Another busy week - gone! I am so not counting the weeks or days! Down to what? We have a calendar full this summer, and I am loving every minute, hour, day we have together, and can't believe how fast they fly by!
Memorial Day Monday made this a short week! We came home from SLC Monday, and returned to SLC on Thursday evening (I mean Early Friday)! For the couple of days here we attended meetings for Cub Centennial, Ragnar, Community, scouts, did water for the office to the Dr. offices, office work, and laundry all efficiently so we could skip town again! :) This week will be no different! We are looking forward to a Moab trip this weekend with fun friends!
Saturday we attended and participated in a beautiful baptism for J.M.!
He is a cute red head! It was fun to be together as a family!
Friday and Saturday we worked early to late again on the deck! We strongly considered staying in SLC as we finally put the last deck boards on around 8 p.m.. We are grateful to my Fabulous Dad who graciously got up early on Saturday morning to help us with the technical stairs, which would have been easier to just duplicate the way he built them 25 years ago, but I wanted them wider, and different. He is sooo good! Thank you Dad!
I am so grateful for you! It was harder than expected, and by noon, when we needed to leave to the baptism we weren't done! He then sacrificed again, and agreed to leave the party early to come back with my B and boys to finish! Finally, they finished the final deck boards about 8 p.m. - a feat accomplished Thanks to additional help from my fabulous sister K and Mom! Thanks all for your support, enouragement, and help! We still need to install the railing, and build a new step (not technical, but necessary) on the East side of the deck, but it is beautiful, and will work wonderfully for the Ragnar party we will be hosting there next week! Then, with a 4 1/2 hour drive to St. George looming, we didn't want to but, C felt strongly that he needed to be here for priesthood meetings - which have been cancelled. Frustrating. He is so responsible and dependable! I love and adore him! Despite getting home around 1:30 a.m. this morning, he was up, in white shirt, and out the door prior to 8:30 to fulfill his responsibilities! Love you young man!
A fellow blogger shared that their family held Family Testimony meeting after they return from church and before breaking their fast. We decided to implement this in our home. What a beautiful sharing! I wept! (I know surprise!) I love that we get to testify so often! We love conversing with, sharing testimony of our Savior! Last night prayers of gratitude for safety in using all the tools, for serious heavenly help in getting the deck done! We are constantly pouring out our hearts to Him in gratitude and appreciation! I am so grateful to hear and know of the testimony of my family members! They are each amazing! Love them so much! What a beautiful formal tradition! Thanks for great friends who let me see a glimpse into their worlds to bless mine!
Today we have gifts to deliver to the graduates and are working on packages to the missionaries! Fun to have mine home a few more weeks! Love him so much! Yet I know he is going to where the Lord needs him, on His errand! I have been blessed to have more time with him in 19 years than most Mom's have in a lifetime! I want to live my life, submitting obediently to His will, and so I am grateful to raise sons who also want to submit to His will, and will go willingly where ever they are called to go! Wow great Faith! He shared as part of his testimony in our family meeting the following quote - from MEMORY! I don't believe I had ever heard it before, he has it committed to memory and says this in the powerful name of the Lord! Jed's Missionary Commission - Quoting Elder Bruce R. McConkie:
"I am called of God. My authority is above that of the kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my Master and He has chosen me to represent Him. To stand in His place, to say and do what He himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my words are His words and my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done. To say what He wants said. To be a living modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of His great and marvelous latter-day work (How Great Is My Calling [address delivered while serving as president of the Australian Mission, 1961–64])."
Powerful!