Monday Sketchbook: Unstoppable...almost!

If you haven't yet had a chance to watch the General Women's Conference from this weekend, take the time to do so. It was an awesome meeting -- great music and great speakers!

One of my favorite quotes was from Sis. Wixom: "As individuals we are strong. Together, with God, we are unstoppable!"

Another highlight was the montage of "I Am A Child of God" sung around the world in several different languages. Check it out on the Church website. It's well worth watching!

Mind your manners

Sis. Kerry Jo has a new companion! They're learning to get along.

I have to throw in a note here: most Koreans are very nice and very polite. That said, many of Sis. Kerry Jo's adventures are based on real-life experiences.

Saturday night's all right

It does make it tough!

Sweet Sixteen

I'm so glad ours is a house of boys and we don't have to worry about things like that!

What makes a good sister great?

We have a Sis. Anderson serving in our ward right now. She's awesome! 

#didyouthinktopray

There's a social media campaign under way right now that was started by Al Fox Carraway (aka, the Tattooed Mormon) and the Mormon Channel: Did you think to pray? It asks people to hold a sign that completes the sentence, "I pray when..." and then post it to Facebook, Twitter or Instagram using the hashtag #didyouthinktopray. 

There are some very interesting results, and it's very inspirational to see how many people have faith in the power of prayer.

A few of the folks around here heard about the campaign and wanted to add their two cents. Here's what Sis. Kerry Jo and her companion, Sis. Clabby had to say. We also heard from the folks at Zarahemla Times.

There's a lot of prayer going on! What about you? When do you pray?

Labors in the field

In our mission, it was our tradition to welcome new elders to the area with some kind of impossible chore. For example, in one area we usually had the new elders clean the garbage chute for our floor of the apartment complex.

It was kind of a nasty job.

The new missionaries hated it, but the neighbors were thankful.


OK, we'd usually stop them before they got too into it, but still...