June 28, 2026- Sunday (Story to girls- Jasmin)

 We went to church in the Forest Hill's ward. Sheila spoke on what she did for a living and how the gospel has blessed her the other speaker spoke about how change is something that is always happening and how we need to embrace it and look for God throughout it.

During Relief Society I went outside an walked around as I listened to our ward back at home. Shelly spoke about the temple and how it blesses our lives. She had asked me for some things that she used in her talk and it was interesting to hear my own testimony through her. It really hit me and made me wonder if now is the time for me to be a temple worker. When it has been spoken about in the past my thought has always been that now is not the time...but I think that that time has come. It will be a busy year but I know that it will only bring blessings and will help us as we prepare for the Fort Worth Temple to be dedicated. 

We then went home for a bit then to Gilgal gardens and to Memorial Park. We then went back home where Dad went to the emergency room and found out he did have an infection and a clot but hopefully now he will get some relief. 

I finished off the night by telling all of the girls a story of Jasmin and Scarlet. I've told a similar one before, usually I don't write my stories down but with me typing I think I will...

Jasmin was a hard working young women with a sick mother that she cared for. She woke up early to work in the garden where she would pick most of her daily food for her and her mother to eat. Because of her many years working in her garden she was a very good gardener. She then would come in and prepare breakfast and really prep for all of the meals that day. She would then get her mom up and fed. She'd keep the house clean and looking beautiful often with fresh flowers from her garden on the kitchen table. When she had down time she would read and knit but over time she realized that she would need to work to pay for medicine for her mom and other expenses that were accumulating. She went first to the baker who lived near...now at this time she really hadn't done much baking as she mostly only cooked with the foods in her garden but she did really want to learn and thought that perhaps with time it could be something to help her earn money to help her mother.

Jasmin went to the baker and asked if she could help him by keeping things clean...she knew she was good at that... and then in return that he would teach her how to bake. Now the baker grew to love Jasmin, she not only kept things spotless at his baker but she had also become one of the best bakers that he had ever worked with. She even had new creations that flew off the shelves. It wasn't long before he was paying her quite well so that she had the money she needed to care for her mom. 

Meanwill there was a girl that lived a street or two over by the name of scarlet who didn't wake up until noon and even then her mom only got her out of bed by bribing her with her favorite breakfasts. Her mom had tried many different methods to get Scarlet to help around the house but they never seemed to work. Her mom had probably showed her how to clean everything and anything at least a hundred times but still even when her mom put her foot down and made Scarlet clean she'd brush the broom back and forth a couple of times and said she did it when really nothing ever got swept, no dirt was ever removed and no spots were taken off.

(I am starting to realize the length of this story so I will do a breaf explination...)

A prince has a ball, Scarlet tricks him into liking her because she says she cooks, cleans and gardens she also visited a magician who made her beautiful for the ball. (Sleeping into noon and only eating junk doesn't make you very beautiful. She did not listen to the warning of the magician who kept trying to tell her that there was a three day catch...if she couldn't be as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside she would become as ugly as she was on the outside as she was inside by the end of the three days During those days the prince wanted to clean with her or garden or cook with her but she knew she couldn't do these things so she had to find someone to do these different tasks as she is dating the Prince and always gets pointed to Jasmin as being the best at these things. She forcfully tricked kind Jasmin to go do these different tasks early each morning and then she would be there when the prince woke up saying it was her that had woken up early to do it on her own.

Her wedding day was the day appointed for the change but she didn't know about it and walked down the isle changing all the while so by the time she got to the prince she had bald spots, warts, cracked nails, wrinkles, her stomach had returned and her dress began to rip. The prince asked her what was going on, she said what are you talking about he had someone bring her a mirror and there in front of everyone she screamed because she had turned much uglier then she had been previously.. . and not only that she was ugly inside as she had always been she screamed and yelled saying" Who has done this to me?" Who dare to do this? The prince quickly saw that she was not who she had thought she was and ....t