Two months ago we came back home to live out the winter...So far it has been like it always is. HARD
First week I almost got bit by a Rattle snake,, I can't hear them so Zacky heard it and warned me... It was like 4 feet away, just outside the back door.
My Blazer transmission went out. Lost that car. Next was the Yukon engine went out and that was 2500 bucks. I have been really hurt financially with both cars going down.
We finished the storage/green house this last week... looks good
We have been working on the water tank install for a month now and that is about up.
Starting the smoke house it is an old freezer type...8x8. It is going to take some work.
So from this time on I will be giving up dates on all the trouble and what we are up too.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Is Your Bow Broken?
My wife wonders why I get up at 4am or so to read and meditate on the gospel. It is because I have been hooked on the spirit and how it makes me feel. Sleep means nothing to that feeling.
Joseph Smith was baptized, received his priesthood and was a true prophet of God well before the Church was established. The Church was established to take the uneducated and teach them the basics of the gospel. So, I wonder, there must be a lot more to the gospel than what is taught in the Church.
It, the Church, is our Mother. Like the Sons of Helaman they were taught on their mothers lap and so are we in the Church. We are given milk, then a little bread and Gerber’s food. After we grow older we are turned over to our Father for instruction on the higher things of life, or should we say, the meat of the gospel.
Mother can bring us so far and then this body needs meat. If we look at the three most important people in the Churches beginning, namely Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor we have a pattern of what our life should be like. Yes, they helped the Church realize the basics and gave us a chance to eat a little meat.
Our Father Abraham gave us the chance to do the works of Abraham. How did he live his life? Then we also have the life of lot and his very large family. He and his wife and family all chose to leave the life of Abraham and go to the big city to live. Where they had markets, fine home, goods to buy and sell all kinds of stuff. Gratify all their wants of the flesh.
Another example is our Father Lehi and son’s who also were given the chance to a higher life by leaving the city life and all their possessions of gold, silver, homes, job etc. and go live in a tent out of the city. They lived on what they brought with them for a time and then needed to have more. They needed the meat of the gospel.
Once out in the desert they found that the oil in their lamps was not enough to guide them further. As the virgins found out many of them didn’t have any oil and in this Lehi’s case, Nephi broke his bow. The whole family suffered for lack of meat. Until Nephi could make a bow out of wood and then he asked God where to go to obtain meat.
So, I ask you children-Is Your Bow Broken
Joseph Smith was baptized, received his priesthood and was a true prophet of God well before the Church was established. The Church was established to take the uneducated and teach them the basics of the gospel. So, I wonder, there must be a lot more to the gospel than what is taught in the Church.
It, the Church, is our Mother. Like the Sons of Helaman they were taught on their mothers lap and so are we in the Church. We are given milk, then a little bread and Gerber’s food. After we grow older we are turned over to our Father for instruction on the higher things of life, or should we say, the meat of the gospel.
Mother can bring us so far and then this body needs meat. If we look at the three most important people in the Churches beginning, namely Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor we have a pattern of what our life should be like. Yes, they helped the Church realize the basics and gave us a chance to eat a little meat.
Our Father Abraham gave us the chance to do the works of Abraham. How did he live his life? Then we also have the life of lot and his very large family. He and his wife and family all chose to leave the life of Abraham and go to the big city to live. Where they had markets, fine home, goods to buy and sell all kinds of stuff. Gratify all their wants of the flesh.
Another example is our Father Lehi and son’s who also were given the chance to a higher life by leaving the city life and all their possessions of gold, silver, homes, job etc. and go live in a tent out of the city. They lived on what they brought with them for a time and then needed to have more. They needed the meat of the gospel.
Once out in the desert they found that the oil in their lamps was not enough to guide them further. As the virgins found out many of them didn’t have any oil and in this Lehi’s case, Nephi broke his bow. The whole family suffered for lack of meat. Until Nephi could make a bow out of wood and then he asked God where to go to obtain meat.
So, I ask you children-Is Your Bow Broken
Thursday, November 12, 2009
What does the home site look like
Snow on the road leading in to the home stead.
Snow and summer pictures from my bedroom window.
A look at our spring for water.
The house is a little more completed from this picture.
First Picture
I have been told not to use pictures of myself, from Matt as I am to old and ugly but I wanted to prove that fact. Gravity has a way of destroying the body.. You will all experience this soon. I wish I could be around to see it.
Here We Go;
I don't have a clue what the hell I am doing on this Blog. Like everyone else, I will try to keep it up or have Sariah do it. She likes this sort of stuff.
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