LDS.org - Ensign Article - “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”

LDS.org - Ensign Article - “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”

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Stress management :)

Stress

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,
Raised a glass of water and asked;
'How heavy is this glass of water?'

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it.
If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'

He continued,
'And that's the way it is with stress management.
If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,
As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,
We won't be able to carry on. '

'As with the glass of water,
You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.
When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.'
'So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
Let them down for a moment if you can.'
So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
And some days you're the statue.

* Always keep your words soft and sweet,
Just in case you have to eat them.

* Always wear stuff that will make you look good
If you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
"Recalled" by their maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,
It was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,
Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.
Just get up and dance.

* When everything's coming your way,
You're in the wrong lane.

* Birthdays are good for you.
The more you have, the longer you live.

* You may be only one person in the world,
But you may also be the world to one person.

* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery
on a detour.

The Bob Jones Trail

We went on a hike to one of our favorite places the Bob Jones Trail in San Luis Obispo on your way to Avila right behind the Avila Barn. The boys having been riding without training wheels for a while so they usually jam ahead of us. Keynan has his new Radio flyer from Christmas. This was our first test drive with the radio flyer and it worked great and he loved it!

House Hunting

Here are the houses Zach went to go look at. He will be leaving for Texas on Monday the 5th of April. We haven't seen the inside of these houses yet but we are expecting it to be a lot of fixer uppers. Even though I will miss the Central Coast I'm so looking forward to living off our land, by growing an enormous vegetable garden, milking our own goat, raising our own chickens. By leaving California we hope to become more self sufficient and more prepared in the years to come. That means a proper food storage and emergency preparedness. We have come to mistrust the Central Bank which is against our constitutional rights. We have been fooled by those in wall street and the Federal Reserve. This has shown to leave many families in debt unable to get housing. These homes we are looking at are no more then 60,000 so I am excited that in the near future we can slowly but surely create a free market away from the Federal Reserve. Let's not forget the heath-care bill that was just passed that will send America into a tail spin. I'm sorry folks this one is going to break the camel's back.
On a lighter note we will also be able to use the 3 acre land for horses and other live stock I want to get. I can't wait to see Zach's findings. We plan to work to create a way to barter more and help one another more.

Go Pirates!!!

Thayne & Ayden started baseball a few weeks ago and had there first game 2 Saturdays ago. I am the dug out Mom this Sat so that will interesting :)

Cancun

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! We are days behind in our blogging so I am going to attempt in getting us caught up.

In December Zach and I went to Mexico and out of the Country for the first time. We had a blast and we celebrated our 7th year Wedding anniversary! Back in May I won this trip to Mexico while working for the Body Shop at home. I had only won one trip for myself and I was suppose to be roomed up with one of my team mates that won a trip as well. As the Body shop at home announced it was closing in April, I wondered what would come of my trip. As the trip approached in May of 2009 and the out breaks of swine flu we decided to wait to book our trip. The Body shop decided to allow any consultant to pick their time of travel between May and December 2009. As it turns out the team members where scattered and thus placing the idea that Zach should come along so I wouldn't be in Mexico for 5 days alone. most of my closer team mates had won a trip for their husbands so going as the odd girl out didn't seem fun. This was an all inclusive paid trip. That means I didn't have to pay for ANYTHING!! We only had to pay for Zach's plane ticket! We enjoyed fine dinners each night and had wonderful lunches and breakfasts. We even ordered room services a lot just because we could. We stayed at the Beach Palace and the service was amazing. Since I speak a little Spanish we got around the area and hotel pretty good. A lot of the people spoke English with a heavy accent so it was a little easier to try to communicate in their language.
I wasn't sure as we arrived to the Resort if Zach would get all inclusive too. To our surprise they slapped on a wrist band for him and we had an amazing time. I will tell you that all inclusive is the way to vacation.
As we were there we seen lots of fun stuff for the whole family to do. We hope to return but next time we would like to stay for a few weeks. We got to go to the Ancient Ruins of Tulum which are old Mayan civilizations. We would of liked to of done more site seeing but we were happy we did see Tulum. It was right on the coast and the views were breath taking. Since I had to be put on antibiotics before the trip due to the worst cold I have ever had. We did not do the scuba diving like we had planned. We still had an awesome time though and got some needed alone time!