Tag Archives: Jess

It’s a New Year… time for New Goals!

Last year we spent time going through things we would need emotionally, and spiritually as well as physically to help us cope and be prepared. I hope and pray that some of the things I have shared have been helpful even if it was to just get you thinking of what you could do forContinue Reading

Emotional Preparedness

Are you prepared emotionally? Another way we need to make sure we are preparing is by learning to be open to the full effect of our emotions.More often than not we tend to try to make ourselves numb to anything negative or sad. I know I do. I tend to do a lot of emotionalContinue Reading

An ATTITUDE of preparedness…

We recently had an experience with our kids involving being disappointed. They play Pop Warner Football and Cheer. They have been working so hard for the last 10 weeks or so.. practicing 2-3 nights per week. Games every Saturday. This is not counting the extra clinics and such they have participated in. They made itContinue Reading

Going to the Temple

Every year the family gathered together at a Temple Session to honor Grandpa Riggs birthday. Afterwards, those who could go, would have lunch or dinner together. It has almost been one year since Grandpa passed away. It doesn’t seem like so long. It seems like just last week… yet time has flown by. Our familyContinue Reading

Building our own Arks….

Making it really easy on us all again this week…. I am sharing below a you tube video… from church leaders, sharing a message that is NOT new to us. In fact it is a message of hope, love and one that hopefully many of us are doing our best to heed as best asContinue Reading

Being Spiritually prepared…. (WIP)

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Our body is a Temple….

I went to the Temple with my husband the other day and we did initiatory work for our family members. While sitting there waiting for my turn, I got to thinking about how we are to treat our bodies as a Temple. When I go to the Temple, I like to take my time andContinue Reading

Physical Health

According to the church website the meaning of Physical Health is: “Every member should obey the Word of Wisdom and practice sound principles of nutrition, physical fitness, weight control, immunization, environment quality and sanitation, mother and child health, accident prevention, dental health, and medical care. In addition, each member should acquire appropriate health-related skills inContinue Reading

Family History made EASY as 1…2…3..!

Recently I have been bit by the Genealogy bug again. A few years ago I had it bad.. I was staying up all hours of the night, praying to find people. I was down at the Family History Center every day I could go, looking through records and indexes. Making phone calls to Anti LDSContinue Reading

Are You in Your Own Way?

Career Development/ Social and Emotional Strength/Literacy and Education We are going to discuss Career Development today. It intertwines though with other categories of our preparedness plan. It is one thing that doesn’t act alone. You must have an education; you must have inner emotional and social strength. There will be many pitfalls along the wayContinue Reading