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Have you Every Heard of a Skype Shower?

Recently, we had our first ladies meeting of the year at our Church .  Another lady and myself are in charge of planning these meetings and this year my helper came up with the idea of doing a Skype baby shower for one of our missionaries.  Mrs. Joanna Jennings is expecting her first baby and since she and her husband are missionaries out of ou r church , we thought it would be nice to include her in a baby shower.  It is the usual habit to give a baby shower for the first child that a mother is expecting after joining our church .  I have to admit I was a little nervous about it at first wondering if we could get all the technical things worked out, but the Lord is so good and we had a very successful shower.  We basically had a regular shower while Joanna and her husband, Brenson were online with us over Skype.  I will put the details HERE , if you would like to see the order of events.  Mrs. Michelle Beal, wife of the president, Doctor Alton Beal of...

Tuesday’s Treasure Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Object Lesson:  Rotten Potatoes Recently I had to clean out a bin of potatoes because some had started to rot in the middle.  I knew I kept smelling something, but could not figure out where the smell was coming from.  Oh, the mess and stink while cleaning it out!  I dumped, washed, dried, sorted.  So glad i found them before they got worse. Have I looked for rotten potatoes in my life?  Is there something stinking but I am not sure what it is?  Am I willing to do a good soul searching and heart cleaning in order to separate the good from the bad?  I need to get the rotten potatoes out of my life before the spoil the good ones!  Oh well, it is only one or two rotten potatoes.  what can it hurt?   Amazing how much one or two rotten potatoes stink!  At first you don’t notice it and then all of a sudden, they smell so bad and all the good potatoes around the rotten potatoes start to spoil.  It all happens so quickly!...