We attended the Tongan session tonight at the Jordan River Temple. Even though Mika and I were tired, we had a wonderful time serving. I do enjoy hearing the Tongan people sing Tongan hymns for a good 20-30 minutes before our Endowment session began. The spirit was felt during the singing and session. A wonderful time well spent. Have a splendid evening.

I was up early this morning finishing up editing some short videos of random moments throughout the years and wanted to post it on YouTube for our family to enjoy. Prepping the food to go into the crock pot took a moment to prepare. Cutting the onions, celery and carrots to put into the pot was easy to do. I did was all the veggies especially the small potatoes. The beef roast was sitting out until it was room temperature. You don't have to have the beef room temperature but that's just me. Add all of the meat and veggies in the pot with 1/2 cup of hot water minced garlic and your favorite blend of spices. For Me I added some beef mix spices, smoked paprika, salt and black pepper. Once that is set, cook the roast for 8 hours on low, you are good to go. After many hours have gone by, the roast was done and ready to serve. It was tender and delicious. Mika said that it was flavorful and tender. I'm glad to know that it was yummy even though I can faintly taste it. Give this a try, find a recipe that you like and go and do it. Happy cooking everyone!

Even though there was pizza served at our youth Activity tonight, I wasn't in the mood for it. So when we got home, Ramen was calling my name. I don't care if that's the only meal I make everyday, it's good to me and easy to make. It's cold outside and I like eating something hardy, soupy and full of goodness. Food is food, and ain't nothing wrong with that.😅🤣😂. Anyways, have a warm and safe evening everyone!

A few of the youth presidency came up with tonight's Activity. A game of snatch the bottle with a twist of spiritual trivial. Another game was number movements and lastly an acting game. But I missed that one since Mika and I had to pick up the pizza for the group. But I got a few videos of two of the games and I'll make a short clip of it to post later. We had a fun time learning spiritual things with our youth. All I know is that some of them needs some help learning basic things from the Bible. Blessed there hearts! 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏻 Well a good night and a great turnout of Youth to start of the New year.

I want to start off this year in the right state of mind. It's obvious that I have been blogging for over 2 decade and there is nothing new about it. But for me I want to really make documenting the good, the bad and the funny for this year. I'm going to be turning 40 years at the end of the year and so I want to make the best of my last year of being in my 30's. By doing that I'm going to try and post something everyday until I turn 40 and see how things have come along throughout this calendar year. It's going to be a interesting and challenging task. To balance home, work, church and family, I am going to strive to be spiritually involved and also upload videos on my YouTube channel. Let's just say  I have thousands of hours of video that I wanted to edit but got busy or sometimes just lazy. This will be part of my goal for my social side. My other goals for this year will be as I mentioned before, to be spiritually strong in the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to also live a healthier physical life. To truly find the balance I need. If everything else goes well I may want to be more happier and confident in all that I do. Hopefully it goes well, if not at least I tried my best and still be positive about it all. May you all find something to strive to do or be better at this year. I know I'm going to have a lot of things going for me and I am excited to see how it goes. Good luck and God bless!

Wow bro, you are 40 now! I can't believe we have lived this long but still feel like kids. I'm glad that you are still here and still my favorite brother. Thank you for always being there for me when I needed it. Have a blessed and fantastic birthday. May the Lord guide, protect and bless you always. Love you Baba!

A yummy and simple meal for a winter, snowed in kind of day. This meal totally hit the spot. Happy eating everyone!