We Voted!

Don and I took advantage of the early voting that was available here on October 29,  We had planned on doing but when grandma called and said that they were giving away free ice cream scoops for those that voted early it was an even better idea.  We went down to the community center in Overton and walked right in to vote.  After we were done we were given an I voted sticker for each of us-even the kids.  That was our ticket for the free ice cream.  There were quite a few people at Inside Scoop taking advantage of the freebie!  That was very nice of them!  Connor and Caleb didn't feel the need to be patriotic that day and go with us so they missed out.  So now that we voted and the election is over I feel the need to write a few words about it.  I have never in my life been so saddened and sick over the results of an election.  I have never felt like what is at stake has such a huge impact on my and my children.  I have never cried tears over an election other than maybe the one I lost in 5th grade running for 6th grade class president.  I felt sick all night long after the numbers came in and just could not believe the idiocy of this country and lies and the entitlement attitude that is so rampant and led to the results of this election.  I feel that there are so many that are flat out deceived.  I was doing my normal reading in my scriptures that night and I just happened to be in the first few chapters of Mormon.  Oh that was quite a coincidence. This verse in particular was very interesting.

15 And it came to pass that my sorrow did return unto me again, and I saw that the day of grace was passed with them, both temporally and spiritually; for I saw thousands of them hewn down in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon the face of the land. And thus three hundred and forty and four years had passed away.

That was pretty distressing to me as was the rest of the entire book of Mormon.  I think that last few chapters of the book of Mormon are about the saddest in the whole Book of Mormon when all of those hundreds of thousands of people are killed and Mormon is left alone.

Anyway back to my lamenting the election.  Don and I talked about it at length and I read him those some of those chapters in the book of Mormon. The next morning I woke up and had really hoped that something had happened over night to change the state of affairs.  It was not to be.  I spent the morning really sad and worried about the safety and future of my family.  During the morning when I was doing my regular housework I had the words of the song "Be Still My A Soul" run through my mind over and over.  I felt so much better after that and I knew that Heavenly Father was in charge and that He will take care of us.  I talked to many of my friends through texting throughout the night and they all we're feeling the same way.  I'm so glad that the election is over!  I don't know if I could have handled much more of those political ads and the phone calls and seeing all the signs plastered all over the place!  A few days later I got an email from Dottie that made me feel much better about things.  It actually just reinforced a thought that I had had about the fact the even if Mitt Romeny would have won he would not have been able to turn this economy around or save this nation and that it could backfire on the church in the respect that he is member of the church and he would be blamed for the continued failures.  

I spent the rest of that week bottling beans like nobody's business.  Not that it wasn't important before but food storage, water, fuel and guns are at the top of my wish list.  God bless America and may He have mercy on us.