YOU SHOULD HEAR! 

SONG...." IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL"

STAGE SHOWS HERE IN EUSTIS / BAY STREET PLAYERS

    THINKING ....

OF THE SHOWS DOWNTOWN THAT ANGIE GOT ME TICKETS TO SEE..

     1.   "KILL A MOCKING BIRD"

     2.  "MENOPAUSE"... THE MUSICAL

     3."DEARIY DEPARTED"

     4.


WE GET BACK TO FILL IN  MORE VERY SOON.

SUSY TORONTO

 LOVE THIS SAYING AND I JUST READ TWO OF HER BOOKS AND MUST SAY ENJOYED 

THEM BOTH.  WHAT A  AMAZING LADY!!









Thursday, May 8, 2025

FUNNY SAYING

 

                                 TO ALL THE GIRLS OUT THERE,,,,,,,,,

NEVER LET A FOOL KISS YOU OR  A KISS FOOL YOU!!

KISSING IS A MEANS OF GETTING TWO PEOPLE SO CLOSE TOGETHER THAT THEY CAN'T SEE ANYTHING WRONG WITH EACH OTHER. 😃

                                                   



Tuesday, May 6, 2025

NICE THOUGHT

    TO EVERY THING~ ~ ~ ~   

                 THERE IS ,A SEASON , AND A TIME 

                              TO EVERY PURPOSE UNDER THE HEAVEN

Friday, April 18, 2025

LOVE A GOOD READ

 Today I been reading Susy Toronto's Book 2 called The Sacred Sisterhood of

 "WONDERFUL WACKY WOMAN" 

 I was so impressed and knew I  just needed to blog it.  She has a enormous love of life and friends like no other I have known.  Maybe a lot like my daughter  Angie. I wanted to quote so much of what she said but it would be way too much! 

A lot of what she writes is priceless!  Friends that have come and gone from her life and her mother and early years of marriage .....its all about her outlook and just about any subject a women could think of.  There is even humor in a lot of it and most women will certainly be able to relate to. 









Tuesday, February 4, 2025

POEM FOR GETTING OLD

 SPECIAL POEM FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

A row of bottles on the shelf
Caused me to analyze myself

One yellow pill I have to pop
Goes to my heart so it won't stop;

A little white one that I take
Goes to my hands so they won't shake;

The blue ones that I use a lot
Tell me I'm happy when I am not;

The purple pill goes to my brain
And tells me that I have no pain;

The capsules tell me not to wheeze
Or cough or choke or even sneeze;

The red pills, smallest of them all,
Go to my blood, lest I should fall;

The orange ones, so big and bright
Prevent my leg cramps in the night;

Such an array of brilliant pills
Helping to cure all kinds of ills.

But what I�d really like to know......
Is what tells each one where to go!

Senior man looking at his medication A senior man in his 70s sits looking negatively at an array of medication spread out on the table in front of him. Medicine Stock Photo

KRISTENS PETS

 KRISTEN HAS NOW TWO DOGS AND I CAT. SHE HAS COOPER, DAISY AND NOT SURE OF CATS NAME YET.

ITS LIFE!

VALERIE FINALLY HAD HER KNEE SURGERY DONE

RANDY NEARLY CUT HIS FINGER OFF

PAUL, BUMPS SON, HIS.WIFE PASSED 

ROSCOE MY BROTHER PASSED LAST MONTH 

FRANKIE WILL BE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD NEXT MONTH

LIFE IS MOVING ON ....WE TODD KIDS ARE ALL GETTING OLD


Sunday, February 2, 2025

SAD

 I AM WORRIED BECAUSE I AM AFRAID WILL LOSE ALL MY BLOG.  LOST ONE ENTRY TONIGHT. 😢

PROBLEM TO SOLVE.....

 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS .....BUT THE SUN WILL COME OUT TOMORROW SO THEY SAY

BEEN PUTTING OFF GOING TO DENTIST SINCE LOST MY FRONT BOTTOM TOOTH...AND SERIOUSLY DON'T WANNA GO. 😟yellow umbrella

TENDER FEELINGS

       OF MY MARRIAGE TO YOUR DAD....I JUST WANT YOU CHILDREN TO KNOW THIS....

    "WITH ALL THE MEN ON THE EARTH , YOUR DAD WAS THE RIGHT ONE FOR ME''

      AND AT THIS TIME WE  HAVE BEEN  MARRIED 64 YEARS , 

       AND YES YOUR DAD AND I HAVE  BEEN BLESSED TO HAVE HAD ALONG SUSTAINING LOVE  FOR ALL THESE YEARS.💖


OLD SAYINGS

 THROWING THIS IN HERE ....WORDS USED LONG AGO


NO HANKY PANKY GOING ON....MAKING OUT

HE IS TALKING HELLFIRE AND BRIMSTONE...PREACHING

GONNA WEAR HIM OUT....[ G IVE HIM A WHIPPING]

WHERE THE DICKENS HAVE YOU BEEN..WHERE DID YOU GO

GO FETCH THAT......TO GET SOMETHING

WHERE DID THAT BOY SLIP OFF TO...LEFT US

I FLAT OUT TOLD HIM OR I GOT A NOTION TO TELL HIM... ..TO SPEAK WORDS

CONTANKERORUS.....CONTRARY

OKIE DOKIE .....AGREE TO SOMETHING

HOKEY POKEY...A DANCE

Friday, January 31, 2025

NEW TECHNOLOGY

 We all have gone through a change....there used to be a phone booth on st. corners if needed to call your parents or need a ride home. And only 25 cent for the call. If called long distance you had to pay into the phone. 

 Now everyone carries a phone in their pocket and can call anyone anywhere in the world. Wow!

T.V. was just black and white, now in color a huge TV that hangs on wall.

 Videotapes to DVD....just a click away!  Maybe one day no more movie threaters.

Family cars like lots of station wagons to a SUV

WRIGHT BROTHERS first flight to a Commercial Plane that fly's at 540mph

Writing letters to mail off...waiting weeks for reply.  Now just a text away from anyplace in the world.

Technology has changed our lives forever.

We are never far away from our devices, in home or school or work.

 Never to pull out our Encyclopedia Britannica

Here to stay!!!   not to FORGET our IPAD  

 WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT A DAY OR EVEN AN HOUR WITHOUT USING ONE OF YOUR DEVICES? AND THE QUESTION IS HOW WELL DO YOU MANAGE ALL THESE NEW THINGS AND REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THE THINGS THAT REALLY COUNT?   HOW ARE WE SPENDING OUR TIME?      JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT!


Old telephone and obsolet electronic equipment on wooden floor Technology Stock Photo

 

Closeup of an old-fashioned vintage black telephone and a modern mobile phone on the table. Concept of old and new technology in telecommunications. Generative Ai

old tv isolated on white background

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

BACK IN 2000

  APRIL  YEAR 2001.....ON WED. WENT TO TALLAHASSEE TO PICK UP JEN WHO IS GOING TO SCHOOL THERE AND BRING  HER HOME. 

STUFFED ALL HER THINGS INTO ME LITTLE HONDA WHICH WASN'T EASY. ... LEFT SETTING ROOM FOR HER .  IT WAS A GREAT TRIP THERE AND BACK. SHE SHOWED US INSTITUTE BUILDING , MET HER FRIEND DANA , TOOK HER TO BOOK STORE FOR REFUND AND SOME PERSONAL TIME WITH HER WE HEADED HOME. 

ON WAY HOME JEN TOLD US A FEW STORIES . BOY WHO SPILLED HOT GREASE ON HIS ARM , DIDN'T PANIC AND ONLY SAID SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL. SHE SAW A BIRD WHO HAD A SMALL BIRD IN HIS MOUTH ,SAW BLOOD AND THOUGHT HE MUST HAVE KILLED IT !   SHE TALKED OF A OLD MAN WHO HAD LOTS OF CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD AND SAID ITS LIKE PLANTING FLOWERS ALL OVER THE EARTH.

 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT??

JUMPING TO SAT. ...DAD STARTED PAINTING THE HOUSE,  IT WAS TIME!!

SUNDAY ......WENT TO CHURCH ALONE ,  WHERE IS EVERYONE? THEY HAVE THERE OWN LIVES  AND TODD AND JEN WENT TO THE SINGLES WARD. 

I MAKE A BANANA BREAD AND IT FLOPPED...  CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT! SO I MADE BROWNIES , WHAT HAPPENED TO MY GREAT COOKING SKILLS ?  HA HA!

 OCT. YEAR 2000

SAT. TOOK JEN TO DO BAPTISM AT THE TEMPLE , WAS 2 HRS. LATE FOR WORK. NO ONE EVEN MISSED ME. NO MANAGEMENT WAS ON DUTY.😉

SUNDAY....WENT TO CONFERENCE AND TO JACOBS BIRTHDAY PARTY... HE IS ELEVEN WOW!   AM I GETTING OLD?

MONDAY-   KRISTEN AND I TOOK A NAP....TOOK CAR TO HAVE BRAKES FIXED , COST WAS 192.OO. HATE THAT!  AND TO TOP OFF THAT THEY GOT GREASE ON MY SEAT COVERS WHICH UPSET ME....WENT TO WORK AND IT HELPED RELEASE THE STRESS. 

TUESDAY-EMAILED JEN ...KRISTEN STAYED HOME CAUSE RANDY`S JOB WENT BROKE. 

I SPENT DAY CLEANING HOUSE , PAYED BILLS AND SHOPPED.  WORKED HARD THIS EVENING AT WALMART AND EVEN WITH A NEW HELPER I WORKED MY BUTT OFF.

WED/ ...DAY OFF OF WORK ...ALWAYS LOVE IT!  GOT CAR CHECKED OUT , JOHN FIXED THE PROBLEM FAST....WENT BY VAL'S THEN WENT TO RANDYS ...I PLAYED AT PLAYGROUND WITH KRISTEN....STACE AND I SHOPPED FOR GROCERIES.... IN EVENING WE WATCHED MOVIES AND RELAXED.

THURSDAY .....RANDY IS LOOKING FOR NEW JOB ...HIS COLLAPSED.  I SHOPPED FOR A FEW THINGS TODAY AND LEARNING THE COMPUTER.  ITS FUN!!  MY TIPS OF FINGERS GO NUMB AT WORK AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE THEY CAN HANDLE SENSE ZONING AT WALMART THIS WEEK.

FRIDAY .....EMAILED JEN AND DID SOME CRAFT WORK AND SPRAYED A BIG FAN THAT I GOT AT GARAGE SALE FOR 50 CENT.....PUT FLOWERS ON IT AND IT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL!  LIFE IS FUN MOST THE TIME. 

SAT. WORKING SINCE CHANGED HOURS.  BY BY FUN DAY!!

SUNDAY .....OFF TO CHURCH WITH DAD AND HE ACTUALLY WENT TODAY. HE MUST BE IMPROVING HIS OUTLOOK . HE HAS DROVE ME CRAZY THIS PAST YEAR.  FUN EVENING , MEAL WITH KIDS THE FIRST FOR ALONG TIME. AND WATCHED MOVIE "MY DOG" GOOD  MOVIE.

YEAR 2000

13TH OF OCT.....JEN SLEPT IN LATE ...STACEY HAD TO WORK AND SO WHEN I GOT UP I TOOK JEN TO VISIT RANDY AND KIDS AND THEN OVER TO VAL'S TO SEE THEM. JEN HAD A LITTLE FUN ON JACOBS SCOOTER.  WENT BACK HOME AND SHE RELAXED IN TODD'S HAMMOCK AND THEN I HAD TO GO TO WORK . THEY ALL GOT TOGETHER THAT EVENING FOR A COOKOUT AT 8PM.... HAD ENJOYABLE TIME/ WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE.

12TH OF OCT. WE ALL WAITED FOR JENNY TO SHOW UP. ..SHE ARRIVED ABOUT 2;30 OR SO. SHE RODE HOME FROM FSU WITH ANOTHER JENNIFER WHO IS  A MEMBER OF OUR CHURCH.  I FEEL SHE IS EXCITED TO BE HOME. I KNOW WE ARE HAPPY TO  HAVE HER HERE, WE LOVE HER SO MUCH AND ARE EXCITED SHE IS HOME!

14TH....I GOT UP AROUND 9AM WENT TO ROSEMONT COMMUNITY YARD SALES . JENNY SPENT NIGHT AT LESLIE'S . THEY SHOPPED SOME AND WENT OUT THIS EVENING WITH DAVE AND STACEY. ...STACEY  HAS BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS EVENING OF SISTERS TOGETHER. 

15TH.   ...DIDN'T GO TO CHURCH , SAW JENNY OFF TO SCHOOL. GOOD NEWS TODAY IS THAT I NO LONGER WORK ON SUNDAY'S.... NEW GIRL HIRED YA!!

HALLOWEEN: TUESDAY OCT.31 ...DRESSED UP FOR WORK , FRECKLES ON NOSE , HAIR IN PONY TAIL , A FAKE CHICKEN STUFFED HANGING ON MY HIP, BASKET OF EGGS , BOILED JUST IN CASE ...BUT DIDN'T GET TO SEE GRAND KID'S ..SAD ...MADE THE ROUNDS TO VISIT MY SISTERS AT CHURCH THOUGH.  

WED. MY DAY OFF,,,JARED AND LESLIE GETTING READY TO MOVE INTO A HOUSE DOWNTOWN  OFF OF MILLS.  SHERRY DAD HAS BEEN IN HOSPITAL WITH LEG PROBLEMS

THURS. THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DAY, ONLY THING I REMEMBER IS ITS TRASH DAY . HA! I HAVE BEEN A HOUSE WIFE WAY TOO LONG. 😊. 

JUMPING TO SUNDAY ...WENT TO FRANKIE AND DONNA'S .... ATE AT PERKINS AND STROLLED ALONG EUSTIS LAKE ...WATCHED SUN GO DOWN... . BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!

A testimony

Have you > HEARD OF THESE NAMES?  Had to write this!

NEPHITES, 

JACOBITES,

 JOSEPHITES, 

ORAMITES

 LAMANITES 

,LEMUELITES 

AND THE ISHMAELITES   look them up, they are real groups of people that lived on the earth long ago, SOME you might find in Bible. And now also in Book of Mormon times.....YES / B OF M was another TIME IN HISTORY.

So putting this quote in here so you can remember .....

"Don't sell or trade your Birthright for a mess of porridge"

In other word don't let the world change you!


THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI.....TELLS US TO TO BELIEVE BOOK OF MORMON FOR THESE OUR JESUS WORDS. Just read the first book of Nephi, its amazing!!

 Lehi , Nephi's father was told the city Jerusalem along with people were going to be destroyed because of wickedness ....told Lehi to take his family and  leave but was also told to send back his sons to get the PLATES SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE.

THE LORD TOLD Lehi to write his history to add to them plus  NEPHI also to WRITE UPON THE PLATES WITH HIS HISTORY AND WITH HOPE THOSE THAT READ THEM WOULD BE PLEASED WITH WHAT WAS WRITTEN AND EACH RIGHTEOUS PERSON WHO HELD THE PLATES WOULD CONTINUE TO WRITE AND PASS THEM ON down to us. 

STARTS WITH......

 NEPHI SAYING HE WAS BORN OF GOODLY PARENTS.  AS SAID BEFORE HIS FATHER  Lehi WAS TOLD BY A VISION THAT Jerusalem WOULD BE DETROYED BECAUSE OF WICKEDNESS.  HE WAS TO TAKE HIS FAMILY AND LEAVE AND LATER TOLD TO GO BACK AND GET PLATES , THE HISTORY WAS TO BE PASSED ON. MUCH HAPPENS WHICH IS GOOD TO READ AND LATER THE PLATES ARE HANDED DOWN FROM NEPHI THEN TO HIS BROTHER JACOB. 

 SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE AND PASSED ON FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

AND FINALLY TO BE PASSED ON TO US. ....SO IT WAS.

 JACOB GETS THEM AND PASSES THEM ON TO

JAROM AND HE PASSES PLATES TO HIS SON OMNI WHO IS WICKED

THEN HE ON TO HIS SON AMARON AND THEN TO CHEMISH WHO IS HIS BROTHER 

THEN IT GOES ON TO OTHERS....A VERY TOUCHING STORY PASSED ON FOR US!

 LATER THERE ARE WARS.....GOOD VERSES EVIL

Now King Mosiah  comes along...a good king ...He later dies,  King Benjamin comes next.

BENJAMIN IS A REALLY GREAT AND GOOD KING!!

 King Benjamin wanted all his people to be RIGHTEOUS and hoped the records would be reserved and kept safe .....FOR ALL GENERATIONS TO COME.

 PLATES  EVENTUALLY ARE GIVEN TO MORMON AND HE SAW ALL THE KILLING AND WAS HIMSELF DYING AND GAVE ALL THE RECORDS INTO THE HANDS OF HIS SON  MORONI. 


Now King Benjamin had taught his sons

{had 3sons.}

HE passes his kingdom over to THEM

KING B. tells the people we need these plates and their help and told them to believe the records for they are true!

Dying KING BENJAMIN  said bring all the people here to me.  I am dying and he gives a great talk upon a tower so all could hear.  A must read.  Then gave all the plates to Mosiah. 

The plates brass, plates of Nephi, sword of Laban, Ball /director...all prepared by the lord. ...ALL OF IT!!

THEN COMES Lehi along with his sons and Lehi was told the city alone with people were going to be destroyed because of wickedness ....so Lehi takes his family to leave but sends back his son to get the PLATES SO THEY COULD BE KEPT SAFE. 

a great speech was given by King Benjamin before he died. families came in crowds to hear him and he spoke on a tower....please check it out and read it...so Great!!

       Oh Remember Remember... he said.

MOSIAH WAS VISITED BY A ANGEL AND WAS TOLD CHRIST WILL COME AND ATONE FOR SINS , WOULD HEAL PEOPLE , TEACH PEOPLE AND WOULD DO MANY GOOD THINGS AND  HE WOULD BE PUT TO DEATH AND RISE ON 3RD DAY.   TAUGHT MANY GOOD THINGS SO PEOPLE COULD HAVE HOPE.  

HE CAME!!  AND WAS PUT TO DEATH TRYING TO TEACH US ......THERE WAS BATTLE AFTER BATTLE.


ABINADI WHO DID NOT THINK THEY SHOULD CRUCIFY THE SAVIOR SPOKE OUT

Now wicked King Noah has a hard heart and didn't want  to hear it.  Abinadi was burned to death and then later along came Jacob , Enos, Jarom , Omni , who all were believers and Mormon who was dying from a battle and he handed over plates to his son Mosiah  and then on to Mormon and then on to his SON MORONI who buried them till the lord told Joseph Smith who asked with a sincere heart what church he should join?   He was  told where to find the plates and He would be set apart to bring back His true church and teachings to the earth.  WOW!!!!!!   that church is :

   ( THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF 

              LATTER DAY SAINTS)

THIS IS THE RECORD THAT WAS SAVED FROM VERY BEGINNING STARTING WITH NEPHI

             "THE BOOK OF MORMON"




 

 



Sunday, January 19, 2025

Keep Swimming

 Clear thinking is hard when under Stress! In movie"Finding Nemo" we need to do as Dory did

 " just keep swimming, swimming , swimming."   We all struggle in certain areas... I Do......I feel  over whelmed sometimes and then I read this from our Prophet...

  " Mortality is a master class in learning to choose the things of greatest eternal important"...

So as he invites us all , I will take the long view and think what really is important  and I will choose to persevere by what is worth worrying  about  in this life!


Roscoe Todd

 April 5, 1929 -January 10, 2025....

I have some great memories of my brother and spending time at his home in Vincennes, Indiana. 

My brother Paul whom we called (Bump) a nickname started back in childhood days. Roscoe lived in a valley down a h ill which we called the hollow ,  we loved hanging out there cause we would swing on grapevines , play hide and seek in his cornfield , and evenings we would wrestle in his living room with Roscoe being the referee.  His wife Lillie was someone Bump and I could count on to take us to a drive- in theater plus feed us and she even taught me to drive, had a old Studebaker and I remember driving off once into a ditch. As I remember Lillie never got upset much with us kids. I think Roscoe really loved her but later she had an affair and that broke Roscoe's heart and I remember the day he found out and he cried like a baby, it was a sad day.  They divorced and later he married Carol and they were together till her death. Roscoe was a hard worker, was right up to his old age. Never known a man who worked any harder than Ross and he generally cared about people. Of course he was hurt by many who took advantage of his goodness.  Roscoe was not educated. He dropped out of school at a very young age learning some from just living life!  Even so he started his own business and became a huge success all around Vincennes and counties around there.   I could tell more stories of Ross, like the time he hired a young guy to help with work and found that he stole her money. He was devastated  , he even did work for some who could not afford  to pay but I think this is why his work was so successful,  he also donated a special bark of wood to the city and if you go there you can see it, they had a bust monument made of an historical Indian that came to Vincennes. 

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Love this saying......

 May you like the work that is yours to do

May your purse always hold a coin or two

May you be happy with life, a smile light your face

May the place where dwell be a wonderful place 


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