🪔Natalie🪔

peacemaker in training

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@BYUFlorida Spice road table is nice but they’ve changed the menu up so many times idk if I could even recommend what we had because they might not even serve it anymore 😂

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@btamala_ @huracanadrian @GigglingGanon I knew as soon as I heard the “po”

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@BeastCoasters When it’s lightly raining or just after a rain are also really good.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@JennyENicholson I will say I do understand the idea of making it new eras in time. My kids can at least conceptualize the 60s, 80s and 2000s but the idea of the CoP family in the 1920s is so far removed that kids likely don’t even have grandparents that were alive at that time.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@TeslabotOTA @JennyENicholson But it’s supposed to follow one family through different eras? How much representation can one family with 4 core members and 3 extended family members have?

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@JennyENicholson We do the CoP every single time we do magic kingdom and I’d be here for that idea but literally every time we go, several groups get up and leave before it’s over once they realize it’s not a ride. I can’t imagine what an experience 2x as long would be like.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@BYUFlorida The only thing from Julie Hanks I’m willing to listen to 😂

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@NoblestCalling Hey I saw sheep detectives today and remembered this tweet so I thought I’d come back and tell you that it was a 10/10 movie and you should see it. It was so wholesome and I’m glad I went to support it in theaters because we need more of that kind of content.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

This is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is about. This is what it means to be a good Shepherd and minister to others.

[LEVI² @henson_levi]

GN Saints on X 🌙 Story time.

When I was 23, an addict & alcoholic I was arrested for robbery while on probation for felony theft. I landed in Utah County Jail facing a long prison sentence.

During that time, I received an unexpected visit from the branch president of a newly organized singles branch. He’d seen my name on the records & felt inspired to meet everyone under his stewardship, no matter where they were.

We talked about Christ, the Atonement, my charges, & the years I was facing. There was no judgment, only genuine care.

He continued writing letters & visiting me through my six months in county jail & three years at Utah State Prison. When I was released, he even offered to pick me up for church. I declined, thinking I’d find my own way. I’d been baptized young but had never been very active; my family wasn’t consistent in the Church.

For a while I stayed clean (no drugs, no alcohol) & held down a job. But I relapsed hard. One day, high & driving, I nearly caused a wreck on the freeway. That led to another arrest & a return to the Point of the Mountain, this time county time in Summit County.

By then, that little singles branch had grown into a full singles ward, & the same man (Branch President Shumway) was now its bishop. He was still there for me, still reaching out.

During one of my stints inside, the ward did a letter writing project for missionaries & military members. Somehow my name was included on the list. I received sweet letters from Bishop Shumway, Sister Shumway (his wife), their daughter, & a couple of other ward members.

I served six months for a parole violation. When I got out in 2014, I finally returned to church.

Just weeks after paroling, I attended a singles campout at Flaming Gorge. There I had my first real conversation with the woman who would later become my wife.

We married in 2016. Today we have a home, two beautiful kids (we want more), a dog, & a business we built together.

It wasn’t until after we were engaged (or maybe even after the wedding) that I was going through my old letters & found one from her. It was the only letter I ever received from her written as part of that same ward letter writing activity years earlier & I had never written her back. Finding that note from so long ago proved to me (in a very personal way) that God loves me & answers prayers.

Yep, I married the bishop’s daughter.

I never imagined having the deepest prayers of my heart fulfilled in such a beautiful way. But my life testifies that Heavenly Father knows us, loves us, & very often blesses us through faithful people who simply keep showing up.

I’m forever grateful for branch presidents who become bishops who become family. One man’s quiet, steady faithfulness changed everything.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@moroni_memer I teach my daughter that a YM that rationalizes why the commandment for all YM to serve a mission somehow doesn’t apply to them will be someone who will always find a way to explain why commandments don’t apply to them, and thus aren’t candidates for spouse for her.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@randal_olson @FiveThirtyEight I’m shocked by the dispersion on the name Clark. So many other names seem to have a mountain shaped graph, where there’s a peak somewhere, but Clark looks more like a canyon with a small village in the basin. I wonder what caused the drop off and pickup.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@camillagluh Watched it last night with my husband and we liked it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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@bloodthrstbooks Fablehaven for sure. My daughter was soooooo into those books like from 9-12 years old.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@ShadowlandBlog @Latterdaytruth I have had this thought as well. We know that the Holy Ghost doesn’t have a body. But sometimes I have thought that “Holy Ghost “ might be more of a position or title than just one specific spirit.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@Latterdaytruth @UdallCPA The ancient tradition podcast gets into a little bit of this. It’s the law of Ma’at or in other words the principles of righteousness itself. If he didn’t do it he wouldn’t be God. Or in other words he is God because he does do it.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@StephSandberg I feel your pain. Us saints in Orlando have been over a year without our temple and the next closest one is 4 hours away in Ft Lauderdale. I know others have it worse but it’s so hard when your closest temple is closed to make it a regular thing. Especially with young kids.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@NoblestCalling @disagreebutter I used to worry about this (the sealing part) because I lost a pregnancy at 20 weeks. After we were married but before we were sealed. The spirit told me not to be anxious about it and that the Lord would not forget me when all things are reconciled and to have faith in him.

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@camillagluh 3grandkeys

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@NoblestCalling Corn pudding with cheese
Butternut squash
Sweet potatoes with homemade caramel
Brussels sprouts with bacon

[🪔Natalie🪔 @StrombergHBIC]

@NoblestCalling Sadly not new. I’ve been married 16 years and back in the day on LDSmingle a super high % of guys I matched with would ask me for sexual pictures within the first week of messaging. When called out for their behavior they’d say “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” 😣