Griffin Family

Living a life of Peace, Joy and Purpose will bring Happiness  How do you want your life to be? Full of turmoil and stress? Picking up the pieces and never knowing from one minute to the next what will happen or if you will be able to handle it? Or would you prefer a life of peace, joy and purpose? Where you have a calm and quiet inside of you and can move on without fear knowing that everything will be ok and things will work out for good? We are so blessed to have to gospel of Christ in our lives. If we choose to, we can all have the latter type of life by following the road map we've been given. It is important to note that we are not free to choose what happens to us but we are free to choose how we handle the things that come our way. Much of my talk will be centered around a talk by Elder Richard G. Scott found in the February 2014 issue of the Ensign, entitled Living a Life of Peace, Joy and Purpose. He also wrote a book called Finding Peace, Joy and...

Sometimes we wonder, “What did I do to deserve this?” or “Why did God have to do this to me?” Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mom how everything is going wrong. She's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away. Meanwhile her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack. Her daughter says, “Absolutely Mom, I love your cake!!!!” “Here, have some cooking oil,” her Mother offers. “YUCK!” says her daughter. “How about a couple of raw eggs?” “Gross Mom!!!” “Would you like some flour then? Or baking soda?” “MOM, all those things are YUCKY!” Mom replies, “Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way they make a wonderfully delicious cake!” God works the same way. Many times we wonder why HE would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things in His order, they always w...

08/30/15 We received your shipment of shirts from Spokane Mission!!!  Thank you!  Tell me for sure who you sent them for so I get them distributed properly.  Our week has been busy with moving Dallas and McKayla in to their new home.  The house is right behind Wal-mart hill in a new little community.  It is a beautiful condo with about 1800 sq ft 3b 2.5 bath.   We thought it was still in our stake in the 7th ward but it turns out the little river between the condo community and the last house in the stake is the line.  So they will go to the church up in Green springs.  Crazy huh!?  We were looking forward to them being in the 7th ward with Spriggs and Seegmillers and lots of other people that know and love them.  Bummer.  Dallas sliced his finger at work Friday morning so he spent a good portion of the day at insta care.  He never complained about it though and just worked away at work and moving after it happene...

Sister Carnevale did some minute-to-win-it games and had a primary olympics.  The bishopric -- Brother Clark, Brother Harrison and Bishop Carnevale competed.  They were to complete each task by the time the song ended and could not start until the song began.  The kids and the bishopric really enjoyed this activity.  Bishop and Bro Harrison playing tic-tac-pong Brother Harrison wearing his winning badges proudly! Rubberband tumble Busy naming the Presidency of the Church Bishop Carnevale, Brother Charlie Harrison,  Brother Jerry Clark Hannah Olsen, Brother Jerry Clark, Holly Griffin Sister Carnevale, unknown, Bishop Carnevale and Hannah Olsen Holly Griffin - age 11 -- all tied up! Bishop Carnevale cookie face Brother Jerry Clark cookie face Brother Charlie Harrison cookie face

Wow looks like some crazy fires and smoke going on around you.  The news is reporting your air quality is really poor.  How are you and your comps doing?  Your mission president and the stake president in your area both put out statements regarding the situation and said you are having a fast today for rain and safety.   They also said you were not allowed to proselyte but were having to stay in as much as possible and do appointments and such but not be out on the street. So have things changed for you? What are you up to?  It's been a busy productive week.  Dad gave Sister Grover a blessing last Sunday night as she prepared for surgery this week. She hurt her knee while on vacation and was having it fixed.  Monday dad covered a story about Thurl Bailey at the rec center and we all went with him.  They were having a kids camp about basketball.  The girls enjoyed it.  They got t-shirts and headbands and got to get taught...

Holly and McKinley Today is Shandon Lewis' farewell at 11 a.m.   So weird...you guys are all grown up now!  I still remember him as a shy quiet awkward little 10 year old.  Not so much now!  We are going to try to get to that...it's at 11 a.m.  Well the girls are back in school.  Holly started Fossil Ridge and she seems ok with everything.  Said she got lost a couple times but if she goes back to a certain point (the library for example) then she can figure out where to go to get to her next class.   Holly's first day of 6th grade at Fossil Ridge heading to the bus stop Katie started at PVMS and also is having to figure out where everything is. Katie's A day has her running from one end of one hall to the other end of another and back again.  It's kind of crazy.  But her B day seems pretty easy...band room, gym, lunch room. So she'll get her work out on A days! Katie's first day of 8th grade at PVMS Katie's f...

What scares you? I am afraid of heights - bungee jumping, jumping out of a airplane with a parachute, climbing big mountains...all make me cringe just to think about it.  What makes you stop and go “Wow!”? Zion National Park, October 2014 I really love going to the national parks and hiking to the beautiful places.  It is such a calm peaceful feeling to be in the outdoors and connect with nature. Especially when I can go with my family and feel that bond also.  Shelly and Andy, ZNP, 2014 ZNP, October 2014 What are some of the things you enjoy doing in your leisure time? I enjoy exercising -- spin class, TRX - weight suspension training, boot camp, yoga, zumba.  I enjoy hiking to different places.  I love taking pictures.  I love swimming.  I like to be active an play with my family. I also like reading and taking a hot bath.  I like quiet time.   If you could go back in time and spend an hou...