M & M Grant: August 2014

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

School Has Started

School has started, for me anyway. Jacob will start after Labor Day. I am working in the computer room again this year. I think it will be a great year, the kids are good and catch on pretty quickly. Here are the bulletin boards I did.

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Kyle Made It To The Mission!

We just got this picture from the Washington Federal Way Mission.

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Random Summer Pics

Lots has happened this summer and since pictures are worth a thousand words.....

Quotes That Inspire Me!

He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary." --Brigham Young

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." --Plato

'I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go.' -- Abraham Lincoln

'Arise from the dust, my sons, and be men, and be determined in one mind and in one heart, united in all things..' -- Lehi

'The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me -- but he will show that he hath not.....Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee...' -- Isaiah

'No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.' -- C.S. Lewis

'She is a witch! May we burn her?
What makes you think she's a witch?
She turned me into a newt. ........ I got better.
Burn her anyway.' -- Monty Python

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." --Helen Keller

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." --C.S. Lewis

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!”
— Alexandre Dumas--

"Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard."--Todd Christopherson