God Bless America!

A beautiful video in honor of Memorial Day and America's veterans. I give thanks to all who in ultimate service, protect and fight for our Freedom. My we never forget or take our country's freedom for granted.

May God Bless America, land that I love.



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LDS Church Opens New Radio Network

I've been waiting for this! It will be a great blessing to enjoy each day.Please let all the Brothers and Sisters know about it. Have you tuned in yet?

LDS Church launches new radio network

By Scott Taylor
Deseret News


"With The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints introducing its new 24/7 radio service on Monday, potential listeners who think they can tune in with traditional transistors and car radios are going to need a little more modern thinking in order to find "Mormon Channel."

Billed as originating from "Temple Square" (more specifically, broadcast studios located inside the LDS Conference Center on the church's headquarters campus), the Mormon Channel is accessible via the Internet and eight select HD radio affiliates across the country — radio stations of the church's Bonneville International, in Salt Lake City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C.

The HD signal is transmitted at KSL FM 102.7 channel 2; Internet access is available either at radio.lds.org or mormonchannel.org.

Calling Monday "a historic day," with a radio-type broadcast originating from Salt Lake City and being available across the globe, Elder John B. Dickson of the church's Quorums of the Seventy and executive director of its audiovisual department said "this is an opportunity for the church to put out positive, compelling content."


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"My Song in the Night"

Please watch and enjoy this new music video from The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. Featuring "My Song in the Night" from the Choir and Orchestras newly released CD "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing", this video portrays how Gods perfect love connects each of us, whether strangers or friends, and how his ever-watchful hand blesses us in our times of need.



This new CD by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is stunning!

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Jordan River Temple

Yesterday, I went to the Jordan River Temple. It's one of the most beautiful temples I have ever seen. It's the fourth temple I've visited. The grounds are amazing with a flower garden and a water fountain. The inside is also beautiful. I was only able to visit the lobby and the baptistry, but it was such a sacred place. The best part of the visit was the kindness of the temple workers! They were so loving and helpful and friendly. If you are ever near West Jordan, Utah be sure to see the Jordan River Temple. If you have a temple recommend, take time to do some baptisms. The waiting room is lovely. There is a huge picture window, looking out to the font. And a volunteer plays soft organ music in the background to emphasize the holiness of the setting. I did 21 baptisms and confirmations yesterday and it was such a blessing! My dad, my grandma and my grandpa were baptized.

There was rejoicing in heaven and on earth!


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Cookie Baking Help?

This morning, I'm making cookies for Relief Society Enrichment meeting tonight. I don't know if they will turn out! They are suppose to be molasses cookies. You are told to pinch the dough and roll little balls. But mine is more like cake batter than dough!!! I guess it could be because the recipe called for one cup of sugar and I used one cup of softened honey instead. I have put the "dough/batter" in the refridgerator for a while to see if it will harden and I get the desired result.

Has anyone ever run into this problem before? Any suggestions? I usually just buy ready-made cookies to bring to events, but I was so happy that I had all the ingredients required for
this recipe and it seemed easy to do! Hope it turns out. Maybe it will end up being molasses cake, rather than cookies!

(Update: I finally put the batter in the freezer and it did turn into useable dough. They are kinda flat cookies, not puffy like most molasses cookes, but I put a little red cinnamon candy in the middle of each one, so at least they look pretty! And I love the taste of molasses!)

Chewy Molasses-Spice Cookies Recipe

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Oquirrh Mountain Temple

"The LDS Church today began taking reservations for tours of its just-completed Oquirrh Mountain Temple. People can get the free tickets to the temple's open house by contacting the reservation call center at 800-521-5105, 801-240-7645, or online at www.lds.org/reservations.
The Oquirrh Mountain Utah Temple open house will go from June 1 to Aug. 1, except for Sundays and July 4 and 24th. After the open house, the temple will be formally dedicated starting on Aug. 22. Six dedicatory sessions will be held. After that, it will only be open for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who have a valid "temple recommend," which attests to the person's worthiness to enter that sacred space.
The temple at 11022 S. 4000 West, South Jordan, is the 130th built by the church. It will serve an estimated 83,000 Latter-day Saints in the south Salt Lake Valley." (from Salt Lake Tribune)

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Grow a Garden!

Today, I'm working on my garden. I don't know how the pioneers did it!!! Last week I planted six rows of seeds...spinach, cauliflower, beans, lettuce, zucchini, and radish. It was hard work, but fulfilling. I was beginning to look forward to a bountiful crop in a few months. Then "disaster" struck! Yesterday, we had the little pond behind our house cleaned. They drain the pond with a small pump, and since the fish water makes a great fertilizer it was my "smart idea" to put the water on the vegetable garden. So the pond cleaners (sweet boys who go to BYU!), put on an extra drainage hose so the fish water would reach the garden. Well, I had no idea the power of those drainage pumps! The water shot out with a force of probably 500 miles per hour! The nice black garden top soil went flying and my newly planted seeds all flowed out of the garden on wave almost big enough for a surfer! So... there went the garden. What took a couple hours to plant, was gone in a couple seconds! I found about 10 bean seeds (they are big), hiding in the lawn. So starting with that small remnant, I will replant, and remember not to drain the pond in the vegetable garden again. An important lesson! I imagine the pioneers had lots of lessons like that along the way, and probably had to replant more than once, some years, and they planted acres, not a small garden like I have. Yet they carried on, and remembered to sing and give thanks that "All is well, All is well." I hope I can do that, and be grateful for everything,
even fish water fertilizer!


“We encourage you to grow all the food that you feasibly can on your own property. Berry bushes, grapevines, fruit trees—plant them if your climate is right for their growth. Grow vegetables and eat them from your own yard. Even those residing in apartments or condominiums can generally grow a little food in pots and planters. … Make your garden as neat and attractive as well as productive. If there are children in your home, involve them in the process with assigned responsibilities”
~Spencer W. Kimball,
Ensign, May 1976

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The Prophet Joseph Smith

I knew the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was true when I knew that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of God. I learned the truth of this through reading the Prophet's words, his revelations, his testimony, and studying his life, as well as praying to know the truth. I love this article by President Gordon B. Hinckley, which talks about the total honesty and sincerity of the Prophet Joseph Smith and how he gave his life for the cause he advocated, the restoration of the fullness of the true gospel of Jesus Christ. Click the link below to read the entire article. It will bless your heart!

The Highest Test of Honesty and Sincerity

"Great was the Prophet Joseph Smith's vision. It encompassed all the peoples of mankind, wherever they live, and all generations who have walked the earth and passed on. How can anyone, past or present, speak against him except out of ignorance? They have not tasted of his words, they have not pondered about him, nor prayed about him. As one who has done these things, I add my own words of testimony that he was and is a prophet of God, raised up as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty to usher in a new and final gospel dispensation. Of the Prophet Joseph Smith, we could say: 'When a man gives his life for the cause he has advocated, he meets the highest test of his honesty and sincerity that his own or any future generation can in fairness ask. When he dies for the testimony he has borne, all malicious tongues should ever after be silent, and all voices hushed in reverence before a sacrifice so complete.' (Ezra Dalby, manuscript, Dec. 12, 1926.) "
~ Gordon B. Hinckley,
Praise to the Man, Ensign, Aug. 1983

Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!
Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer.
Blessed to open the last dispensation,
Kings shall extol him, and nations revere.
(Hymns, No. 147.)


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