Can you believe this almost 7 years ago!!!

I love Baseball!!!

Baseball Fever!!!

The video was taken yesterday while we were playing in Providence, Utah against the Utah State Aggies in the Northern Utah League. I was going as fast as I could and still almost didn't make it. Listen to Melissa as I round first...and then the other guys started chanting Manny, becuase of my Manny Pants!!!

Enjoy

General Conference is upon us again. What an amazing blessing this has been to us in our household. As we watched conference sessions yesterday and as we sit and watch this morning, we are a blessed people to have such strong leadership on the Earth. "We Thank Thee O God for a Prophet" rings more profound in my heart today. In these difficult times of economic strife and hardship how blessed are we that we have been taught for years to be prepared for this day and days to come. I want to reflect with all of you a talk I just gave in our home ward. It was based off a talk given by John Bytheway years ago. The talk is entitled, "5 Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Anything."

First, all of us need to first look for the answers we need in books where the answers do not change. So many of us have been involved in a resale of a text book at the end of the semester, once or twice. What usually happens to us? We get stiffed on the value of the text book, right!? We pay $75 and get back $3! Why does this happen? The information found in the text is now outdated and not relevant to future courses, namely because the answers will change in the next year, rendering the information held within useless. Where can we find answers that will not change? Your right, in the Scriptures and in the words of our Latter-day Prophets.

Here are the scriptures in order: Study these one by one:

1. 1 Nephi 11:16-17 "We do not know all things but we do KNOW that God loves us"
2. Moses 7:26-33 "God weeps on our behalf"
3. Alma 14:9-13 "Your work is not finished, no matter how difficult it may be"
4. Alma 7:11-12 "The Atonement does not just cover sins but pains and afflictions"
5. D&C 101:32-36 "Build a foundation and Endure to the End, Blessings await"

Elder Scott added in the Nov 1995 Ensign: “When you face adversity, you can be led to ask many questions. Some serve a useful purpose; others do not. To ask, Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? will lead you into blind alleys. It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial? Willing sacrifice of deeply held personal desires in favor of the will of God is very hard to do. Yet, when you pray with real conviction, “Please let me know Thy will” and “May Thy will be done,” you are in the strongest position to receive the maximum help from your loving Father.

This life is an experience in profound trust—trust in Jesus Christ, trust in His teachings, trust in your capacity as led by the Holy Spirit to obey those teachings for happiness now and for a purposeful, supremely happy eternal existence. 

In the spirit of conference I wanted to share this everyone on our blog. It has helped me to refocus I hope it does the same with each of you. 

Where has the time gone?!?

I think I figured out how to do pictures for all our fans.

Melissa and I-2008

2003 @ Bear World

2002 @ Eastern Idaho State Fair

2002-we had been married for almost 2 months at this point.

I thought I would contribute to the blog with a couple of my favorite pics. Don't worry there will be many more to come as we both continue to learn just how this thing works. But, for now enjoy the new post. 

How time flies!!

Okay so I am not a very good blogger because it has been over a month since I last updated this, time just flies so fast. I can not complain we are happy, healthy, and enjoying life, and are going to get some money back from taxes which is always good because we usually have to pay in.  We are enjoying our calling for the most part still trying to learn the ropes (literally) of scouts, the scouts are fun, crazy but fun.  The best part is spring is coming and I am excited to get out and work on our backyard and enjoying the sun.

Trying to keep updating!

     Well I am learning more and more how to design our blog and thanks to other bloggers out there I always watch for a link when I see a cute blog design, so thanks to all of you!  I would put some pictures on but this is a brand new laptop because the other one crashed and it is cheaper to get a brand new one so once we get a flash drive and get all of our pictures we will put some on.  And, we also can not find our digital camera but thats ok with me because that camera sucks we just need to spend the money and get a good one!

     Anyways, just the same old with us just work and come home.  We actually had a pretty productive week with our new calling as scout leaders.  Willy made a schedule and we took it over to all the boys met them and their parents, which I enjoyed because now I can start putting names with faces when I see people at church. So, we had our first scout meeting we are such rookies but it was good to get things finally going, I think it will get better as we go along and start learning what scouts is all about.  It will be fun!  

     I really enjoy serving in the church it is amazing what you learn and especially learning on a personal level your own capabilities. I truly do believe that when you are serving others you will be blessed also.:) This is one of the values I really want to work more is service, I just feel I have been given so much that I should give back!:)

     

We are bloggers!

Well we are slowly figuring out how to change our blog so it looks at least good, I decided we needed to change the look and thanks to other bloggers out there we stole some ideas from them, anyways we still need to add pictures so that will be the next thing so stay tuned.  Well we have survived another week with work and other things going on willy is doing great with his job I know he always says "I sell powered wheel chairs" but he is really good at it and being a manager of the store in pocatello it truly does take someone who can organized well he is always successful at anything he puts his mind to. As for me we had our first inventory at costco and I am so glad I am in the pharmacy because we just had to count our medications and I was out of there by 11pm not to mention I had to work at 9:30 am and was there all day but some good overtime on the next paycheck will be awesome.  Well we also got called in our new ward to be the eleven year old scout leader when they first asked us I was thinking to my self are you kidding me I know nothing about scouts and either does willy I mean we like to camp and stuff but we camp in a nice trailer that has electricity, a bathroom, and a tv and dvd player, so we do not rough it.  But it will be a good experience I figure heck at least we will learn how to tie knots and use a compass right!! We will learn alot I am sure so any of you that have been in scouts any ideas would be great!!!