I saw a friend do this at Christmas with Christmas pillow cases and thought it looked fun and was an easy way to add a little holiday spirit to the kitchen. These are for Christmas.
Halloween. Dad wouldn't put them on while I was gone, so next year.)
Thanksgiving. Yippee, Michael will be home. Dianna is going to Arizona with David and Sherrie to see the Chases and the McKay Clan. Melani will be in Logan with the Higginbothams. What about Stepehn and Rosie????

Thought I would share a couple of insights from the conference issue that really hit me up the side of the head.

“Elder Corbridge

My Yoke Is Easy, and My Burden Is Light”

One of the most popular and attractive philosophies of men is to live life your own way, do your own thing, be yourself, don’t let others tell you what to do. But the Lord said, “I am the way.”16 He said, “Follow me.”17 He said, “What manner of men ought ye to be? Verily I say unto you, even as I am.”18

Don’t think you can’t. We might think we can’t really follow Him because the standard of His life is so astonishingly high as to seem unreachable. We might think it is too hard, too high, too much, beyond our capacity, at least for now. Don’t ever believe that. While the standard of the Lord is the highest, don’t ever think it is only reachable by a select few who are most able.

In this singular instance life’s experience misleads us. In life we learn that the highest achievements in any human endeavor are always the most difficult and, therefore, achievable only by a select few who are most able. The higher the standard, the fewer can reach it.

But that is not the case here because, unlike every other experience in this life, this is not a human endeavor. It is, rather, the work of God. It is God’s work and it is His “glory . . . to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”19There is nothing else like it. Not anywhere. Not ever.

No institution, plan, program, or system ever conceived by men has access to the redeeming and transforming power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Therefore, while the Lord’s invitation to follow Him is the highest of all, it is also achievable by everyone, not because we are able, but because He is, and because He can make us able too. “We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind [everyone, living and dead] may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.”20

I loved this. When it really hit me that I really am the Lord's work. Amazing!!! Even if I wasn't a stellar student Dianna there is still hope for me.

Elder Hamula

In referring to the perils of our day, I do not intend to inspire fear, but soberness. Being sober means being earnest and serious in assessing your circumstances, and careful and circumspect in weighing the consequences of your actions. Soberness therefore yields good judgment, as well as measured conduct.

I want to be sober, what more can I say?

The last was a statement by Brigham Young quoted by Elder Cook on gratitude.

"I do not know of any, accepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude."

If I don't get anything else out of my study of conference those three things will have blessed me greatly.