Melva Gifford

Go to country record to see buyer history.

Get photos of home at last week because if its withdrawn.

Select a home under 10 K with improvements.

naco.org: to determine if a city is growing.

Naco does 10 yr. increments of data of cities.

I attended a Book of Mormon conference in 2016 and here are some of my notes on one of the presentations.  I was able to learn about some artifacts for LDS church history.

• One of the bodyguards of Joseph Smith was a guy named Noble.
• 12 Sticks: when the bodyguards brought back Joseph and Hiram’s body and in appreciation had the rough of the oak casket made into 12 walking sticks and presented those sticks to the people that helped bring the bodies back.
• There was a musket rifle that was made in 1812, similar to what was used in Zion Camp could shoot the 300 yards while the British had muskets to shoot 100 yards.

Do you know about an interesting part of church history? Please share it in the comment section of this blog. Thanks.

Good: perspective

Bad:    prespective

I keep getting the per wrong. But each PERson has a different point of view on an issue or a different PERspective.  Remember that and I hope to consistently spell the word better.

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Someday I want to create a mnemonic to remember the different amendments. Until then, here is the list.  Source: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h926.html

1st Rights to Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition

2nd Right to Bear Arms

3rd Quartering of Soldiers

4th Search and Seizure

5th Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process

6th Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions: Rights to Jury Trial, to Confront Opposing Witnesses and to Counsel

7th Jury Trial

8th Protections against Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment

9th Non-Enumerated Rights

10th Rights Reserved to States

11th Suits Against a State

12th Election of President and Vice-President

13th Abolition of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude

14th Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts

15th Voting Rights

16th Federal Income Tax

17th Popular Election of Senators

18th Prohibition

19th Women’s Right to Vote

20th Commencement of Presidential Term and Succession

21st Repeal of 18th Amendment (Prohibition)

22nd Two-Term Limitation on President

23rd District of Columbia Presidential Vote

24th Abolition of Poll Tax Requirement in Federal Elections

25th Presidential Vacancy, Disability and Inability

26th Right to Vote at Age 18

27th Congressional Compensation.

Already have a useful mnemonic? Please share.

These are notes from an emergency fair/book of Mormon evidence conference I attended last spring. These are some general ideas.

• Seek out the best books besides the Scriptures.
• DC 93:38 glory of God’s intelligence. It has little to do with the knowledge, but more concerned about the state of the heart.
• Book of Mormon evidence.org is recommended for further study.

Good: squeezed

Bad:   sqeezed

I keep forgetting the u. so I will use a visual image. Why do we squeeze a tooth paste container or a salad dressing bottle? We do it to get the paste or dressing out. The U looks like a container. You squeeze the size to get the product out. Thus remember that sqUeeze has a U.

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I’m not sure where I got these suggestions but wanted to share it.

• Get a beware of dog sign in if you don’t have a dog.
• If you go on vacation. Don’t tell Facebook and social media.
• Hold email and mail
• have your neighbor take care of your trash pickup in newspapers.
• Be careful of free estimates, and sometimes it may be a way for some of the Is your house.
• Establish a neighborhood watch in your neighborhood.
• Plant thorny bushes under the Windows
• how to turn off turn on lights to make people see no home.
• Make house look occupied by the radio, TV being on.

Have something to add to the list? Please do so in the comment section of this blog.

Sometimes it is easy to get cocky about one’s knowledge. I was humbled today by a friend showing me a Scripture about the three wise men. Matt 2:11.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+2%3A11&version=KJV

I have read Scriptures over and over again and still miss so many things. Because of the Nativity scene having a three wise men, I thought that the three wise men arrived at the night of Christ’s birth the. But with Matthew 2:11 my friend showed me that they actually arrived at Mary and Joseph home to give their gifts. That would be very logical as they would require several months to follow the star, visit King Herod, and to arrive to deliver their presents.

So today’s theme is to always be open to learning new things.

Object lesson: not as it seems:

Objects for lesson: handheld mirror, photograph, squirt bottle with water, mud.

Get a mirror and tape a photo on it then gently smear mud over the mirror so that you can’t see the photo. Then give a lesson about how we can make assumptions or perhaps depend too much upon our current level of knowledge. Give a personal example of how you learned something that you never knew before. In my case it would be about the three wise men visiting the home of Joseph and Mary rather than in the manger.

Discuss with your family or class other areas that we may make wrong assumptions. Discussed possible areas we may miss-understand the Scriptures or understanding certain principles of the gospel.

As you then conclude the lesson go ahead and have one of the family or class members squirt water on the mirror. Gradually the mud drains away to reveal the photo. The photo represents new/discovered knowledge.

Relate with your class different ways of how each can always be open to new areas of knowledge.

Have something to add to this lesson? Please do so in the comment section of this blog. Thanks.