I know I usually have thoughts to end with, but today I want to start with a quote that we have discussed in my class assignments this week, and that we were able to merge with our lesson on humility in our Addiction Recovery class.  

 In his talk regarding the slope and the intercept, Elder Clark Gilbert said, "We all have different intercepts in life - we start in different places with different life endowments.  Some are born with high intercepts, full of opportunity.  Others face beginning circumstances that are challenging and seem unfair.  We then progress along a slope of personal progress.  Our future will be determined far less by our starting point and much more by our slope.  Jesus Christ sees divine potential no matter where we start.

He saw it in the beggar, the sinner, and the infirm.  He saw it in the fisherman, the tax collector, and even the zealot.  No matter where we start, Christ considers what we do with what we are given.  While the world focuses on our intercept, God focuses on our slope. In the Lord's calculus, He will do everything He can to help us turn our slopes toward heaven." 

   What a beautiful warm(er), sunny weekend we have had!  This afternoon I took Sendai for a long walk and it was wonderful.  I am sure we will still see some snow and cold temperatures before  end of March, but at least for this week it is supposed to stay warm and sunny and that makes me happy ~

 I had a busy week with school assignments and a big test.  We have a paper that has to be completed every week and submitted before our group Zoom meeting, and because my group meets on Wednesday mornings, I spend a lot of time on Mondays and Tuesdays completing the reading assignments so I can finish the paper and get it turned in.  This week I did some extra studying for my test and it went well, and then I took Wednesday afternoon and spent some time with Helma while her daughter, Donna, ran a few errands.  Helma is frail and often not cognizant of what is going on around her but in spite of that, she always seems to know who we are.  

 A BIG thank-you to Josh this week, who saved me from total disaster (maybe I am being just a little dramatic - or maybe not 😊)  The person in my Wednesday morning group who always starts our Zoom meetings was having technical problems this week, so I volunteered to start it at the last minute.  In my haste to get it going, I didn't realize that my Zoom had reverted back to my personal account so when I hit the record button, it recorded to my computer instead of the cloud.  This made the file too large to post on our discussion board.  This year I have learned a lot about being patient with technology.  I have learned not to give up, that there is always a way to find what I need so I can complete the assignments that need to be done.  That being said, I tried for hours to find a way to get my recording to post to the discussion board, without any luck.  SO, I asked Josh for help and he was amazing.  He was able to take the file and make it smaller, so I was finally able to insert it into the discussion to complete the assignment.

 I was so happy to see these cute faces in my house
this week!

Thanks for coming by ❤

AND, Kim and Blythe were in Target this week - looking at (or buying) facial products, clothes, and I'm sure smelling everything along the way.  Love these ladies ~ 

Kate and Jonathan have had their fill of snow and super cold weather over the last month!   This is such a great video of Sayre and Clementine 😁

And I love their Sunday Selfie 😎

I am not sure if any of you have ever watched these programs done by Albert Lin but they are fascinating.  Albert Lin is a scientist, engineer, but I think mostly explorer and he does these amazing while exploring past historical events in the world.  You can find him on Disney +.  Jonathan sent us a short excerpt from one tonight and I tried to download it and add it to the blog, but couldn't make it work (sound familiar?)  The episode we were looking at is called Lost Cities: Revealed, Season 1, Episode 1.  

I love that some of his findings we can relate to our Temples.

STILL Decluttering 😳

 We started cleaning out our office yesterday.  I threw out all of my notebooks from classes I have taken over the last three years (that was a big step) and Dad sorted through books - some going to Goodwill, and others downstairs.  

Obviously, there is a lot left to do, but it feels so good to be working on it. 

HAVE A REALLY GREAT WEEK!