Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Eating alone?  These are great ideas for quick meals for one person!  I am looking at these kinds of ideas more now, as I eat alone often now.  My dear husband Wayne, whom I have mentioned often, is now on a feeding tube and can't eat anything more by mouth.  His esophageal cancer is progressing, and he recently had a touch of pneumonia at the bottom of his right lung.  That indicated aspirating from the esophagus, and if he were to continue eating even small amounts, it could cause pneumonia often.  For the last few weeks he had been able to eat only food pureed, or liquified, and only a few bites of each food.  I even had to put Cream of Wheat with milk into a blender, and tapioca with milk into a blender.      This was taken with Wayne, our daughter Angie (Angela) and me, in September 2014, at my 80th birthday party.      Yesterday we took him to the hospital with severe intestinal bleeding, and he will be th...

I have always loved articles dealing with how to learn and teach healthy emotional behavior.  My own mother, Ruth A. Miles, had great wisdom and understanding of children.   She taught elementary age children for 40 years.  This article from Hey Sigmund.com is another classic.  This article uses "she" and "her" a lot, but of course it relates to "he" and "him" also -- and has great and wise ideas.  It is about fathers, but the same ideas relate to mothers! It's interesting to me that the author lives in Sweden.  Wayne and I served a Senior Couple Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in Sweden, in 1994-1996.  Wayne had gone there on a mission in the 1950's. The Single Most Important Skill to Teach Your Child (by Miki Dedijer) Posted  February 8, 2016  by  Hey Sigmund Few tasks are more important as a dad than to help your child develop an awareness of her feelings, and the ability to manage ...

Have you discovered "Book of Mormon Central"?  It is a fascinating new website with evidences that help add a lot of knowledge and evidences about the Book of Mormon.  This article, in Meridian Magazine, is very amazing.  I love to study about the many facts being found that corroborate the Book of Mormon! Did Ancient Israelites Build Temples Outside of Jerusalem? By Book of Mormon Central  · February 10, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE . Visit Book of Mormon Central at  http://www.bookofmormoncentral.org Follow  Book of Mormon Central on Facebook “And I, Nephi, did build a temple” ( 2 Nephi 5:16 ). The Know Some time after their arrival in the New World, Nephi and his followers separated themselves from the Lamanites and established a small community of believers ( 2 Nephi 5:5–15 ). The Book of Mormon reports that at that time, Nephi constructed a temple. “And I, Ne...

Another great peek into a presentation at Roots Tech.  Sister Wendy Nelson is the wife of Elder Russell M. Nelson, the President of the Apostles.  Sheri Dew is the CEO ? of Deseret Book.  Both outstanding women! Sheri Dew, Wendy Nelson: Two Friends, One Challenge By Scot and Maurine Proctor  · February 8, 2016 Sheri Dew, talking with her friend Wendy Nelson at Family Discovery Day for Rootstech said, “We are here as Exhibit A and Exhibit B when it comes to doing Family history. Unfortunately, I am Exhibit B. “Four decades ago I decided I needed to be in the temple at least once a week.” She said. “I haven’t been a slacker about temple worship and temple service. The pressures and the disappointments in my life would have crushed me long ago without the temple, a place of knowledge and revelation and peace. If you haven’t yet established a pattern of temple service, may I saw what my stake president once said to me, ‘Sheri, just go. Go and see...

This is a beautiful challenge, and I am going to try and do my best to follow it.  As many of you who read this blog know, Family History is one of my favorite things to do, and I consider it part of my mission in this life!   You can go to www.rootstech.org, or www.rootstech2016, and click on each day, and watch the presentations on Family History!  What an amazing thing!  Apostolic Challenge Issued at Rootstech By Scot and Maurine Proctor  · February 7, 2016 Elder Dale G. Renlund, speaking with his wife Ruth, and daughter Ashley, at the opening session of Rootstech Family Discovery Day, strengthened an apostolic challenge that has been given for the past two years. Elder Neil L. Andersen challenged the youth two years ago, “ Prepare as many names for the temple as baptisms you perform in the temple. ” Then last year the challenge was strengthened to add this phrase: “ and help someone else to do the same. ” Elder Renlund further beef...