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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Sorry for no letter last week, but the good news is that I have LOTS to share with you this week! News update, I am staying here another transfer! By the end of this nest transfer (Sept 11th) i will have been in </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Roseville for 9months. That's</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> a record! Its more than a third of my mission in one place. Elder Wright my newest greenie</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> is getting </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">transferred to a </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Spanish ward so he can use his language and </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I'm getting Elder Livingston. He is a good missionary. President Weston made it pretty clear that I am</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> getting </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">transferred next transfer. so if your going to send packages do it sooner rather than later and send it to the mission office not my address in </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Roseville. I also need Emily Gerhartz's</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> address in NJ. please send that to me asap. This last week was chalk full of miracles!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">So as you know I had that incident with the man at the library (JERK). I went and complained to the library but what I heard surprised me...Kinda. You see they told me that the stuff he was looking at wasn't banned. I was VERY disturbed by this. Yet kinda makes sense since its </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California. They told me that if I was offended that they could go and get him a privacy screen. I am totally beside myself at this point and now I am</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> teaching the head librarian the powers of the adversary and about the plan of salvation and how as a representative of </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Christ I can feel that the spirit is not in their library. That I was </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">appalled that a public library would allow someone to look at such damaging pictures. There are children that go to th</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">i</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">s </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">library what if one of them saw was he was looking at? it could do serious damage! I got some eye rolling by the IT </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">guy when I was talking about the plan of salvation and the head librarian told me that there was nothing they could do except offer him a privacy screen. I told them that they needed a serious overhaul of their morals and that they needed to consider changing their policy. I then left. But to </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">everyone's surprise there was no yelling or </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">temper tantrums or any sort of attention drawn (like i would normally do) I was polite and cordial. I spoke sharply but lovingly rebuked the city of </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Roseville and their internet</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> use policy. I told them I would not be back. So we got permission to email at the family history center and this is MU</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">CH better!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">So </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Monday morning during study Elder Wright and I felt that we should teach this part member family that we have been teaching about fasting. He committed to baptism about 2 weeks ago but wasn't sure about the </span></span>Book Of Mormon<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> and so we </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">hadn't set a date with him. These last two weeks he diligently read and prayed. Then on </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Monday we felt inspired to talk to him about fasting and how that will help show Heavenly Father that he wants to follow his will. so Monday evening at our lesson with him we invited him to pick a day this week and to fast and pray about the </span></span>
Book Of Mormon<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">. We told him that we wanted to fast with him and that he should text us the night before so that we could fast the next day as well. so </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Wednesday night we get a text from him saying that he was going to fast on </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Thursday. so that night in companionship prayer we prayed for Niel. We asked God what day He wanted us to invite Niel to be baptized on and we paused. During the prayer i got the distinct impression of 25 and Elder wright got the Distinct impression of the 3rd </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Saturday in August. well Guess what the 3rd Saturday in August is? the 25th! So the next day (</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Thursday) we had a lesson with him in the afternoon. The lesson went Flawlessly. We taught the end of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it was perfect because we were talking about baptism and the HG. Then in the lesson there came a moment where he said something (i wish i could remember exactly what it was) and the Spirit YELLED (quietly with a still small voice of course) at us that NOW was the moment to </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">commit him to a date. I looked at Elder Wright with AMAZEMENT and gave him my classic David wide eyed glare. Elder Wright then extended the invitation and it was </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">received well. We invited him to be baptized on the 25th and he said that he felt that the holy Ghost had been prompting him this whole time that this is what he needed to do that this was the path that God wanted for him. He said that he just wanted to be a leaf in the water. Have the Lord just guide him where He needs him. I was so touched and I just wanted to cry out with thanksgiving to God. Which we did when we got out of the lesson and I was just so overwhelmed by the spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">So Elder Wright and I decided two weeks ago during weekly planning that we were going to find more investigators more searchers so that we can refill our teaching pool because Liz and Jill are getting baptized august 4th. So we made a conscience effort to find new Investigators that were searching for the truth. Then Thursday morning we got a text message from church HQ for a referral for a family. They just moved here and their cousin is a member and </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">referred them to the church. We showed up on </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Thursday and talked with them a bit and committed them to baptism. Then yesterday their whole family of six came to church. They have 4 kids and they all LOVED it. We met with them last night and </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">committed the whole family to be baptized on the 1st of </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">September. We are so excited for them. On moms birthday we will have had 10 baptisms in 2 months. I say </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">that's pretty good. By moms birthday I will have 12 baptisms Here in </span></span>Roseville<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">. Not that I'm</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> counting or anything because to tell you the truth NONE of these Baptisms have came because of our efforts as missionaries. We </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">didn't tract into them or contact them on the street. It was ALL because of the efforts of the members we just happened to be the lucky missionaries that are serving here at this time. I feel </span></span>so<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> blessed to have a part in this work. I have had several moments in the past week and took a few minutes</span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> to think about this work and the miracles I am seeing and I was totally overwhelmed by the spirit. I felt so humbled that me.. of all people.. got to take part in such a wonderful work of helping these people, Gods children, Back to Him. I was so overcome I felt as if all I wanted to do was Sob. I have NEVER in my whole life felt this much joy. Bringing Souls to Christ is the hardest but the most rewarding thing I have EVER done. I wish I could just share with you all the feelings that I have had this past week. To top it all off I am </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">officially Uncle Dave. Hopefully I </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">don't end up with a belly like Uncle Dave. ;) love ya uncle </span></span><span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Dave! </span></span></div>
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I want you all to know that I know that this is the Lords work, the Lords church, and He directs it. If your not sure of the things I say, PRAY ABOUT IT!! If your not sure about going on a mission or you come up with excuse after excuse to not go or why you shouldnt, THEN STOP, AND PRAY ABOUT IT! Because I know that the Lords answers prayers if your asking with REAL INTENT!! I Love this work, I LOVE my God and I LOVE my savior Jesus Christ for giving me this opportunity to grow and become the best preisthood holder I can. I know He is working many mighty miracles on this earth and that I know because Im living proof that miracles happen, that God loves us, and that the atonement is REAL! </div>
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So our Baptism this past Saturday was WONDERFUL! We confirmed them on Sunday and the spirit was so strong. I feel so blessed to have been apart of their lives. I am so happy for Katy and Ramon. </div>
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<span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Today Elder Grantham left for Brazil and Elder Wright arrived from the MTC. He is waiting for his visa to go to Argentina so hopefully i can do a better job at learning Spanish than i did learning Portuguese. I'm excited to be able to train again. Transfers are in two weeks and chances are that I am not going anywhere. Im 99% positive that I'll be here till at least Sept.11th maybe longer. Im planning on serving my whole two years right here in Roseville. I told President I'm ok with that. There is a lot of work here.</span></span></div>
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Remember that the Lord works miracles if we trust Him.</div>
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<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-41098499713812492122012-07-13T03:59:00.002-04:002012-07-14T14:07:35.168-04:00Nathan and his Adorable Kiddos!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Besides being Adorable...she LOVES her daddy!!!</td></tr>
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Tiff's Beautiful, talented family!</div>
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They say the darnedest things!!!</div>
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Arli and Jake have one coming any minute now a sweet little girl...Hurry Avery, Hurry!<br />
Rick, Lorri, Jake, Arli, (Avery), Taylor, David, and Danie girl!</td></tr>
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Trust me they get cuter!!!<br />
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David, Taylor, Arli and Danielle<br />
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David in the MTC<br />
He is the super tall dude in the middle!<br />
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Jumping off the wall, of course!<br />
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Arli finished BYU in El. Education in April!!!!!<br />
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Arli 2 weeks to go!!!!<br />
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Jake in Cambodia. Married to Arli!<br />
Jake wants to be a helicopter pilot!<br />
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Taylor Ra`Chelle<br />
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Danie Marie!<br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">I cant tell you how much I love my kids!!! They are amazing, </span></span><br />
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Look at that Kiddo smile!</td></tr>
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Her youngest and most talented athlete!</td></tr>
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Joe is married to Whitney. Isaiah and Ashli. Trent, Lesli, Gunner, Ian and Kali!<br />
Go Arizona!<br />
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Lindsey will be a senior this year!!!<br />
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Len and Lindsey and Nikki<br />
Two beautiful and talented girls.<br />
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Austin, Len, Nikki and Lindsey!<br />
Such a wonderful Family!<br />
Talented, athletic and Kind!<br />
We love and miss them so much!<br />
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Len and Lindsey at her Varsity Choir Concert!</div>
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This week the weather has been VERY strange. One day its over 100 and HOT then the next day its 70 and cool then its HOT again for a few days then its drops back down i think one day this week it dropped under 70. then the next day it was 102. I don't get it. Its another sign that Christ is coming. They keep telling me its going to get hotter but then it never does. This week despite the heat we have seen MIRACLES and fortunately for me discovered some areas of improvement in developing myself and my character. It has been a sort of emotional week. Good and bad. Turns out I'm not perfect after all. who would have thought?</div>
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So this week Elder Grantham and I killed it. We had an awesome week. O<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">ne of the best that I have had so far on my mission. This past week we picked up two new investigators and we committed them both to baptism and one with a date. One was a part member family that we felt we should go visit then the ward council talked about going to visit them and so they could invite them to take the missionary lessons but they weren't sure how. so the next day Elder Grantham and I took the initiative and went and invited him to take the missionary lessons and we were met with warm open arms he has truly been prepared to accept the gospel. Now he is praying about the Book of Mormon. He said that he would be baptized and that he would do whatever it took to have his family be eternal if he found out the Book of Mormon was true. He is by exact definition a honest seeker of truth. We are excited. Then yesterday we met with another one of the investigators we picked up earlier in the week. I saw her at church during fast and testimony meeting and as soon as I saw her the spirit prompted me to go and talk with her and invite her to be baptized. so after sacrament meeting we talked with her about meeting with us. she wanted to and was excited. We had an awesome lesson with her yesterday and she had been coming to church with a recent convert family. she accepted the invitation to be baptized and we set the date for the 28th of this month. she told us something that was awesome she said that the reason she wanted to be baptized was because she noticed the change that attending church had on her life. (she has been about 7 times) She said that she knows that being baptized can and will make her happier and that it will give her a fresh start. she is amazing and eager to learn we are excited for her. This past week as you can tell has been full of wonderful miracles and the Lord is truly giving us the children He has prepared. All this because of our obedience. this past week has been our most obedient and consequently our most productive. I'm thankful for the work that has been entrusted to us. </span>It is amazing how the Lord has used us as his tools. He truly led us to His children that He prepared to accept the gospel. </div>
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This week has went by so fast. training is going good. its hard but its going. He is from florida, we have been having communication issues, but nothing serious. We are working on them. I Think i talk to fast for him. He is from a small town in north florida, about 10 mins from georgia and I am almost positive my Jersey Pace is hard for him. He is a good missionary but he moves slow talks slow and thinks slow. NOT necesssarily a bad thing! Im learning to slow down and he is learning to speed up. its working out. I dont HAVE to learn portugese but im going to try. He is waiting for his Visa so he can go to Brazil.</div>
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I think that Avery is coming the first week or two in july. Mark it down that i said so!! IM GOING TO WIN THE BET!! ILL HAVE THE BRAGGING RIGHTS and LIKE ALWAYS ILL BE RIGHT AGAIN!!!!!! Some things NEVER change! :D</div>
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We had a baptism on tuesday and our investigators are progressing nicely! Kaity and Ramone are excited for their baptism. Its July 14th. I cant wait. I dont have much time but I LOVE YOU and ill email next week. </div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-82444943797794016552012-06-02T01:29:00.003-04:002012-06-02T01:29:31.609-04:00Elder Thorne 5/28/12<br />
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So the past week and a half has been crazy. So since the begining of the transfer Elder Christensen and I have worked hard, but we were met with adversity from the very begining. we decided that we were going to work on less actives and part member families because we didnt have any promising investigators who were really progressing. about that same time we were asked by our mission president to meet with our High Council rep and discuss the missionary effort in the ward. So we a few weeks later we Finally met with our High Council rep. After we met we were invited to start were working with the High Priest group leadership and the Elders quorum presidency as they made visits to ward members every tuesday. We Jumped at the opportunity. After that point I think they then began to understand how hard we were really working and how much were were getting accomplished. They said that everytime they made a visit to someone they learned that we had already met with them or had been meeting with them for a long time. they were very surprised. They thought that they should Unite with us in our efforts to meet with members so that we could be more effective with our visits. about three weeks ago we were having a horrible slump (i guess you could call it). we were working super super hard doing EVERYTHING we could. Somehow we werent seeing the fruits of our labors. We had lesson after lesson cancel and went two whole weeks without one single lesson with Investigators. It was really rough, we had investigators stop meeting with us we had litterally NO non-member work. So we decided to really focus on the less-active work in the ward. I was getting down about not seeing any success but I quickly realized my sin and prayed and asked for forgiveness. I knew I needed to be more dedicated. As we dedicated ourselves more fully to the Lord we started to see something change. We have an investigator named kaity. Her fiance was in jail and we taught him before we taught kaity and before he went to jail. because he went to jail kaity started to meet with us. So we taught kaity and we taught paul but we hadnt taught them both together. The begining of last week paul got out of jail. We had a weak commitment from kaity to be baptized but we hadnt met with her in two weeks so we were nervous. Wednesday of last week we finally met with them and to our surprise they were both VERY prepared. They both agreed to be married in the end of june so that kaity and her son ramone could be baptized begining of July. Paul is going to be baptized in september because he cant be baptized until he is off parole. Then on thursday we get a phone call from a member telling us that they needed to talk to us immediately. So we called them up and they told us that they have a friend that is in the army and is coming back into town for a couple weeks and wants to be baptized His name is Tim. so the next day at church we show up and a member brought 2 non members to church we met them and sat by them. they asked elder christensen during sacrament meeting what they needed to do to be baptized! We also had Paul, Kaity and Ramone attend and I sat by them. They had a great time. Then we had Tim and he sat with the family that brought him. We had 6 investigators at church and they all want to be baptized. Tim is progressing well and he has been meeting with missionaries at basic training, he is so prepared and he is being baptized next week. Kaity and Ramone is set for the 7th of july and the other two its going to be awhile till their baptized due to parole. I know that this is all because we were diligent. We have been working hard and just as soon as I gave more to God and relyed on the attonement even more than i was before i started to see the blessings unfold. I am so grateful for my savior and what he has done for me. he has truly been watching over me. I know that as we continue in patience with ourselves and with the lord it is after all we can do that we see the blessings come. I know that the Lord is in my life and has a plan for all his children. We must be obedient and diligent in all we do to see the fruits of our hard work. I LOVE this work! I Have seen SOO much change in my life and i know its because im giving more of myself to my savior. sorry im almost out of time ill answer all your questions on monday. Elder Christensen goes home early friday morning.</div>
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Love you keep working hard!!</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-57141344939365871882012-05-24T18:46:00.001-04:002012-05-24T18:48:18.557-04:00David 5-22-2012<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Thanks for the encouraging words. Keep working hard. I'm glad you took the job, that is a blessing from Heavenly Father. Who knows maybe it will lead to another job. Just keep your head up and I know that the Lord will bless the family! Remember to do all the small things so that you bind the lord to bless you. If you pay a full tithe, are reading your scriptures, praying every morning and night then the lord is bound to bless you. "If ye do what I say then I am bound, but when ye do not what I say then ye have NO promise." I know your working hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I had a great week. It went by fast. It was really good to see you all and I'm so thankful for the gifts. I had a GREAT birthday. The camera is AMAZING! You definitely spoiled me. I have been taking pictures like a mad man. Its much more fun to take pictures with a good camera. When i send my memory card back please put the pictures on the computer then delete the pictures from them memory camera, so i have more space. Seeing the pictures dad sent makes me homesick especially the one of Devin getting married. I wish I could have been there. I miss him. That's so awesome that Chris baptized his dad. Be sure to tell them congrats. Arli I love the room. I did not know that Ty Detmer what inducted into the college football hall of fame. It makes it that much sweeter. Ty has always been my guy. OH.. if you could email Steve's email address i would appreciate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This week has been extra wonderful not just because I got to see you, and celebrate my birthday, but also because I went to the temple this past Wednesday. It was such a breath of fresh air. The temple was amazing and I had a wonderful experiences there. I did initiatory for the first time since i did my own and it was incredible. There were a few names that the spirit was so strong and I knew that they were waiting for the work to be done and that they had accepted it. As if to hear a voice I felt as though someone whispered in my ear thanking me for being worthy to do those ordinances for them. They were indeed grateful. We continue to work hard and have had some success but the work here in Roseville is hard. I suspect that Ill be here till the middle/end of June. Elder Christensen is getting Super Trunky! But its understandable, he is excited to see his family. Yesterday was his birthday and we got to celebrate it with a solar eclipse. It was weird. It got dark and it was just really weird, we saw it through a pinhole thingy. It was cool, I tried to take pictures but it didn't work. <br />I read a quote this week by David O Mckay it says that " the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing and the love of work is success. I've thought a lot about that this week and its so true. The lord put us here to work, even when its exhausting and your tired. The first thing the lord commanded Adam and Eve to do as soon as they were cast out was to work and till the ground. I have been trying to look at things from a different perspective. Really trying to be <b><i><u> Perfectly</u></i></b> obedient because being here on a mission working for the lord is truly a privilege and it as been given me by Him. I feel Everyday the strength that is required to do the work that is needed given me. Even though I'm super tired and I feel like i want to just take a break or slow down I realize that I am on the lords time and I cant, then next thing you know I'm biking harder and teaching more. The Power I receive is a wonderful blessing that I know we can all receive. When I have done those two things then I begin to love the work more and more. I slowly start to see more success, not just baptisms but more importantly success in developing the attributes I want to have as a Husband and Father. I'm so blessed to be here on a mission and I am overjoyed at the opportunities I have to help the sons and daughters of God understand the plan of Salvation. I am Saddened at the wickedness and the hardness of the hearts of the people and it reminds me that Christ is coming and i feel the urgency for the work. I'm Excited to keep working!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Love you all</span></div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-7987273519716796312012-04-02T23:12:00.000-04:002012-04-02T23:12:08.811-04:00Conference Weekend!<h2 style="text-align: center;">What a fun weekend!</h2><div style="text-align: center;">It was so nice to see Lisa, Suzy, Ryan and Blair!</div><div style="text-align: center;">We went to Ryan's Rugby game...It WAS FUN!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Suzy looks amazing and Blair does too!</div><div style="text-align: center;">As always Lisa is so sweet and kind to everyone!</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a great friend!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XppCAIVTqyc/T3povNTtdDI/AAAAAAAABUY/0Czn1ogmYYo/s1600/2012-04-01+16.30.29+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XppCAIVTqyc/T3povNTtdDI/AAAAAAAABUY/0Czn1ogmYYo/s1600/2012-04-01+16.30.29+(1).jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bKbjAGKW01g/T3powjXkKuI/AAAAAAAABUg/aSriqucO5YU/s1600/2012-04-01+13.30.26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bKbjAGKW01g/T3powjXkKuI/AAAAAAAABUg/aSriqucO5YU/s1600/2012-04-01+13.30.26.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I had decided I wanted to make some fun crafts this weekend.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Soooo...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">During General Conference on Sunday</div><div style="text-align: center;">Taylor and I had all the fixings for these fun crafts.</div><div style="text-align: center;">With the TV on in the background, NICE and LOUD</div><div style="text-align: center;">we worked (they weren't hard) and listened </div><div style="text-align: center;">and cried.</div><div style="text-align: center;">OK, I cried Taylor laughed at me for crying at the silly stories!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I felt the spirit so strong and was so grateful that we were able to listen and learn from our leaders!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The cute crafts were only a bonus!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">General Conference was the Best part about the weekend!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;">I cant wait for October.</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I can promise there will be more crafts before then!</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-91890302996884722212012-03-18T15:07:00.001-04:002012-03-18T15:09:01.321-04:00Here She Is!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Meet Little Miss Avery</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/422495_1725102090640_1331010732_31670340_1023829174_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/422495_1725102090640_1331010732_31670340_1023829174_n.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> All ready to give her parents a hard time!</div><div style="text-align: center;">She is giving them the LOSER sign already!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Good Luck Arli and Jake!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I cant wait to be a Nana!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">xoxo</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSansItalic, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 teaspoon honey</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSansItalic, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1/2 teaspoon salt</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSansItalic, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1/4 teaspoon ground cumin</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSansItalic, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">small to medium size handful of cilantro, washed</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSansItalic, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">juice of 1 lime</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f7f7; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(201, 212, 211); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #4a4a4c; font-family: MuseoSlab, Trebuchet, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Directions:</h4><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f7f7; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6c777c; font-family: MuseoSans, 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Put all the ingredients in the base of a food processor or good blender and pulse to combine for 30 seconds or so until all the ingredients are finely chopped and salsa is desired consistency. Taste for seasoning and adjust to taste. Serve with chips or over tacos.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f7f7; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6c777c; font-family: MuseoSans, 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks Pinterest for the recipe.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f0f7f7; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #6c777c; font-family: MuseoSans, 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thanks Whitney for the thumbs up!</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-50197883096332186232012-02-10T14:42:00.000-05:002012-02-10T14:42:30.370-05:00Dear Blog<div style="text-align: center;">My Dear <b>Friend</b>, <span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Blog</i></span>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">I know I've been away for quite some time...</div><div style="text-align: center;">I still Love you!</div><div style="text-align: center;">You'll always be my friend!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: large;">~Sigh~</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Truth be told I have been <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Pinterest Logo" height="82" src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/LogoRed.png" width="320" /></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;">When I open to the site a uncontrollable chill goes down my spine!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I wish you could try it, you would get addicted too!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Love your friend,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Lorri Rae</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-74909426507310330132012-02-08T00:11:00.001-05:002012-02-08T00:11:52.480-05:00Dave's First Baptism<div style="text-align: center;"><img height="300" src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/395320_10151422821675001_659865000_23064220_1572097161_n.jpg" width="400" /> </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Here is a picture of David and his companion and their first baptism as a companionship!</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Isn't she a beautiful sister?</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;">Nice job boys!!!</span></div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-5592149724680996612012-02-07T02:23:00.001-05:002012-02-07T02:25:52.255-05:00David at the MTC<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">David</span> looks great, doesn't he?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is it because he is my <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">only son</span>,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">he is on a<i><span style="color: #f1c232;"> mission</span></i>,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I am <span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><u>super</u></i></b></span> <b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">proud</span></i></b> of him?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Let's pretend I am unbiased and all those things are true!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">So, whether I am unbiased or not...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Keep working hard Dave...<br />
we<i> </i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><i>love</i> </span><span style="font-size: large;">YOU!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(he is second from the left...and the tallest!)</span></div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-62348940151668780782012-01-30T01:24:00.000-05:002012-01-30T01:24:25.970-05:00Love you Mom!<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt=":)
I believe this!!!" src="http://media-cdn.pinterest.com/upload/188377196883227835_KiQBlFWG_b.jpg" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><i>This makes me smile!</i></span></b></div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-77523274791414603002012-01-29T13:05:00.001-05:002012-01-29T13:08:33.341-05:00Superbowl! Good times, good food!<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens19078202module156522667photo_1327291037manning_eli.jpg" /> <br />
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The Superbowl is coming soon! <br />
<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><b>Go Giants!!!!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">I love the Superbowl, for all its</div><div style="text-align: center;">excitement and fun!</div><div style="text-align: center;">But mostly for the FOOD!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2012/01/super-collection-of-dip-recipes-for.html">This</a> blog had some</div><div style="text-align: center;">Great</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dips!</div><div style="text-align: center;">I am going to try them!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Let me know if you do and how they turned out!</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-41024870944577466242011-09-28T21:04:00.000-04:002011-09-28T21:04:37.147-04:00My Favorite!<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/300029_2456444292095_1281723266_32944096_1921514422_n.jpg" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Oh I wish I had said this to mine!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe I will try it on Taylor and Kaitlyn!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;">~snicker~</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9148547584618383723.post-2777318279573664472011-07-23T14:40:00.000-04:002011-07-23T14:40:18.122-04:00Utah!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0WlAxyqfZLr5P3fREM2eENwCZyEKhz7QH3Mku3dkMw-bNntBRxw" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT0WlAxyqfZLr5P3fREM2eENwCZyEKhz7QH3Mku3dkMw-bNntBRxw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are moving to UTAH!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I leave tomorrow to take care of housing,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">cars, schools, finish getting my Teaching Certificate and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a job!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am so sad, we have lived in Jersey for so long!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But I am ready to be closer to my family!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Four hours from Arli and Danie.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">10ish hours from my Arizona family!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can go see my brother in Texas in only 20 something hours!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See this is good for me!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Good for my family!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let the ADVENTURE begin!!!!</div>Love Lorrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09984956121129960583noreply@blogger.com2