On Sunday February 10th at 5:00 I will be singing in the Tabernacle on Temple Square with the Salt Lake Children's Choir in a Free concert that is open to all ages.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Angela
Angie's 12 birthday was in January on the 19th. She just got braces on her teeth and started singing with the Salt Lake Children's Choir. She is going back to violin groups with Jeanne Grover. She will be in the same group as her cousin Savannah. She is reading a lot of books. One of her favorite authors is Patricia Reilly Giff. She also went into the Young Women's organization at church.She said she really likes her leaders,Sheri Winward and Brenda Miner, and she is excited for girls camp in July.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Succession in the Presidency
Bruce R. McConkie was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 8 January 1974.
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6070
Elder McConkie detailed the process of succession when President Lee died and President Kimball was ordained and set apart as the President of the church. He gave this talk just 10 days after their meeting in the temple.
I invite every member of our family and anyone else to read this talk during this season of transition to re-affirm or establish their testimony that we will always have a living prophet on the earth until the Lord comes.
I imagine they are meeting in the temple even now or have met earlier today to set apart President Thomas S. Monson as President of the Church. I have heard we can look for an anouncement Monday morning around 11:00.
http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=6070
Elder McConkie detailed the process of succession when President Lee died and President Kimball was ordained and set apart as the President of the church. He gave this talk just 10 days after their meeting in the temple.
I invite every member of our family and anyone else to read this talk during this season of transition to re-affirm or establish their testimony that we will always have a living prophet on the earth until the Lord comes.
I imagine they are meeting in the temple even now or have met earlier today to set apart President Thomas S. Monson as President of the Church. I have heard we can look for an anouncement Monday morning around 11:00.
Friday, February 1, 2008
President Hinckley's veiwing
By JP
I would like to comment for a moment about the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley. On January 31, 2008 I was in Salt Lake for an job interveiw and I decided it was important to me to stop by the veiwing for president Hinckley. I was impressed by the outporing of love and reverence this community showed forth. I wanted to take a picture as I left to remember being there (My camera had no batteries, but thankfully Meridian Magazine took the picture for me, it is part of a wonderful article.) I realized as I was there how memorable his passing will be. I had the thought come to me that when I look back at this time in my life I will remember it not for the job searching, or the stress about which degree to get, I will remember January 2008 as Marie and I with Chris and Cyndi when the Prophet passed away. I will remember being at his veiwing.
I also had a flood of memories come over me about what I had learned from President Hinckley. I thought of his Be's, and his optimism, I remembered him dedicating the building on BYU-I's campus named for him, and singing for him at President Clark's Luncheon. Mostly I remembered a music and the spoken word I attended a month or so after I got home from my Mission. I remembered President Hinckley walked in and sat down only a few rows away, I thought to myself, you just spent two years telling people he was a prophet of God. I felt a rush of testimony and gratitute to be in the same room as he was. In parting I want to give the links to my favorite talks of President Hinckley's.
The Marvelous Foundation of Our Faith and his remarks at the Hinckley Building Dedicaton.
I would like to comment for a moment about the passing of President Gordon B. Hinckley. On January 31, 2008 I was in Salt Lake for an job interveiw and I decided it was important to me to stop by the veiwing for president Hinckley. I was impressed by the outporing of love and reverence this community showed forth. I wanted to take a picture as I left to remember being there (My camera had no batteries, but thankfully Meridian Magazine took the picture for me, it is part of a wonderful article.) I realized as I was there how memorable his passing will be. I had the thought come to me that when I look back at this time in my life I will remember it not for the job searching, or the stress about which degree to get, I will remember January 2008 as Marie and I with Chris and Cyndi when the Prophet passed away. I will remember being at his veiwing.
I also had a flood of memories come over me about what I had learned from President Hinckley. I thought of his Be's, and his optimism, I remembered him dedicating the building on BYU-I's campus named for him, and singing for him at President Clark's Luncheon. Mostly I remembered a music and the spoken word I attended a month or so after I got home from my Mission. I remembered President Hinckley walked in and sat down only a few rows away, I thought to myself, you just spent two years telling people he was a prophet of God. I felt a rush of testimony and gratitute to be in the same room as he was. In parting I want to give the links to my favorite talks of President Hinckley's.
The Marvelous Foundation of Our Faith and his remarks at the Hinckley Building Dedicaton.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Geting South Davis Recreation Center family membership
We got a family membership to the South Davis Recreation Center on Tuesday January 29th. That day Me, James, Jules, and Mom went swimming. On the 30th Me, James, and Jules went ice skating, we rented skates there. On the 31st we went ice skating again. It is very very fun!!! Jules hit her tail bone hard, but James said''he had a fun time'' Jules said, ''the pool will be fun,'' ''And I think it will be fun to get really GOOD at swiming !,'' James said ''He LIKES the whole Place!!!.''
Lee's Mission Call
Early in December Lee finished his mission papers and the Bishop and Stake President sent them in. On Dec.19th it showed up in the mail. Lee's mission call came in the mail in the afternoon, but no one was home, so Lee brought the envelope into the house from the mail box and hid it under the couch in the livingroom. Later that evening, he told us that it had come. Marie and JP were at our house because we were planning to play Christmas music as a family that evening. When we learned that Lee's call was here, JP sent Emily to get his camera from Grandma Linda's house. So Grandma came down to see him open his call too.
For the past week or so, everyone had been making guesses for where he would go, James Argentina, Angela Philippines, Me Sweden (i don't have any idea why) Levi Olsen said Russia, Grandma said Denmark she said she had guessed it for all her sons and none had been called there yet so she guessed it again, Lee said he was going to go to some place in South America.
So when he opened up his call, Grandma was on the phone with Gordon and we were on the phone with Wade and afterwards we called Mike and Carrie's family to tell them where he got called to. Lee read the "Dear Elder" and then he went along and it said "you are hereby called to serve in the" and here he stumbled and couldn't pronounce the name of the mission "the Bacolod Pilippines Mission" then Angela was like"yes whoohooo" because she guessed the right place. Then further down it said "report the the MTC in Provo UT on March 26th." I think he was happy to know that he would learn the Tagalog language.
The next Saturday one of Emily's friends who had recently returned from the same mission came over to our house. He showed us some pictures of the mission and said that there is the hot rainy season and the hot hot season. Some time soon after Mike and Carrie's Family called and said that the missionarys had come to their house for dinner one of them was from the Philippines, he talked to Lee for a minute trying to teach him how to pronouce the name of the mission, Lee said he finally stopped trying to help him and just said "yah you'll do great ." On Sunday Night January 27th we went to a family's house in our ward. They invited us to do a family night thing and they also invited a friend of theirs who had just returned from the same mission to show slides and answer any questions Lee might have. The new returned missonary said he was tall at 5' 9" and with red hair. The missionaries advice was to bring a couple of umbrellas and learn to cook before you go there (your companions will love you).
While we were there, we learned that President Hinkley had passed away.
For the past week or so, everyone had been making guesses for where he would go, James Argentina, Angela Philippines, Me Sweden (i don't have any idea why) Levi Olsen said Russia, Grandma said Denmark she said she had guessed it for all her sons and none had been called there yet so she guessed it again, Lee said he was going to go to some place in South America.
So when he opened up his call, Grandma was on the phone with Gordon and we were on the phone with Wade and afterwards we called Mike and Carrie's family to tell them where he got called to. Lee read the "Dear Elder" and then he went along and it said "you are hereby called to serve in the" and here he stumbled and couldn't pronounce the name of the mission "the Bacolod Pilippines Mission" then Angela was like"yes whoohooo" because she guessed the right place. Then further down it said "report the the MTC in Provo UT on March 26th." I think he was happy to know that he would learn the Tagalog language.
The next Saturday one of Emily's friends who had recently returned from the same mission came over to our house. He showed us some pictures of the mission and said that there is the hot rainy season and the hot hot season. Some time soon after Mike and Carrie's Family called and said that the missionarys had come to their house for dinner one of them was from the Philippines, he talked to Lee for a minute trying to teach him how to pronouce the name of the mission, Lee said he finally stopped trying to help him and just said "yah you'll do great ." On Sunday Night January 27th we went to a family's house in our ward. They invited us to do a family night thing and they also invited a friend of theirs who had just returned from the same mission to show slides and answer any questions Lee might have. The new returned missonary said he was tall at 5' 9" and with red hair. The missionaries advice was to bring a couple of umbrellas and learn to cook before you go there (your companions will love you).
While we were there, we learned that President Hinkley had passed away.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Emily broke her leg
by Julianna
I assume you all know that over the summer Emily was working down at Bryce Canyon doing a dinner show. During the last week she would be there, on Wednesday, the boys took her to the nearby high school to skateboard. She said, "It was very wobbly, so the boys said try going faster." Then she did but she fell off. Later she told us she thought that it was just hurting and would stop in a minute but it didn’t stop. One of the boys said, " Stay laying there and I’ll Jump over you." The other boy said, "I think she’s hurt, we should take her to the hospital." The doctor said it was broken and showed her the x-ray. He gave her pain stuff and a velcro boot then asked her if she could walk on it. She couldn’t, so he gave her crutches. Later when Emily was talking to Mom she was pretty discouraged because she wouldn’t be able to take her yoga class when she went back to college. The Saturday after, Dad, John, and I went down to see her show, and bring her home, then send her off to college the next day. When Emily was in Idaho she was trying to find an orthopedic doctor because her leg needed to be checked. One of her roommates had grown up in Rexburg and knew all the orthopaedic doctors and told her about the best one around and her roommate's mom took Emily to the doctor. He said she had broken both bones and shouldn’t walk on it for 6 weeks. We also rented her a wheelchair so Lee could push her to classes. Emily's other roommate was a girl from our ward. She is studying peramedicine and is helping Emily to keep the wrap tight enough to keep the swelling down.
I assume you all know that over the summer Emily was working down at Bryce Canyon doing a dinner show. During the last week she would be there, on Wednesday, the boys took her to the nearby high school to skateboard. She said, "It was very wobbly, so the boys said try going faster." Then she did but she fell off. Later she told us she thought that it was just hurting and would stop in a minute but it didn’t stop. One of the boys said, " Stay laying there and I’ll Jump over you." The other boy said, "I think she’s hurt, we should take her to the hospital." The doctor said it was broken and showed her the x-ray. He gave her pain stuff and a velcro boot then asked her if she could walk on it. She couldn’t, so he gave her crutches. Later when Emily was talking to Mom she was pretty discouraged because she wouldn’t be able to take her yoga class when she went back to college. The Saturday after, Dad, John, and I went down to see her show, and bring her home, then send her off to college the next day. When Emily was in Idaho she was trying to find an orthopedic doctor because her leg needed to be checked. One of her roommates had grown up in Rexburg and knew all the orthopaedic doctors and told her about the best one around and her roommate's mom took Emily to the doctor. He said she had broken both bones and shouldn’t walk on it for 6 weeks. We also rented her a wheelchair so Lee could push her to classes. Emily's other roommate was a girl from our ward. She is studying peramedicine and is helping Emily to keep the wrap tight enough to keep the swelling down.
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