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Hey Brandon, I couldn't resist. I love this book! I spent $10 and a
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Hey Brandon, I couldn't resist. I love this book! I spent $10 and am
sending you one. Do you like archeology? What about BoM archeology?
I can't believe it. This scholar did it. And Truman Madsen one of my
spiritual heroes endorses it. It is so professionally done. Your
softbound copy will arrive in 2 weeks. My hardbound copy will arrive
in 2 days for $6 on Amazon.prime, my son's account. I have read about
220 pages and my copy is missing map #15 at the back of the library
copy. Someone used a razor blade to cut it out and keep it! I studied
this subject in detail about a year ago and made copies of pictures
and stored them in the cloud. So I have a file on it. But mine is
piecemeal. This guy was an anthropologist at byu and he has a
testimony! And he writes well. Here are some things I have discovered
and they make sense to me. 1- The Olmecs of Mexico were the
Jaredites. They landed north of the Nephites about 3,000 BC. Their
last battle was at the central America Cumorah just west and north of
the Yucatan. 2- The Inca in Peru and the Aztec in Mexico have no
relationship to the Lehites. They were too far south and too far
north and 1,000 years later. 3- The highlands of Guatemala is
Lamanite country. Maya is the base language but there are 200
varieties in Guatemala. 4- The Grijalvah is the River Sidon. It flows
north then east to the gulf of Mexico. Guatemala City is the city of
Nephi/ land of Nephi Lehi. The ruins to the west of the main city fit
perfectly! This is Lamanite country and remember how King Noah burned
Abinadi and Alma, his priest escaped to the waters of Mormon. That is
lake Atitlan! The most picturesque lake in Guatemala and I have been
there. It is surrounded by volcanoes. 5- Jesus came down at Bountiful
to visit the people. That is south of Cumorah and on the narrow neck
of land. It is 200 miles north of Zarahemla which was burned at his
coming but later rebuilt. 6- There was a blood thirsty people who
thrived and traded with the Lamanites in Lehi Nephi/ Guatemala city,
who lived in Mexico City who declined at 600AD. They are unrelated to
the Lehites (nephites or lammanites) but taught the Lammanites how to
control their conquered people. The Aztecs in Mexico came later. @@
Man, I have wanted to understand this for so so long! As a missionary
I wished I knew! '74-76 As I was praying n pondering this afternoon I
realized the spirit world probably has all the generations of man
mixed together. I could probably talk to the inhabitants of Bountiful
and Zarahemla if I were there. This worldly curiousity will all be
answered shortly. 10, 20, 30 years. So why get all excited now? @@
Tuesday 7/25 the day after Pioneer Day. Good morning bps, I
biked to Hansen Stadium (now called Legacy Solar Stadium because of a
handsome investment/donation) at 8:30 and stayed until 9:30. I have
never been a groupie of the Osmonds. And the Osmonds have been
ostracized. Too clean, too Mormon, too straight! Donnie tried to make
it in the pop music world. Sorry! No you may not pass go, no you may
not collect $200, go directly to jail. Do you remember those phrases
from Monopoly? He squeaked one song under their detection by claiming
a different name! But as soon as it was discovered that was the end.
Do you believe things like this happen in the world? @
Anthony
Cirrito announced in priesthood the Osmonds would be sponsoring a
Pioneer Evening Celebration. They used to do the 4th of
July in Provo for BYU. I was intrigued. The program was sweet about
the Mormon's and JS and BY and the pioneers. But I was not in the
mindset. I missed the 4th fireworks so that was what I
went for. They had a stage for the play, a big giant screen, great
speakers to broadcast, music and dancing but at 9:30 I walked down
from the 3rd row from the top and went home. I was free to
leave. Have you ever heard of Nathan Osmond? Me neither. But he was
great. You could hear him as he sang. He had 6 Karaoke people join
him on some country songs by Garth Brooks, Keith Urban and others. I
did not know the songs. They were awful! It went to show how much
talent it really takes to sing in one of those mics. Nathan had
everybody dancing at the end and it was delightful. I came home and
looked him up after stopping at his table and finding out who his
parents were: Alan n Suzanne Osmond. The two oldest brothers were
deaf so Alan was the oldest performer. Nathan is his oldest son.
I
wrote him a Facebook message:
Chat Conversation Start\3 mutual friends
including Eric Dodge and Quincy Adams\Country Singer at Country
Singer\Lives in Nashville, Tennessee\
9:12AM\Nathan, You were awesome
last night- Legacy Stadium! Thank you for coming. I had never heard
of you but I love music. I stopped at the front table as I left on my
bike and asked who your parents were. The guy working for you did not
even know! A & S. I came home and listened to your hits on
Youtube. I suffer from ptsd so it often takes me 24 hours to connect
with my feelings. This morning I realized you were the best part of
the program for me. You encouraged and praised the first Karaoke girl
who sang but she was awful. :( But you were on stage and had to be
nice. : ) Thank you for performing last night. Thank you for your
standards! I am glad you get a kick out of entertaining and lifting
the world in wholesome ways. Great job!vj@ Can you believe it, bps? I
wrote him! We'll see if he accepts my friendship request on Facebook.
@@
Brandon, here is a cute story from a FS friend who is nursing his
mother to her grave in Colorado. I don't know when he will be back.
You might get a kick out of my responses to him. | "One day I
had lunch with some old friends. Jim, a short, balding golfer type,
about 85-years old, came along with them; all in all, it was a
pleasant bunch.\When the menus were presented, my friends and I
ordered salads, sandwiches, and soups, except for Jim who said, "A
large piece of home-made apple pie, heated please. I wasn't sure my
ears heard him right, and the others were aghast, when Jim continued,
completely unabashed...."along with two large scoops of vanilla
ice cream."\We tried to act quite nonchalant, as if people did
this all the time, but when our orders were brought out, I didn't
enjoy eating mine. I couldn't take my eyes off Jim as I watched him
savoring each bite of his pie a-la-mode. The other guys just grinned
in disbelief as they silently ate their lunches.\The next time I went
out to eat, I called Jim and invited him to join me. I lunched on a
white meat tuna sandwich, while he ordered a chocolate parfait. Since
I was chuckling, he wanted to know if he amused me. I answered, "Yes,
you certainly do, but you also confuse me. How come you always order
such rich desserts, while I feel like I must be sensible in my food
choices?"\He laughed and said "I'm tasting all that is
possible for me to taste. I try to eat the food I need and do the
things I should in order to stay healthy, but life's too short, my
friend. I hate missing out on something good. This year I realized
how old I was. He grinned. I've never been this old before, so, while
I'm still here, I've decided it's time to try all those things that,
for years, I've been ignoring." He continued, "I haven't
smelled all the flowers yet. There are too many trout streams I
haven't fished. There's more fudge sundaes to wolf down and kites to
be flown overhead. There are too many golf courses I haven't played.
I've not laughed at all the jokes. I've missed a lot of sporting
events and potato chips and cokes.”\"I want to wade again in
water and feel ocean spray on my face. I want to sit in a country
church once more and thank God for His grace. I want peanut butter
every day spread on my morning toast. I want un-timed long distance
calls to the one I love the most.
"I
haven't cried at all the movies yet, or walked in the morning rain. I
need to feel wind on my face. So, if I choose to have dessert,
instead of having dinner, then should I die before night fall, I'd
say I died a winner, because I missed out on nothing. I filled my
heart's desire. I had that final piece of pie before my life
expired."
With
that, I called the waitress over.. "I've changed my mind, "
I said. "I want what he's having, only add some more whipped
cream!"\vern jensen \2:43 PM to lynn \
Hello
Lynn,
Horray you are still alive!
I visited with Elder Carlson last
week or the week before. . . he is extremely rambunctious, he needs
you back here to help calm him down!\God bless you in caring for your
mother.\I decided occupying locker #36 with your candy jar and you
out of town was a waste of space. I moved it to the last cupboard in
the patron's kitchen. PATRON'S KITCHEN !\If you ever get bored you
can respond to my blog: adventurebill1.blogger.com\If you want to see
the secret stuff I don't dare show my children you can respond to my
secret blog: vincenzotap.blogger.com\ Now, knowing how private you
are you would never, never, ever be able to comment on a blog. But no
one else reads it! I average 5 readers on the first one and 2 readers
on the secret second one. So dare, DARE ! Take the big plunge. . .
express something, have an opinion, blab!!\Love you,I think you are
wonderful!V
3:25 PM to lynn
L,
I wasn't sure when I would
take the time to read your 85 yo golfer story.\Now I have.\Are you at
this stage?1\Are you ready to cash it in?2\I haven't ever limited
myself. I eat what I want, when I want as much as I want. Life is
good.\I keep telling myself that next year I am going to go on a
diet. Next year has not arrived for me. . .\How about you?3\This next
story will drive you absolutely crazy:I started fishing again 3 years
ago. When I bought my license and drove to my first reservoir I
prayed. "HF, I just can't obey the fishing laws. If I catch 4
fish and then catch more then I am keeping them. I hope you don't
mind."\Sometimes I have been skunked.\Sometimes I have had my
car die and never made it to the Reservoir. [I have a blown head
gasket right now waiting to get it repaired from an intended
excursion last month.]\I often sleep overnight in my car at the best
fishing res. in Utah. By sleeping overnight I catch the evening
fishing and morning fishing. The best times of the day to fish.\Plus,
I can have 2 days limits! 4 + 4 = 8\I take a cooler and ice so they
keep perfectly.\Driving home with 11 fish from Ottercreek I decided
to fish the rest of the day at Panguitch. I fished from noon until
8pm and only caught 2 fish at almost precisely 4:30pm!\The game
warden ticketed me for 13 fish. Five fish over my limit. $400!
Garfield County.\AS I drove home I tried to convince myself that it
was wonderful that I had taken a risk and gotten caught! The
consequence of risk taking.\I tried to convince myself to celebrate.
It is a highlight! 3 years and I finally got caught!\Sorry. It didn't
work that way.\You may have heard of aversion therapy.\They poison
the whisky so the drinker throws up over and over again, and becomes
convinced that whisky is bad for him. [You puck your guts out for
hours and days!] Receiving a ticket is sort of like aversion
therapy.\Most people slow down when they see a police officer.\People
who have had a traffic ticket are particularly aware of where any
police car is when they see one.\Well here I am, doing the opposite
to my psyche. Trying to convince myself that although I am in
terrible trouble, I can celebrate because it just proves all the fun
I was having taking a risk! The ticket is the medal, the
confirmation.\It worked.\That $400 is evidence of my
raskality/rascality! To some it might be a sin. Not to me. I'm just
harvesting fish in my mind. And you would not believe all the people
who can't stand to eat fish!\Am I hyper alert when I am
fishing?\Yep.\Do I thrill when I drive down the road?\Yep.\Will you
share this with anyone else?4\Nope!\Love you,\See you later!\V
PS.
I don't use dynamite and I haven't chummed.
Have
you smiled yet?
Have
you smiled yet?
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