Cassiopeia is so under-rated as a constellation. While out Hunting in the fall it stood out. That was years and years ago.

I had a terrible time trying to find the constellation in the painting. This one helped me.

 I learned to tell time using this one and the big dipper the week before last. This week I practiced and it still worked!

to access it.\ @ Isn't it cool bps how the gospel is stranger and more miraculous than even the most fantastic fairy tales! Imagine a being who created our earth. It is 8 light minutes from our sun. Imagine a being who would carry around with him, on him the wounds of his death. Can you imagine working with hands that are pierced? He tells us he won't ever forget us because just like the wounds in his hands we are always important and present with him. “15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. 16Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. BoM:14 But, behold, Zion hath said: The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me—but he will show that he hath not.15 For can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee, O house of Israel.16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before meme Can What must it feel like to have hands and feet like that? Do you have any scars? Do you have any on your hands? I have one from drilling through a pine wood derby car and into my left palm. I never forget how I got that scar. I have one on my right thumb from when I had chicken pox as a little kid. I never forget how I got that scar. You have some too don't you! Who needs tattoos? We have natural tattoos with real meanings, not imagined ones! The Savior does too! Why does he carry those scars? They are proof! He is responsible for saving the Jews. They are very faithful. Hundreds and thousands of years later they are still keeping the law and rituals of Moses. Do you know of any other people in the world who keep their commitments and rituals, feasts and holy days year after year, century after century? There will need to be definite proof if They are to be convinced. Saturday 6:29pm, bps, I got nailed / embarrassed so badly!! I was at FS and decided to include some pictures of Brooklyn Decker:

I had that one pasted and was working on this one:
[I had to remove it because blogger.com can only post so much picture at a time. Type doesn't take much memory but pictures do.]

When a missionary came up behind me picking up a copy from the printer, I quickly closed this page but the one behind it, above wasn't any better. When he left, I continued. Our new director is named Elder Merril. Low and behold Elder Merril quickly comes walking down the back row and catches me. “That should not be what you are doing here.” v- This might look like pornography. M- “That should not be what you are doing here.” v- This might look like pornography to me and you but to the prison it isn't. M- “That should not be what you are doing here. You can do that at home, but not here.” v- OK.

Brandon, I could die! Shortly after that DavidM, Mr. Lust shows up for the first time this year! I was happy to see him. He sat beside me and asked how I was. V-Medium. How are you? D- Medium too. Why are you medium? V-”Do you have 5 minutes where we can go and talk?” We went to the patron breakroom and initiated it. I told him the story. We visited for 20 minutes and went back in to work. I couldn't stand it though. I closed everything down and told him I was leaving. I took the 6 pages of double-sided letter I had printed to you and headed towards the director's office. I desperately wanted to make ammends. This weird, red beanied patron, hiding on the back row went to find Elder Merril. What could I say or show to change his opinion? Is my reputation blown? I poked my head in his office. His wife had her back to me. He was standing and I said, “Thanks for having the courage.” and then I left the building through the east missionary doors next to the lockers. @ How many times do you think I have prayed and groaned since then? I have been in emotional agony. I told DavidM about the letter with the 48 crayon circles being returned and me just knowing inside it would be because of the pornography I had sent you. I had been caught with my pants down! Argh! @ So here I am at home. I did safely paste those pictures of BrooklynD. I can send you 9 pages with two stamps. Since I had 6 printed I was planning on doing 3 more of pictures. I hope you don't mind but I just don't feel good about it. @ I risk take all the time. But I don't have a printer at home. And I hesitate to print those off at FS. The equipment there is supposed to be used for family history. Like DaveM said: When you work for hours n hours on researching or indexing then the computers can provide a little comic relief. A little distraction. But that is really not what they are their for. @ It took me about an hour to figure out how to print double sided on the new FS printers. I felt wonderfully successful when I finally got it. There were 5 different screens I looked through for the command. One screen had 4 tabs on it. The other screen had two tabs but I hadn't seen the first one. It had skipped it. I opened and closed all those tabs multiple times, pressing buttons and trying things but they came out single sided. So today I experienced both opposites. Wonderful for succeeding all along the way with indexing and finally with printing. Awful for the worldly pictures I was pasting.  Sunday 7/9/17, 3:08pm. Hello Brandon! I got a response from Andrea Davenport. I got a response from Andrea Davenport!! Be watching for it. @ As you know I email my home teachees every week because they do not want visits. I also wrote our 5 missionaries a brief letter today. Here is what I wrote:July 9 vern jensen <phonev6@gmail.com>12:56 PM (2 hours ago)to Elder, jeron, thatcherB, brockJ, walker.spencer \Dear Elder Seth, Jeron, Thatcher, Brock, Spencer,Hope you are doing well. May God support and guide you. Here are 10 things to share with you:

1- Kim Garrett testimonied last week and spoke in church again today! Sister Wiggins got food poisoning last night. Bishop Q. Adams got to speak to help fill-in too! [Dave Black, a college proffessor, ended his talk and the bishop had to fill in last month. Notice that Kim Garrett did all he could and then had the bishop help fill in. I feel much kinder about KimG than DaveB but I only see my half of the world.]

2- Last year ended fireworks in the Sunbowl. They were held at Hansen stadium on the 4th again this year. They changed the name: Legend Solar Stadium. What do you think of that?

3- Frank Haney asked me what's up? I responded, the temperature!

4- This next part was cute and funny. KimG told how he thought his extended stay as a ward librarian was wasted. But now he has found that trying to fill the calling is hard! He was valuable after-all. Bishop said he was glad he followed the prompting to choose KimG out of the library as a counselor. I think it is cool as well. Tall shy Kim and now he is entertaining us from the pulpit. He made 5 or 6 wisecracks today. He is getting so comfortable.

5- Serve. He served as a baptism witness for his first 2 twin granddaughters getting baptized yesterday. KimG

6- Derek Wiggins is an architect. He did his post graduate work in Tallahassee Florida. They have only lived in the ward a short time. This was to be their welcoming talk, but wife was food poisoned. He used to play guitar hero down the basement of Dan Moss' house! He knew Colby Tolman and Tim Hilton, past members of our ward.

7- His son Daniel Wiggins was born with brittle bone disease. He died young here in our ward. Derek couldn't hardly talk as he told how the ward served him and his family through the death.8- DerekW showed us that the bishop was well prepared for his feelings. He pulled 7 boxes of tissues out from under the podium and showed the audience! :)

9- Scofield Reservoir is where Jack Taylor is taking the scouts for summer camp tomorrow morning. I have never been there. The bishop thought we were rowdy in priesthood.

10- Diana Larsen's funeral was held yesterday. Kelly Owens works around funerals for spearheading our Saturday chapel cleaning effort. You won't believe this: He calls everyone on Friday to remind them. He had 22 people show up yesterday!

11- We have been cooking in St. George. Hot. Speaking of cooking. We have 5 breakfast casseroles needed for the stake 24th celebration. I volunteered. 4 years ago when I volunteered for the first time I asked where is the recipe? They said there wasn't one. I asked, what is a breakfast casserole? Potatoes and eggs they said. I decided to hard boil dozens of eggs. I buy them on sale. They might not be very unique but there are never any left over! Little mess for me! And I have been surprised, there is actually some skill involved in hard boiling or soft boiling an egg! I pity the people who ate my boiled eggs the first year!

12- KimG asked me to slow the songs way down today. v- Are we missing a speaker? k-Yep, I was up all night worried about it.v- I am always available Kim. I would be happy to speak on any topic.k- Really? Well that makes two. I will keep that in mind. After sacrament meeting I found Kim and Andra seated in SS. I leaned over and whispered: v- You know that offer to speak on short notice in Sacrament meeting? I withdraw that offer. There is no way I could have compared with the beautiful talks we had today! K- Thanks. But you need to know that there is no withdrawals of offers. :)

vern jensen <phonev6@gmail.com>1:12 PM (1 hour ago)to Varlo, Bruce, Eric How can I fill my worship time on the Sabbath? How about a letter to our ward's missionaries? I am including it.Hello Bruce, Andrea, Varlo, Eric,The bishop used one of those tissues today as he wiped his eyes and he protested that he wasn't crying. Neither was DerekW.\So sweet. Don't you love shedding tears in the joy of the gospel and in the spirit. Check out the last verse of our sacrament hymn. I could hardly sing as we did the last lines:Jesus, once of humble birth,Now in glory comes to earth.Once he suffered grief and pain;Now he comes on earth to reign.Now he comes on earth to reign.Once a meek and lowly Lamb,Now the Lord, the great I Am.Once upon the cross he bowed;Now his chariot is the cloud.Now his chariot is the cloud.Once he groaned in blood and tears;Now in glory he appears.Once rejected by his own,Now their King he shall be known.Now their King he shall be known.Once forsaken, left alone,Now exalted to a throne.Once all things he meekly bore,But he now will bear no more.But he now will bear no more.Text: Parley P. Pratt, 1807–1857\As I listened to the bishop's voice today I heard solidity and assurance. What a good man. Thank you for serving for us bishop! He shared a story after he had described the Anti Nephi Lehis that really touched me when it was pointed out to me earlier this week. It comes from JRH:Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke on June 27, the fourth day of the 2017 Seminar for New Mission Presidents being held at the Provo Utah Missionary Training Center._. . ._\May HF be mindfull of you this week, B, A, V, E ! :)

bps, did you notice that was not addressed to AndreaD? I don't have her email address so she gets her own personal message. I hope it helps her feel important. Here is the library of emails Andrea has received from me this last month: June 18 2:18 PM. Home teachees, Vabe,. When do you feel worthy? My daughter dropped off a Father's Day card. Saints wished me happy Father's Day at church. I can't quite take it in. I have a praying recliner my house. Some people pray on their knees. I pray reclined. As I prayed about Sandra's card including two grandkids contributions, and wondered why I didn't even want to go get it off the fridge after reading her text notifying me where it was, I realized perhaps I don't feel worthy. I didn't want to listen to my conference CD on my way home from Otter Creek yesterday either. Driving up I listened and felt touched. Why the difference? I got nailed with five fish over my limit. Game Warden ticketed me. Do I want to worship? No way! Do I feel worthy? No way. Give me a few days. V June 25 12:41 PM. Frank Haney, my neighbor, invited me over for tacos at 4. Would you like to go? I have a turkey we could take. Dear home teachees, that might have sounded joking but I am serious! It is true. June 25. My brother turns 60 tomorrow. I e-mailed him two letters this week. No response. He doesn't communicate. Fresno California. \I applied for Social Security this week. I was scared so I did it when I was already anxious. I took advantage of my anxiety from needing to drive to girls camp on Wednesday morning and applied for Social Security. Bishop asked me how was girls camp today. V – boring. B – why? V – they all went swimming. Do you think I was going to go with them? B – nope, I wouldn't feel comfortable with that. V – me neither! \Roland Leishman taught for his first time today. From Cache Valley. They Served 18 months at the Brigham Young home/visitor center etc. on their mission. His wife liked our winters and didn't want to go back. He has served as Bishop and branch president up in Logan but he doesn't act like it. A real wild hair! He says prayers in church should be no longer than 60 seconds! Abby and Brady Golding spoke on Sabbath day today. She had baby number four last month been in the Ward 8 and a half years. They live by Hal Demke on Fort Pierce. He works 3-12 hour days at the hospital each week as a physicians assistant. Are you jealous? Salaried and 36 hour weeks! 
Vice is a monster of so frightful a mien 
as to be hated needs but to be seen; 
yet seen to oft, familiar with her face, 
first we endure, then pity, then embrace. 
Alexander Pope. 
Sunday school teacher Jesse Bird was asked to recite that three times. July 2 1:43 PM. July 2! Andrea, I sent Varlo the births and death in the Ward etc.. I don't have your e-mail. V July 9 2:33 PM. Hello Andrea, God bless you. I hope you are strong and pulling your load safely. I sent out a double e-mail today. Ask Varlo to see it. \Kim Garrett mentioned how he hated living in Provo and having to go to the welfare farm in Payson with his dad as a kid. (Service theme). His dad would always be the first to arrive and the last to leave and he was extremely thorough. His mother was not, NOT a good example of service so he left her out! :-) I went to some welfare farm assignments in Payson as well when I was a BYU student. Once they even sponsored the service day where my group was assigned to go paint the inside of a little old lady's house. I painted my way through college traveling to Salt Lake City on Saturdays and Summers. \Daniel Wiggins was born in our Ward and died of brittle bone disease. The Wiggins loved the care and service and support they receive from our Ward. That was a different angle for a talk on service. Vern July 9 2:37 PM. Vern, is pulling my load a fat joke? Ha ha July 9 2:48 PM. Andrea you cutie! Nice touch! Touché. Vern @@ Did you see it bps? There it went. Don't miss it! Those don't come by very often!