Thoughts and stories, by Pal

I've had problems with my computer, and soon will have a special line to my computer, so it will work better.  I am enjoying seeing many more of my family now I am living in Bountiful, Utah, and also I enjoyed a visit to St. George last weekend, seeing family down there.  This weekend I will go to Idaho for the blessing of my latest great grandchild, a boy born on February 1, 2017!  I will be a few days, so may not post anything for perhaps a week or so. April 30, 2017 Holy Ghost SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine & Covenants 112:10 "Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers. " QUOTE OF THE DAY Harold B. Lee "Every man has the privilege to exercise these gifts and these privileges in the conduct of his own affairs; in bringing up his children in the way they should go; in the management of his business, or whatever he does.  "It is his right to enjo...

This is so interesting -- to learn what our Church is doing around the world, and how to get the news from different countries.   Mormons Around the World: Peru, Ghana, Indonesia, Australia By The LDS Newsroom  · April 18, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Peru: Mormon Helping Hands Answer the Call in Local Disaster Latter-day Saints, wearing their familiar  Mormon Helping Hands  yellow shirts and vests, and themselves suffering from the effects of flooding rainfall, left their homes to help their neighbors. “I could not stay home watching what was happening in my country; I had to do something,” said Jose. Such were the thoughts of many Mormons who try to follow t...

These are great ideas if we start feeling our prayers aren't heard, or that we are not as close to the Spirit as we were in the past. ​3 Habits That Could Make You Lose Your Testimony Without Realizing It by Zack Oates Mormon Life It was a blistering hot day in NYC. I was 23 and had graduated from BYU two months earlier. Now I was nearing the end of my summer internship at a very fast-paced advertising agency. From my apartment window, I looked out over the Hudson River where a city that shimmered with opportunity lay before me. The whole world was looking bright, but inside, I felt…cloudy. I had doubts. I wasn’t sure where to live after my internship, what to do for work, and worst of all, I went from having a huge support system in Utah where everyone encouraged me to choose the right and where gospel conversations were a norm, to a bustling city where my thoughts rarely fell on the gospel. And when they did, it was mainly questions abo...

This article expresses thoughts I have had most of my life.  We all know dear family members or friends who have passed on, and what an impact on all our lives they were.  Are we living our own lives so we will be a blessing to many others day by day?  Today is all we have. This morning, my dear daughter-in-law Julie asked what I was going to do today.  I really didn't have a plan, but I do have several choice things I can do any given day.  Just deciding which is the challenge!  Yesterday we had the wonderful experience of being at the last Tabernacle Choir broadcast that my son Wayne will sing in live.  I'm sure there will be quite a few re-runs of when he sang in it, and the re-runs of this last General Conference will be especially precious to us as he was in the Choir then.  The ceremony after was very special, and I will do a blog on that in a day or two when I collect the photos several others took there.  A dear granddaughter has ...