Days of the Bachelor

Well, Heidi left with the kids to California, but the good news is that she is coming back. :) She called me a few times to stay awake. She should arrive any minute.  Surprisingly, she didn't leave a list of things for me to do...however, I did make a list and it sure is long. Mold has been especially present on the stone on our house and brick fence.  We need to pressure wash and spray a bleach solution on it.

I walked to church today, which takes me about 5 minutes and somebody stopped to give me a ride because they thought my car broke down...The church speakers did a great job talking about hastening, which has been interpreted all the way from technology, kids doing family history, and the lowering of mission ages.

When Dad mentioned his cougar dream, it reminded me of an experience mentioned today concerning Hugh B Brown.  He was about to become a millionaire and wasn't sure if it was the right thing for him.  So he prayed and prayed as if he was fighting the devil all night.  His wife came in and prayed with him.  Then when he went to the office that day on a Saturday and prayed he felt his peace.  When he came home, David O. McKay called and asked if he would be an apostle.  So he left his job and lost out on becoming a millionaire.  However, a few years later someone from his company who had made 7 million dollars said he would give all of it if he had the peace of conscious that he had.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

A good week

Well, we had a lot of special projects at work.  Quite a bit of my time goes to provide information on various data scenarios to provide information in a way that would be useful to our CEO.  GAAP numbers does not provide meaningful information to real estate consumer in the industry.

I haven't been able to have a meaningful scripture study since we started exercising at night.  I've found that lunchtime works great and I have a half an hour to really study the scriptures in addition to listening to things on the way to work.

As I have done this, I have felt more promptings.  I asked Mike for some training wheels before I bought some online and he just happened to find some at a ward garage sale.  Also when I was getting some free water barrels, I asked the seller about the basketball hoop that was there and she said that we could have it.  Carter loves basketball hoops and will bring it up any time we go to church.  His birthday is coming up.

We watched the movie Insterstellar and I thought it was very thought-provoking, and especially liked the last 30 minutes or so of it.  I liked the thought that love motivates us to do things that we otherwise would be unable to do, but didn't think much of the "they" being their species in the future to create the wormhole.  That was somewhat confusing. It was interesting to think about the time differential,but aging doesn't affect resurrected bodies, so that is a moot point.

I had some interesting thoughts as I was praying last night.  Heidi has been through more in her life than anyone I know, including ailments in just about every part of her body.  For her to be the person who she in spite of that says a lot about her.  Even more so, to see Heavenly Father have to watch somebody go through those things is a type of what Heavenly Father had to do for his Son Jesus Christ.