2023 December 11, Monday

 we enjoyed having Jake and Meredith and their kids over for Sunday afternoon dinner and games and visiting yesterday. They are really good people and working hard to make their family successful in all meaningful ways. Meredith for a, in my opinion, well deserved promotion at Goldman Sachs where she has been employed for years. I say well deserved because she has a very rare combination of high intelligence, talent, education and above average friendly personality plus she is very nice looking as well. Jake sort of struggles with being a "stay at home" dad but since the beginning of their marriage I think they both agreed that her income and tenure at Goldman Sachs vs him being freshly graduated from UVU made it financially more lucrative for her to continue working and him to stay with the kids. I know he'd like to be making the money but he realized it's best to have her income for now and the kids need him to be there for them. They're doing great though.

It's fun and a nice break for them to come over here for a nice Sunday afternoon. We have the luxury of having a nice home that we can keep neat and clean with no young-uns to deal with 24-7.  So having them over gives them a nice break. They don't have to fix dinner or clean up afterward and we love doing that for them. 

Today is just a relaxing day to catch up with whatever. We have a HOA meeting this evening that we will probably attend. HOAs are always problematic and ours certainly has its share of problems. Hopefully as time goes by some of the worst will be appropriately dealt with.

Come Follow Me 

Revelations 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

 "The Lord instructs His servants to be humble because the process of being made whole spiritually begins with a broken heart. Think of the good that comes from broken things: Soil is broken to plant wheat. Wheat is broken to make bread. Bread is broken to become the emblems of the sacrament. When one who is repentant partakes of the sacrament with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, he or she becomes whole. As we repent and become whole through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we have much more to offer the Savior as we serve Him. “Yea, come unto him, and offer your whole souls as an offering unto him.”

As you live a virtuous life, you will feel a peaceful confidence in your standing before God and you will have the power of the Spirit to be with you."

Elder Randy D. Funk of The Seventy, October 2013

Doctrine and Covenants 43:24 O, ye nations of the earth, how often would I have gathered you together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not! 25 How oft have I called upon you by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of thunderings, and by the voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of famines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of a trump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of mercy all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the riches of eternal life, and would have saved you with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!

26 Behold, the day has come, when the cup of the wrath of mine indignation is full.