Suzzy Q And Crew: Week of November 24

My Inspiration...For Now

"…Your Heavenly Father loves you—each of you. That love never changes. It is not influenced by your appearance, by your possessions, or by the amount of money you have in your bank account. It is not changed by your talents and abilities. It is simply there. It is there for you when you are sad or happy, discouraged or hopeful. God’s love is there for you whether or not you feel you deserve love. It is simply always there."

-Thomas S. Monson

“The sweetest experience I know in life is to feel a prompting and act upon it, and later find out that it was the fulfillment of someone’s prayer or someone’s need. And I always want the Lord to know that if He needs an errand run, Tom Monson will run that errand for Him.”

~Thomas S. Monson.

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved."

-Thomas S. Monson

“Noah waited 120 years before the predicted rains arrived. Abraham waited 25 years for a promised son. Joseph waited 14 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Job waited perhaps a lifetime, 60 to 70 years, for God’s justice.”

“God prepares leaders in a slow cooker, not in a microwave oven. More important than the awaited goal is the work God does in us while we wait. Waiting deepens and matures us, levels our perspective, and broadens our understanding. Tests of time determine whether we can endure seasons of seemingly unfruitful preparations, and indicate whether we can recognize and seize the opportunities that come our way.”

John C. Maxwell

"When you marry someone, you are entrusted with the heart of another human being. Whatever else your life's great mission will entail, loving and defending this heart next to you is part of your great quest."

John Eldredge

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

Leonardo da Vinci

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~Aristotle

" Life is a series of problems. Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one. The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort, God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.

Pastor Rick Warren
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

My Favorites

Being in Dee's arms

Adam's love for his country. The United States is in good hands with adults like him.

Grace love for people and her beautiful voice and viola playing.

Josh's patience and love for his brothers and his great athletic skills

Sam's red hair, happy smile, and love for all things Pokemon.

Kaylee's work ethic. She never stops trying and is a very good reader, artist and cook!

Wade's laugh when he puts Grammy on the phone in the back of a dump truck and runs all over the house!

Kelsie's dedication toward her family and friends.

Kooper's love of everything Monster Truck.

Charles Tiny Hand On The End of My Finger

Annalee's imagination. I love to listen to dialogues between Barbie dolls.

Ellie's love of play and reading books with Papa. We have so much fun pretending.

Emma's determination to be just like those big sisters of hers. She wants to keep up with everything they do.

Kayty and Her Shoes

Seeing the light from the Phoenix Temple spire as I head out on my jog.

Hiking downhill

Getting Everything on My "To Do" List Complete

An Organized Anything!

Christmas Music

Phoenix Temple Terrestrial and Celestial Rooms

Mike and Allison

Ethan and Cameo

Doran and Amber

Nathan and Jessica

Morgan

A great yard sale

Sees Nuts and Chews

Ghiardelli Dark Chocolate Chips

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Week of November 24 - 30, 2019

Highlights:

Spiritual

We enjoyed a wonderful Sabbath day with church and family visiting. We enjoyed a lovely Sacrament Meeting with wonderful talks about gratitude and religious freedom. Relief Society was also great.

Dad attended the Phoenix Temple on Friday night.

I completed reading the Book of Mormon on Saturday morning. I am reading the December Ensign magazine and listening to a General Conference talk each day.

I have indexed 21124 records and reviewed 62015 records so far this year.

Family

The Wilkins Family

The Wilkins family is doing well and holding their own during this trying time. Mike works part time at night and looks for a career during the day. The temple has reopened, giving Allison longer hours but she is managing both jobs and kids and is staying healthy. The kids had the week off of school, which I am sure they loved!!!

The Ethan Rice Family

We enjoyed a Sunday visit and Haystacks for dinner with Ethan, Cameo, Kaylee and Wade. They enjoyed time with Wade, Liz and Tracker, visited family near Wilhoit. They "moved in" with us late Tuesday, visited Grandma and Nano, went out to lunch, and prepped for Wadey's birthday party.

The book exchange box on the next block near our house.

Kaylee and Nano

Kaylee, Wade and Nano

Thanksgiving Day was great!

And Wade had a wonderful birthday party!!

They headed out for home on Friday afternoon, fought snow and rough roads in Flagstaff, slept a few hours in Tucumcari, New Mexico, and then headed across Texas. We spoke to them late Saturday night and they were deciding whether to stop in Arkansas or power through

The Doran Rice Family

It was a busy and good week for Amber, Doran and family. Amber made a whole Turkey dinner for her co workers that they enjoyed on Wednesday. Thanksgiving was awesome and Doran got their new home all ready for Christmas.

Black Friday is busy for Ross Outdoor, so Amber had to work, and they enlisted Doran for additional help.

Morgan

Morgan is doing well living with Doran and Amber and is looking for a job.

Kayty

Kayty had a surprise in her bed Sunday morning...

She was such a great help all week to me! On Thanksgiving, every time I turned around, she was either cleaning, preparing, washing dishes, peeling potatoes, or hanging birthday balloons. She enjoyed sales on Black Friday and got a new Christmas tree for herself.

The Nathan Rice Family

Nathan had vacation time available and spent the whole week enjoying time with family. They went to the Wildlife World Zoo and especially enjoyed the seal show. They spent time with our family on Thursday before heading to Jessica's family Thanksgiving meal. They also headed out for Black Friday shopping and got a few things for the girls for Christmas as well as lights for their new house. The girls were starting to get sick, so they didn't get to see cousins before they returned home, but Nathan quickly came out to say goodbye right before they left.

Dad's Garden

Great rain makes for a happy garden.

Other highlights

Busy busy week preparing for Thanksgiving. The weather worried us, and a backup indoor plan was put into place, but Thursday dawned cloudy but dry, and our patio was set up. Kaylee decorated the tables, Cameo and Ethan cleaned and cooked, Nathan made awesome pies and Jessica helped with the fruit tray, Amber brought awesome cookies, and Kayty was a master of everything since whenever I turned around, she was either preparing something or washing dishes.