Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Our family life began on September 24, 1955, in the St. George, Utah, Temple Our family when we had only 6 children!  About  1968. About 1971, in the backyard of our home in Sandy, Utah. In 1975, just before Wayne M. went on his mission to Ecuador. About 1988, at my mother Ruth's 80th birthday party. About 1982, after we had moved to St. George, Utah                                                                                                                           About 1983, just before McKay went on his mission to Taiwan. About 1993, before Pam got married.   About 1994, when Wa...

A better reason to exercise!  This motivates me more than other reasons!  I need to exercise more, and it may help me live longer, and give more service! 3 Ways You Didn't Realize Physical Exercise Can Increase Spiritual Strength by Dr. Rich Tenney  | Feb. 04, 2017 Makes You Think Mormon Life Comments Why are we here? When asked this question in Sunday school, the answer often given is “to receive a  body  and be  tested .” While this is a right answer, have you noticed that the discussion that usually follows tends to pass over the  body  and focus more on how to pass the  test ? I’m sure the adversary appreciates this. Why? Because when we think and act as if we are in our premortal, unembodied state, it undermines our  agency , or what Elder Bednar calls our  capacity to act  (general conference, April 2010). There are a number of subtle physical consequences that co...

Beautiful thoughts with a lot of wisdom.  I love these scriptures and the quotes from the prophets.  Their quotes give new meaning to the scriptures.  Have a wonderful week, everyone! February 6, 2017 Reasons For Our Righteousness Efforts SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY 1 Corinthians 15:57-58 "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." QUOTE OF THE DAY George Albert Smith "Oh, how sad we would be if we thought that death terminated our career. If, when our life's labor on earth was finished, we had no opportunity to go on developing, there would be little to inspire us to live as we should here. The knowledge that all the good we accomplish here, and all the development we make, will enhance our happiness eternal...

More about Wayne.  This was post #606 last March 16th.  I will just mention something that happened last night.  I accompany often, and one young man I accompanied a couple of weeks ago said "Pal!  When can we have a game night again?"  When Wayne was alive, we had many game nights with family, but also now and then we would invite young college age people to come and play games.  He had really enjoyed coming here when Wayne was with us.   Sorry this is blurry.  The writing says:  "After Wayne's hip replacement operation in November 2012, his heart had problems.  This game was in the ICU"  I took this picture above with my phone from our "Rook Book", which is a book Anita made, in which we record our game scores!  A picture of when Wayne was in the ICU and we played a game of 6 handed Rook! ---------------------------------------- So last night I had my grandson and his wife, and 2 other young amazing tenors, one wit...