May 19th - 25th

In Our Family This Week...
* Mom went Visiting Teaching
* Mom had her first "board meeting" for the Homeschool Association that she started
* HOT weather! Like in the 90's! It was a bit much for us... we pretty much melted!
* Mom and Ben had a special date to the mall
* Mom got one of the storage rooms completely unpacked and organized

Kids Say...
There are cute things that the kids say each and every day but when it comes time to write the blog, my mind goes blank! I've started making little notes to myself on my phone so hopefully I'll be able to better remember them!

Spiritually Speaking...
The new Stake President spoke in Sacrament meeting today and he said he felt impressed upon to encourage all members to plant a garden as if their lives depended on it, because someday it may. He counseled everyone in the stake to do everything they can to plant a garden. If they need to, get a sod cutter and make a space in their yard. If they don’t have a yard, plant in pots. If possible, rent/”borrow” a spot in a city garden or from a friend or neighbor. In short, do everything you can to plant something now so you can harvest it in the fall. This is the counsel given to us from prophets of God. And it is nothing less than God’s instructions for his people to preserve themselves in the day of want. If you feel that you have enough, then grow more for your Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching families and neighbors or teach them to do the same.  Find a way, without going into debt, to gradually purchase items including long term food storage items to lay up in store. He also mentioned the quote by Pres. Benson about how food storage would be "as important to our temporal salvation as boarding the Ark was in the days of Noah.”

Also, Pres. Harold B. Lee said the following:  “There will come a day when we will live off of what we produce.”  Now is the time to plant in North Dakota, Now is the time to be a covenant keeping, temple attending, commandment keeping people, garden planting, food storing people.

Dad and I were just talking about this yesterday and had committed to ourselves that we were going to grow a garden! After hearing what the Stake President had to say, I am even more determined! From what I've heard, we have to have it in within the next week to 10 days! I know that we will be blessed if we heed the counsel from our leaders :)