17 Apr 2021, Saturday
17 Apr 2021, Saturday
Prioritized Daily Tasks
Anndalyn Hobbs 39th Birthday (called and left a happy birthday wish)
Gavin and Savanah, Nicole and Brian Lofgran's daugher, are going to the jr. and senior prom at Heber High School (an all-day event for the students)
I did not get to the10:30 AM move - If you are able, could you please come help Angela Albretson load her truck.
607 W 1150 N. Thanks, Derek Soderquist - 801-557-6081As we know, many hands make light work.
I was up at 6:30 AM, had prayer, and cooked breakfast for Michael, Gavin, and myself. We ate about 7:30 AM we rode up to Brian and Nicole's. We dropped Gavin off at 8:30 AM and we went up to the cabin in Timber Lakes. Gavin, Savanah, and friends are going to get manicures and their fingernails pained at 9 AM. Michael and I worked on the 1997 Land Rover that has been parked for over a year and not running. Michael and I picked Gavin up later and went to lunch. We all came back to the cabin. Gavin took a nap and we left the Land Rover we drove up to Heber with Gavin. Michael and I took the older one and got it washed and serviced. I went for a two + mile walk and Michael went to pick up corsage for Savanah and a boutonniere for Gavin. Gavin had got up and gone to pick them up before Michael arrived. Michael filled the Land Rover with 97 octane and picked me up where I was walking on hwy 189 toward Park City. Later Michael and I met Gavin, Savanah, Brian, and Nicole at the high school. We took some pictures and got some from Nicole that she had taken of Gavin and Savanah earlier. We ate dinner and Michael bought some things from Ace Hardware to do some work at the cabin. I took the 1997 Land Rover and drove back to Lehi. The registration on the vehicle expired in January 2020 and has to be renewed in person. I can not be done online if it is late over 6 months. It has set up for so long that it runs rough, the engine skips as if it has water in the gas, the timing is off or it needs new points and spark plugs. I talked to Matthew and Beth. Beth was down with Tucker, Maggie, and Andrew visiting in San Marcos. I talked to Debbie on the way back home and stopped at the auto parts store. The mechanic who works there came out to the Land Rover and listened to it run. He said it does not have water in the gas and probably just needs to run some more. It has set up too long. I got home and emailed the following to Michael, Matthew and copied Debbie.
Millers Funeral Home Tallapoosa, Georgia. (Funeral Arrangements for James Leonard McAlpin)
James Leonard McAlpin was born 21 January 1944 to James Olin and Willie Inez Thrash McAlpin In Anniston, Cleburne County, Alabama. 17 March 2021, Wednesday Journal entry 2 PM Dear Michael and Matthew, I am in the process of making arrangements for my funeral many years in the future, (about 30 years or more from now). I know there are no guarantees for another day of life. I want to be prepared if my ticket is punched to leave this world. I want to be prepared to travel to the next life, “I want my tithing paid and my bags packed”. I talked to Mindy Miller on Wednesday, 17th, March 2021, at 2 PM. She is the granddaughter of Hubert Miller. Hubert’s father started the funeral home using a horse and wagon. Hubert used his hearse an ambulance to take dad (Olin McAlpin) to the hospital several times before he finally passed away. Mindy is about Rae Lynn’s age, probably a little younger. I have attached the documents, contract, notes, and insurance policy she filled out. I am attaching these documents in a separate email; nothing has been paid and no contract for their services has been signed. I hope the instructions below are clear. You asked what it is I desire? This has nothing to do with my death or funeral, but what I want more than anything else, is for all my family, children, grandchildren, posterity, and friends to believe in Christ and to be reconciled to God; to love Him and each other; keep all His commandments and never let contention in the doors of our homes. *When I came into this world everyone was happy; it was a festive occasion. When I leave this world, I hope it will be the same, a time of celebration, a festive occasion, with no sorrow or sadness. This has been my thoughts for some time but reading; “Thou shalt live together in love, insomuch that thou shalt weep for the loss of them that die.” (D&C 42:45.) Then when I read, “Moreover, we can’t fully appreciate joyful reunions later without tearful separations now. The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.” Russell M. Nelson, April General Conference 1992. I have rethought this and maybe a little sadness is OK. It will be appropriate to have a viewing of my body, dressed in the robes of the Holy Priesthood, in the chapel or funeral home wherever I may be living at the time of my death. Please make certain I am dressed in the robes of the Holy Priesthood. Afterward, transfer me to Millers' Funeral Home in Tallapoosa. Those who work at the funeral home will have the responsibility to take me to Pleasant Hill Church just off the Jacksonville Road, Tallapoosa, GA, where the Bishop of the Buchanan Ward or the Bishop of the nearest ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will conduct the funeral service in the Pleasant Hill Church chapel. I want the Bishop or his designee to speak on the plan of salvation, where we came from, why are we here, and where are we going when we leave this life. Family members or anyone who wishes to speak is fine; please, just no sadness, sorrow, or crying at my departing. I suspect there will be a lot of joy and rejoicing on the other side when I arrive, just as there was when I was born, and I don’t want any sadness here when I depart. It would be nice but not necessary to have some bagpipe music. Songs that I would like played and sung, one is an Adventist hymn that was sung at the Pleasant Hill Church when I was a young boy. I still enjoy listing to it. It is called “It Took a Miracle”. Another is a more familiar song, Oh Lord How Great Thou Art. Michael, Matthew, Gavin, Blake, Tucker, and Gavin to be pallbearers. Please make sure I am buried at the William Alexander and Manah McAlpin family graveyard (Old Indian Graveyard) facing East.
I would like for Michael, Matthew, or an immediate family member holding the Melchizedek Priesthood to dedicate my grave and re-dedicate the graveyard. ***** ______________________________________ Information about the graveyard and farm: I have made arrangements with Larry Bul (Frank Powell’s wife’s son-in-law) who has taken over from Frank Powell’s farming of our fields across from my old home site and the fields around the Pleasant Hill Church on the Jacksonville Road. Larry Bul is also to maintain the road in/out of the William Alexander and Manah/ Old Indian Graveyard. He is also to keep the graveyard cleaned so it does not grow up in shrubs, bushes, briers, and trees. When Larry Bul retires from raising hay and farming, he will relinquish my Allis Chalmer Tractor to Eddie Lovett. Frank Powell agrees to also relinquish and assign his bush-hog to Eddie Lovett, a member of the Hunting Club, who, with the other members of the Hunting Club, have kept the old home site and pastures now planted in trees bush-hogged. When Larry Bull retires the Lovetts and the Hunting Club will have the sole responsibility to maintain the William Alexander and Manah McAlpin family, Old Indian Graveyard, and the entrance road from Dewitt Husley's old home. They will keep the road to the William Alexander and Manah McAlpin graveyard open and cleared. They will continue to bush-hog and maintain the home site and the space between the rows of trees planted in the pastures. (For supporting documentation see journal notes from meeting on Saturday, 20th March 2021, with Frank Powell, Larry Bul, Allen Lovett, Eddie Lovett, and me). *Later Larry Bul declined this request. Frank Powell has also declined the offer regarding the bush-hog. ------------------- I have tried to liken the scriptures to myself and become like Christ. Getting to know Christ has been a lifelong pursuit and I want to pass a little of what I have learned on to you. In the last book of the Book of Mormon, Moroni wrote in Chapter 7 verse 45, “Charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.” Christ’s name can be substituted for charity. It is my goal when my life is completed, it can be said of me, that James Leonard McAlpin had become all things that charity and Christ are.
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