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Sigh, s i g h, s i g h . . .
That was my goal last month but I did not make it. Yes, I made it this month. And the FRLibrary has been closed since a week before Christmas.
Am I going to keep that as my goal for next month? Probably not. We'll see.
Today is Wednesday, the last day of the year. I felt great at the end of Monday and Tuesday. Writing and mailing letters can bring me great satisfaction. Monday was for MichaelJ and Sion, Tuesday was for Kathy and Jared Dunn. So fun!
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Sometimes it is easier to type something twice and then compare for differences. There is one!
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
". . .Not knowing beforehand the things which I should do."
1 Nephi 4:6
"6 And I was led by the Spirit, not
knowing beforehand the things which I should do."
6:10pm.
Monday, December 22, 2014
Sometimes I look back on things that
have happened and I think, and all that
happened with me “not knowing
beforehand the things which I should
do."?
Don’t
you just love it when it seems like it was all guided according to HF’s will? That is just one of the all time thrills of
my life!
This
is the second time I am applying it to a situation in my life. I sat in the car after arriving home from the
WCLibrary where I printed of 20 pages of letter and conference talks(3pages-3talks) = 17 from me. As I leaned back in my seat to
pray I started laughing. HF did that just happen? Besides the letter (2 stamps)
I sent him a Christmas card and 2 pages copied out of the January Friend, 2015, the coloring
page and the faith story. Pg 35 and 21 or something. I had written on the
coloring page that with all the intensity of the conference talks maybe some
coloring would be appropriate. And on the back of the card I wrote how Paul and
Joseph of Egypt and Joseph Smith all spent long boring times in jail or prison
but look what we got from them in the way of scripture.
Finally,I
had to write something in the card. I told him to pick his favorite Christmas
hymn, all the verses, and imagine me singing it to him and then he and I
harmonizing and singing parts where ever we wanted. “Can you imagine that all
the way through?” I asked him.
Now
I want to know what hymn it was? : )
The
first time I experienced this was when I was teaching Brock Buckway’s course 14
or 15 SS class. We met at the top of the south stairs and they had sustained Patzy
Lamb as a spy and teacher development teacher. She kept getting assigned to
come to my class. I suspect that someone was reporting to their parents that
they didn’t like how I managed/taught the class. I was suffering depression
although I did not know it. Decisions came so hard in those days. A few days
before that class. . .
For
some reason I had to be parked near Tabernacle and Main street in town. Laundry
comes to mind but I don’t remembering having to do laundry. I was hunting for
something and saw a stationary and specialty store with a sale on. Kathy used cute stationary with borders all the time for the kids
journals/scrapbooks! I picked all kinds of cool, way cool borders like colored
chili peppers etc.. I took them to class
and as part of the lesson I explained how I had felt guided “not knowing
beforehand the things which I should do.” I told them about how cool the
wonderful stationaries were and how delightful it is to receive encouraging
notes from others. I offered stationary
to anyone who wanted to write one or some. Brock, laid-back, hang-loose, set-the-coolness-standard Brock said he thought he could do it. I was incredulous.
What? A living icon, and also boy thought he could do it? I was meticulous in
questioning his commitment. They might have been half price but the stationary
sheets had all been the ones I liked the best and hand-picked.
I
asked Patsy what and where that scripture was and she replied, I’m not a
scriptorian! I eventually found it probably during the succeeding week. And low and behold, Brock Buckway followed
through. The icon of coolness wrote each person in the class a note of respect,
assurance and compliments. I doubt there was anyone the class members would
have rather had one from.
After
his mission I told this story to the young people’s class he was teaching in
the large Young Women’s room. I was his witness.
What
does that say about Tawna his mother? Brock had a great big heart inside that
buff exterior. His mother had nurtured it for years. She ended up doing
humanitarian project after humanitarian project for the poor and
underprivileged in his mission, while he was out.
One
of his older sisters reported to me that she had told her parents, Brother
Jensen is Brocks SS teacher? Good, finally someone who can keep him under
control. Of course, I did not know that at the time, and that was not my intent.
I just wanted to inspire them and challenge them to act on their spirituality.
I
tried to excite them about preparing for the Saint George Marathon too! But it
was to be a SS scripture, read the Book of Mormon marathon. I thought it was the most awesome idea and
told them I owned 2 trophies but that if they completed this marathon in such a
worthy cause I would give them a trophy announcing this wonderful
accomplishment. That trophy would be much more valuable than a running trophy.
It fizzled.
I
followed up each week until I could see it had died. : (
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Seasons Greetings Sulie Baren Hensen Arthur
Christmas time
12/16/14 Tuesday, 3:26pm
Dear
sibling sister Sulie,
I
am at the Family Research Library just north of the old cafe rio
building in Saint George. If all goes well we will have a library
like this built by the temple in 3 years!
Someone
chose me for the 12 days of Christmas this year. I think it is my old
bishop's family. They are so serviceful and I go out of my way to
recognize all they do. So last night I got 20 Christmas cards from my
Christmas elf to send out this year.
When
I was a painter I had tons of time to think about life. When I was a
teacher I didn't. Now I am an Italian Indexer and I do have plenty of
time to think about life again. When one is engaged in mind numbing
work it leaves the brain free to fly. As I type these names they
remind me of people and family. Today I typed Giulia, they don't use
J in Italiano, and I began to think about you and considered writing.
My best old friend David Jentzsch's wife sends me a Christmas card
each year and I have written them back but he doesn't ever answer.[1/6/15 but he wrote me back half a page! and I have his correct FAcebook account now. So Awesome!]
Writing
is a relatively safe way to communicate. No immediate responses are
expected and one needn't read the rest if offended or triggered.
If
you dared to answer some questions for me this is what I would ask:
-
How are you and the church?
-
How are you and Dan?
-
How is your health and body?
-
How long until retirement for you guys?
-
What brings you the most joy these years?
-What
brings you the greatest sadness?
-
If you had 3 wishes, what would you wish for?
-Which
days are your hardest?
-Which
days are your easiest?
-
Tell me 5 things you are proud of from your life?
-Tell
me 5 things you are ashamed of?
-When
would you like to die? Never and Now are options. : )
-Do
you read or write for pleasure?
-Who
are you close to? Do you have any totally trustworthy friends?
Good
enough.
I
will answer those same questions to fill this one page. (I do weird
things.vj)
-H
I am 100% in. It is my foundation.
-H
WE are sadly divorced. Sept. '11 Kathy was here for Tgiving we said
Hi.
-H
Pretty good. Way overweight but hiking the dogs each day.
-H
I was forced out. So living on my retirement already. 21 months. : )
-W
My children.
-W
Worry for my children. When I am not so anxious about my own issues
that pop up all the time.
-I
1-Michael'92 to communicate and go on a mission. 2- A new happy
marriage. 3-Blessings on my children.
-W
Mondays.
-W
Sundays
-T
I made it to retirement teaching Jr. High. I never stop trying. I did
psychotherapy 5 years. Even when my testimony was dead I did not
leave the church. I have been a good spiritual example for my
children.
-T
perhaps in the future
-W
now
-D
both
-W
no one. no.
ADVENTUREBILL1 is my blog. 4:09p
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4:33p
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4:33p
Tuesday, January 06,
2015
The FHC opened
yesterday. Claudia Owens saw me and signaled me that I was wanted in the
principal’s office by Boyce Jensen. Made perfect sense to me considering the
dreams I have been having lately!
I did not recognize
her until I studied her nose and facial expressions. She had snow white hair
from the front and I thought, no way this can be my Boyce Jensen! But it is.
: ) What a blessing. We took care of business and I left.
As I was out walking
the dogs I realized I might have missed the chance of a lifetime. Will I ever see her again? I stopped by the office on my way in and sure
enough she was not there today! A few hours later though I saw her helping a
patron right behind me, and I kept my eye out for her for the rest of the time.
How dare I cross
that bridge? It was so important to me but how should I do it? I decided to
write a note. [Yep, you know me!] And better still I decided to write it on the
backside of My Christmas letter to Sulie! How could I get Sulie’s Christmas
letter? Off the cloud. . . right here
from my blog. O, the joys of the cloud! And
the joys of journaling on it!
Boyce used to live
in Sulie and Stan’s ward, and that is all I knew.
I wrote her that the
letter on the other side was the one I had sent to Sulie this Christmas’14 for
the first time in a decade or two.
She came out of the “principal’s
office” to visit with me about my note. This is what I learned.
-they still live in
the same house.
-they are active in
the ward.
-Stan is a counselor
in the bishopric along with Boyce’s son, Brother Jensen
-B thinks Sulie will
not read my letter off the internet and hoped I would sent it instead. I reassured
her that I did that first. : )
-B has always liked S
and thought the world of her.
-B thinks S became
reclusive when her bishop and ward leaders would not believe her parental
accusations.
-It wasn’t until a
little 12 year old boy began abusing little girls and they followed up on his
history and confessions about my parents and the things they did to him in “that
basement” that the ward members started to give any credence to Sulie’s
stories.
-B thinks the
current bishopric are including her and putting their arms around her.
Accepting her and helping her feel safe. Me- glory be!
I told Boyce I had
not received a response to my Christmas letter.
AS I consider what I
heard I feel:
-angry and indignant
that church leaders did not believe S to begin with.
-surprised to hear
it took a 12 year old boy acting out his experiences on little girls to be the
straw that broke the camel’s back.
-celebratory to hear
they are active and surprised. I just
figured that since Jim McArthur helped Stan through the whole ordeal back then
and since Jim was one of my sister’s sexual and ritual abusers as well as
plural husband, that they SnS had just slid down that path as well. And I was
aching inside. I’m still not sure.
-grateful beyond
words to hear she/they are being included and trusted in their ward!
-delighted that B
was able to respond and still thinks so highly of S after all these years.
And then B asked how
I was doing? Me- sorry, no answer! You
have to email me! yessss!
Adventure Bill to
the rescue! Not really but that is fun to write.ab 5:04p
PPS. There have only been 3 readers on this letter so it should be quite safe!ab
PPS. There have only been 3 readers on this letter so it should be quite safe!ab
Monday, December 15, 2014
v12vdaysvofvchristmasvperfectlyvtimedv
8:33pm, Monday, 12/15/14
Dear Christmas Elves,
This is my second letter to you tonight. I wrote a letter to the EQ last month and entitled it: ADVENTUREBILL1
It was so cool! Half way through the lesson I had them google it and then I had Jesse Bird, who found it first, stand and read it to the quorum.
Since that worked so well I figured I would do the same for you. As you know I entitled it:
*12*days*of*Christmas*perfectly*timed*
Then I took the dogs for their walk. They were driving me crazy! "It's time to go, it's time to go!" they seemed to be dancing!
When I got home I decided to check and see if my plan worked and I googled it. Darn! DARN! It did not show up.
Maybe I just have to wait until the google bots find it. H1
Maybe it ignores ****'s H2
So as you can see I decided to act on the second hypothesis. I rewrote the title with my first initial instead. Isabel barked like crazy when you rang the bell tonight. I set my dinner aside and eventually got up and went out the garage instead of the front door so she wouldn't be in the way. Yay! you took my lovely box, which you just happened to give me the first night. So you have my instructions.
If it doesn't work I hope to leave you a better access Tuesday night. You are so fun. I was feeling so discouraged last week! Perfectly Timed.
Vern
PS. Perhaps Mom or Dad should read this first to determine whether it is time to share it or not. I would hate to pop anyone's balloon. And being a secret elf when your identity is suspected might lose all of the suspense and adventure.
Dear Christmas Elves,
This is my second letter to you tonight. I wrote a letter to the EQ last month and entitled it: ADVENTUREBILL1
It was so cool! Half way through the lesson I had them google it and then I had Jesse Bird, who found it first, stand and read it to the quorum.
Since that worked so well I figured I would do the same for you. As you know I entitled it:
*12*days*of*Christmas*perfectly*timed*
Then I took the dogs for their walk. They were driving me crazy! "It's time to go, it's time to go!" they seemed to be dancing!
When I got home I decided to check and see if my plan worked and I googled it. Darn! DARN! It did not show up.
Maybe I just have to wait until the google bots find it. H1
Maybe it ignores ****'s H2
So as you can see I decided to act on the second hypothesis. I rewrote the title with my first initial instead. Isabel barked like crazy when you rang the bell tonight. I set my dinner aside and eventually got up and went out the garage instead of the front door so she wouldn't be in the way. Yay! you took my lovely box, which you just happened to give me the first night. So you have my instructions.
If it doesn't work I hope to leave you a better access Tuesday night. You are so fun. I was feeling so discouraged last week! Perfectly Timed.
Vern
PS. Perhaps Mom or Dad should read this first to determine whether it is time to share it or not. I would hate to pop anyone's balloon. And being a secret elf when your identity is suspected might lose all of the suspense and adventure.
*12*days*of*Christmas*perfectly*timed*
Monday, 12/15/14, 6:15pm
Dear 12 days of Christmas gift leavers,
One of the sweetest things that happens when generous, dependable saints like you do projects like this is. . . .
The recipient gets to imagine all the people in the neighborhood/ward who might like them enough to bless and compliment them in this way.
I can only think of one family that fits all the criteria of people crazy enough to try to do neatly wrapped and ribboned presents, with double layered red and green poems to announce each day.
If you are the family I am thinking of. . . Thank you it feels wonderful!
Here is the first clue:
This family has one daughter that has grown up and left home and is working, who used to love to change her hair color.
This mother and puppy were seen in front of Braeggar's blowing and raking leaves last week.
This family does more crazy, generous service than any family I have ever known!
This dad was willing to miss parent stake meeting Saturday night because someone from out of town needed a treatment.
This mom knows how to dress up like pi.
This youngest son worries he may have been brain damaged when he made one of the scars on his head.
This middle daughter can visit up a storm. Loves, LOVES puppies, dogs and other living things and wants to get a college education.
This oldest son is too shy to sit in front of the priesthood until his dad has to sit there also.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I tried not to eat all the cookies too fast but after 3 the first night. . they did not last another 24 hours. I tried. Good thing it wasn't fast Sunday.
=======================2:00p Friday ============================repeat====
argh! Don't you hate it when you spend 20 minutes writing something and then it gets deleted!?
OK, starting over.
This really hurts. : (
Maybe I can be more abrupt and condensed this time. Forget the nice long paragraphs.
-I went late to my singles BoM class lastnight at the PineView Stake Center. I have been attending weekly since about August.
-When it was time for treats I asked if I could make 4 announcements. There were only 9 of us there. 1-I gave one of our teachers a 2L Pepsi as a joke. 2- I asked if anyone liked their drawers to smell nice and gave away the gift and read the poem. 3- I did the same for the silver ornaments. 4- The best one, the hot chocolate and marshmallows went last but each time I read the poem, and I was so proud of how beautifully presented they were! Nothing like what I ever give away.
-I asked Jimmy Young in his dad's truck about an hour ago how his dad was doing. Is he discouraged or depressed? He hasn't visited with me in days, weeks, months. He is ashamed of his new job of 2 weeks stocking shelves at Walmart. : ( He used to be a semi driver with an impeccable record, but he doesn't dare leave Jimmy alone like he did 3 years ago. - - - - - - - - - So I couldn't resist, I took them the big red and gold tied-ribboned boxes of candy canes!
-As you know I ate all the cookies and I also wrote my sister a letter and mailed it in your Christmas Card for the first time in 20 years. So personally I could not be happier. If anything I am doing has hurt your feelings I so want to apologize. I was so discouraged last week and I am having such fun this one.
Dear 12 days of Christmas gift leavers,
One of the sweetest things that happens when generous, dependable saints like you do projects like this is. . . .
The recipient gets to imagine all the people in the neighborhood/ward who might like them enough to bless and compliment them in this way.
I can only think of one family that fits all the criteria of people crazy enough to try to do neatly wrapped and ribboned presents, with double layered red and green poems to announce each day.
If you are the family I am thinking of. . . Thank you it feels wonderful!
As I reread the poems before passing them along they were so flattering! Everyone wants to believe those things about themselves. Or at least to think that someone thinks that about them. Internalizing them is hard. We tend to say, no that's not me, they are just being nice, am I supposed to believe this? But I believe HF feels that way about us. . . so why not try to accept them? Once again. Thank you!
If I have made you lose your excitement, suspense, thrill, joy, pleasure, anonymity I am sorry. But it is even more wonderful to me, thinking I know who actually has a heart this big.
=================================================^Friday^===
Dear 12 days of Christmas gift leavers,
One of the sweetest things that happens when generous, dependable saints like you do projects like this is. . . .
The recipient gets to imagine all the people in the neighborhood/ward who might like them enough to bless and compliment them in this way.
I can only think of one family that fits all the criteria of people crazy enough to try to do neatly wrapped and ribboned presents, with double layered red and green poems to announce each day.
If you are the family I am thinking of. . . Thank you it feels wonderful!
Here is the first clue:
This family has one daughter that has grown up and left home and is working, who used to love to change her hair color.
This mother and puppy were seen in front of Braeggar's blowing and raking leaves last week.
This family does more crazy, generous service than any family I have ever known!
This dad was willing to miss parent stake meeting Saturday night because someone from out of town needed a treatment.
This mom knows how to dress up like pi.
This youngest son worries he may have been brain damaged when he made one of the scars on his head.
This middle daughter can visit up a storm. Loves, LOVES puppies, dogs and other living things and wants to get a college education.
This oldest son is too shy to sit in front of the priesthood until his dad has to sit there also.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I tried not to eat all the cookies too fast but after 3 the first night. . they did not last another 24 hours. I tried. Good thing it wasn't fast Sunday.
=======================2:00p Friday ============================repeat====
argh! Don't you hate it when you spend 20 minutes writing something and then it gets deleted!?
OK, starting over.
This really hurts. : (
Maybe I can be more abrupt and condensed this time. Forget the nice long paragraphs.
-I went late to my singles BoM class lastnight at the PineView Stake Center. I have been attending weekly since about August.
-When it was time for treats I asked if I could make 4 announcements. There were only 9 of us there. 1-I gave one of our teachers a 2L Pepsi as a joke. 2- I asked if anyone liked their drawers to smell nice and gave away the gift and read the poem. 3- I did the same for the silver ornaments. 4- The best one, the hot chocolate and marshmallows went last but each time I read the poem, and I was so proud of how beautifully presented they were! Nothing like what I ever give away.
-I asked Jimmy Young in his dad's truck about an hour ago how his dad was doing. Is he discouraged or depressed? He hasn't visited with me in days, weeks, months. He is ashamed of his new job of 2 weeks stocking shelves at Walmart. : ( He used to be a semi driver with an impeccable record, but he doesn't dare leave Jimmy alone like he did 3 years ago. - - - - - - - - - So I couldn't resist, I took them the big red and gold tied-ribboned boxes of candy canes!
-As you know I ate all the cookies and I also wrote my sister a letter and mailed it in your Christmas Card for the first time in 20 years. So personally I could not be happier. If anything I am doing has hurt your feelings I so want to apologize. I was so discouraged last week and I am having such fun this one.
Dear 12 days of Christmas gift leavers,
One of the sweetest things that happens when generous, dependable saints like you do projects like this is. . . .
The recipient gets to imagine all the people in the neighborhood/ward who might like them enough to bless and compliment them in this way.
I can only think of one family that fits all the criteria of people crazy enough to try to do neatly wrapped and ribboned presents, with double layered red and green poems to announce each day.
If you are the family I am thinking of. . . Thank you it feels wonderful!
As I reread the poems before passing them along they were so flattering! Everyone wants to believe those things about themselves. Or at least to think that someone thinks that about them. Internalizing them is hard. We tend to say, no that's not me, they are just being nice, am I supposed to believe this? But I believe HF feels that way about us. . . so why not try to accept them? Once again. Thank you!
If I have made you lose your excitement, suspense, thrill, joy, pleasure, anonymity I am sorry. But it is even more wonderful to me, thinking I know who actually has a heart this big.
=================================================^Friday^===
Dear Sark Jensen and family,
Sannon
Sridge
Srock
Sriley
Sritton
I rang your doorbell, but just once at 9:25 tonight. Sunday, January 04, 2015
I am not familiar with your daily schedule but I wouldn’t be surprised if it started early. I rode down on my bike after my dog walk with a #10 -3quart jalapeno can and a glass gallon jug of pickled jalapenos. It is the first gallon I have purchased. I am allergic to tons of stuff so I was hoping. . . I could eat them, and I can.
One of the first weeks of December I saw Sark wearing the loudest colored jalapeno tie I had ever seen to Sacrament meeting and he was conducting! I was amazed. Since I had just purchased my gallon I figured I would drop by WalMart and buy you guys a gallon just for fun, FUN! You know me, I’ll do almost anything for a laugh.
By the end of Priesthood opening exercises I realized it was December and the green vines that the multi-colored peppers were growing on were really electrical cords. Those were Christmas lights. And they still are mighty bright!!
Dan and Julie Moss were sitting on the bench right behind the thermostat in Sacrament Meeting today. I touched both their shoulders as I knelt behind them before the meeting and asked when they were Christmas Elves doing the 12 days of Christmas last? They did our family once when my kids were little and they started with a big frozen turkey on the 1st day of Christmas. "And a partridge in a pear tree. . . " Julie would go exercise at 4 or 5am and drop it off on our doorstep first thing in the morning. When Tara Braeggar started her humble, meek, gratitude overflowing, testimony in Sacrament Meeting today I told HF in prayer that hers was mine as well. So blessed we are and have been. When I asked Tami Kalmon as I substituted for my 3rd week in the library ( I texted Eric Yunker tonight, and he said, I wasn't aware of that. Sorry.[we're way ol' buddies]) whose testimony would have been mine today, She guessed right off!
I left the Mosses saying, someone in your neighborhood is still doing it, Dan said, That's good to know. I'll give it some thought.
I smiled a big one. Perfect! They had admitted that since the kids were mostly gone, except Sarah, they have quit. Too hard to run away!
Tami Kalmon and I started TV detective AGENCY last night. Here is the blog I wrote:
Saturday, January 3, 2015
TV d e t e c t i v e AGENCY
TV detective AGENCY stands for Tami and Vincenzo!
I have a partner in crime. Oops, I meant a partner in figuring out who is doing the anti-crime-KIND-deeds in our neighborhood Christmas after Christmas. She kept some of her evidence and I have the current stuff!
I dropped off a bottle of Chablis, an empty package of triple elf chocolate cookies with M&Ms and 18 gold and silver Christmas cards. (I already used 2.) They are all waiting on her doorstep in a double Wal-Mart bag with a GOLD label taped on reading “evidence”.
Yes, I know it is 11:40pm at night. I did not ring or knock this time.
I told her and Jackie the chapter 2 part of the investigation story with the suspect being Wilma Courtney. I prefaced chapter 3 with RS president Cindi Brinkerhoff. My reasoning was that it must have been done by conveyor belt. The poems on red and green doubled construction paper. The gold bows. The red ribbon. The see-through packages. I suspected that I was not the only one receiving them and that it would take assembly line techniques to produce such high quality presents. These daily gifts were elegant! I was darn proud to pass them along!
Tami agreed that her poems, that she kept to use in future years, were double layered as well, with red and green construction paper.
I invited Tami to give me any suspicions she had and I would sniff them out. Jackie got a kick out of that word usage. : )
I suspect it might be the Jensen’s, Tami contributed. O, Ho! That is even better than my chapter 3. We shall see.
And I never even suspect Sark Jensen last Sunday when I clung to his arm so he couldn’t leave until I was done with my story in the choir seats. : )
And Sannon Jensen fits the profile exactly. And helper kids: Sridgette, Srock, Sriley and Sritton! Aha. . . I think we have something here! Can you believe Srock17 and Sritton12 did 37 fast offering envelopes a couple of months ago? I was astounded! And they didn’t even think it was a big deal!
Of course I had to announce it on
Facebook the next time Sannon posted a family picture. “It’s a good thing the Jensen’s are in the ward!” I told them as they walked away with my fast offering. “Right back at ya!” replied Srock. How could I remember it all these weeks later? When was the last time you heard a teenager return a compliment so smoothly? Yeah, now you know why I can still remember!
Tami and her family had not been able to read my blog that I sent her home to google. It was frustrating to her. Guess what? I helped them find it just after 9 tonight. I told her it had been viewed 16 times and none of those were from her and her family? Well, now it will be viewed a few more times.
So Jensen's, whose name I love, I have not voiced any findings but my prime suspects are y o u s! :)
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Jan 4
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Hello good bishop emeritus, Would you pass this along to Tami for me, and browse to your heart's content.
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Jan 5
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Bro. Jensen,
Thanks so much for your email. I'm sorry I missed you last night. I am so glad to have my kids back in school, so I can get to bed at a reasonable hour each night. I was in bed last night when you came by. I'm glad you figured out my tie was Christmas light bulbs, instead of jalapeños. I don't know if I would wear a jalapeño tie? I'll have to think about that.
A good mystery is always fun. We have been the recipient of many anonymous kind deeds since we have lived in this neighborhood. It is fun to have such kind and thoughtful neighbors. I'm glad you had a merry Christmas. I appreciate your wonderful singing voice as you lead the music each Sunday. It helps me to learn the different parts of each song, when you mix in a verse of the tenor, alto or bass lines of music. Happy New Year!
Thanks,
Thanks,
Friday, December 5, 2014
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Fine Print:
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12:03 am Friday night 12/05/14 I just got back from my midnight bike ride to Walmart in Bloomington.
1- I made it safely.
2- I had to know (experiment) and see if this really works.
Last week I missed ad matching my milk. It cost me $1 more for the 2 gallons than expected. Is that worth waiting in line at Customer Service to receive. There was only one person in line so why not? It was late.
Savingscatcher has caught my eye a number of times but I have not signed up. Too much red tape! Some people don't even like watching the advertisements and purchasing best priced items they use all the time. As least I like doing that. It gives me a sense of control to be able to say "AD Match" at the cash register. Gerald Burgie at the FHC is just like me. He complains when milk is over $2.50/gallon.
So I asked the Customer Service lady, if I had price/savingscatcher would it have caught this price at the register for me. She replied, yes. She has been at the Washington Walmart for over 4 years so I trusted her. Then she said, "And if you get a bluebird account you will save double." What? For real? No kidding? Sign me up. WE had to go hunting for a bluebird sign up packet and I brought it home to read the procedures.
The instructions said to just buy something with the enclosed card and it would activate the account. Sounded strange but easy. Pepsi is 0.88$ for 2 liters at Smith's this week and Gerald Burgie loves it. I picked up a bottle and all the lines were long! Since I wanted understanding/information as well as to purchase the Pepsi I decided to try Customer Service again. I visited with both the lady in front of me and then the lady behind me about this 2X/double the savings offer. Neither of them knew anything about it. If I could get a $3/gal milk for $2/gal because of a $.50 off sale it sounded really good to me!
Then I found you also had to register for the savingscatcher and you have to type in all your store receipt numbers if you have an dumb phone that doesn't scan. Crud! More red tape. More hoops to jump through. Not one of these again! I suspected as much!
I decided to try it anyway. I registered and typed in my first two receipts. It takes 3 or 4 days for the results. I don't expect any savings on those two because one was the $20 deposit I put in the bluebird-prepaid account and the other one I already claimed "Ad match $0.88", at the register! So since I still have extra energy I did my midnight bike trip to Walmart.
I typed in my 3rd receipt. I kept my mouth shut at the register and paid $3/gal for milk. I should get $1 added to my bluebird account when, When, WHEN, the 3-4 days have passed and I press the button my dashboard to deposit it onto my Bluebird.
Let the experiment conclude! And if all this expires on Feb. 28 it will have been another waste of time!Purchase Summary
Fine Print:
*Offer is valid through February 28, 2015, and subject to change or cancellation at any time. Amounts credited to your Bluebird account in connection with the redemption of Reward Dollars, including amounts credited in respect of American Express' Double Your Rewards Dollars offer, will be held as “Walmart Buck$,” which are funds in your Bluebird Account that can be used exclusively to make purchases at participating Walmart locations and www.Walmart.com. Walmart Buck$ are not redeemable for cash. Amounts credited in respect of American Express' Double Your Rewards offer may not exceed $599.99 per calendar year. Click here for complete Walmart Buck$ terms and conditions.
12:03 am Friday night 12/05/14 I just got back from my midnight bike ride to Walmart in Bloomington.
1- I made it safely.
2- I had to know (experiment) and see if this really works.
Last week I missed ad matching my milk. It cost me $1 more for the 2 gallons than expected. Is that worth waiting in line at Customer Service to receive. There was only one person in line so why not? It was late.
Savingscatcher has caught my eye a number of times but I have not signed up. Too much red tape! Some people don't even like watching the advertisements and purchasing best priced items they use all the time. As least I like doing that. It gives me a sense of control to be able to say "AD Match" at the cash register. Gerald Burgie at the FHC is just like me. He complains when milk is over $2.50/gallon.
So I asked the Customer Service lady, if I had price/savingscatcher would it have caught this price at the register for me. She replied, yes. She has been at the Washington Walmart for over 4 years so I trusted her. Then she said, "And if you get a bluebird account you will save double." What? For real? No kidding? Sign me up. WE had to go hunting for a bluebird sign up packet and I brought it home to read the procedures.
The instructions said to just buy something with the enclosed card and it would activate the account. Sounded strange but easy. Pepsi is 0.88$ for 2 liters at Smith's this week and Gerald Burgie loves it. I picked up a bottle and all the lines were long! Since I wanted understanding/information as well as to purchase the Pepsi I decided to try Customer Service again. I visited with both the lady in front of me and then the lady behind me about this 2X/double the savings offer. Neither of them knew anything about it. If I could get a $3/gal milk for $2/gal because of a $.50 off sale it sounded really good to me!
Then I found you also had to register for the savingscatcher and you have to type in all your store receipt numbers if you have an dumb phone that doesn't scan. Crud! More red tape. More hoops to jump through. Not one of these again! I suspected as much!
I decided to try it anyway. I registered and typed in my first two receipts. It takes 3 or 4 days for the results. I don't expect any savings on those two because one was the $20 deposit I put in the bluebird-prepaid account and the other one I already claimed "Ad match $0.88", at the register! So since I still have extra energy I did my midnight bike trip to Walmart.
I typed in my 3rd receipt. I kept my mouth shut at the register and paid $3/gal for milk. I should get $1 added to my bluebird account when, When, WHEN, the 3-4 days have passed and I press the button my dashboard to deposit it onto my Bluebird.
Let the experiment conclude! And if all this expires on Feb. 28 it will have been another waste of time!Purchase Summary
from December 05, 2014
Purchased at 2610 PIONEER RD ST GEORGE 84790
TC # 7780 6024 2668 0346 8234
Not matched (1 item)
PF WHOLE MILK GAL
Qty: 2.00
$5.98 ($2.99 ea)
Walmart
Total Price:
$6.16
Taxes:
$0.18
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