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| We received this picture on Monday. You can't help but be happy when you see Ruby's cute smile! |
Roy had business in St. George Tuesday and Wednesday and
asked if I'd go with him. Of course, who
wouldn't want to spend a few hours in sunny St. George when we've been having such
"wonderful" weather up here.
We left Tuesday morning and drove down.
I'd purchased shrimp at Costco and we ate that for our lunch. It's good our lunch was light. Tuesday night we met Jeremiah Johnson (he works with Roy), at his
parent's restaurant--The Granary--in Santa Clara. They'd been hired to fix dinner for a small
group of clients and potential clients. Jeremiah's mother is French. (thus the restaurant is French). Jeremiah has a lot of interesting
stories. His parents were
hippies--literally. His dad played in a
group. He opened for "The
Doors" and played with some other well known (not to me) groups. Jeremiah was even babysat by Rosie O'Donnell.
Jeremiah had a lot of experiences that
people not of our faith (and some of our faith) have to go through. Luckily, he found the gospel. He's a great guy with a great wife and six
kids (so far). Anyway, back to the
Granary. J's parent's bought the
building about 4 years ago. It was once
the Granary for the church. People would
bring 10% of their harvest for tithing and it would be stored there. They have converted this old building into a
beautiful restaurant. There is seating
in the garden, seating in the cellar, and seating in the actual building. We went down to the cellar. It'd be a nice place to be when it's hot in
St. George because it stays about 70 degrees year round. There are bars on the windows (about 8"
X 12") because kids would squeeze in and steal the apples. Here are pictures of some of the food we enjoyed. All of it French, and all of it fattening. Roy ordered the Cornish Game Hen. I ordered the Beef Burgoyne
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| The appetizer |
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| Jeremiah; Client' Patricia, Jeremiah's mom, and another client |
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| Patricia, restaurant owner in the cellar of the Granary |
The next morning I was able to sit at the pool and read
while Roy went to a conference. I even
met a Georgia friend for lunch (Cathy Fowler).
I haven't seen her in years and it was fun to catch up. I told her I wanted to eat light and she took
me to Croshaws. Not light! Mostly all they had was pie. Pot pie and all kinds of sweet pies. I had
a pot pie and tried to avoid the crust.
Cathy ordered the pie and a dessert mini pie and then told me I had to
share the dessert. Oh well. There's always another day to try and eat
right. After lunch I met up with Roy and we took a short hike before we headed home. It was in the Red Canyon Conservation area. Yes, it was as hard (or harder) than it looks!
We ate at the Kankun restaurant in Beaver on our return drive. Roy says it's his favorite Mexican restaurant in Utah.
The most interesting/important thing that happened on Thursday was that we had an appointment with the Bountiful Young Single Adult Stake Presidency. Roy was a little worried, but greatly relieved when he was called to the High Council. They told him he would be assigned to a ward. He will act as a sort of 3rd counselor. He was sustained today in their Stake Conference. The stake covers all the area between North Salt Lake and Farmington. There are 12 wards and it covers the area of 26 conventional stakes--so, our move won't make a difference.
Speaking of our move, There was a little bit of progress on our house this week--even with the rain.
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| In the garage. I am on the east side of the house. |
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| From the backyard |
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| Also from the backyard. |
I found the following excerpt while looking through some of my genealogy files. This was written by my brother Glenn. I am not sure, but I think he wrote it down for David and then it was shared with me.
As I mentioned last night, I had a very faith promoting
conversation with Grandpa Clyde before he died. I believe it was after
Grandmother died, and Rosilene and I were visiting with Joshua and Jed.
Jed would have been a newborn, so this was early in 1976. It didn’t take
Josh long to know where the orange sticks were hidden, and whenever we visited,
he would make a beeline to the hutch in the dining room. Anyway, while
Rosilene was with Joshua, I must have been discussing our ancestors, particularly
William Morgan Clyde as a drummer boy in the Nauvoo Legion. Grandpa told me
that toward the end of William Morgan’s life, he would visit him frequently to
have conversations with him about his pioneer days. He said that on one
occasion, he decided to ask him what he thought of Joseph Smith, since William
Morgan had played a part of the building of the Nauvoo Temple, had experienced
the massacre at Haun’s Mill and had worked tirelessly to help the saints
evacuate Nauvoo after the death of the Prophet. Grandfather Clyde said
that William Morgan looked at him sternly and let him know in “no uncertain
terms that he knew that Joseph Smith was indeed a prophet of the Living
God.” I look at that conversation with Grandfather Clyde as my direct
connection to the Prophet Joseph Smith and as another supporting stone of my
testimony of the truthfulness of the gospel. Hope this is of use to
you. Glenn
William Morgan Clyde is my great great, so your great great great grandfather Clyde.
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I have been trying to study the conference talks since we received them a few weeks ago. One that I have been thinking about is Elder Hale's talk on revelation. Of course, you should read them all, but I would like everyone to read this one this week, even though I'm going to summarize some of it here.
First of all, Elder Hales tells us how we can keep the Holy Ghost actively working in our lives. He says,
"...we can receive and retain the companionship of the Holy Ghost by always remembering the Savior, keeping His commandments, repenting of our sins, and worthily partaking of the sacrament on the Sabbath day."
"The Holy Ghost provides personal revelation to help us make major life decisions about such things as education, missions, careers, marriage,children, where we will live with our families, and so on. In these matters, Heavenly Father expects us to use our agency, study the situation out in our minds according to gospel principles, and bring a decision to Him in prayer."
I often hear people loosely saying things like, "God told me I should do this..." speaking of things that are everyday matters, or maybe even things that this person wants to do, whether or not it is wise. As Elder Hales says, the Lord has given us agency and He wants us to use it. He will guide us, but we cannot expect him to tell us every little thing that we should do. We must be careful lest we "trivialize" the power of revelation in our lives.
"I remind all of us that the Holy Ghost is not given to control us. Some of us unwisely seek the Holy Ghost's direction on every minor decision in our lives. This trivializes His sacred role. The Holy Ghost honors the principle of agency. He speaks to our minds and our hearts gently about many matters of consequence."
"Sometimes the adversary tempts us with false ideas that we may confuse with the Holy Ghost. I testify that faithfulness in obeying the commandments and keeping our covenants will protect us from being deceived."
The rest of the talk is very good also. I hope you will all read it, ponder it and apply it to your own lives.
Elise suggested that we all "ponderize" a scripture together. There is a passage that I am interested in memorizing. Mosiah 4: 9-11
"9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend."
"10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them."
"11 And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and longsuffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel."
Reading through this I realize it's pretty long, so at least we could ponderize vs. 9 together. Let me know what you all think.
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We ended our week with the family over for a spaghetti dinner. Here are a few pictures from the week.
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| Max's girlfriend of the week |
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| Ruby |
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| The girls in the hot tub after dinner. |
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