I spent yesterday taking down the Halloween and Fall season decorations at the front of the house and then installing Christmas lights. There are a few adjustments still to be made but what you see here is pretty much what you get.

I also took our car in to get it's 90,000 mile service. It still runs beautifully. That little Prius has been the best car I have ever owned and it still runs like new. 

I usually try to see if Jake is available to pick me up and he was. We went over to a nearby Del Taco and got breakfast together. He told me he was thinking about becoming an Ordinance Worker at their new Orem Temple and I encouraged him to pursue that goal. I think that would do great things for him.

Today I will try to finish off the decorations on the outside of the house then we are going to Jake's for a Thanksgiving Day get together.

Come Follow Me 

"Our job is not to teach someone who’s going through a rough patch that they are bad or disappointing. On rare occasions we may feel prompted to correct, but most often let’s tell our loved ones in spoken and unspoken ways the messages they long to hear: “Our family feels whole and complete because you are in it. You will be loved for the rest of your life—no matter what.”

Sometimes what we need is empathy more than advice; listening more than a lecture; someone who hears and wonders, “How would I have to feel to say what they just said?”

Remember, families are a God-given laboratory where we’re figuring things out, so missteps and miscalculations are not just possible but probable. And wouldn’t it be interesting if, at the end of our lives, we could see that those relationships, even those challenging moments, were the very things that helped us to become more like our Savior? Each difficult interaction is an opportunity to learn how to love at a deeper level—a godlike level."

By Sister Tamara W. Runia, First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency, October 2023

1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

"If we are prepared to share the gospel, we are ready to respond to the counsel of the Apostle Peter, who urged, “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.”

We will have opportunities throughout our lives to share our beliefs, although we don’t always know when we will be called upon to do so."

President Thomas S. Monson

1 Peter 4:6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.