Our New Years Eve was quiet and good! We played some games, Mark went to work, I did a new puzzle, Jacob and Sarah knitted, Ben did LEGOs, and we watched some movies – what can we say, we are party animals over here! But 2024 was good to us for the most part. We …
⭐ JACOB APPRECIATION POST ⭐ This boy is quickly becoming such an amazing young man. Time goes by so quickly. Jacob is really attentive and helpful – especially with me. Almost always when I come home from the grocery store, I barely have time to get out of the car before he is coming out …
It was a Berning Covid Christmas this year. Uggg…the timing of getting sick could not have been worse. About a week and a half before Christmas, Sarah came down with a sore throat and fever. She was pretty down and out for two days but then she seemed okay. But then Mark and Lydie came …
Our family loves Christmas School! Every year I find a Christmas curriculum to loosly use throughout the Christmas season. This year we had “An Icelandic Christmas“ and it was so unique and fun! The curriculum was from The Mindful Heart and I would definitely recommend it. We spread this out over three weeks and it …
To finish up my study of President M. Russell Ballard, I wanted to share one of my favorite messages he gave on faith. Faith was the third most common topic he taught. The message I want to highlight is called, The Joy of Hope Fulfilled and was given in the October 1992 General Conference. In …
The second most common topic spoken of by President M. Russell Ballard was missionary work. He was passionate about this subject. While there were many messages to choose from, my favorite talk on missionary work was given in the October 2004 General Conference entitled, Pure Testimony. While there were other messages that spoke of missionary …
Other than speaking about our Savior, Jesus Christ, the number one topic that President M. Russell Ballard spoke about was family. This is so telling. By my count, of the seventy-nine messages he shared during his ministry, twenty-two of them had family as a main topic. That is over a fourth of his messages! Family …
When I decided to do this study, I knew I wanted to read and study each of President Ballard’s conference messages. This is a big undertaking! There were 79 messages that President Ballard shared during his time in the Quorum of the Twelve. As I studied I kept a running list of various things, such …
I’ve wanted to do an apostle study for quite a while now, and when President M. Russell Ballard passed away last autumn, I thought it would be a good opportunity. I came up with my plan but I really didn’t do much with it until this last summer. I read his biography, Anxiously Engaged by …
The weekend of Ben continued! Ben’s eighth birthday was on Friday and he chose to be baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the following day. It was a perfect day. Ben was so excited. He was ready. My momma heart is so proud of him for the decision that …