THE PEOPLE MUST HAVE THEIR DAN MILLER

I did a little blog makeover recently. So if you only read TPMHTDM in Google Reader or such (As I do), you might want to check out the actual site to see the newness.

Carolyn called it “…all minimalist. very opposite of how i like my blogs.”

Which is kind of what I was going for.

The high today will be 30… right now it’s 33 degrees

Wha-huh?

Also, after taking the kids to Achievement Days I stopped by Meijer and Sams Club. It was about 8:15 and I thought well if Sams closes at 8 then I already missed it – otherwise they’ll close at 9 or 10 so it shouldn’t matter which place I go to first (Meijer is open late if not 24 hours). So I went to Meijer first because I had some diapers that I wanted to return there and didn’t want to have to take those into Sams.

But then I got done and walked over to Sams only to find out that they close at 8:30. What the heck – what kind of store closes not on the hour.

In my ongoing posts about General conference talks, this week was from Elaine S. Dalton (General Young Women President), called “Return to Virtue”

I liked how she talked about how you get desensitized to things, whether it be sex, violence, or whatever.  She also referenced Lehonti and Amalickiah up on the  mountain (which I talked about last time). Her quote was

Could it be that first we tolerate, then accept, and eventually embrace the vice that surrounds us?

She also talked about her “training” program from the scriptures

• Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly.
• Cleave unto [your] covenants.
• Stand . . . in holy places.
• Lay aside the things of [the] world.
• Believe that ye must repent.
• Always remember him and keep his commandments.
• If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, . . . seek after these things.
• Now more than ever before, it is time to respond to Moroni’s call to “awake, and arise” and to lay hold upon every good gift, and touch not the evil gift, nor the unclean thing.