My visit to see my Grandson Yesterday, and His Visit to See Me Today.

This is not the best picture of me, but our little grandson looks good all of the time. Wednesdays are getting to be one of my busier days. It starts out with exercise in the heated pool followed by lifting weights. When I get home, I grab a bite to eat and head over to the other Grandma's house. I get to see our little grandson. He is growing and learning to talk. He's so smart. He has a wonderful little personality blossoming. Our little granddaughter is there also. I took the pudding pops that he helped me make a while ago over to the other grandma's house. He loves pudding pops. He usually has to take his shirt off to eat them. I found out that some company makes dripless popsycle molds. I'm still looking for them. I make it out of pudding and rice milk. He was very observant when all of a sudden he has two grandma's. Grandma has a boo boo he tells me. He knows that I can not take care of him like the other grandma can, but I still love him. After my visit with him, he kissed me goodbye. It was so sweet. I have massage Therapy in the afternoons now. Then off to my scripture and writing class. I have so many things going on in my life now. I can't keep up with everything. This morning when the other grandma was walking in our neighborhood with our grandson. She called me, and I came outside to see him. He knows this is my neighborhood and states that to the other grandma when they go by. He got to water my trees and strawberries in the front. It was so fun to visit with her and with him. He is growing up so fast.

Chapter 5 & Chapter 6

Chapter 5

55. Lord Kingsbourough found that many American Indian groups were acquainted with early biblical events. What record provided their forefathers with such data(v10)? The plates of brass kept by Laban and brought to them by Nephi.

56. What did the Brass Plates of Laban contain vs(11-14)? They contained the 5 books of Moses which gave the account of the creation of the world and also of Adam and Eve who were our first parents. Record of the Jews from, the beginning even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedikiah King of Judah; Prophecies spoken of Jeremiah, genealogy of his fathers. He knew he was a descendant of Joseph the son of Jacob. Laban was also a descendant of Joseph. He and his fathers kept the records.

57. The Brass Plates of Laban- as also the records kept by Nephi and his descendants in the New World-dealt with the descendants of which of Jacobs sons(verse 14)? Joseph who had the coat of many colors.

58. What did Lehi prophesy concerning the Brass Plates of Laban vs(17-19)? He prophesied about his seed. Plates of brass should go forth unto all nations kindreds, tongues and people who were his seed. They will never perish will not be dimmed by time. They are of great worth unto them, preserve the commandments of the Lord unto our children. Wisdom in the Lord that they should carry them with them in the wilderness towards the land of promise.

Chapter 6

59. Nephi did not write the small Plates of Nephi for the purpose of offering people a textbook of history or archaeology or anthropology or geography. What did he say was the ''the fullness'' of his ''intent''; his real purpose for writing (Verse 4)? His intent is that he may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob and be saved.

60. What kind of quality of reader did Nephi know his writings would not please, and what kind did he know they would please (verse 5)? He was writing things that were pleasing unto God and people who were not of the world.

61. In my opinion(in connection with verse 5) would it be correct to say. ''The Book of Mormon is not on trial: the world is''? Compare with 2nd Nephi 25:22, 2 Nephi 33:14-15 and

3rd Nephi 26:6-11 especially verse 11. In these other scriptures it states that the world is on trial. We will be judged according to Nephi's words which are from God. It's very strong and we need to heed God's warnings.

Record Progress of My Weight Loss Journey Transformation

Sometime soon I'll be able to download some pictures of what I looked like from the beginning of my transformation. It's been a very slow process. I'm older now and most people would just give up and not try anymore, but I am determined to get the results. After my fall and my comeback, nothing will get in my way of my transformation. I have determination that will never quit until I get to my goal. It should be interesting what I will look like in a year or two because it will probably take me that long to get there. I have never been in my life what my goal is, I can't wait to see what it is going to be like. I just don't know how many 1000's of exercises that I will have to do to get there. It seems like an eternity.

In 1995 when I had my hip replaced my surgeon told my husband that I needed to lose weight. That didn't sit well with me. The doctor should have told me himself. I had some pains that I didn't know how to work through. I ended up gaining 50 more pounds because I didn't know how to lose weight then. I thought I was eating healthy, but I was not. I could not do much exercise because of certain problems with the hip replacement and my muscles.

2001 our son graduates from high school, and by the end of the year he's married. I was in not good health then. I weighed 220 pounds by then.

2004 I started working out at the gym. I found out that I was 50% fat. I never made much progress because I could never do enough exercise to burn enough calories to do any good. I may have lost a few pounds.

2006 I'm working all the time sitting 40 hours a week in a chair. A little exercise maybe. I have a terrible fall when my hip goes numb when I'm going down the steps in my garage. I fall to my left and down on the cement ground I fell. Well I'm in the hospital for a week. I'm home for a week, and then I'm back to work the next week. I continue to have excruciating pain for the remainder of 2006 and beyond. I start physical therapy. I met with my Orthopaedic Surgeon, and he says I need to lose weight to my face. I'm with a walker and I cant' walk. I told my Physical Therapist about what the doctor said, and he says he can help me lose the weight.

2007 I'm working and going to therapy.

2008 Aug. I'm ready to start some exercises. I weight 206 and I have 46% fat on me.
Here is the rest of my numbers that I want to keep.
I have lost my records for weight lost from Aug thru November's numbers. I mostly did water aeroebics in the pool during this time.

Dec. 4, 2008 Thurs. Weight 192.6, Fat% 46

Dec. 8, 2008 Mon. Weight 193, Fat 44

Dec. 11, 2008 Thur. Weight 193, Fat 42.3

Dec. 17, 2008 Wed. Weight 191.6, Fat 46

Dec. 19, 2008 Fri. Weight 193.6,

Fat 46.6, BMI 29.1

Dec. 23, 2008 Tues. Weight 191.6,

Fat 45.1, BMI 29.1

Dec. 26, 2008 Fri. Weight 190.4,

Fat 45.7, BMI 29.0

Dec. 30, 2008 Tues. Weight 191.0,

Fat 42.7, BMI 29.0

My weight is up and down and all over. My therapist gave me a book to read called the China Study. I recommend everyone in the world to read it. It took me awhile to really want to do it. My father came down with bone cancer, and that is when I got really serious in changing my diet. I never changed over till Nov of 2008. I will tell it now that I'm so healthy now. For me because of my injuries the weight is still slow coming off. I feel healthy, and I don't have to worry about things as much. I don't have cholesterol issues. I'm not going to get diabetes. I'm not going to have heart disease. My veins are clean, and I don't have hardening of the arteries which causes strokes and cancer.

Date, Weight, Fat%, BMI

Jan. 02, 2009 Fri. Weight 189.6, Fat 45.1, BMI 28.8

Feb. 03, 2009 Tues. Weight 184.6, Fat 43.0, BMI 28.5

March 04, 2009 Wed. Weight 184.6, Fat 42.8, BMI 28.5

April 03, 2009 Fri. Weight 179.4

May 08, 2009 Fri. Weight 176.2

30 lbs off

June 02, 2009 Tues. Weight 179.8, BMI 27.7

July 03, 2009 Fri. Weight 174.4, Fat 41.4, BMI 27.2

Aug. 04, 2009 Tues. Weight 176.2, Fat 40.9, BMI 27.2

Sept. 09, 2009 Wed. Weight 174.0, Fat 41.3, BMI 26.9

Day after lay off

Sept. 28, 2009 Mon. Weight 169.4, Fat 42.9, BMI 26.1 37 lbs off

Oct. 02, 2009 Fri. Weight 170.6, Fat 40.9, BMI 26.0

Nov. 04, 2009 Wed. Weight 171.6, Fat 42.3, BMI 26.5

Dec. 28, 2009 Mon. Weight 175.6, Fat 41.4, BMI 27.1

Jan. 05, 2010 Tues. Weight 174.6, Fat 41.9, BMI 26.9

Feb. 03, 2010 Wed. Weight 172.0, Fat 41.7, BMI 26.4

March 03, 2010 Wed. Weight 171.8, Fat 43.6, BMI 26.5

April 02, 2010 Fri. Weight 167.8, Fat 42.4

May 04, 2010 Tues. Weight 166.0, Fat 44.5

40lbs off

June 08, 2010 Tues Weight 166.0, Fat 41

Here is where I stand so far. It was grueling hard work to get to where I am today. It has taken forever, but if I gave up I'd be over 200 lbs again. Funds are getting tight, so I'm thinking of selling my furniture in the livingroom to continue this journey. Maybe I'll have to go down to once a week or once a month. I made this into a graph, but when I posted it the graph went crazy on me. I'm starting to feel better from my fall. A miracle!

June 20, 2010 Father's Day

Today is Father's Day. It is my brother's birthday today the one who is very ill now. We as a family fasted and prayed for him. Just after our father passed away my brother who is three years younger than I am was told he had a brain tumor. He had brain surgery to remove the tumor. The doctor's didn't get it all because it's the worst kind. It's the kind that intertwines into the brain and it is hard to remove. He had six weeks of chemo and radiation. At the moment the tumor has shrunk, and it is not growing. He's had two blessing. Each blessing promised he's going to get better. At the moment his stomach hurts so bad. He has extreme pain all the time. The doctors tell him he has IBS, but he feels it is more than that. Our family the ones that could fast, we fasted today for him. We all prayed to the Lord to help the doctors find out what is causing his pain. We prayed that his pain will go away. I had IBS once, and it was bad. I know the pain he's having. It lasted for me 6 months to a year. It was really hard to work. I thought I had the stomach flu when I first got it. I had a colonoscopy the doctors told me I had IBS, and there was no cure. I was sick for some time. I lost about 26 pounds. Everything I ate went through me. I was wasting away, and I was very ill. My husband was driving one day in the car and heard a commercial on the radio about a doctor in the area that could cure IBS. He called me and told me the phone number. I wrote it down and called the doctor. My treatment was like no other. It took a few months of treatments. IBS stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I am cured today. It is a miracle.

Chapter 4 Scripture Study

50. According to the Bible has the Lord ever destroyed the wicked or commanded the righteous to destroy them? Explain

Genesis 6:5-13

The LORD destroyed the wicked people except Noah and the Ark and his family and the animals on the ark.

Deuteronomy 7:2 Verse 2 says And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Deuteronomy 9:4 4.Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

Acts 5:1-11 says

1.But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

2.And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

3. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

4. Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

5. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost; and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

6. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

8. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

9. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

10. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

11. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

1 Nephi 17:35

35. Behold, The Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fullness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.

The Lord cursed the land against the wicked the wrath of God was upon them. But the Lord did bless it unto our fathers.

51. What nation would dwindle and perish in unbelief ? 1st Nephi Verse 13

13. Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief. The nation is America

The Mulekites had no records with them they denied the being of their Creator and Mosiah, nor the people of Mosiah could not understand them.

52. In my opinion if a 19 century American religious leader had written The Book of Mormon as a ''pious fraud'' to win converts to a new Christian sect, would he have had Nephi slay Laban? Why or why not? No, because if the book was a fraud then God wouldn't need to save people. The Lord wanted to save people who were righteous. God needed his righteous people to have their records of the creation and their genealogy. God wanted us to know more things. He wanted to give more information to his people. The Book of Mormon was translated by Joseph Smith by the Power of God. This is my testimony. Heavenly Father has a plan for all of his children. He wants all of us to return to him someday. The Book of Mormon is ancient scripture. Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son in the Sacred Grove. From there he was an instrument in Gods hands to restore Christ's Church upon the earth today. If we follow the commandments of God and live the best we can we can live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus in the life hereafter. We are all spirit children of our Heavenly Father. We came to earth to show the Lord that we want to be with him after this life. There was a veil placed over our minds so that we could not remember our life in heaven. Through faith in Christ and following the Lord's commandments we can return to live in his presence in the next life. We can also have our families sealed to us for time and all eternity. This means that in the next life we can be together again. This is the Lord's plan. The greatest gift that God could give us.

53. The fact that Nephi promised Zoram that he should be a free man like unto us. Verse 33 Zoram must have been a slave or a servant.

Was slavery, involving Hebrew slaves practiced during the reign of King Zedikiah?

Consult Jeremiah 34:8-11 Yes slavery was practiced during the reign of King Zedikiah until they were commanded to let them go

54. After Nephi and Zoram had exchanged oaths(verse 32-35)

Zoram made an oath with Nephi that he would promise to go down into the wilderness and live with Nephi and his family. Nephi says in (verse 37) that Zoram made an oath with them and their fears did cease concerning him.

Joshua 9: 1-21 It says that when a man made an oath it was his word and you could trust him.

That's what I learned in Chapter 4

A hard two weeks,Summer Activities

Well ever since my daughter had her mole removed from the bottom of her foot, it has been hard on me. It started on the Friday June 4th. I took her to the Dermatologist to have a mole on the bottom of her foot removed. It was deeper then even the Doctor knew. We later found out that it was not cancerous, but that it needed to come out because it went so deep. She still has the stitches in her foot and it is Father's Day June 20th. She can walk with the stitches in, so that is better than before. It brought me back to the time I had surgerys back to back that kept me on crutches for a whole year. (Not Fun) I tended to my daughter and the baby on Monday June 7th. Our other Grandma tended to the grandson at my daughter's house. On Tues. June 8th thru the 10th I tended the baby everyday, and the other grandma tended the grandson during that time. My daughter returned to work to do her job. On Friday June 11 we did what we did on Monday. It was hard on everyone including the husband. The following week I started on Sunday evening with what I would call a sinus infection gone into a allergic reaction. I had that thing till Thurs, while I tended the granddaughter(baby) thru Thurs. It was hard on me because I was needing to sleep. The baby cryed real tears everytime I sneezed. I felt so sorry for her. I could not help it. I missed my weekly meeting about writing my history. I haven't exercised in three weeks. My goal to be down to 150 by my birthday is no longer possible. I'm hoping my daughter's foot is on the mend, and I can get back to my work outs and my weight loss program. Today is Father's Day and it is my first Father's Day without my father. It's getting more sad as I write. On a brighter note the weather has finally decided to become Summer. YEA! A week ago we had the furnace on, but today it's just beautiful out. My summer is becoming more busy as I look at my calender and realize all the things I need to do. I hope to keep up with everything. I'm feeling better, and hope to be able to stay healthy and on top of things. My cousin called. He is coming to see us in two weeks.

My daughter

My daughter had a mole taken off of her foot on Friday. We did not know at the time how deep it was. The doctor said of any of the moles she had taken off, she needed to have that one taken. She had stitches. Today is Saturday and she can't walk at all. She's had total pain in the foot all of today. She is quite worried. Sunday and Monday I'll be with her helping take care of her, and her little children. I hope she gets better soon. It frightens me that there could be damage in her foot now. We'll know more in two weeks when she has her stitches taken out. I gave her my crutches to borrow, but I need to take her my wheelchair. I hope I have strength enough to help out.

Inspiration out of no where came to me today

I'm in the bathroom putting on my make-up when a wave of inspiration came to me today. I'm trying to get a job that I have no experience in. It could be that it's a too busy of a job for me because of my injuries. If I could just answer phones all day and make appointments that would be good, but they have to mix it up and have too many things going on at the same time. I do not know how this crossed my mind, but it came to me. I want to get a job that no one can lay me off, and I am not going to be discriminated against because of my age. One of the things I wanted to do when I moved here was to go to school to get a degree in music. I've been here so many years now that school seems unattainable because of the cost, and I don't have a way to pay for it. It costs 3 times more now then it did when I came here. I went to Amazon to see if I could find some Music Theory books that were college books. I couldn't find any, but I did find Music Theory for dummies. I'm going to buy it. Maybe I just need to learn this stuff on my own, because I have a natural ability to teach. I just need to know more theory. I'll clear out my room and fix it up. I'll have lessons with two students at a time. They will each get a half hour piano lesson. The other student will be old enough to read. I'll have a computer set up with theory music games for them to play and learn while they wait. I'll not charge as much as that one person told me to charge. It will be reasonable. Maybe I can take piano lessons from a guy who lives close who has his Masters in Music. If I could build this up again I could have a little income coming in. I never have to retire unless I want to. There are nightmares with this idea. My experience with it is the students forget to come. The parents don't pay. I just don't know. I don't know if I want to do this or not. I had great success teaching in NH but not here. If I had a degree in this I could work in private schools. I would prefer to have a job over this. I've had enough bad experiences to make me not want to do this one. I'm up for improvement on my music abilities though.

Disappointing Day

I had a sad day today. There is no way I can get on the job training because of government rules and regulations. I looked all day on line for a job. I could not find a thing. I know I'm a good person. If I had a job I would be the best employee, but the fact remains I don't have a job. I feel like I'm out to pasture or something. I cried all day. It's getting me down. I've been praying for a long time now what should I do? What can I do to find the job for me? It's not been easy to be laid off from my job. I have had no money for me. I can't buy clothes or anything. I can't do anything. I never knew things could be so tight. I need glasses my husband needs glasses , but we can't afford to go to the eye doctor. The list gets longer and longer the things we need. That is why I find it is so important for me to find even a part time job to just get a little extra coming in. Why is it that the young ones can easily get a job, but if you are not young there is nothing for you? I'm trying to get a job before the college students come back to town. If I don't get a job soon I won't find one at all.

Visit with Grandson

I went to visit our little grandson last week. He was nice enough to hold grandma's hand. I stayed to tend our little granddaughter while our little grandson went to his gym class.

Chapter 3 Study Continuation

44. When Nephi was asked by his father to go back after the Brass Plates of Laban. What great statement did he make that eloquently expressed his faith(verse 7)? ''I will go an do the things which the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments unto the children of men, save he shall prepare a way for them that they may accomplish the thing which he commandeth them.''

45. When Laman attempted to obtain the Brass Plates of Laban simply by asking for them and, failing in the attempt, was ready to abandon the project, what fiery oath did Nephi utter to register his determination to succeed (verse 15)? ''I said unto them that; ''As the Lord liveth, and as we live, we will not go down unto our father in the wilderness until we have accomplished the thing which the Lord hath commanded us.''

46. What new scheme did Nephi now propose for acquiring the plates(v16)? go to his fathers land of inheritance and get his gold and silver and all manner of riches.

47. What did Laman and Lemuel do when Nephis' scheme for obtaining the plates failed(v28)? They were angry they did speak hard words unto the younger brothers and they hit them with a rod.

48. What did the angel say that indicated the ancient custom of the eldest son succeeding his father in the right to rule(the law of primogeniture) was going to be reversed in Lehi's family(verse 29)? The Lord chose Nephi to be a ruler over his older brothers because they would not listen to (The Lord)him and follow his commandments, but Nephi would listen and would obey. It was because of the older brothers iniquities is why the Lord chose Nephi.

49. What do we learn from the murmurings of Laman and Lemuel about the authority of the ''mighty man.'' Laban(verse 31)? God is mightier than Laban, but Laman and Lemuel can't believe it. Laman and Lemuel continue to murmur even after an angel tells them that Laban will be delivered into their hands.