We were all talking about can crushers one day, how they work, how they are designed, how they could be designed, etc. Next thing I know, Tom ordered us one for home! We already have a manual can crusher that works just fine and is actually faster than this mechanical one, but it's not half so fun to use!
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| Learned how to achieve the scrolling effect, which was fun and easy, then used an online poster generator to make it big! This poster making program is cool, because in the settings you can input how many sheets of paper you want your poster to be, either horizontally or vertically. This poster is five sheets across, but I could have chosen 25 across if I'd wanted! My rolling tape applicator comes in super handy attaching the sheets to each other; a hand-me-down from Wendy Cox! |
 I will be making my chocolate pie and will attach a Darth Vader balloon to it then will add lettering to the pie that uses a variation of a quote by Darth, "Your lack of bidding disturbs me". Photo forthcoming. |
Also cut out a bunch of character silhouettes so they could be used as lantern table decorations-fun! |
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| The children did a good job singing and it felt good to hear the doctrine of Jesus Christ contained in their songs. |
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| Treats afterwards! |
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| Parents were a big support! |
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| Nice seeing Candace there with Elinor! |
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| Children were a bit nervous, but ready to go! |
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| Didn't get a good pic of Pres. Beesley, but... |
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| ...was lucky to get a good one of him at our rehearsal! |
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| These were leftover from Kimo's missionary homecoming-- might as well use them again! |
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| Will and James both attained the rank of Eagle Scout! |
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| My phone got updated and can now copy parts of pictures that can then be added to a new background. Here dogs go to the beach. |
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| And Tom goes to the Famosa Slough. Note: Those old wooden pieces used to support a light rail back when a trolley serviced Ocean Beach. |
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| Tom upgraded the security of our door |
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| SpaceX rocket launch |
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| Here is one way to view the eclipse! |
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Dorothy first married Adrian Clifton Kelly, then married Maurice Richard Richter. |
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| A lot of chocolate wabbits at Walmart |
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| Easter garland-just sewed together some pretty shapes. |
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| Groesbecks have been very helpful to our family of late, so we filled this giant gold Easter egg with goodies for their family to thank them. That thing is about 14 inches tall! Think we will leave it then ding, dong, ditch, especially if it's raining. |
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| Ding-dong! |
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| Candace said that everyone was pretty excited about seeing that egg on the doorstep when they arrived home from church. Mission accomplished! |
"Willing to Submit"
Elder Neal A. Maxwell
"...When the unimaginable burden began to weigh upon Christ, it confirmed His long-held and intellectually clear understanding as to what He must now do. His working through began, and Jesus declared: “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour.” Then, whether in spiritual soliloquy or by way of instruction to those about Him, He observed, “But for this cause came I unto this hour.” (John 12:27.)
Later, in Gethsemane, the suffering Jesus began to be “sore amazed” (Mark 14:33), or, in the Greek, “awestruck” and “astonished.”
Imagine, Jehovah, the Creator of this and other worlds, “astonished”! Jesus knew cognitively what He must do, but not experientially. He had never personally known the exquisite and exacting process of an atonement before. Thus, when the agony came in its fulness, it was so much, much worse than even He with his unique intellect had ever imagined! No wonder an angel appeared to strengthen him! (See Luke 22:43.)
The cumulative weight of all mortal sins—past, present, and future—pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities and sicknesses were somehow, too, a part of the awful arithmetic of the Atonement. (See Alma 7:11–12; Isa. 53:3–5; Matt. 8:17.) The anguished Jesus not only pled with the Father that the hour and cup might pass from Him, but with this relevant citation. “And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me.” (Mark 14:35–36.)
Had not Jesus, as Jehovah, said to Abraham, “Is any thing too hard for the Lord?” (Gen. 18:14.) Had not His angel told a perplexed Mary, “For with God nothing shall be impossible”? (Luke 1:37; see also Matt. 19:28; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27.)
Jesus’ request was not theater!
In this extremity, did He, perchance, hope for a rescuing ram in the thicket? I do not know. His suffering—as it were, enormity multiplied by infinity—evoked His later soul-cry on the cross, and it was a cry of forsakenness. (See Matt. 27:46.)
Even so, Jesus maintained this sublime submissiveness, as He had in Gethsemane: “Nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” (Matt. 26:39.)
While bearing our sins, our infirmities, our sicknesses, and bringing to pass the Atonement (see Alma 7:11–12), Jesus became the perfect Shepherd, making these lines of Paul’s especially relevant and reassuring: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Rom. 8:35.)
Indeed, we are in His hands, and what hallowed hands!
The wondrous and glorious Atonement was the central act in all of human history. It was the hinge on which all else that finally matters turned. But it turned upon Jesus’ spiritual submissiveness!
May we now, in our time and turn, be “willing to submit” (Mosiah 3:19), I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen!"
Elder Neal A. Maxwell