Bringing Up To Date. . .

It has been a couple of months since I last posted on this blog. Shame on me! Time just keeps rolling by and I realize how important it is to keep tabs on myself and share!

We have been in the midst of a major life change and bought another home in Utah. Yes! But Southern Utah. We are still several hours away from most of our family. But still a little closer. We kept our home in Mesquite only for the convenience of not having to worry about it and renting it out in the meantime of when to sell or keep it.

We like that there are options to have a good garden area with the weather a bit cooler to plant what Ron's loves most, raspberries and blackberries. The heat in Mesquite was too much for raspberries/blackberries to survive. Ron has ordered a lot of fruit tress (20) to plant in Spring. Some are the same but different varieties to mature at different times in season. He has already put a lot of hours into preparing the yard, i.e moving rocks and pulling out plants that we don't need. We are very grateful that a grandson, Jordan was able to come stay several weeks to help us with the move. He was worth hi weight in GOLD! We loved having him here and sad to have him return to his home in Washington.

I recently had a nice break to go to a RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City. I was an educational experience learning all the new ways to keep a Family History. i loved it. I roomed with Patty, my sister-in-law and a couple of other ladies that we knew and had a great time. I absorbed the information and gleaned a lot from the speakers that participated. Alex Boye, Laura Bush, former first lady and her daughter, Jenna. Donny Osmond. I didn't attend the one David Archuleta perfomred. I was over i the Exhibition hall making the most of my time and ordered a genealogical Fan Chart I should receive any day now. All in all I felt like I learned a lot and can apply now on a regular basis and get my Family Tree going and add to it. We topped our week experience by attending "Music and The Spoken Word." And also attending Sacrament meeting in the Joseph Smith Memorial building across the street from Temple Square.

Preserving family photos of my mother as a child with her brother Albert and Uncle Naco.

Pondering . . .

I went to sacrament meeting by my self today. Ron was a little under the weather with a cold and bad cough. He didn't want to cough during church, so he stayed home. It was Ward Conference. we had good speakers, our Bishop and the second counselor spoke. They reminded us how important tithing is and the blessings of paying it. The bishop noted that during tithing settlement, even though someone isn't declaring their own tithing, he makes a declaration anyway in those cases.

President Daily told us to be sure to fast and pray this next week for Fast Sunday for moisture and rain that is much needed for our area, and is almost a drought he said. well, I think we got a good start of things to come since we woke up to snow!! Interesting. We need it yes, but hope the budding blossoms on the apricot trees are spared and will still have fruit to bare.
We had Sunday school with a stake leader teaching the lesson. He taught on the Miracles of Jesus. I appreciate hearing and knowing of all that the Savior did while he was on the earth. I know he did what he did through the power of God within him, and his divinity. We are blessed with the power of the priesthood to heal the sick and bless the blind to see and raise those who have dead and are called back. I know it has been done and what a blessing to enjoy having the priesthood restored and manifested through our faith and worthiness to receive those blessings.