To All the Beauty Queens

True Beauty Tips

For Beautiful Lips
Say only good things about others

For Sparkling Eyes-
Look for the good in everyone

For a Slim Figure-
Work hard helping and sharing with those in need

For Lovely Hands-
Use them often to lift others

For Poise and Grace-
Walk with the knowledge that you are a daughter of God

Have a great day Beauty Queens!

A New Day

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

When your hut is on fire....

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements, and to store his few possessions.

One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost.. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, "God! How could you do this to me?"Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! "How did you know I was here?" asked the weary man of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied.

The Moral of This Story:It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

Life

LEMONS and SUGAR

This should probably be taped to your bathroom mirror where one could read it every day.You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate youis because they want to be just like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone,even if they don't like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. You are special and unique.
8. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.
9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
10. When you think the world has turned its back on youtake another look.
11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.

And always remember....when life hands you Lemons, ask for Sugar and call me over!

Unity

FAMILY UNITY
Together your family is like a rope
Each person's a strand of the whole
For when one is broken the rest become weak
Leading all away from the goal.
Stand up, have faith and be strong like Nephi
Remember the things that you do
can strengthen your family with unity
Our Father in Heaven needs you.
So if there's contention and problems
Please don't let your strand come undone
Pray for help from the Father, have faith in...
The powerful influence of ONE!

Ann Plant

March 2002

Ideal World

"Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal, is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he's been robbed. The fact is that most putts don't drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to be just people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey...delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas, and thrilling bursts of speed.The trick is to THANK the Lord for letting you have the ride."

Gordon B. Hinkley

The Station

The Station
by Robert J. Hastings

Tucked away in our subconscious minds is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long, long trip that almost spans the continent. We're traveling by passenger train and out the windows we drink in the passing scene of cars on nearby highways, of children waving at a crossing, of cattle grazing on a distant hillside, of smoke pouring from a power plant, of row upon row of corn and wheat. of flat lands and valleys, of mountains and rolling hillsides, of city skylines and village hills, of biting winter and blazing summer and cavorting spring and docile fall.

But uppermost in our minds is the final destination. On a certain day at a certain hour we will pull into the station. There will be bands playing and flags waving. And once we get there so many wonderful dreams will come true; so many wishes will be fulfilled and so many pieces of our lives finally will be neatly fitted together like a complete jigsaw puzzle. How restlessly we pace the aisles, damning the minutes for loitering...waiting, waiting, waiting for the station.

'When we reach the station, that will be it, we cry.' Translated it means, 'When I'm eighteen, that will be it...when I buy a new Mercedes Benz, that will be it...when I put the last kid through college, that will be it...when I have paid off the mortgage, when I win the promotion, when I retire, that will be it...I shall live happily ever after."

Unfortunately, once we get it, then it disappears. The station somehow hides itself at the end of an endless track.

Sooner or later we must realize there is no one station; no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. The station is only a dream. It constantly outdistances us.

It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad; rather, it is the regret over yesterday, or fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves who would rob us of today.

So stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we travel along. The station will come soon enough.

If the Savior Came To Visit You

If The Savior Came to Visit You

By Donna Green

If the Savior came to visit you for just a day or two,
Would you be really comfortable with all the things you do?

Would everything within your home go on the old way?
Or would you have to change your ways during the Savior’s stay?

If the Savior came to your house to spend some time with you,
would you be prepared to meet Him and a warm friendship renew?Would you really know Him and long to have Him stay,

Or would you hope that He would wait and come another day?

So you could do the many things that you’ve been planning to,

But never seemed to have the time or take the time to do?

“If only I had known that He would come today,
I really would have been prepared.”
Are these the words you might say?

“Please give me but another day and I will use it to prepare,
To read the scriptures faithfully, help those in need and kneel in prayer.”

But no one knows when He will come. Not the hour or the day.
And if we are to be prepared we must begin today.

To take upon us our Savior’s name, come to know Him and do His will---Look forward to His coming, each sacred scripture to fulfill.

For whether His coming for each of us, is a great or dreadful day,

Will be determined by our faithfulness and how we live each day.