The minutes turn into hours, that turn into days, that turn into weeks, that turn into months, that eventually will turn into years. It...

Our knowledge of Grandma Stanger’s early history is very limited. We assume she was born in 1901 but she has varying years on 2 different...

As we approach each “big day” we often wonder what we are going to do. We have decided to make Archer present in our lives, because even...

Many times in our life we will experience grief. It can be caused by many different types of loss or failures. It is important to know...

Merriam Webster defines the feeling of guilt as: “feelings of deserving blame especially for imagined offenses or from a sense of...

As Jesus was preaching, he made a statement that foreshadowed future events, “Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his...

Have you ever lost yourself in a situation, a moment, a relationship, or a goal? Were you so focused on what you wanted you lost the...

We wrote this as a gratitude post, grateful we have these memories of Archer. We also didn’t want to forget these things about him. It...

Never have I been more grateful and more dejected when I arrived home on December 12, 2022. How can a person be both relieved and...

Mourning is a deep sorrow, common when someone has died, but can also be applied to other losses. I think of Anne of Green Gables, she...

Triggers, my world is now filled with reminders of the love I have for a beautiful blue-eyed boy. Some of these triggers I know are...

When I first started studying about the Millennium I had very mixed emotions. There are many things I wonder about and know that I won’t...

Accepting unmet expectations

I was in my first area of my mission for 6 months. It was a small border town in New Mexico. I loved the people there, but the area was a...

This list has nothing to do with enduring in faith and hope… These are things that I wonder about because they’ll never be answered in...

I recently listened to Henry B. Eyring’s talk: “Where is the Pavilion?” In it he mentions his daughter-in-law praying for a divine...

Time can do a funny thing to emotions when pushed by stressful events. It isn’t until all those events have passed by and there is that...

“Faith is to hope for things which are not seen, but which are true (Heb. 11:1; Alma 32:21), and must be centered in Jesus Christ in...

I remember when I was in Oklahoma, it was in the middle of a tornado day—a day which all the conditions are right for many tornados. On...

Being steadfast is something that I am going to need to work on daily. To claim that I have always been steadfast wouldn’t be true. I...