March 26th2016

Time seems to fly. I am already into another year. So much has happened. I  would like to talk about miracles first, I know that each of us have them happen every day, we just don't recognize them as often as we should. I was cleaning my house today because I have a day off. I started to clean when I realized one of the little pawn were missing out of the chess set we had gotten from Dad Craven  I know this is a small insignificant thing, but it is important to me. So I knelt down to pray. I prayed that I would find that little pawn. and I did. I was upstairs cleaning the room that is our guest bedroom with two beds. I decided to go through the toy bins that my grand-kids play in. A little off my normal path because I had so much to do. It amazes me that our Father-in-Heaven answers even the smallest requests

February 27th 2015

Today I worked all day accomplishing a lot. Cleaning all the windows, filling all the grains,  vacuuming to make the place look nice. By the time I got home I was exhausted. I've been busy and that is what I like. For that reason it was a good day.  I love my family and because I do I leave them in my Father in Heavens hands. I understand The Lord has his hands in our lives, I know he will do better with those lives then I can. It is like the saying  says, you can call, persuade, direct aright bless with wisdom, love and light, in nameless ways be good and kind but never force the human mind. That's what I have done. It doesn't matter how much you teach your children, when they make  their minds up you cannot help them. In order for you to do that they need to be humbled. Sometimes they need to learn the hard way. I believe what goes around comes around, they will experience the same pain I have only a lot worse. There are consequences for every choice we make. It breaks my heart but that is the way The Lord does things. When you love someone you have to let them go and make their own mistakes. I don't have to take this burden on myself any more it is in her hands.

February 19th 2015

I am so grateful for my blessings, yesterday I had the opportunity to go to the temple. I went by myself because my husband is out of town and so I did initiatory work. I love the temple it is my place of peace, where I can feel the joy of being a member of the true church. I am so grateful for my great husband, who is helping our daughter right now by doing drywall in her home. He left me a beautiful note on the mirror before he headed out. He has done that the last few times. He will never know how much that means to me. True love comes when you can not stop smiling. My daughter has found that true love, she can't stop smiling. It is like Elder Holland says when you are truly in love you want to shot it from the roof tops. She certainly wants the whole family to know and she wants to shot it from the roof tops. When you find that kind of love you have to pinch yourself and can't believe our Father in Heaven could send you someone so perfect for you. I know that kind of love. I was sent someone that wonderful. I am so happy that I was granted such an incredible blessing, and that my husband has always been a romantic and truly loved me and has always shown that. I can see that in the young man my daughter has met. She was dating a young man that we knew she would never marry. She had to figure that out for herself, but she did, we are so grateful for that miracle.  Because she is a different girl and I love who she is even more.  I love all of my children but at times, they can be misguided, that is why it is so important to stay close to your family.  Family's are of our Father in Heaven they would never stir you wrong. They know you better than anyone else.

January 13th 2015

I am happy to be in my daughters home, she just brought a new special little spirit into the world. You can not hold a new baby directly from Heaven and not know that our Father in Heaven is real. Such a precious little child. Now we can understand our Fathers great love for His children.  No one can began to understand the kind of love a mother and father have for their child after experiencing the miracle of life. A mother comes close to death at this miraculous time of baring a chose child of God. It amazes me how quickly motherhood can be forgotten.  As children grow older it is difficult to imagine any child ever not listening to counsel from a parent. There is no one on this earth that loves them more or knows them better than a parent. We do not spend years with our children without knowing them. It's sad to see someone destroy that bound in a matter of months.  If a person truly loves you they would never want to destroy that relationship, they would only want to make it better. But unfortunately the wool is pulled over our eyes by deceitful means. And yet we all claim to live the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh how sad that we cannot see through rose colored glasses.  I am saddened to see such sad things.

October 29th 2014

I am so grateful to my parents, they have always supported me in all that I do, they knew Frank was to be my husband before I did, what an amazing blessing for me. I love my parents so much. I learned a great deal from them.  One of the most important things that I learned in my home is  that you don't  share sacred things with other people who are not in your family,  they can use those sacred things for their benefit. It won't seem bad at first, but you realize after a while, " hay that was what my sister said, or that was like the sacred thing we talked about a month ago. We don't share the temple, our patriarch blessing, your special spiritual experiences. The Lord gave them to you for a reason. I remember years ago when my father in law was given something special and sacred, that special thing was taken away from him when he went to share it.  When the sacred plates of the Book of Mormon were lost they were taken away because they could be used for evil. Sacred things are sacred and need to be kept that way.

I listened to conference a short time ago, it was an amazing conference,  such important man. We as members of the church are so lucky to be able to hear inspiring men. There are so many rumors  going around right now, but they are just rumors, and until the prophet announces we don't listen. The prophet is the only one on the face of this earth that can receive revelation for the church. The other rumors are only rumors and those who continue to talk about things that aren't true are on their way
to apostasy, be careful what you believe.

October 24th 2014

I just read a great article in the Ensign it was on the courage to chose modesty."Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you . . . The temple of God is holy, which temple ye are".  We live in a world of good and evil, and the physical body can be used for either righteous or wicked purposes.. But we know that are bodies are a gift from God. They are sacred. Elder Bednar  of the quorum of the 12 apostles taught, "to those who know and understand the plan of salvation, defiling the body is an act of rebellion and a denial of our true identity as sons and daughters of God".  We chose to care for and protect our bodies so that we may be instruments in the hands of God to bring about His glorious purposes. If we desire to stand for the Savior and do his work, we must ask ourselves. If the Savior stood beside me would we feel comfortable in the clothing we wear. Do not let anyone dictate to you what to wear. A person of God would never ask you to wear  things that are to tight or inappropriate in any way.l
Modesty in dress, appearance, thought, and behavior is evidence that we understand the covenants that we have made that bless us protect us and empower us against the evils of the world.

September 26th 2014

It is our anniversary today.  WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 39 YEARS.  I want to express to each of you why our marriage is so wonderful.  My husband comes from a very righteous family who grew up in the gospel of Jesus Christ. He honors his priesthood and does everything in his power to do what is right. I came from a very righteous family who grew up the same way.  We love the same things. We love to hike, we love being together with our children, we love to share a meal, we love cleaning together, we love canning together, we love preparing a meal together, we have always been together in taking care of our children, when my young daughter got in a bad car accident and I couldn't be at the hospital because of work, my husband was there. We are very supportive of each other and help each other through difficult times. I can't express to everyone out there how important is to marry into a family that is exactly like your family.  So many problems can be solved, because your children will become like their mother or father.  I don't care what you do or how many promises you make.  I believe your past will catch up to you through your children.  Look at yourself and the choices you make, they are a direct result of your parents. The Lord knows that what goes around comes around that is the only way we can truly realize the mistakes that we have made, that is if some one we love makes those same mistakes. Then we can really realize what we put other people through.  Other wise we can't learn that lesson. Our Father in Heaven knows what he is doing.  We have to learn to return to him.