Familial Research and Development

I cruised into the Distribution Center, picked up new undergarments, renewed my Ensign subscription AND bought Dove 2 new white shirts and then hit the freeway about 2 minutes later. Arrived at my destination in SLC about 10 minutes before I HAD to be there (which translated correctly means I sat and waited for 10 minutes) and then I made Dove give me directions to some place (any place) where we could grab a quick bite to eat. No repeat of last week. We sat down to eat, missed the next session and had to wait 40 minutes-that was one late night! After we ate we headed for the Temple and were concerned with only 10 minutes before the next session that we might not get changed in time and make it. But-we did. After the session we're heading to the freeway and are playing with the idea of stopping at IKEA to get some more cabinets for our favorite (for now) project-remodeling the bedrooms into a master bedroom, office and craft room with sufficient storage space in each room for all o...

"If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us." --Thomas S. Monson, "On Being Spiritually Prepared", Ensign, Feb 2010, 4–6 When I first read this I read the 3rd to last word as teach. Then I realized, that is what challenges do-teach us. Sometimes learning comes through seeing others experiences(either the challenge happening to someone else and we learn from it-as in dad’s case). His brother Joe went skiing on Sunday, despite parental advisement to not, and broke his leg in 13 places. Sometimes we’re given multiple ‘opportunities’ to be ‘taught’-we do something we know we shouldn’t and the earth did not come crashing down on us (yet) so we go along being good (for awhile) and do it again (with all sorts of reasons why we were justified in breaking commandments) and maybe again this time the world didn’t come crashing do...