Friday, April 13, 2018

2018 April Visiting Teaching/Ministering Handout

In our April General Conference of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, we were instructed with new direction in regards to the visiting teaching program.  Ministering is replacing visiting teaching.  Ministering is Christlike caring for others and helping meet their spiritual and temporal needs.
Because of this change, I was unable to make a handout for visiting teaching as I had in the past.  Sunday morning as I woke up, it came to me.......make a poster on ministering to hang in front of the Relief Society room, just as I had done each month for a visiting teaching quote.
I already had the border/frame picked out that I wanted to use for my unused visiting teaching quote, so all I had to do was add the ministering quote.
Luckily from a few weeks ago I had solved a big problem that would not have allowed me to put text on a slanted frame.  I have the Microsoft Office Word 2007 program loaded on my computer, where I create all my graphics with the help of Google Images.  In the 2007 Word program, it does not allow you to tilt/rotate your text box.  I spent a lot of time looking on the internet trying to find a way to tilt my text box but came up with very little.  I knew there had to be a way so I just kept playing and playing until B.I.N.G.O....at last I figured it out.  Right away I started tilting/rotating text boxes and writing down step-by-step instruction on how to do it so I wouldn't forget.  It takes me quite a bit longer to get a tilted text box that you can easily do from a Word 2010, or higher program.  
Sometimes, you need to do what you need to do and just figure out a way. On a side note, you can use WordArt, but I've never been able to get it to adjust to the fitted space I need it to go in.  Ho-Hum...Sorry!
Below is the wording I chose to make my MINISTERING handout/poster.
Click on THIS VIDEO LINK, where President Russell M. Nelson, Sister Jean B. Bingham, Relief Society General President, and Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles gives some insight as to what ministering is all about.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Trusty Blue Steed Hugs

I have mentioned in a few blogs about my husband's "Trusty Blue Steed".  But then there was this morning.............I looked out our dining room window to see my husband giving his trusty blue steed a big hug.
Seriously, it took me by surprise for just a second. Zooming in closer to take a better look.....yep, he's hugging his tractor.
This was very new to me, as I had never witnessed my husband hugging his faithful, blue steed. I stood their for a minute, or two trying to figure this out.  Just as I had it figure out, I saw him surrounded in smoke.
I'm assuming he was choking (ha, he goes from hugging to choking) his tractor, somehow, to get it started since it was fairly cold this morning.  He's not in the house to ask all the particulars, but that has to be it, cause shortly after, he was out discing/disking the field. And to be honest, I'm not even sure that is what he was doing!
 
After living on a farm/ranch for 38 years, you would think I would know all this stuff...wouldn't you?!
UPDATE:  My husband just came in the house because it was snowing.  Yes, we live in Idaho, where one minute the weather is fairly good and a little over an hour later...............Boom!
I asked my husband to come to the computer where I showed him what I was posting.  He said, "oh, you shouldn't show those top photos because what I was doing was actually a little dangerous".  My question, "then why are you doing it?"......oh, boy! 
But, in answer to my question as to what he was doing in the field, he stated that he was lightly aerating the pasture because it is sod bound. Are you confused yet?  I am!