Elder Neal A. Maxwell, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles died Wednesday night (July 21, 2004) after a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was 78 years of age. Elder Maxwell died at home surrounded by his family at 11:45 p.m. It was the 23rd anniversary of his call to the Quorum of Twelve Apostles.

What do I do? What a complicated question. My work history includes working for 22 years on an ambulance taking emergency calls. Since my DH and myself owned the ambulance service, it was my responsibility to do all the patient and insurance billing. In other words, do all the books. During this time I also worked part time at a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician. With my EMS work I also taught EMS classes. Taught others to also work in the emergency field. I was highly regarded as being one of the best in our area and I LOVED IT! I've been diagnosed with multiple schlerosis since 1991. In 2001 my MS got sooo bad and I deteriorated so much that I had to stop taking the emergency calls. However I continued to do all the office work and teaching of the classes. My MS forced me to quit my pharmacy job too. Now I just do the office work for the business. I finished my last EMS class in May of this year. I won't do any more. Sad time in my life to give up things I enjoyed sooo much. It reminds me of the verses in Proverbs - "To every thing there is a season". My season in EMS has ended. Now I'm waiting to see what the next season will bring to me. What do YOU teach? Have you been teaching this past year? Will this new teaching position be a real change for you? I've enjoyed chatting. I wish others would chat with us more. Melody

I am currently STUCK at -97 and not molving. I just hired a personal trainer at my gym to get me back on track. Hopefully that will put me into that century club quickly! My work is going ok - still waiting to hear on that teaching position I interviewed for - I should find out about that by about Aug 5th. Wish me luck on that one! What kind of work do you do? -Sherrie

Hi Sherrie. I'm doing wonderful. I was expecting my weight loss to REALLY slow down. I was expecting only about 4 pounds a month. I've been working on increasing my water and my protein. I'm getting in between 72-90 oz of water a day and between 65-80 grams of protein a day. I just started doing this and in one week I've lost 5 pounds! I'm under 200 pounds for the first time in years. Feels good. How are YOU doing? Melody 260/195/???

That is very cheap. I know we bought them few years ago for around the same price. Great idea. I thought I would share something that one of my Aunt's gave to another aunt who is going to have twins ANY DAY --- like this weekend I am sure... She gave her $30 to buy 2 trees = one for each of the girls.. I have never heard of doing this and thought it was a great idea. Thanks for sharing on the CD's. I never thought about doing that for shower gift. Gala