Mike and Erin got hitched yesterday! It was an outstanding ceremony! We also attended a dinner in their honor on Friday night. At times like this it pays to be a Grandpa!

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You can achieve any goal -- you can overcome any difficulty and solve any problem on the path to the goal -- as long as the goal is clear. You have the creative resources within you to be, have or do anything that you could possibly want. The only limitations are the ones you place on yourself and your mind.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
pp. 19

. . . a letter is a painstaking thing that requires putting thoughts into words.

Louis L'Amour
The Warrior's Path
pp 199



This is my sentiments when I approach writing anything. It is also why my life story was not written until my sister, Joy, took it upon herself to have me expound to her about my life. Unfortunately what I told her was not always clear in it's meaning and so to date it is a work in progress.

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You are born with enormous reserves of creativity that can enable you to improve every part of your life. Constantly seek for faster, better and easier ways to achieve your tasks and goals.

Brian Tracy
Nightingale-Conant's Insight
pp. 19

Can we not follow the Prince of Peace, that pioneer who literally showed the way for others to follow? His divine plan can save us from the Babylons of sin, complacency, and error. His example points the way. When faced with temptation, he shunned it. When offered the world, he declined it. When asked for his life, he gave it.

President Thomas S. Monson
Ensign
July 1988, pp. 5

I hope we shall not attempt to perfect an already perfect plan, but seek with all our might, mind, and strength to perfect ourselves in the comprehensive program given to us. Because some of us have failed, certainly it would be unfair to place the blame upon the program. Let us control our attitudes, our activities, our total lives, that we may be heir to the rich and numerous blessings promised to us.

President Spencer W. Kimball
Ensign
October 1975, pp. 5

We do not learn spiritual things in exactly the same way we learn other things that we know, even though such things as reading, listening, and pondering may be used. I have learned that it requires a special attitude both to teach and to learn spiritual things.

Elder Boyd K. Packer
The Ensign
January 1983, pp. 51

There are two days in the week about which we should not worry. Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension. One of these is yesterday with its mistakes and cares, its aches and pains. Yesterday is passed forever, beyond our reach. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot erase a single act we performed nor a single word we said. Yesterday is passed forever beyond our control. The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow with its possible burdons, its large promise, and its poor performance. Tomorrow is beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow's sun will rise in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

That leaves only today. Anyone can fight life's battles just for one day. It is only when we face the burdens of those other two days that we falter. It is not today's experience that drives men mad. It is the remorse and bitterness for something which happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. So live just one day at a time if you wish to be happy.

Becky Brown Gibb
A Faithful Generation
pp. 85