070428 – Different Day

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

With a multitude of really neat options for tonight, I'm at home with the kids about to watch a DVD ("Meet Joe Black" as it happens). Beth is still not well and it turns out Bryan has a Choir concert in Woodbridge tonight.

Spent the morning with Annie helping clean up a yard so a wheelchair ramp can be installed for a family where the grandmother now has multiple ... Continue reading »

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Meg’s Book – Chapter 11 add – Forgiveness, arrest, and tea

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Trivia - The press in Jackson County, Missouri, on which the Book of Commandments was being published was destroyed by a mob. The few books that were able to be created were from the sheets that fifteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Rollins and her thirteen-year-old sister Caroline saved, grabbing the pages and running from the mob to hide in a nearby cornfield. The scripture I have Joseph quote is well known, but ... Continue reading »

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Chapter 10 – Tom Sharp

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

Trivia - Students of Mormon history may recognize Tom Sharp as the editor of the Warsaw Signal, who famously called for violence against Joseph Smith in 1844, writing "Citizens arise, one and all!!! Can you stand by, and suffer such infernal devils! To rob men of their property rights, without avenging them. We have no time for comment! Everyman will make his own. Let it be with powder and ball." ... Continue reading »

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Chapter 9 – The World of the Dead

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Trivia - Many stories we take for granted today did not exist in their current form in 1841. Goldilocks first appears in literature in 1904, for example. And it isn't clear whether Elvira would have known the tales of the Grimm brothers. Yet stories must be told to fill time when small children are about. The myths of Greece and Rome, however, would have been known.

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070402 – Great evening

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Tonight we held a surprise birthday part for Brother Don Redd, who recently turned 85. It was a mini concert over at the Evans' home put on by members of the ward. Kate Thurgood started it off by singing a medley of songs from The Sound of Music, followed by Eddy Ward singing Second-hand Rose. Next Janell sang Someone to Watch Over Me and Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Bryan and ... Continue reading »

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