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This is a lovely Christmas story.  I like to read and share uplifting stories and ideas.  After a very busy Thanksgiving with 28 people in our home for dinner. I have just been resting a couple of days after everyone left to go home.  I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving, and now we enter on the most giving time of the year -- Christmas!  I hope this blog brings cheer to all! "God Told Me to Give You This:" The Surprising Way One Christmas Card Traveled Hundreds of Miles to Answer a Prayer by M.C. Sutton  | Nov. 28, 2015 Makes You Think Mormon Life  From LDS Living "And the greatest of these?" asked Emma. "The Connection," answered Jon. "That which binds us all together. And to the world around us." -from "Book 5: One Voice Shall Rise" "Can we help them?" "Sure," answers Josh as he glances in the rearview mirror before pulling onto th...

It's late this Thanksgiving night, and I'm quite tired!  We had 28 here to dinner, the most we have ever had in our own house at one time.  We went around the table as is our tradition, and told what we are most thankful for.  We made it around 2 to 3 times, but with a lot of noise in the background!  It seems many of the family wanted to be here just in case it is Wayne's last Thanksgiving -- we hope not! We love to play games when we get together, and we had fun until after 9 p.m. tonight!  Using disposable plates, cups and utensils helped a lot! We had many helping, cooked 2 turkeys, and 10 pies, and we probably will have just enough left for tomorrow lunch!  After having our also traditional family breakfast of Swedish pancakes tomorrow morning. I'll have to post the recipe to it tomorrow!  It is a family favorite, and something we always have when someone in the family comes to visit!  I hope you all had a wonderful day! Latter D...

A must watch (or record) on Thanksgiving Day!  Read all about it! BYUtv Premieres Docudrama Joan of Arc: A Story of Spiritual Power and Angelic Visitations By Maurine Proctor  · November 24, 2015, by Meridian Magazine The 80-minute docudrama,  Joan of Arc,  will premiere on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26 at 6 p.m. at MT/8p.m. ET on BYUtv, followed by a 10-minute behind-the-scenes special. It will continue to appear on the television station several more times during the holiday season. BYUtv has created a stunning docudrama about a stunning life that is not to be missed in its several showings in the next weeks. Joan of Arc is a global household name, but outside of France most of us have only the vaguest idea about who she was or why she went unflinchingly and with towering conviction to be burned at the stake in May of 1431. Yet as writer, director and co-producer of the film Russ Holt notes, “It is not a stretch to say that the wo...

Our nephew who is a bishop asked us to write up the story of how much indexing Wayne has done, and the reasons behind it.  He plans to give it as the 5th Sunday lesson to the Priesthood and Relief Society this coming Sunday.  You can have a preview, with pictures!  And the update on his cancer is that the cancer is not gone!  We wrote last week that the tumor was gone, but the results of the biopsies came in showing there is still cancer there.  He has decided to not do chemo at his age, 85, and hope he feels good for quite a while in the days to come.  He still has trouble swallowing, and his throat and esophagus are sore, from the radiation.  But he is a trooper! On the right you can see our wedding picture, and on the left some pencil drawings by our grandson, Sam Lieske.  Also in the mirror is reflecting some of the mural of Hawaii on our bedroom wall I made a few years ago. ----------------------------------------------------------...

This is an article with such excellent ideas and truths, that it needs to be read slowly and pondered.  The author has shown many ways to become like God. Attributes of Highly Developed Beings By M. Catherine Thomas  · November 16, 2015, in Meridian Magazine Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth in a series of excerpts from  The God Seed  by M. Catherine Thomas. To see the previous installment,  click here . If men do not comprehend the character of God  they do not comprehend themselves.  (Joseph Smith) The very power of God is found in His attributes of godliness…. We seek these attributes. (Elder Gene R. Cook) Therefore I would that ye should be perfect  even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect.  (3 Nephi 12:48) Where shall we find a prototype into whose likeness we may be assimilated, in order that we may be made partakers of life and salvation?…. There will be no dispute…that ...