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<span style="font-size: large;">He then reaches in a drawer and pulls out the Book of Mormon. He has given this to members and non-members alike.............what was that statement Elder Packer said....."the study of the gospel will improve behavior more than the study of behavior, or something like that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The spirit was so strong and bore a special witness that Heavenly Father loves us all equally. ~~ even the "stinkers" in your family or group of friends, He loves <u>them</u> as much as He loves <u>you</u>!</span>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-89899672414710640042012-11-09T14:37:00.001-08:002012-11-09T14:37:11.227-08:00An Eternal Perspective<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.8pt;">
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<em><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Helaman 7: 4-6</span></em>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-7876005769022406242012-08-29T10:27:00.005-07:002012-08-29T10:27:54.924-07:00End of the Blog?<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>I hate to say goodby to my blogspot, but Facebook & Instagram have taken over.............who knows what new techno-media use will be in vogue next year!! (smile).....I've decided I've enjoyed Cathy Bubert's weekly letters so much while they have been serving in the Long Beach Mission, that I will try and cap the week's activities with a letter to my kids and grandkids. This is the wave of the future, there are so many things I want to tell them that are important. I want my legacy to add to the quality of their lives and especially how wonderful the Power of the Gospel can be in their lives, helping them through the good and bad times and enriching their lives beyond what they can imagine. </strong></em></span></span>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-11516010304364534972012-08-27T14:47:00.002-07:002012-08-27T14:47:26.908-07:00Happy 39th Amy!<div align="center">
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Last night, I attended my grandson's TREK fireside in his stake.........these meetings are unbelievably strong with the Spirit! Watching the video and seeing these youth and leaders trek 36 miles in pioneer clothes, pulling their handcarts, listening to the stories and miracles that happened along the way ~ especially the power of the Priesthood and appreciation of women i.e., "Women's Pull".............Mason's testimony was succinct and powerful and I will never forget it. He quoted his mom as saying before he left, "Mason, this is going to be hard, but you can do hard things!"...........He quoted what President Adams, their stake pres. told all of the young men on the TREK about agency.............."We all have free agency....and choices, but there is one thing we have no choice in, <u>that is in the way we treat women".</u> Then he thanked his grandma for her example, (now I really have a lot to live up to!).....I know that Mason has a testimony of his Savior and loves his family. As I hugged him before I left, I whispered in his ear....Living the Gospel will bring happiness to you. The leaders of youth work hard to put on these testimony-building activities.........because they will be our future leaders in the Church. I think we can all rest easy ~ this generation coming up will do what the Lord asks of them and do it with enthusiasm and great love!grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-81295613971578255622012-07-27T07:21:00.001-07:002012-07-27T07:21:22.987-07:00Jewkes' aka "Oregon Jewkes"<div align="center">
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<strong><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">The starlings' murmurations are manifestations of swarm intelligence, which in different contexts is practiced by schools of fish, swarms of bees and colonies of ants. As far as I am aware, even complex algorithmic models haven’t yet explained the starlings’ aerobatics,</span></strong><strong><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif";"> </span></strong><strong><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">which rely on the tiny birds' quicksilver reaction time of under 100 milliseconds to avoid aerial collisions—and predators—in the giant flock.</span></strong><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="color: navy; font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Click on the URL below - then on the video screen</span></strong><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: magenta; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">to my Little June-Bug</span></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: magenta; font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;">Kaylee~~</span></em></strong></div>
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Cherylee my little sister by 11 years...........drove here with six of her grandchildren for a couple of days just to visit with Mom and her grandkids' Great-Grandma Perkins~~</div>
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We took Mom and all went to Zupa's and visited Tuesday night, she is an amazing gal--</div>
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she had them from 16 down to 2 1/2!!!</div>
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She is a smart gal too, swam them at Motel 6 - so they slept very well!</div>
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People talk about "self-made" men, but my sister is a "self-made" WOMAN!</div>
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She doesn't know the meaning of defeat....she's started many businesses and has been very successful. One of her daughters told me she could sell ice cubes to Eskimos! (smile)</div>
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But the other side of her is the biggest heart outside of Texas. She is a generous and amazing lady. I'm proud of her and know the Lord looks fondly at someone who helps so many!</div>
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<span class="object"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzkEwPZWALA&feature=em-share_video_user" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Best Marriage Proposal EVER. -Portland Oregon (High Quality)</span></a></b></span><b> </b></div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-38236340448893163682012-06-18T08:26:00.001-07:002012-06-18T08:26:09.346-07:00Happy Father's Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;">I love you Dad!</span></em></div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-77331846942198322872012-06-13T08:32:00.000-07:002012-06-13T08:32:50.217-07:00Jerusalem in Utah County?<div align="center">
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Yesterday, I had an opportunity to visit the Goshen, UT BYU movie lot of Jerusalem. I doubled down on Tylenol and laced up my tennis shoes tight because it was a lot of walking but oh, I wouldn't have missed it for all the world! As many know on my <em>bucket list</em> is a trip to the Holy Land~~well I got an amazing preview right here in Utah! Our Natural Resources staff was allowed to take a tour of this ~ we were there for three hours and I could have stayed another three~~ We saw sites where many of the previous movies on the Savior's life had been filmed as well as those built for a future movie on His life. A good walk away we saw "Gethsemane", Garden Tomb, Golgotha which was incredibly built up on a cliff.....As our tour guide/sculptor showed us, much of the set's walls are made of sculpting dense Styrofoam and then placing some special cement over it.........this looks like real stone, or rocks..they expect to have this functioning for at least another 20 years and will keep adding to it. The pillars on the porch of Solomon's temple was at least 1/2 a football field long, Solomon demanded a type of designer stone that common people could not use, all the stone used in the temple had to be carved around the edges like a special frame on them, the pool of Bethesda and the dusty road to Emaus .... it was so incredible and like stepping back in time, the narrow little streets with doorways we had to duck to go into, the big thick wooden doors, aged with rusty hinges, the room where they filmed the raising of Jarius's daughter.....the balcony where Pilate looked down on the Savior.....the well where the Savior talked with the Samaritan woman...Our guide told us that the directors would walk all over and a lot of inspiration was given to where a set should be built and how..........the gnarled and twisted trunks on the olive trees in Gethsemane consisted of a process that was taught to the sculptors how to achieve, and they look so real!~~As we prepared to leave, they told us that tours were coming to an end for a long time now because of the filming schedule ~~ so we felt very fortunate and grateful we were able to see it. </div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-71874369612164344382012-06-11T13:26:00.000-07:002012-06-11T13:26:08.825-07:00another weekend come and gone............<div align="center">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>Babied my hurt foot this weekend............lots of elevated foot/comfortable chair time............but it was nice to read and read and catch some TV as well. I think it was well worth it, because I've been very blessed as I'm able now to just limp a little and throw the crutches away! (smile) So grateful because it could have been much worse! got to see Pearl's dance recital on Saturday, have some good phone conversation with both Dad & Mom and watched again a wonderful film called "Fireproof" from Netflicks~~recommend it to every married couple ~~ it was really good!</strong></em></span></div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-3997777008544102242012-06-05T07:24:00.001-07:002012-06-05T07:24:46.677-07:00Pearl turns 5 on June 2nd<div align="center">
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><em><strong>I watched Horton kids while mom and dad a little R&R over the weekend..........Brooke, Kobe and I went down to Pearl's party.............Her cake was truly gourmet that she asked Mom to fix according to a cooking show!!!.........only Stacey would have attempted it with chocolate curls and all........delicious!</strong></em></span></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">I think Pearl had a great week, she had both a California & a Utah birthday celebration this year!</span></em></strong></div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797056194631051471.post-24590321570982777842012-06-01T14:25:00.000-07:002012-06-01T14:25:26.224-07:00June is busting out all over~~<div align="center">
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Mom, (Grandma Perkins), has been trying to save her foot now since last October. This has been a trying time for her but she is hanging tough and I want her to know many many prayers are going up for her to have peace with whatever decision these health issues bring to fruition~~</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>What is that saying.........."old age ain't for sissies".......</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>true, oh so true!!</em></strong></span></div>grandma to 16http://www.blogger.com/profile/12063793635411623759noreply@blogger.com0