Preston or Safford?

Jim and I gave talks in our church today. Standing up there sharing my talk was not nearly as nerve wrecking as watching a 2-year-old pink blur twirling around and shouting hi out of the corner of my eye... but we all survived. Jim gave an excellent talk on tithing with awesome examples from the scriptures that we've all heard, but it was a great reminder that we have been blessed with so much. It shouldn't be a difficult commandment to follow, especially when you think of the widow of Zarephath in 1Kings, or the story of the widow's mite. I love how Hyrum's wife known as "widow smith" rebuked the tithe clerk for suggesting she not pay tithing because she was so poor. She had such great faith to exclaim that she was paying tithing because she expected the Lord to give her blessings in return.
How true. The Lord does bless us when we keep his commandments- and this was the theme of my talk. I was asked to review Elder Condie's talk from General Conference and I was so excited because this was my favorite one! Especially when he quoted Genesis 30:22 "the 4 most beautiful words in holy write: And God remembered Rachel". Because God remembers each one of us. Enough of my preaching. I'll just include a link to the talk itself, so you can read or reread it. Awesome.
http://www.lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,49-1-775-6,00.html
Anyway-back to Preston and Safford...
when we first moved to Idaho, Jim loved telling people his roots were from Preston because of Napoleon Dynamite. Well, now that we're in Arizona, I felt I should say my roots come from Safford. They may not produce great films, but they do produce great families. Yup, I said that. cheesey as it is. And Jim is embarrased. I say be embarrased- I think he's really just jealous.