Wise Words From the Bible

June Swanson, “Wise Words from the Bible,” Friend, Mar. 1991, 5

Nine Bible sayings are hidden in this square. To find one of them, choose a number from one to nine. Starting at the left of row A, write the letters under that number in order by rows. Next, separate the letters into words, and the saying will appear. Then choose a different number and start again.

The easiest way to solve the puzzle above is to color each number.  Either way you need to solve the Wise Words from the Bible puzzle to solve the Crossword below.  Enjoy!

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The Books in the Book of Mormon

Y D H E H E M L T I P Q X M A L O Y R Q R W K Q R 
X G F N U G H A W X V G B O O C L E B R E J B T Y 
O G F O Z Q M W W I P B L R Q R H A Z D Q D K N W 
F X M S W O R D S Z Y D D M Q T A A L W I X X M U 
Z S K O R K D I H R A U U O E U E J G M Y Z W Q I 
O F G O S J V C Q L L Z Y N Q R K W Y V A O N P H 
B M N E V I F W N E B U S E U A H W O D Q B T P P 
K I K W D O A A C J F F D S E N X O J Y Y Q S N E 
V Q F Z U A I H W T L K U N U T X E C K R W F S N 
Y R D V C Z I M S P H E E W O J W I U D H A E B Q 
X A E N R S K C N W C D N P T T A I I B N J E O J 
Y S M T B E H F L T I Y B Y Z H A B O C A J M G P 
B G C S Z Z V H E L A M A N D H R B S V E N H W E 
E S V A Q G O C Y Y S X X O A Y B G P J I N W X L 
U B P O U B Z Q J I I G X V T O G C H G T C Y P U 

ALMA
ENOS
ETHER
HELAMAN
JACOB
JAROM
MORMON
MORONI
MOSIAH
NEPHI
OMNI
WORDS

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Our Menu for November 7th ~ November 13th

For those of you that might be following me you may notice that for the last three weeks I keep putting a few of the same meals on my menu plan for the current week.  (By the way I’m doing that again this week.)  We’ve been so busy lately that some of our planned menus were scraped for something even faster, or I forgot to go shopping, or we had WAY TOO MUCH LEFTOVERS.  I don’t like to waist food, especially when it’s good food. 

Last week we had my dad and my mom over for their birthday.  That birthday meal made a whole ton of food that also made lots of leftovers.  All together I used up my 2 big pyrex dishes, my 3 squares and Big Papa’s 2 big ones as well.  We ended up eating 3 out of 7 dishes.  But on the bright side Big Papa and Papa Bear were able to take some with them.  With all of those leftovers though I’ve been trying to not cook as much and use what we had. 

So hopefully we will actually get to eat all of this weeks menu. 

Monday ~ FFYS

Tuesday ~ Chicken Pesto Pasta

Wednesday ~ PW Shredded Pork, tortillas, PW pico de gallo and guacamole, tortillas, cheese, reverse marble cake (Papa Bear’s dad’s birthday dinner.)

Thursday ~ White Bean Chili

Friday ~ FFYS

Saturday ~Pigs n Blanket

Sunday ~ Pigs in a Bean Bag

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My lost computer

My computer is such a big part of my life that I was utterly devastated when it went and crashed on me. 

I’ll start the story now at the beginning.  Sometime in the middle of October while I was working on the computer I started having issues with it, so I had Papa Bear come and take a look at it for me.  He ended up calling our technical support company looking for more help.  That’s when we learned that my computer was attacked with Trojans and malware.  After the technical support guys cleaned my computer all up they told us that my operating system was compromised and not working right.  They then suggested reinstalling the operating system back to the factory settings and start all over. 

Papa Bear talked of doing this to my computer for awhile now any ways and thought it was a good time to do so. 

We’ve had an external hard drive for years – seven in fact – and so we started backing up all of my docs, pics, bookmarks, etc. on the external hard drive.  For the most part my stuff was already there.  We then were able to start my computer over and start the massive deluge of downloading all of the upgrades to get it back to where it should be.  Everything was going to great.  We should’ve known right then that something was going to go wrong.  And oh boy did it ever!

Papa Bear then went to plug in my external hard drive and all we heard was a clicking sound.  And the computer never recognized it as being plugged in. 

By this time I was so frustrated thinking I put all of my stuff on the external hard drive to be a safe place and in reality it was no safer than if we just left it on my computer in the first place. 

We tried another technical support company and they still couldn’t help us.  Our next stop was to spend our “extra” $$$ from last month and send the external hard drive to a company where they have a special clean room and actually take the hard drive apart and see what they can get off. 

You may ask why bother, but too me to lose the last seven years of all of our lives together was just too much for me.  If we did just oh well and forget it we would be losing ALL of the pictures of my sweet critters.  That’s all of the birth pictures, and so much more.  We are talking about some where around 14,000 pictures in all.  I would have lost all of my recipes, which is another reason I have been posting them on my blog, and so much more.  That’s just too much for me to give up on.

Now I ‘m trying to find PLENTY of ways to back up my computer and not put all of my ducks (so to speak) in one basket.  We have been looking into online back up companies like Mozy, Carbonite, and others and external hard drives (even though they can’t be trusted), flash drives and CDs.  I’m so nervous now about losing everything. 

I always thought it would be better to have stuff on the computer rather than have papers all over the house and the file cabinet. 

When we decide what to do I will update my computer status for you. 

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Happy Birthday to the Big Papa and Grandma

My parents just happen to have a birthday a day apart from each other, who would of thunck.

I planned out a feasting meal for them a week before.  I asked my dad what he wanted for dinner and then what kind of cake he wanted for dessert and he came up with enchiladas and a marble cake.  And of course my brother told me to make a cake with a marble in it while my dad told me NOT to put marbles in it. 

When the actual time came to start cooking I had to take out 4 lbs. of ground beef and 3 pkgs. of chicken just to make up enough food for 6 adults and 6 kids.  Yes we had leftovers but I’d rather not run out of food and leftovers means I can take a break from cooking and finally get caught up on the dishes that were EVERYWHERE after that night. 

Let’s just say I’m still working on making better pictures for my blog posts. 

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Chicken Enchiladas made my way

I already have two other chicken enchiladas recipes posted on my blog but I finally found (made) one that I really like.  I always wonder how somebody could know what to put in a recipe for themselves.  I never thought I could do it and now look at me.

I made this a quadruple batch so I start with what I did and how I will change it for my family after that. 

3 pkgs. chicken (I used thigh fillets but you can also use breasts)

16 oz. sour cream

2 cans cream of chicken soup

7 oz. can green chilies chopped

colby jack cheese (I just dumped until it looked good)

flour tortillas

1 28 oz. can + more green Chile enchilada sauce mild (or whatever heat you want)

To cut this down for my family

1 1/2 pkgs. chicken or 3 chicken breasts

8 oz. sour cream

1 can cream of chicken soup

7 oz. can green chilies chopped

colby jack cheese

flour tortillas

sliced olives (optional: Papa Bear doesn’t like them but the rest of us does.)

28 oz. can green Chile enchilada sauce mild (or whatever heat you want)

1. First I dumped all of the chicken into my pressure cooker (Don’t forget to put water in the bottom before you dump the chicken in.  Just to the top of the bottom plate.) Pour in a small can of green enchilada sauce to give the chicken some flavor while cooking.  Put on the stove and once the pressure cooker starts to rock (becomes very noisy) time it for 25 minutes.  Then turn off the burner.  (We tend to use tongs to take the rocker off the top.)

2. Mean while in a large bowl mix together more green enchilada sauce, cheese, sour cream, chilies, olives and chicken soup.

3. Once the chicken is done cooking shredding it should be a piece of cake.  Dump the shredded chicken into the cheese and soup mixture. 

4. Now get out your casserole dishes and start filling your tortillas.  Once all done pour on more green enchilada sauce and cheese if you want to.

5. Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 20 minutes.

6. Enjoy!

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