Our family End of the Summer APX Party...Yippee Kiyah

Yesterday I decided to call it a summer. My whole team went home last weekend and I bribed a tech to stay and install my jobs for the week. Well, yesterday I decided it was enough since I found out that all my hard work would not go to my summer numbers. Our office had lots of trials and we were told there would be a good chance that we would get all of September added to our summer numbers. Unfortunalty, it was confirmed that only through 9/17 will be added. So that was the last straw to get me to call it a summer. We went to the reservoir or lake by one of the apartments and we burned two of my APX shirts. We invited the tech that installed my job and his name was Davie, and he brought some small APX equipment boxes that made it possible to prop up the shirts to make it look cool, this was his burning contribution. We all ate Cheetos, Cracker Jack's, and drank rootbeer around the little fire, it was a blast. Anyway, below is some footage of this blessed event. Our camera ran out of batteries right before we started the fire so it is taken with my handheld so the quaility is not the best but you get the idea.

Stake Work Project 2008

Spiritual Fortification coming soon

I have enjoyed sharing the Gospel over the internet. I feel like an internet missionary. My LDS Talks blog has over 2558 hits and my LDS Quotes blog has over 1461, from all over the world. It is absolutely amazing. About a month ago I started designing a full feature website where I can share the Gospel in a greater capasity. I do lack the HTML skills to have it come to fuision but I am going to begin to contruct the content at least, since I can do that much. The name that I have given it is Spiritual Fortification. The July 2008 Ensign has given me new added inspiration to do more. Here is the article titled, Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet. So stay tuned...

New talk posted on LDS Talks

One of the nonmembers on our team, Ken West, went to church with us and it was awesome. First of all I got up and bore my testimony in sacrament and of course cred like a baby. Then, in Gospel Principles class we had a good lesson on Faith in Christ. Ken made a comment that I thought could get very confrontational, he said that nothing we can do will increase our faith, it is simply that you have faith in Christ and he will give unto us. One of the recently baptized members asked how to increase your faith when it gets low, and so we were talking about reading scriptures and I said that if we want an increase in faith we must sacrifice more for that. Anyway, Ken used Hebrew 11 to make his point, and so I turned to Hebrews 11 and prayed that the Lord would lead me to a verse that would prove that faith is increased through action, and sure enough the Lord answered my prayer. Hebrew 11:8-9 says:

8 By faith ^aAbraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an ^binheritance, ^cobeyed; and he went out, not ^dknowing whither he went.

9 By faith he ^asojourned in the ^bland of ^cpromise, as in a strange country, dwelling in ^dtabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

So, I told him that Abraham had great faith and as he obeyed his faith was increased and Ken's eyes began to be opened. Between Alma 34 and the lesson we were studying he began to break down walls of incorrect traditions and thinking that he had. It was so amazing the Spirit began to fill his soul and he was excited. Several times he said with excitement, I need to read this book of Alma. One of the missionaries were asked to give the closing prayer and he just kept saying I need to get me this book of Alma and read it, and finally the missionary just cut him off an prayed, it was funny. We got him a Book of Mormon and we talked for a few minutes before going into Priesthood. I told him that just like the Bible is a history of Judah, the Book of Mormon is a history of Joseph, I told him about a prophecy of Joseph who was sold into Egypt that a remnant of his seed would be persevered and I told him that what he was holding in his hands is the history of that remnant of Joseph. He asked me where in the Bible he could find that prophecy and I told him that I would find out for him. That is what inspired my talk. I went back to the hotel and wrote out a talk about that. I also spent the first few minutes of Priesthood to find many of the verses that I wanted to use to show him.

So if you get a few minutes jump over and read my talk. If you have other scriptures and/or quotes that pertain to this topic please make comments on my LDS Talks website so that I can make a complete compilation of ideas on this subject. This way anyone can use this in helping their nonmember friends to understand the reality of the Book of Mormon.

Thanks and enjoy!

Read the talk just click here!

Quick Update

It has been for ever since I have posted anything because our computer broke. I am at the public library for a few minutes and thought I would make a quick update.

We left Tampa for several reasons and moved to Jackson, Mississippi where we spent several weeks and did very well. We ran into a few issues and are now in Texarkana, TX for a week or so. It has been a crazy summer.

Yesterday, one of the guys, Ken, who is not LDS come to church with us and wanted a Book of Mormon. He is an amazing guy.

I also wrote a talk that I will post once my computer is up and running. It is more like a compilation on scriptures but it should be helpful. Ken asked me where in the Bible it talks about the stick of Joseph and I told him that I would find out and let him know, so the talk is some of my research.

Anyway, my family is doing great, they are actually in Illinois visiting Kevin and heather and then they are going to Iowa to visit Mark and Sherri. On their way to Illinois they met Kevin and Sherri in Nauvoo and watched the Nauvoo Pageant, they enjoyed that and some time in Nauvoo. So needless to say they are having a fun time.

Made it to Florida

We finally have made it to Florida. We spent three days at Disney World (1 day was complimentary) and then spent a day on the beaches of Orlando and then a day on the beaches of an island called Caldezi (spelling is wrong). It was a blast. When we were on the island we saw tons of dolphins and they were inside the swim zone and so we got a good look at them. Also, our apartments are simply amazing and I am looking forward to a hard but fun summer. My computer is not set up yet so I am using the business center at the apartments, so later I will try and go into more details about our vacation before the summer.

Snowman Family

We have never build an official snowman, not just here in Utah but anywhere we have lived with snow we have not built one. So, today we decided to break that tradition. Kiera told me to go and take down the Christmas lights, while she was away. I was not very obedient, Alexa and myself went outside and started to build a snowman. Below is the first snowman that we have built. I put a Hanna Montana wig that the girls got for Christmas on her and it looked good. It started out as Hanna Montana the snowman....



... Then it became the APX Snowman.



Then I got the crazy idea of making our family in snowmen. We had one of Lacie's friends take this picture and that is why it is all crooked. We all stood behind our snowman even Kembri. I made Kiera have a hidden hip and rested Kembri snowbaby on it.



Aren't they cute... I mean my family.



Here is our Snow Family from the back side and they are nice looking.



Check out that handy work with how I made Kembri. She is all just a blanket except a head.



The jacket was a last minute touch that I think looks real nice.



There is snow baby Ashlyn.



Alexa made hers almost entirely by herself. I helped her a little but she did a good job.



I know that all I seem to care about lately is ice cycles and snowmen but they are just so neat. I will try to be more normal next post.

Our new friend, Mr. Ice Cycle

We have been getting so much snow this winter it is so much fun. Our backyard patio gets covered with ice cycles everytime it snows and that is when we noticed Mr. Ice Cycle. We watched him grow from when he was only about a foot or so long.





Mr Ice Cycle is currently 5 ft 5 1/2 in long.

We are proud of his wonderful growth.



The following day it grew to 6' 5" and then started to melt.

We are going to Tampa, FL

Well, it is final we are going to Tampa, FL to sell security systems this summer for APX Alarm. As many of you know I am co-managing this summer with my manager from last summer. We have a great team already and are looking to continue to grow our team. Take a look at our new recruiting website at IamAPX.com. If you know of anyone that is looking to make some good money this summer and have fun at the same time have them get in contact with me.

Craig Conover
(801) 376-0423
cconover2@gmail.com

My girls little mission

They decided to go on a mission all by themselves they were to going to the holy, holy sea. They got all dressed and started on their mission all by themselves.

Mitt Romney for Pres

Our talks went very well

Our big day to speak in church finally came. Our church is at 9:00 am and so our day started at 6:30 am. Luckily, we bathed the girls yesterday in anticipation of today. We got dressed and out the door 30 minutes early. We got in the chapel 2nd and while the lights were still out. Kiera took Kembri to feed her and Alexa decided to go with her. I tried to study my talk while I waited, but that was not realized because Ashlyn was crazy and wanted to run all over. Also, one of the Elders started putting up chairs in the back and so I joined him. I felt that I needed to practice but felt that servicing was more important and felt that the Lord would provide if I helped. Anyway. sacrament started and come to find out we had two youth speakers and a musical number by the primary, Which should mean that I will only have about 10 Minutes, but that ended up not to be the case, Kiera gave her talk that was about 7 minutes and I was left with a full 20 minutes.

It was amazing because Sunday the 9th, I could not sleep and felt that I needed to write down my thoughts on the Birth of the Savior, without any research, just my thoughts. So I headed upstairs and ended up writing my entire talk. All I had to do was insert the scripture references and make minor changes but it was all done. The interesting thing is that when I timed what I had put together it was 16 minutes. I had figured, especially when Kiera only had about 7 minutes, that I would just cut some out. Well, the Lord knew that I would need all of that because I was left to fill 20 minutes.

I was semi-nervous for this talk because the more I practiced at home the more I got concerned. I can't express how amazing it was because from the moment I stood to speak the words just came out. I was able to bear testimony and I felt that the Spirit was there in abundance. I realized even more that I am nothing and it was all the Lord. I need to always remember that when I am on the Lords earned, I can rely on the Lord after all I can do and he will provide in the capacity that fits His will. I need to step aside and let the Lord do His work.

So here are our talks:

Craig- What the Birth of the Savior Means to Me

Kiera- The Birth of the Savior

I am updating my blog

I am inserting blog entries into the dates when they happened, so be sure to scroll down and see what is new. I am sorry I have been so bad at updating my blog.

We could not get home because of the snow

We went out to do some errands and went to eat at Red Robin (that is such a good place). Well we came out of the mall and it was snowing real hard. We stopped to get gas and could not get out of the gas station because the road was too steep, so we went another way and it looked ok at first until we got a few feet from the stop sign and we stopped. I had to get out and push while Kiera drove. I thought we where home free, but no. We started up the street before our street and we could not make it up. We tried another way and no luck the roads were too steep and our tires had no traction. We drove around for about 45 mins trying different routes and finally we stopped in the side of the road and decided to just walk up to our house and come get our van later. While we were getting the kids clothes on the snow plow came by us. We jumped in the car and took off, it went up the steepest hill and we were still unsure that our van would make it but thanks to our prayers we made it up the hill. Next we had to come down another very steep hill. I held the brake the entire way home, some times I had control and some times I did not. Well we made it to our house, finally but could not make it up our driveway. I got out and cleared the snow and attempted it again, but still could not get up so I put rock salt down and then was able to make it up our driveway. We are going to invest in some chains so that this will not happen again. This picture below did not turn out that good, but you can see how heavy the snow was falling. All together we must of gotten about 8-10 inches of snow. I am in the back left and Lacie, Alexa, and Ashlyn are to the right in pink but we are hard to find.

Got asked to speak in church

Two days ago I designed Kiera's blog header shown below:



Yesterday I decided to create one for myself also but wanted to focus more on the Savior and so I designed the one below (and my header).



Anyway, I enjoyed putting this together and it helped me think about the Savior and his life. Well, yesterday in the evening I got a call from the first counselor in the Bishopric and he asked Kiera and us to speak in church the following Sunday. The topic is the birth of the Savior and what it means to us. I thought it was kind of funny how it all worked out.