Welcome back for the November edition of the Davis Family 2024 year in review. Happy Thanksgiving and all that jazz! Lets just get down to it and talk about November 2024 shall we?
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| I know, I know, this picture was from last month, but I had been messing around with an AI thing and it made some interesting pictures that look a little like Jimmy, but really nothing like him at all at the same time, and this is the picture of Jimmy that I used. Here, see for yourself, and I'll let you be the judge of it. |
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| Well, what do you think? Does it look like Jimmy at all? |
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| Naturally I had to then see what it would do to me. Not really a fan of any of them, but see for yourself. |
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| Yeah, not a fan of how it made me look. It looks absolutely nothing like me! |
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| I had an overnight sleep study done. It's just so stylish, I think everyone should try it. |
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| Cocoa Bean LOVES her face rubs. |
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| This was on my ballot!! I have to admit, I was tempted to vote for him..... I talked to my cousin Elizabeth who lives in Colorado to see if he was on her ballot. He was not, which I found odd. |
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| Jacen holding his newest cousin. |
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| IIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT'SSSSSS GAMEDAY!! |
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| It's also freezing cold gameday!! |
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| We played Kanas, and sadly lost. It was our first loss of the season. |
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| But Cosmo saved the day!!! You can't see it well here, but the video screen shows Cosmo and Cosmo was up on TOP of the video screen doing his 4th quarter ramp up. |
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| See him, he's right next to the Y. Silly cougar!! Hands down, he is the best college mascot, and I would dare even go as far as to say THE BEST mascot of all time, including the NFL. Prove me wrong! |
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| Say hello to Cilantro |
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And Buffy. The awesome thing about Buffy is that he has a fog horn for a horn. Yes, you read that right, Buffy has a FOG HORN, and it is loud, awesome, and EPIC! I just can't wait until someone cuts me off on the freeway and I can blare that horn at them. Okay, story time. I'm sure you all are wondering what in the world what all of the stressful things I mentioned several blog posts ago is all about. Well, like I also mentioned a couple of blog posts ago, some of it I can't talk about without the permission of two of my children. They haven't given me permission and so I will respect that. I'll just say that it's been a big challenge. So, on top of my health concerns, my children's health concerns, Nathan's health concerns, and Henry's Kyphosis,
we started having our cars drop like flies. First the Sequoia died. It's currently sitting in my back yard and we have no idea what to do about it. Then, my beloved Moby died, and he's currently sitting in my driveway, and has been sitting there for the past four months now. Then the Jaguar died. Then the transmission in Jacen's car started acting up, and we are worried that it could die at any minute. We kind of started feeling like we just couldn't catch a break. Nothing seemed to be going our way. So, we had to go out and purchase two KSL Classified specials, we ended up having to buy a third one, but I don't have a picture of him. He's called Civicus. |
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| But at least Cocoa is cute and snuggly. |
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| Whitley being his cute self. |
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| This phot is from Thanksgiving at my parents house. I'll explain the massive earrings in the next photo, but for now I have to tell you about Thanksgiving. Earlier in the month of November we did Thanksgiving with Nathan's family and so we were with my parents on Thanksgiving. Because of our various children's schedules, we had to do Thanksgiving on the day before Thanksgiving and then helped my parents decorate for Christmas on Thanksgiving Day. Anyway, a couple of days before Thanksgiving, my 82 year-old father had a mini stroke! That brought up some trauma from my experience in July!! Thankfully my mom knew what she was doing and quickly got him to the hospital. Also thankfully it was a very minor stroke and now you can't even tell that my dad even had a stroke! It was still pretty stressful though. |
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| Okay, now to explain those massive earrings. So, my Grandpa Weidenheimer, in the course of his lifetime, was a miner, a spelunker, and a Colonel in the Air Force. He loved to collect rocks and he had all the things for cutting and polishing them. Well, I inherited his love for collecting rocks, and I'd probably inherit his love for cutting and polishing them if I had any of the equipment. Anywho, my grandpa cut and polished these huge crystals. They technically weren't made for wearing as earrings, even though they have earring clasps on the end. If you are wondering, no these aren't for pierced ears. They are "clip-ons." The clasp doesn't clip so-to-say but it has a twisty thing that you turn until it tightens up against your earlobe. From what my mom says, he never made them with the intent of anyone wearing them, but he made them so he could hang them from his fireplace mantle. All throughout my childhood, though, I would try to wear them as earrings, but was too little to be able to get them to stay because they are HEAVY!! Well, Richard brought his fiance, Olivia to Thanksgiving dinner and I got to showing her all of the rocks and gems that my grandpa had polished, and I came across these "earrings." I had almost forgotten about them. Well, naturally it meant that I needed to try them on, and now that I am much bigger and older, I was able to get them on. I did not keep them on for very long though, because as I said, they are HEAVY! Don't I look gorgeous though? |
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| Meow-meow posing for his yearly Christmas Star photo. |
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| And the last football game of the season. It was freezing cold, but I took ALL the precautions and stayed nice and toasty warm through the whole game. |
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| They did a drone show. |
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| It was AWESOME!! |
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| They did a lot of different formations..... |
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| And naturally I HAD to get pictures of all of them. |
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| GO COUGS!! |
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| Then there were fireworks!! |
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| Loudest student section and the loudest stadium in the nation. I will die on that hill!! We ROC it, and we get LOUD. We've gotten it up to over 130 decibles. |
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| COSMO!! |
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| Y? Because we are the best!! |
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| It was Native American month and so they had some Native Americans come out and do some awesome dances for us. It was really cool. And I love that we thumb our noses at political correctness because I thought that kind of stuff was frowned upon. *cough cough* Washington Redskins. *cough cough* The Runnin' Utes weird mascot that they had to change from a Native American and also had to remove the feathers from their logo. *cough cough* Dixie State. *cough cough* Anyone else who has had to change their logos and crap because it might hurt someone's feel bads. Stupid snowflakes ruining it for everyone. |
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| YES. WE. DID. We played Houston and soundly trounced them 30 - 18!! It was such a good game! |
Speaking about Jimmy (ya know, because I spoke about him at the beginning of the post)..... Let's take a peek into what our Elder Davis was doing in the month of November.
We only got one email from Jimmy in November. This email was from November 11th
Wow, sorry I missed last week again. It's tough sending out weekly emails, but I must be 100% responsible, so I will strive to do better. As you see, my email is on Monday because we had transfers, News at the End! What a fun couple of weeks. We had a great zone conference, fun stuff, learned lots. Had Halloween time, we just weekly planned and cleaned our apartment. Elder Hamilton got sick over the first week end, so we went on an exchange with some Spanish elders because they also got sick. Miracle exchange really, met so many Spanish and English people and had a pass off lesson with someone they referred to us. We had our last district councils for the transfer. Got some yummy canes. Sadly on Thursday I got sick aswell, and I'm still sick today which be tough. On Friday we had a sweet trio exchange, with elder lefoll and elder Flores. We got cookies. David got baptized, such a miracle. That's pretty much it, lots of work, lots of lessons, lots of fun people. Hope you all have a great week, stay safe, God bless. Miss you all, luv ya bye.
Transfer News: I am staying in North Las Vegas as a ZL, and me and my companion are in a TRIO. we are getting an elder named elder Patterson, he was a DL, he's a funny elder. My zone is huge now too, we are adding 5 more missionaries, with 2 new areas opening up. And we are getting 7 new missionaries which is crazy. So in total it's 25 missionaries.
Now I've talked about desire before. In 3 nephi 19, the people in ancient America desired the Holy Ghost. Wanting the gospel is a huge need in missionary work. Wanting to do missionary work is such a huge need aswell.
D&C 4:3 "3 Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are called to the work"
You must want the gospel for it to really work. Wanting to repent means that you are penitent. When you don't feel happy the way you are, when you feel guilty, dirty, like a spot on a record, and when you want to change that, its called being penitent. The dictionary describes it as so: Feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds. A synonym for it is repentant.
Alma 41:5 "5 The one raised to happiness according to his desires of happiness, or good according to his desires of good; and the other to evil according to his desires of evil; for as he has desired to do evil all the day long even so shall he have his reward of evil when the night cometh"
A key component to The Plan of Salvation is Agency. We are given the blessing to choose. We chose this plan before we came here. And we can choose what's up next.
Now getting the right desires can be hard. Especially when you need to change bad desires to good. The humility process helps but ultimately it is up to you to choose.
One way I have seen this is the phrase "I Want" Phrases such as:
"I want to think celestial"
"I want to to study my scriptures"
"I want to come forth unto my savior and partake of his eternal goodness"
"I want to pray"
There are so many more desires, good desires, righteous desires, celestial desires, that we can choose.
I have seen the choice of going on a mission has blessed me so incredibly much. I have been healed, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Even just the simple desire to study the word of God has helped my so much. And once you have gotten these righteous desires, you will recieve the promised blessing
Our prohpets, president Russell M Nelson, Think celestial "As you think celestial, your heart will gradually change. You will want to pray more often and more sincerely."
I'd like to invite you all to find something that will help you think celestial, and desire it. In the name of Jesus Christ amen.
And with that, we have reached the end of this blog post. I hope you have enjoyed this little trip down memory lane, and hope to see you back tomorrow when we will wrap 2024 in a nice, neat, little bow, and send it off burning into the sunset, praying for a better 2025 (which, by the way, pretty much started where 2024 left off. I need a nice, long, vacation).
