Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1 cup + 1 1/2 Tbsp all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp pumpkin spice
• 1 large egg
• 3/4 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/3 cup oil
• 1/3 cup water

Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine both sugars, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and spices
2. In another bowl, combine eggs, pumpkin puree, oil and water. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Mix until combined
3. Grease a 9 X 4 loaf pan and pour the batter into it.
4. Bake at 350 F for 45-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Let cool for about 5 minutes. Then take out of the pan and wrap in aluminum foil. Let it cool completely.

Recipe from <http://www.kitchennostalgia.com/bread/moist-pumpkin-bread.html>

October Presidency Message

Last month we were involved in a huge event centering on Preparedness.  It was great to come together and become reacquainted with the counsel we have received for decades regarding our temporal and spiritual preparations.  Whether we are preparing for tornados, floods, illness, unemployment, or signs of the times, OR whether we need to add to the oil in our spiritual lamps, following the counsel and advice of the prophet and apostles is crucial.  President Henry B Eyring puts it this way:  “Another fallacy is to believe that the choice to accept or not accept the counsel of prophets is no more than deciding whether to accept good advice and gain its benefits, or to stay where we are. But the choice not to take prophetic counsel changes the very ground upon which we stand.  That ground becomes more dangerous. The failure to take prophetic counsel lessens our power to take inspired counsel in the future. The best time to have decided to help Noah build the ark was the first time he asked. Each time he asked after that, each failure to respond would have lessened sensitivity to the Spirit. And so each time his request would have seemed more foolish, until the rain came. And then it was too late.”

I pray we will each ponder the things that our prophets and apostles have counseled us.   We were just blessed to hear from them again this month at General Conference.  Did you feel any naggings from the Holy Ghost to act on a particular prompting?  May we each more fully commit to listening and obeying, so that the ground we stand on is always solid and firm.

With much love,

Tracy

September Book of Mormon Class

3rd Nephi in Pictures...

“…on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world…” 

“Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world…Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet…”

“…and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he…”

“…and he took their little children…”

”…one by one…”

“…they saw the heavens open, and they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire; and they came down and encircled those little ones about…”

“Behold your little ones.”

“Jesus commanded his disciples that they should bring forth some bread and wine unto him... And this shall ye always observe to do…And it shall be a testimony unto the Father that ye do always remember me. And if ye do always remember me ye shall have my Spirit to be with you…”

“…come unto me, and be baptized in my name, that ye may receive a remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, that ye may be numbered with my people…”