Dear Elder Snell,

Meeting myself coming and going.  Grateful for outpouring of Spirit in these last days-- God’s flooding of the earth with knowledge often through scientists.  Went to The Firm Foundation Expo which ran 3 days 9a-9+p.  Firehosed with knowledge. 

Dr Patrick Jones, a veterinarian, told about his introduction to herbs on his mission to Peru.  The little women told about the Great White God who came and healed their sick and taught them how to use the herbs that He had made.  How would you like an herb class from the Creator?  I paid to take his course and become a card carrying herbalist.

There are two types of evolution:  1) adaptive evolution within species which is essential for survival, and 2) forward or progressive evolution proposed by Darwin where more complex species develop out of lower forms of life, which is completely false (up to 1000 scientists have rejected Darwin’s theory, 780 of them formally & publically proclaimed their rationale). 

 

Grateful that Max was born & that he would agree to learn piano from me.   We enjoyed fruit pizza and Meet the Mormons for his family celebration.  We’re also such luckies to have your Mom.  I worked graveyards at the hospital when she was a toddler.  When I came home & went to bed, she’d curl up beside me & snuggle until I got up.

So blessed to get to know some of the students at BYU.  Saw a Peruvian RM sister today who shared some resources with me about marriage.  Another young woman is studying landscaping and agreed to share her knowledge.  I of course help them with their anxiety and depression.

Love visiting teaching!  One of my visiting teachers connected Wendy Urlich’s article “It isn’t a Sin to be Weak” (April 2015 Ensign, p30) to being without guile.  Guileless means having godly sorrow instead of shame.

Grateful for Jessica Persons who wrote a masterful letter of “concern” about the inappropriate pressure I put on her daughter to at least try medication for ADHD.  Because she was not aggressive, I could see myself clearly.  God gave me the ability to apologize to both her & her daughter.   I may have also influenced them to be more open to modern medication options.

Grateful for the space God makes for me to identify and correct mistakes.  Was suspicious of a movie that had received a lot of awards.  Found out why.  It engendered sympathy for the plight and terrible mistreatement of people with same sex attraction.  It then clearly suggested dethroning God & replacing Him with human genius.  I am more determined to ask God about every move I make so I don’t inadvertently support evil.  I think that’s how Christ remained sinless.  He, without fail, consulted with God prior to acting.

Read an article on filmmaker Frank Capra who understood the moral principles that America originally embraced which he consistently featured in his award winning movies.   In his 1971 autobiography, he wrote “practically all the Hollywood film-making of today is stooping to cheap salacious pornography in a crazy bastardization of a great art to compete for the ‘patronage’ of deviates.”  

Did I tell you Matt Hunsaker’s company downsized & he lost his job?  He was planning to quit & was quietly interviewing with other companies but this way he got a severance package!!  God is good. 

Love you so much