Isn't technology awesome?

I have downloaded general conference to an MP3 that Nathan has and I am able to take it to work and the gym and anywhere else that I want to listen to the Lords words through his prophets and apostles and block out the world and their nonsense words. It is awesome how much technology changes our lives and can edify all of Gods children.

Isn't it totally sad that there are some of Gods children too that use it to their destructive advantage as well?

I watched a couple of YOUTUBE videos this morning on the Bible and another on the Temple and as you know, there is a place that one can post a comment. I watch the video and am totally uplifted by the spirit and am reminded of the need of temples on earth and the greatness and awesomeness of the Bible. As I read through some of the comments, I noticed that there was a comment from someone that lacks truth and understanding. That person swore in their post. As soon as I read it, the spirit left my heart because I felt so bad that they didn't understand what the video was trying to say and that they were rejecting the spirit of a loving Heavenly Father who was trying to touch them and teach them that they are loved, that they are needed and that they are a daughter/son of God.

I told Nathan today after I watched them that it seems to me that those who are the most bitter against the church are those who once have been in tune with the spirit and who once had a testimony. It seems like those who are not members will actually defend those they know and will step up to the plate if someone begins to go off on a tangent. Just like the scriptures say, that those who have once been in tune (like the Nefitas & Lamenitas) and know the truth will be the ones that will criticize it the most and try to destroy it the hardest.

Nathan and I thought, "well, if they don't like it, why don't they just leave it alone". If you see a dead animal on the side of the road, do you stop your car, look at it and stay there and suck up the stench, the view and hold on to picture you see? I don't think so. I think you'd go away and stay away.

If you are in the ocean and see a shark, do you stay there or do you leave and never go back and leave it alone? I wouldn't go back. It doesn't make sense to and it doesn't make the situation any better.

Oh well. Thank goodness that the Lord loves all of us. I pray that those people who don't know about the Gospel will one day learn and will one day pray to the loving God and know that he will answer their pray. That answer will come in a number of ways, such as a peace in their heart and mind, a phone call from a friend that is a member, a knock on the door by missionaries, a member neighbor inviting them to church or church sponsored activity. That one person will watch a video (technology), see a commercial on TV, talk to a coworker about the church or something and then they will be taught by the Holy Ghost to act upon that interaction and follow it.

I know this to be true. I know that this is the way that my Heavenly Father communicates with me. I know that my Savior loves me and through him, I'll return to my Father. I can't wait. This life has its beautiful and hard times and they are so well worth it.

Water Aerobics, it is official

OK, this is really weird...I had applied to teach water aerobics at the YMCA BUT nobody got back with the director to be a reference for me so I was going to throw in the towel and actually cancel the membership. OK, well, today, I'm at the gym and Evelyn says, hey Karen, in a couple of weeks we'll be training are you still up for it? I told her Heck yeah, I thought that it was a NO GO because nobody had gotten back to me so I was going to forget the whole thing!
Amazing. I'm so excited. I need to get some awesome music so I need to ask someone at church or work to get me some SWWEEETT music for the official water aerobics instructor!

Needless to say, I don't have to cancel my membership at the gym, it is just now FREE!

Have a great weekend.

And how do you get such a testimony?

I am listening to conference here at work. I couldn't help but be taken by Elder Ballards talk and read it as he spoke. This section really made me think about what we do in this life and how people try to find peace in their lives. Elder Ballard says that it comes through the following:

Well, there’s no new technology for that, nor will there ever be. You cannot do a Google search to gain a testimony. You can’t text message faith. You gain a vibrant, life-changing testimony today the same way it has always been done. The process hasn’t been changed. It comes through desire, study, prayer, obedience, and service. That is why the teachings of prophets and apostles, past and present, are as relevant to your life today as they ever have been.


Learning the Lessons of the Past
Elder M. Russell Ballard Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
General Conference, 4 April 2009

More pictures

Here are a few other pictures

This is of Page High School right outside the north side of the campus

Nathan and I have concluded that we'll be doing the raft trip some day and that it would be BLAST. This picture is taken from the bridge above

This picture was taken from the HS north side of campus looking out as the sun was setting.

It was so cold (anything under 70 degrees for Karen is cold) and it was Easter and just so beautiful. I was out walking Kale again while Nathan was studying.

This was of the huge land mass just south of Page and I think just south of Flagstaff as we were on our way home back to Phoenix. Obviously Nathan took this picture. Kale loved the longs walks too.

Page Arizona

Here are a few pictures of me while I waited for Nathan to finish his interviews with Page School District over Easter Weekend

Karen, Kale and Glen Canyon Dam

Nathan was back at the hotel studying
Beautiful shot of the other side of Glen Canyon Dam

This is what happens when you take a dog on a trip and make him ride in the car 4-4 1/2 hrs

He would not move his nose off the bag and Nathans clothes. It was hilarious. This is how he was the entire trip home. He was pooped!

Some other pictures will be coming soon so that you can see the school district and school that Nathan interviewed with.

Hillbilly Mirror Humor

After living in the remote wilderness of West Virginia all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city. In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him,'How about that! Here's a picture of my daddy.'He bought the mirror thinking it was a picture of his daddy, but on the way home he remembered his wife didn't like his father, so he hung it in the barn, and every morning before leaving for the fields, he would go there and look at it.His wife began to get suspicious of these many trips to the barn. One day after her husband left, she searched the barn and found the mirror. As she looked into the glass, she fumed, 'So that's the ugly biddy he's runnin' around with.'

How bad can it really get?

Need I say more?

Hilarious!