Week 13

Nothing too exciting happened around town this week except we watched the price of gas go down about three times--it's now $1.36 per gallon.  Don't know what it's doing in the rest of the country, but that seems pretty low.

Stillwater community center had its annual Dancing with Daddy event on Saturday--reminded me of the daddy/daughter dates in Primary.  My daddy bought me a sweet little corsage of pink rosebuds for our first one--he was one classy guy!

There is exciting news back in Orem--there will be a new baby in our house in August.  My great nephew Kenneth and his wife Lauren are expecting!!

Elder Kim Clark of the Quorum of the Seventy was our visitor for stake conference yesterday and today.  What a spiritual feast we had.  In the Saturday night session, he said the theme of the meeting was finding, rescuing, etc.  Then he spend half an hour discussing Mosiah 18: 21 (with input from the congregation); he really delved into what each part of the scripture means and what the implications are for our families.  He concluded the discussion of the scripture by saying that the loops of the "knit together" are the small acts of love and kindness we do in our families, and that the Savior is the knitter who knits us together in unity.  He then promised that attending to the concepts in this scripture make us more powerful in reaching out to and rescuing others.  We watched the wonderful video about a family reaching out to share the gospel with others and discussed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jbRUXWVMlw

Today's session was also wonderful from start to finish.  Elder Clark talked about the version of the foolish man and the wise man as found in Luke 6: 46-49.  In this account, both men start out on the earth, but the wise man dug deep into the earth to come to the rock (the Savior) upon which he built his foundation (covenants and ordinances that bind us to Christ).  The framework of the house is our daily lives--the small and simple things that connect us to Christ, i.e. prayer, scripture study, obedience, temple attendance, and service.  

Following conference the ward went to one of the counselor's homes for tacos and visiting.  Later, since tomorrow is Chinese New Year, we had Chinese food for dinner with the sisters.