Week of Nov. 1-7, and week of Nov. 8-14
Week of Nov. 1-7:
We had Stake
Conference this weekend. We were able to listen to both the Saturday
evening session and the Sunday morning session in the car on our way home from
St. George. There were some excellent talks. One sister spoke about
how she sees online posts titled, "why I left the church," on social media. She said, "I want to talk about why I
stay." She spoke about the many reasons she stays in the church and
why she chooses to follow the prophet. I think this is something we
should all think about. What are our reasons? I know that I choose
to stay because I have received so many blessings in my life from following the
commandments set forth in the scriptures, and blessings also from the guidance
that I have followed over the years from our beloved prophets and
apostles. I stay because I have a firm and abiding testimony that the
doctrines taught in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are
true. I stay because I have the hope and faith that promises made by my
Savior will come to pass. I will be with my family for eternity. I
will see Thomas again, and because of Joseph Smith, I know that I will be able
to raise him in the Millennium. I have also felt beyond doubt the
comfort of my Savior in the most difficult times of my life. I choose not
to put myself in the position where I cannot turn to Him for help. In the
New Testament, after Christ feeds the 5,000, the multitude begins to realize that He won't continue to feed them physically, so they begin to fall
away. Christ asks Peter, "Will ye also go away?" Peter answers,
"Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe and are sure that
thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God” (John 6:68–69).
I hope you all take a few minutes to think about the reasons you stay, and recommit to follow the Savior and strengthen your testimony in Him.
We had a fun week:
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| Andy and Elise |
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| Mav |
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| Ori, Avie and Effie |
and Cam and Nick |
| The Nick Rasband family |
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Friday night was party time. All our Utah
families were going to come just to play games and visit. Unfortunately,
Crista's kids were sick, and AJ's dad was having more problems with his heart,
so they didn't come. And Jieun was hanging out with her mom who is here
for one short week. We still had a great times with those who were able
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Camden loved this somewhat deflated ball--probably because he could get a good hold on it. |
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We're super happy for Crista and Matt this
week. They were able to purchase Crista's dream piano. She's such
an accomplished pianist, that she deserves to play on a beautiful instrument. |
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Roy and I drove all the way to St. George on Friday for a concert featuring Kristen Chenoweth. She's a great entertainer and has an amazing voice. We stayed overnight with Mike and Gloria and went for dinner at the Painted Pony with them before leaving for the concert. |
Week of
November 8-14:
The main news of this week is that Roy had to have another couple of surgical procedures. On Tuesday he had a gum graft which has helped him to lose weight--fortunately or unfortunately. On Thursday, he went to see the eye doctor because he was seeing weirdly. He found that he had a partially detached retina, and had to have immediate surgery on his eye on Friday.
Pre-surgery. With the mask you can't see all the bruises on his face from the gum graft. After surgery he was a cyborg again. His eye looks pretty terrible.
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| Roy with a young man from our ward (one of Roy's priests) who has just left on his mission. He didn't plan on serving a mission, but through events that started with his girlfriend inviting him to church, he developed a testimony and a desire to share it. |
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| Caitlyn with her sister-in-law Ashley. The Anderson's (Dallin's parents) dog had puppies and Caitlyn is holding one. |
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| Nick with Effie in Austin, Texas. His company sent his whole family on a work vacation for 10 days. |
Sunday Jennie and Jordan sang in their ward. We listened on Zoom then hurried off to our own ward activities. Later we were able to attend the Green's ward to enjoy the Primary program. Roy and I got more attention than usual from all four of the Green children. After a while sitting by me, Oli got up and went over to sit by his mom. He said, "Ila's coloring with grandma so she can't tickle my back any more." I was so amazed that the boys knew every song in the primary program. I think that's the only primary program I've been to so far where all of my grandchildren in the program are actually singing. They did great!
That’s Ori with Nick, not Effie.
ReplyDeleteYep, her shoes were causing her heels to bleed, so I carried her for a while.
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