2021 Journal

 31 May 2021, Monday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   Shelly for Memorial Day  Debbie and I had prayer, Debbie washed sheets and towels.  We drove over to Jalna's.  During the night some wild dogs attack Josie Dawn, Jalna's little dog, stripping and tearing the hid from his body.  Blood was everywhere when Jalna went out this morning.  Debbie drove over and the dog was still alive.  A friend came over and put her out of her misery.  Later I came over with a shovel and buried the dog.  Debbie and I drove to the graveyards to clean the graves.  Later Debbie took Jalna around to see the graves and put flowers on them while I continued to edge/dig the turf up around the monuments to keep the grass/turf from growing over and covering them. Debbie cooked a nice Memorial Day meal and we took a plate over to Jalna before leaving at 5 PM. I drove and Debbie read on our way back home to Lehi, UT.  The book was loaned to us by Reed Se...

 30 May 2021, Sunday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   Shelly for Memorial Day Weekend.   Debbie cooked breakfast and we took a plate over to Jalna before church. 9 AM - Sacrament meeting and 10 AM combined Priesthood and Relief Society meeting with Elder's Quorum counselor and Relief Society President teaching After church, we went back to Jalna's and visited with her.  We came back to Karlene and Joe L's to take a nap.  They will not be home until tomorrow night.  They went tp  Coeur  d'Alenes  bike path  follows the Union Pacific Railroad right- of-way from Mullan, a mountain  mining town  near the Montana border, to Plummer, a town on the prairie near the ...  Coeur  d' Alene's Old  Mission State Park.  4:30 PM - Laura invited us over to have dinner with her and Reed, Debbie's brother. 7 PM - Take blanket to sister who made it to Rigby, ID to have her add more to it as well as make more baby blan...

 29 May 2021, Saturday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   9:00 AM help clean the church building we meet in weekly 11 AM - Travel to Shelly Idaho for Memorial weekend 3 PM - Wash windows at Karlene and Joe L's  4:30 PM shopping at Walmart 5:30 PM - take Cache and Cooper to dinner.  We also took a plate to go to Jalna's. 7:30 PM - clean pine combs and pine needles from Jalna's yard and driveway 9 PM put the window screen back on windows at Karlene and Joe L's Talked. to Matthew.  He and the family were going to a lake near Rae Lynn and Brett's with all the children to play.

 28 May 2021, Friday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   Debbie and I listened to the podcast, Sunday on Monday, D&C 58-59, Come Follow Me lesson.  Notes I picked up from it was the meaning of the word "enthusiasm" literally means "God within".                                        People of the world tell you that you are not good enough or you are no good.  Don't drink their Kool-Aid (don't buy-in on their propaganda).       No one is to go through this life without making mistakes.  It does not matter what the world says about you; it is what you and the Lord know that makes all the difference.  We make mistakes, we repent.   Joseph Smith made the mistake of letting Martin Harris take the 116 pages of the recently translated gold plates.  They were lost but Joseph Smith repented.  The Lord forgave him but still...

 27 May 2021, Thursday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   I worked on finishing the irrigation system for the raised garden boxes at the house today.  I went to Ace Hardware where I bought the rest of the parts I needed, came home, and finished building the system. Debbie went to Laura's and helped her wash the windows inside and outside at their home in Highland, UT.

 26 May 2021, Wednesday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   Debbie picked up my medicine the doctor ordered for my cold.   Today Leland Anderson, face-timed or Instagrammed a message to his contacts, which included Debbe.  He worked with Debbie and his and Gina's children went to American Heritage.  He left and took his family to Shenzhen Guangdong, China when he started a school.  He and his wife, Gina have 6 children.  The oldest, a daughter on a mission in Portland, Organ.  On Mother's Day, May 9th, Gina a severe headache and running a fever.  They took her to the hospital; then transferred her to a major hospital in Hong Kong.   The doctors there air flighted her to Salt Lake City.  She has Staphylococcus Aureus infection in the Aritic Vale.  The infection has spread to her spleen and to her brain and is spreading throughout her body.  In addition to the infection, she has blood clots in her right and l...

 25 May 2021, Tuesday Priorit ized Daily Tasks 7:30 AM - Debbie mailed payment for 2020 Federal, Georgia and Idaho taxes 8:30 AM - Cabinet installers came and worked downstairs. I sent emails to Michael, Autumn, Matthew, Melodie, Beth, Rae Lynn, Brett, Gavin and Sister Alexandra McAlpin. (I also email the Jelicics in Serbia) I worked some today on indexing. I talked to Dan Quinn today about our estimated income tax for 2020 and 2021.  Dan also said he was signing two lease contracts for the Cason Road Health Care Facility and send a check for the first months rent. I got out of bed, dressed and went to Porter's Championship Superbowl Game.  His team has gone undefeated except for one game and were beat by two touchdowns.  Today they are playing that same team for the championship.  I watched the game and understand why everyone is talking about Porter, Jared and Jami's son.  He played offence and defence except for the last few minutes of the 4th quart...

 24 May 2021, Monday Priorit ized Daily Tasks     Get a card for Jack and Kay Beas 50 wedding anniversary - mail card to.   Korrin Beals-Delaney (1545 NW Market Street, Apt 416, Seattle, WA 98107) Pay Toni for cleaning the cabin from 13-16 May (Debbie paid her last week) 6:45 AM take garbage and recyclables to the street to be picked up by city 10:30 AM Debbie cooked breakfast 11:30 AM Talked to Matthew and Michael - The Epic News did a positive news article on Grace Strobel a 24-year young lady from Missouri with Down Syndrome who is the first American with Down Syndrome to represent a skincare cosmetic brand as a model for Skincare Brand.  I got an email from Autumn.  She is putting a book together for Gavin for his graduation and is asking family to write a sentence or two, "what they love most about Gavin".  I wrote,   (What I love most about Gavin.)   His love for everyone, even those who are not kind, and does n...

 23 May 2021, Sunday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  9:00 AM Church - I was asked to give the closing prayer.  After the Sacrament meeting, Debbie was set apart to serve in the social media for the Gateway Stake by Brother Anthony Provenza, First Counselor in Lehi 7th Ward Bishopric.  In the blessing he mentioned her and my future service in the temple.  Our home teacher, Brother Mark Grow, and Jody Lewis, a friend, administered to Debbie and me and gave us blessings to get over the cold have.  We attended a joint meeting of Relief Society, Priesthood, and youth, with everyone over 13 years of age.  The bishop had a member from Social Services come and instruct the group on signs of depression and how to cope and help others.  The instructor showed a video of Carol Dweck, a psychologist at Sanford University.  She was on the facility at Columbia University, Harvard, and the University of Illinois before joining the Sanford University faculty i...

 22 May 2021, Saturday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  Debbie Kimball's birthday Porter and Tate Hobbs playing in his league's Superbowl football game.  Tate is good but Porter is exceptional.  A thought from Come Follow Me Lesson in D&C 51-57.  Elder Neil A. Maxwell, "Establish your residence in Zion and give up your summer cottage in Babalon."  2 Nephi 15: 20  Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Alma 10:15 Now these lawyers were learned in all the arts and cunning of the people; and this was to enable them that they might be skilful in their profession.  16 And it came to pass that they began to question Amulek, (a man of God) that thereby they might make him cross his words, or contradict the words which he should speak. 31 And there was one among them whose name was Zeezrom. Now he was the foremost to accuse Amulek and Alma, he...

21 May 2021, Friday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  Alex Gourley's Baseball game tournament/tryouts From last week's Come Follow Me, D&C 50 and a talk by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, What is Truth? Jan. 13, 2013, BYU Devotional  If you follow the Spirit, your personal search for the truth inevitably leads you to the Lord and Savior, even Jesus Christ, for He is “the way, the truth, and the life.”                John 14:6              The Blind Men and the Elephant  Well over one hundred years ago, an American poet put to rhyme an ancient parable. The first verse of the poem speaks about six men of Indostan To learning much inclined,  Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind),  That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. In the poem each of the six travelers takes hold of a different part of the elephant and then describes to the others what he has discovered...

 20 May 2021, Thursday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  Debbie and slept in to try and get well from this cold.  We had prayer and listened to this week's Come Followe Me lesson from D&C 51-57. 4 PM - Debbie goes to Alex Gourley's baseball game then at 6 PM goes to Ellie's soccer game.  When it is over they come to watch the end of Tate's baseball game at 6:30 PM.   6:30 PM -  I go and watch Tate's baseball game.  Jared took Max to the Legacy Center for his swim team.  Jack went with him.  Tylee got a ride from her cheerleading at school to meet her dad and brothers back at the baseball field.  Debbie came after Ellie's soccer game to meet us; then took Ellie to get something to eat, then took her home.   2020 tax return and estimated 2021taxes; Dan Guinn is mailing them to me.  The tax returns were e-filed for 2020.  Call Larry Bul, Eddie Lovett, and Bobby Husley and reschedule the appointment with bush hog, c...

 19 May 2021, Wednesday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  Carter Hobbs 11th Birthday Elison "Ellie" Hobbs 13th Birthday I talked to Karlene, Debbie's sister, and solicited her help. Worked on the garden irrigation system some more today. 4 PM - attend Ellie's soccer game in 1850 W. 400 S., Lakeside Sports Complex, Orem 7 PM -  Alex Gourley's band concert at Long Peak High School Just a thought about our nation's natural resources.  People today do not know and never saw the millions of acres of Long Leaf Pines in the south.  There is a new magazine that highlites Georgia pines. 

18 May 2021, Tuesday Priorit ized Daily Tasks   5 PM - Debbie takes Ellie Hobbs to dinner at Pizzeria Limone for her 13th birthday tomorrow I worked on an irrigation system in  the garden boxes Studied D&C 51-57, Come Follow Me lesson. A quote I picked up from the podcast "In a growth zone there is very little comfort - In a comfort zone there is very little growth.  “There is little growth in the comfort zone and little comfort in the growth zone.  This applies to the physical, mental, and epically the spiritual times of our lives."   We have times when the mist of darkness engulfs our lives and we cannot see our hand in front of our eyes.  There is literally no light.  The Lord leaves us in darkness until we are almost overwhelmed by the darkness.  Then when we see the light it is obvious the light is from Him.  There is no way we can forget this experience and in the future, we can step back and remember this time. ...

 17 May 2021, Monday Priorit ized Daily Tasks  6:30 AM up, personal prayer; Debbie got up during the night to go sleep on the couch because she was coughing so much she could not sleep and thought she would be keeping me awake.  She is so loving and considerate; I am so blessed to have her as a wife. Take the garbage containers to the street to be picked up today. Send Jimmy Morris' email to Michael and Matthew 8:45 AM - Legacy center to exercise and job Email Ryan, Jodi, Laura, Jared and Patrick 9:30 AM - appointment Dr. David Kimball, primary care doctor to get prescriptions refilled. (Blood Glucose reading at doctor's office while fasting 108 - normal for a 77-year-old male in good health 80 - 120 at the end of a fast and up to 200 after eating) State and Federal tax returns last day to mail in; usually due April 15th but because of Coronavirus it is due today.    I got Debbie to lay down and rest some this afternoon.  She came home yesterday with a...