Its sunday

 last night was the women's broadcast for the all the women of the church through the world. Isn't it amazing to think about. In over 80 countries and millions of women were sitting and watching the conferences. It does not matter where I would have been sitting i would have felt the Savior's love for me. If all things I learned last night was the stakes undying love for the sisters in our stake. i felt a closeness with the sisters in my ward. I love them, I think Christiana Orme is a beautiful lady inside and out. I think she is amazing and loving. When you see her you want to automatically be closer to her. I think Jill has had alot of things thrown at her and she is at church every sunday with her 5 little kids and they are dressed and they are there. I think Jenny Pitcher is beautiful its like you can see the light around her. Carla Harper, the lady with a few words but you feel her love for you and the example she sets for her children and husband. I love my ward and I am so grateful to be a member of the Eagle Creek ward.

I love church

Its 9/11 and its a sad day!! You can feel it all around, everyone is remembering that day 10 years ago as we watched a terrorist attack on our home. As the towers went down and as we watched the heroes and the family of people waiting to see if their love you survived. I remember that day as I cried and hurt for the people. How sad it was, our children were send home from school and many businesses closed down so that people could go home to their families.

Today at church our theme was gratitude. I love this thought. One of the speakers talked about it and quoted this he found a meaning of it.
Gratitude is a feeling of thankfulness for blessings or benefits we have received. Grateful people are quick to acknowledge the kindness and help they receive from our Heavenly Father and others around them.
Where there is gratitude, there is courtesy; there is a concern for the happiness and well-being of others.
  Isn't this true. I know when I remember to be grateful I am a nicer person who looks to see how to become more Christ like.   I wonder if everyone spend more time expressing this and less time finding fault what a better place our world would be.
I am grateful for my freedom, the Book of Mormon, the Savior, my husband, my family and friends. I am grateful I was born in this time and not 100 years ago nor not 10 years ago. I am grateful for love and beauty. I am grateful it takes everyone to make the world go around. I am grateful we are all different and that is what makes life so interesting:)

DAD

Dad: Burney Joe Scott is the greatest man I know. He was born September 5, 1945 to Juanita and Joe Ed Scott. He is the second to the youngest of the family. He loves his family and their history. He married my mom on May 30, 1964 and they are still married. I was born on May 17, 1965, Cynthia Lorene was born July 5, 1966 and Tina Marie was born Aug 11 1968. He has 9 grandchildren. 7 boys and 2 girls.

The things i have learned from him: I know beyond any doubt that he loves me and his family. As a child I remember we could go anytime we wanted with him. Tina loved going on the truck rides with him because she loved to talk. I remember him taking us girls to Kentucky to visit family. We spend the early part of Saturday visiting the old people. Like our great aunts and uncles and we went to each home and we were never in a hurry to leave. Sometimes they just sat there and said nothing. We not only visited my dad's side of the family but even when mom was not with us, we visited her side of the family. So we learned to love our family and know them!!!

We were taught as little girls that our old people (grandparents and great grandparents) were important. When ever we had a family dinner, the rule was we had to spend time in the kitchen with our aunts and grandmother. Some how Tina always found a way to go talk to Grandpa and the men. She loved to talk scriptures with them. But I learned some great recipes and learned to love the pinch method of cooking. Pinch of this and pinch of that to the recipe instead of a teaspoon or tablespoon. I still cook like that and its amazing how you learned the exact pinch of this and that. For your information: Yes, Dad can cook and he does most all of the grocery shopping.

Growing up I thought all dads vacuumed  cleaned house and went grocery shopping. Then I got married and learned that my dad was the exception not the rule.
Then I have watched my Dad read the scriptures quietly every day most of my life. He has never not went to church and has always prayed for us girls. Dad quietly practices what he preaches.
He also taught me to love the temple. Mom and him where ever they go always makes time to visit the Temple if there is one is the area. I have watched him as a Bishop have the great desire to have the members of the ward to go to the temple and to love it. I think if Dad could leave one legacy it would be with all his family and friends, it would be to love the Temple.
 My Father is my friend and adviser. I appreciate all the times when I know he has been tired and he has listened. I appreciate all the times when he necessarily does not agree with me but realizes that I have had listened to the spirit. I know my dad sees things the good in me way before anyone else did or does. I love this man with all my heart. So grateful  I am his daughter. So grateful that I know my family is forever. 
  My dad is great example to me. I know he believes this when he dies there will be two people he needs to answer to: First will be the Savior and second will be his mother. I know the Savior will tell him "Well Done my faithful servant".

Life

  I have learned over and over in my life, life is what you make it. But I get tired of making it sometimes. I had surgery on August 16th and it hurts. I have experienced a lot of things in my life that would be considered painful but this is has been the worse. I have never hurt this bad. It hurts to sit, it hurts to stand, and it really hurts to bend over. Today I drove, and you don't realize what muscles you use to drive with but my sides hurt. Yes, I am being a baby and I just want to tell someone it hurts!!! So I have been without medication all day. So all  I thought about when I got home was to take some pain pills. I know I should be off of them but I am not. I think I have overdone this weekend. I went to dad's party yesterday and then today I had all four classes and every class lasted the whole time. So it was uncomfortable to sit or stand. Driving home was horrible. So I am done complaining. Kevin (husband) has been wonderful. He is a great guy. He has told for me for years its your actions that tells someone that you love them, so with his actions it certainly has told me how much he loves me.

Trials

 I love the first sunday of each month. At the church  (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) that I am a member of we have in our family meeting a time where any member of the congregation can stand and testify to things that they know are true. So many people talk about their relationship with Christ, the Book of Mormon and other scriptures being true, how we have modern day prophet to lead and guide us. This week's subject happened to be on trials. Everyone was talking about how grateful they were for their trials they were. I am usually grateful after the fact, most often way after the fact. Not right a way. After I can look back and know for sure I have learned something from them? During them I am thinking why? not necessarily why me? I think there is huge difference. I firmly believe that my trials are mine and mine alone. I do not believe if I could give them away that another person would learn what I did from them. I know Heavenly Father knows me by name and knows what I need to learn, and knows what each of us needs to learn in order to grow. So our trials are ours and ours alone. I think of the promise that we will not be given what we can not handle. I believe that so often we think we control that. I think its only in God's hands to decide what we are capable of. I am so guilty of telling him what and when I want something and forgetting that all blessings are on his time table not mine. The same is true for what we can handle and we can not handle.

 I am grateful for so many things. I am grateful for my parents and the great example they have provided me in my life. I am grateful to know and to understand I am daughter of God, and he loves me and knows me. I am grateful for three wonderful sons and who are the best things about me. They bring me joy and love and laughter. I know that families are forever and that God gave me my family. I am grateful to know that the temple is a place where I can go and have peace and joy and to learn. I love my husband, and so very grateful that I married my friend. I look forward to growing old with him. In name of Jesus Christ amen

When is it time?

   Sometimes I think having "20ish children is more frustrating then having young children. You can protect and anticipate the young child's needs. Being a mother for adult children, sometimes I have to remind myself that you can not always solve their problems. Its no longer with a kiss on the boo boo and it disappears. No, no one is in trouble but I was just sitting her thinking about that it. I know that as a mother I miss having young children but then again I don't miss it. I am looking forward to being a grandma and loving it:) Its a boy and they (kim and Kevin) have decided to name him Gage Alexander. I am hoping he is born on 1-2-12. Its a cool date!! I love the numbers, but then again I think anything and everything about him is cool.