religion

To me, there is so much beauty in religion: people striving to connect with God. I think it is interesting that once we find a religion that we cherish and love, we are more apt to close out the others. I think mostly we just get comfortable. But how sad…

Remember clear back HERE when I used to speak at Time Out for Women? That was a fun time. It was so stretching for me and I learned so much! This year a friend had the idea to go with a group of us and it was such a good…

General Conference for our church took place this last weekend.   I was sooo excited about it, as I always am.  We have some friends who are interested in the church at the moment and when I was explaining what conference is to her I had to laugh at myself.…

As I write today my eyes are brimmed up with tears. It is a busy day, but I just sat down and watched this for the first time: And as I watched, the most wonderful feeling swallowed me up. I’m so grateful for things like that to remind me in…

He was born so we can be born again. May we all seek to Follow Him. …and Rejoice greatly. Merry Christmas!

Just like Saturday jobs need to be re-worked over and over again (back here), my scripture study habits sure do too. Oh boy. I’ve always held scripture study in pretty high regard.  I mean, quite honestly, whenever I’m in a pretty regular habit of reading/studying each day my days just…

…for mission calls galore. Because every other minute it seems Max’s friends are working on their mission papers, anticipating where they will get called, receiving their mission calls and heading out all over the world. You see, when boys in our church turn 18 they have the option of serving…

A month or so ago I posted some pictures of prom (here).  It was such a fun night…fun for the kids and so fun to be their mom. I noticed there was a lot of commotion going on on that post about Elle’s dress not having enough shoulder coverage so…

I just tried to post this as a comment in the last post, but it won’t let me because it’s so dang long.  So for what it’s worth, here you go. Thank you for all the insightful comments…I’m finally back to give my own two-cents, although I’m not sure blogger…

This is our Primary in our branch here in China: We had our primary program last month and it was the best (which miraculously always seems to be the case in Primary programs…no matter what crazy antics the kids pull). Dave and I got to be front and center of…