I'm still behind on the blog. I need to catch up. Since our European trip. We've crossed country with our enclosed trailer. Went to Dallas for 10 days, with Jake and Alicia. Traveled all around Texas. Corpus Christy. Kelleen, Austin, St. Antonio and Houston for Thanksgiving at Nick and Hills. We spent time with Chris and Katie, played games, relaxed, watched movies. Then Scott, Mike, Kris, Dylan and I all drove back to Colorado. We stopped at Jake and Alicias for an hour, had a delicious dinner at Katie and Chris and spent the night in Wichita Falls at Ken and Kathy's house. In the morning, they made us an amazing breakfast, pancakes which they were fabulous and she gave me the recipe, i'll be posting it here soon, we had eggs and then we hit the road.
Once we arrived in Colorado, Gmoo has been a little sick, she might have pneumonia, they thought it was degenerative heart failure and liquid on her lungs, so she has been in the hospital the whole time we've been here. We even thought she was going to pass. She was in bad shape a week ago, super weak and she wouldn't eat a thing. So sad to see.
This past Saturday Scott helped his parents to clean the garage. They got a LOT done but there's still so much more to do. I clean the house, vacuumed and swept, dusted, cleaned the toilets and sinks, and the kitchen, but I'm not going to lie, my back is killing me. haha
We went to the ward Christmas party on Friday night, where we had pulled pork. Christmas food is VERY different here in the US from what we have in Brasil. It was good though, a guy shared a good history and then a couple sang beautifully and played the guitar.
Today we went to church, stopped at grandpa's, came home eat a delicious pot roast that Kris made, went to the hospital for a little bit and came home. We are getting ready for our Ski trip tomorrow!!!
I'm so excited! too bad i'm already soar. hahaha
We will be going to Monarch, it's only an hour and a half. I've been wanting to ski for the past two winters. Last year, we couldn't because we were in Brazil for the whole month of december. In March, when we were here I wanted to go skiing, but I didn't have health insurance, so I didn't go. Hillary and Nick went and Hillary had her accident. :/
So I'm hoping we will be careful tomorrow.
Well, after skiing Scott booked a romantic getaway in the mountains of Colorado!!!! We will also be going to enjoy some hot springs!!! I'm so excited! It will be fun. We are all ready to go!
I'm just uploading some pics from my phone to the computer because I have no more memory space, since I had photos from Europe and whatnot. About 4800+ pictures. haha Yeah, that has been my way of journaling for the past month.
That's it for now. Hopefully I'll catch up on the blog soon.
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Calendar, Free Download.
love love looooove this graphic designer, i had to share it!
Amei esse Calendario da Karen Hofstetter, check her website here.
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A primeira coluna e para Ipad e a segunda para Iphone, plano de fundo.
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Day 25: Ascension into Heaven
Ornament: CloudScripture Reading: Acts 1:9-11LDS.org Image: The Ascension of JesusVideo: For God So Loved the World |
“Worshipfully and with great joy the Apostles returned to Jerusalem. The Lord’s ascension was accomplished. It was truly a literal departure of a material being, as his resurrection had been an actual return of his spirit to his own physical body. Now the disciples began to comprehend more fully that he had truly overcome the world. Not that he had displaced Caesar or even Pilate who ruled over Judea. The great majority of the world’s people had still not even heard of him. Not that man’s inhumanity to man was suddenly wiped out. But now there was victory over the grave—always, until then, the final conqueror of all men.”
Ezra Taft Benson, He Is Risen, New Era Magazine April 1985
Day 25: Ministry Among the Nephites
Ornament: HeartScripture Reading: 3 Nephi 17:5-24Gospel Art Picture: 316, 317LDS.org Image: Jesus with the NephitesVideos: My Joy is FullHe Lives: Testimonies of Jesus Christ |
“Jesus gave us a clear pattern to follow in fulfilling our responsibility to nurture and teach children. Our challenges differ from those of the Nephites because we live in a different time. But the Savior’s way is timeless. In his church, there can be no other way. As he demonstrated, our physical presence and attention is vital to the children in our families, church, and communities. We can know their needs and minister to them when we spend time with them. We can behold our children in their eternal perspective and see that they all know of the Savior and learn the significant truths of his gospel. We can help them witness marvelous spiritual events. They can hear our earnest prayers in their behalf. We are their ministering angels on earth if we follow the Lord’s example.”
Michaelene P. Grassli, General Primary President, Ensign Magazine November 1992.
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Day 24: Road to Emmaus
Ornament: HeartScripture Reading: Luke 24:13-32LDS.org Image: Resurrected Christ Appears to Apostles Video: The Road to Emmaus |
“In our walks along the road called life, in our study of the words of Luke and the other Gospel writers, we too rejoice in those treasured moments with the Lord. And in seeking to live in accordance with his commandments, and in studying his word, we might say, as the two disciples said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?” (Luke 24:32). Our hearts do burn and ever shall, so long as we do the will of the Lord, so long as we read Luke, and the others, with an eye and a heart single to the glory of our God and the miracle of his Son.”
Neal E. Lambert and Richard H. Cracroft, The Powerful Voices of the Gospels, New Era Magazine, January 1973
Day 24: Appearance to the Nephies
Ornament: LightningScripture Reading: 3 Nephi 8:3-7, 17-23, 3 Nephi 11:1-15Gospel Art Picture: 315LDS.org Images: Christ Teaching Nephites |
“The more righteous part of the Nephites had to focus their attention in order to hear the voice that preceded the Savior’s appearance among them. “They heard a voice as if it came out of heaven; and they cast their eyes round about, for they understood not the voice which they heard; and it was not a harsh voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn.”They heard the voice a second time and did not understand. When they heard the voice the third time, they “did open their ears to hear it; and their eyes were towards the sound thereof; and they did look steadfastly towards heaven, from whence the sound came.” If we are to hearken to the voice of the Spirit, we too must open our ears, turn the eye of faith to the source of the voice, and look steadfastly towards heaven.”
President James E. Faust, Voice of the Spirit, Liahona Magazine, June 2006.
Day 23: Resurrection
Ornament: Hand with nail printScripture Reading: John 20: 1-20Gospel Art Picture: 233, 234LDS.org Images: The Resurrected Christ, Video: Jesus is ResurrectedHis Sacred Name- An Easter Declaration |
“These simple words—“He is not here, but is risen”—have become the most profound in all literature. They are the declaration of the empty tomb. They are the fulfillment of all He had spoken concerning rising again. They are the triumphant response to the query facing every man, woman, and child who was ever born to earth.
The risen Lord spoke to Mary, and she replied. He was not an apparition. This was not imagination. He was real, as real as He had been in mortal life. He did not permit her to touch Him. He had not yet ascended to His Father in Heaven. That would happen shortly. What a reunion it must have been, to be embraced by the Father, who loved Him and who also must have wept for Him during His hours of agony.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley, He Is Not Here, but Is Risen, April 1999 General Conference
Day 22: Crucifixion and Burial
Ornament: CrossScripture Reading: Luke 23:33-46, 50-56Gospel Art Picture: 230, 231LDS.org Images: Crucifixion of Christ Video: Jesus is Scourged and Crucified,Jesus is Laid in a Tomb |
“He submitted Himself, and they took Him and in mockery crowned Him with a crown of platted thorns and placed a purple robe on His back. Without mercy and with hatred vile and intemperate, they beat Him and scourged Him and cried out for His crucifixion. He had done no evil. He had done only good, and in greater measure than any man before Him had ever done. Yet they cried for His death.
He staggered under the weight of the cross on which He was to hang. They nailed His quivering flesh to the unyielding wood. They mocked Him as He hung in agony.
While suffering, He forgave them. He cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matt. 27:46). Then He died for each of us.
But in dying He brought about the redemption of mankind. None can fully comprehend the extent and wonder and majesty of that sacrifice in our behalf. Suffice it to say He became our Redeemer.”
President Gordon B. Hinckley, The Empty Tomb Bore Testimony, April 1988 General Conference.
Day 21: Betrayal and Denail
Ornament: RoosterScripture Reading: Matthew 26:4-75Gospel Art Picture:228, 229Carl Bloch Painting: Peter's Betrayal Video: Jesus is Tried by Caiaphas, Peter Denies Knowing Him |
“This was also a telling time among those who knew Jesus more personally. The most difficult to understand in this group is Judas Iscariot. We know the divine plan required Jesus to be crucified, but it is wrenching to think that one of His special witnesses who sat at His feet, heard Him pray, watched Him heal, and felt His touch could betray Him and all that He was for 30 pieces of silver. Never in the history of this world has so little money purchased so much infamy. We are not the ones to judge Judas’s fate, but Jesus said of His betrayer, “Good [were it] for that man if he had not been born”…
Later, after Jesus’s arrest and appearance at trial, Peter, accused of knowing Jesus and being one of His confidants, denies that accusation not once but three times. We don’t know all that was going on here, nor do we know of protective counsel which the Savior may have given to His Apostles privately,but we do know Jesus was aware that even these precious ones would not stand with Him in the end, and He had warned Peter accordingly. Then, with the crowing of the cock, “the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, None Were With Him, Ensign Magazine May 2009.
Day 20: Gethsemane
Ornament: GiftScripture Reading: Matthew 26:36-45, D&C 19:16-19Gospel Art Picture: 227LDS.org Images: Jesus Praying in Gethsemane Video: The Savior Suffers in Gethsemane,Mormon Messages: None Were With Him |
“Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, wedo not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path—the merciful care of our Father in Heaven, the unfailing companionship of this Beloved Son, the consummate gift of the Holy Ghost, angels in heaven, family members on both sides of the veil, prophets and apostles, teachers, leaders, friends. All of these and more have been given as companions for our mortal journey because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the Restoration of His gospel. Trumpeted from the summit of Calvary is the truth that we will never be left alone nor unaided, even if sometimes we may feel that we are. Truly the Redeemer of us all said: “I will not leave you comfortless: [My Father and] I will come to you [and abide with you].”
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, None Were With Him, Ensign Magazine May 2009.
Day 19: The Last Supper
Ornament: Bowl & PitcherScripture Reading: Luke 22:14-20, John 13:4-15Gospel Art Picture: 225, 226LDS.org Images: Jesus Last Supper, Jesus Washing Apostles Feet Video: The Last Supper |
“First, consider the Savior’s introduction of the sacrament. The Savior knew what was about to befall Him. His sacred, atoning mission, beginning with the War in Heaven in the premortal existence, was about to unfold that evening and the next day. Yet with the trials by His adversaries imminently before Him, there is not the slightest evidence He was preparing a defense against the untrue accusations. The Savior instead introduced the sacred ordinance of the sacrament to His disciples. As I contemplate that solemn occasion, my feelings are deeply touched. Sacrament meeting is the most sacred and holy of all the meetings in the Church. After His Resurrection, the Savior instituted the sacrament among the Nephites. If we are to be His disciples and to be committed members of His Church, we must remember and reverence the sacrament. It allows each of us to express with broken hearts and contrite spirits our willingness to follow the Savior, to repent, and to become a Saint through the Atonement of Christ. The sacrament allows us to witness to God that we will remember His Son and keep His commandments as we renew our baptismal covenant. This increases our love and appreciation for both the Father and the Son.”
Elder Quentin L, Cook, We Follow Jesus Christ, Ensign Magazine May 2010.
Day 18: Triumphal Entry and Cleansing the Temple
Ornament: DonkeyScripture Reading: Matthew 21:1-13Gospel Art Picture: 223LDS.org Images: Triumphant Entry Carl Bloch Painting: Casting out the Money Changers Videos: The Lord’s Triumphal Entry into JerusalemJesus Cleanses the Temple |
“The Lord drew boundary lines to define acceptable limits of tolerance. Danger rises when those divine limits are disobeyed. Just as parents teach little children not to run and play in the street, the Savior taught us that we need not tolerate evil. “Jesus went into the temple of God, and … and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers.” Though He loved the sinner, the Lord said that He “cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance”…
Our commitment to the Savior causes us to scorn sin yet heed His commandment to love our neighbors. Together we live on this earth, which is to be tended, subdued, and shared with gratitude. Each of us can help to make life in this world a more pleasant experience…
Unitedly we may respond. Together we may stand, intolerant of transgression but tolerant of neighbors with differences they hold sacred. Our beloved brothers and sisters throughout the world are all children of God.”
Elder Russell M. Nelson, Teach Us Tolerance and Love, April 1994 General Conference.
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