12 Aug 2025, Tuesday

 12 Aug 2025, Tuesday

Prioritized Daily Task

Jami Hobbs's 43rd Birthday

5:30 pm - Dinner with Michael, Alex, and Carter

Michael - help set Zoom on computers so Debbie and I can visit with Mirko, Ljubica, and Bojana in Serbia on Ljubica's 74th birthday, 28 Aug

*Note: For finding the best time and prices to fly for airline tickets,   https://www.google.com/travel/flights?gl=US&hl=en-US

Note: "Walk facing the sun and the shadows fall behind you" is a metaphor for maintaining a straight course in life, keeping our eyes on the sun (Son of God), shadows (problems) will not go away but will fall behind you.

I was up at 7 am,  had my personal prayer, and texted Debbie.  I studied scriptures, exercised, showered, and shaved.  I texted Jami a happy birthday greeting from Debbie and me.  I got an email from Melodie.  She gave me the web address to find the best time and prices to fly from SLC to Miami (MIA).  *Note: I read D&C 90 this morning and saw a question mark I had put by the name of Vienna Jaques in verse 28.  "She is one of only two women mentioned by name in the D&C.  The other is Emma Smith.  On June 10, 1787, Vienna Jaques was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. She moved to Boston in the 1820s. She was an industrious woman who became an experienced midwife and operated a boardinghouse, among her many enterprises.  She was a Latter-day Saint convert who consecrated her wealth to build Zion. Although largely anonymous today, Jaques witnessed the first baptism for the dead, donated money to purchase the Kirtland Temple site, and received a personal letter from Joseph Smith. She died on 7 February 1884, at the age of 96, and is buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. " Biographer Brent Rogers.  We had food left over, which will go bad if I do not do something with it.  I called Jane and Mark Haws and took a container of baked beans, and hamburgers, and hot dogs in a zip-lock plastic bag over when Jane got off work at 6 pm.  I went over at 6:30 pm and she nor Mark would come to the door.  I called Jane and she said she had gone to bed to come back at another time.  I told her I was leaving the food at her front door.  She thanked me.  Debbie Kimball sent me a picture of the Marietta Stake Presidency and High Council taken about 1980.  I had plans to get together with Alex, Carter, and Michael at 5:30 pm and go to dinner at Aubergine Kitchen in American Fork.  It was moved back to 6:30 pm, then to 7:30 pm.  I had only eaten once earlier in the day.  When I arrived, I ordered an appetizer tray of Deluxe dip and breads.  Alex called at 8 pm.  No one had arrived; everyone had gone to different Aubergine Kitchens.  I put the dip and bread in a take-out box and met Alex and Ethan at the house in Lehi.  They brought food from Aubergine's.  We took it with us and went to see the new movie Freaky Friday at 9 pm.  Michael and Carter met us.  Fuz, Alex's friend, got a ride and was waiting on us.  The Tuesday night special at the Larry Miller Megaplex Theatres at Jordan Commons, $5 tickets.  Michael bought the tickets.  I bought food for Fuz and we ate the food we brought from Aubergine's while watching the movie.  After the movie, Ethan brought me home and then took Fuz home in Provo.  I had prayer, texted Debbie, and got to bed at about 12:30 am.

  About 1980, Marietta Stake Presidency and 10 Stake High Councilmen

L-R, Bill Gray, Marvin Johns, Dave Willey, Roy Krogh, Bill Allen, Bill Farrar, Sanford Bennett, Herb Liindsey, Carlton Floyd, Gary Milkwick, Dave Spalding, Ralph Klucken, Len McAlpin