In our leadership meeting yesterday, the first counselor in the stake presidency shared something humorous that happened in one of their recent meetings with bishops. President Tindall asked the same person to say the opening and closing prayer (he forgot that he said the opening prayer). It brought a few chuckles from the group. The President Tindall said, “Well let me tell you how we do it in the Tindall home. Whoever says the morning...

We had stake priesthood leadership meeting this morning. As President Tindall stood and shared a brief message before we split up. I felt the Spirit strongly. I generally feel the Spirit whenever he speaks. He was sharing some scriptures and essentially saying we, as leaders, are the chosen vessels of the Lord and it is our job to seek out the “residue” – or those members who are not attending, and bring them back into the...

We had Nolan’s birthday party today at Nani & Pops’ house. I think Nolan had a good time. We sang happy birthday to him twice. I doubt one-year-olds really understand the concept of birthdays, but in any case I think Nolan enjoyed the attention. I also think he really enjoyed the chocolate cupcake and the freedom to just dig in all by himself!

Tonight, after we got the kids in bed, Rachel and I watched a movie. It’s been a while since we’ve watched a movie just by ourselves. We watched Amazing Grace. It was a great movie. It was about William Wilberforce and his efforts and success in abolishing the slave trade in England.

Rachel had a night out with her friends planned, so she didn’t make dinner at the usual time. I guess there was a conversation upstairs that went something like this: Grace: What’s for dinner? Rachel: I don’t know. That’s up to Daddy. Later Rachel was downstairs with me and we heard Gracie calling me, “Daddy, time for dinner.” She eventually made her way downstairs to find me. She said she had made dinner for...