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Pool Golf/Sariah

I was looking in a catalog yesterday and saw a game that I really wanted to play.  It was the game of pool played with golf balls and golf clubs.  I was so excited that I decided to make my own version with things I had around the house.  My son John Derek helped me.  We gathered as many small balls that were of simmilar size as we could find.  We were able to get 11.  We then put tape around half of them for the striped balls.


Then we went and got yogurt containers that I had keep for just such a need and cut a U shape in them for the golf holes.  We made six of them.


We then went in my sons room and set up the game.
Away we played.  I hate to admit it but he did win.  We did have fun and it was good to spend some time together on a cold winter day.


Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 5:2
"2 For she had supposed that we had perished in the wilderness; and she also had complained against my father, telling him that he was a visionary man; saying: Behold thou hast led us forth from the land of our inheritance, and my sons are no more, and we perish in the wilderness."
It was probably that time of month. Everything is always amplified at that time.
 
Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 5:6
"6 And after this manner of language did my father, Lehi, comfort my mother, Sariah, concerning us, while we journeyed in the wilderness up to the land of Jerusalem, to obtain the record of the Jews."
Our good husbands always help us see straight and help us get through the trials as well as our womanhood.

Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 5:8
"8 And she spake, saying: Now I know of a surety that the Lord hath commanded my husband to flee into the wilderness; yea, and I also know of a surety that the Lord hath protected my sons, and delivered them out of the hands of Laban, and given them power whereby they could accomplish the thing which the Lord hath commanded them. And after this manner of language did she speak."
Her faith had been tried and she had been shown her protection from the Lord now she could move forward with this commandment of leaving Jerusalem and do it with all her heart without looking back. She needed this trial to strengthen her for her future trials.


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