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Just a note to you dear friends!  I will be leaving tomorrow morning, July 13, 2019, to go on a 16 day tour.  We will visit Ireland, Scotland, and England mostly.  But we will go on for 2 days in France, and then 2 days down to Rome, where we will be doing a Temple session on Saturday July 27th, in the Rome Temple!  I am so excited!  I'll write about it after July 29th. I had my DNA done, and I'm 79% British, and 13% Irish and Scottish.  The other 6% is from Germany, and 2% from Norway.  So I'm going to the land of my fore-fathers!  My husband Wayne's mother also had many British ancestors, so I'll be watching for places they lived in the past!  I'm excited! Recently I was sitting in a Stake Priesthood Leadership meeting while my Stake President called us to repentance over how we approached callings. President Dallin is relatively new and told us that he would like to share a story that he was told when he was called to be a Sta...

I believe we all have need of the virtue of PATIENCE!  This is a great article! “Ye Have Need of Patience” By Ted Gibbons  · June 19, 2019 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE Author Ted Gibbons passed away recently, after a long battle with cancer. In honor of his memory and the wonderful insights he shared here on Meridian, we will continue to publish his work periodically. A friend wrote a message to me in which she reflected at some length on the Lord’s efforts to teach her patience. Her observations resonated with me. The Lord spends a lot of time teaching his people patience.     Some form of the word “patience” appears almost one hundred times in the scriptures. I found the word three times in Old Testament, forty-six times in New Testament, twenty-three times in The Book of Mormon, and twenty-two times in the D&C. I took the time to read every reference. Some of my favorite passages follow. Da...

This was posted last year, July 4th, 2018, and is # 1050 in this blog.  I hope you enjoy these special memories!  And Beautiful music! Happy July 4th to all you dear friends!  I'm reposting # 881 I posted a year ago, about my husband Wayne, and him coming home on July 4th from the army in 1955, and 2 years earlier on July 4th from his mission to Sweden.  Fun memories!  Also some beautiful Patriotic songs!  (Further down) Wayne, on a July 4th holiday at our son Allen's in Menan, Idaho. Wayne on the left, and Blaine, his twin brother, in the army in 1954, in Europe. This was first written on July 4, 2016.   Tomorrow, July 4th, is the anniversary of two major events in my husband Wayne D Eckman's life! In 1953, he returned home from his 2 and a half year mission to Sweden,  and was awaiting his draft papers to be in the army, during the Korean War period.  In August, the next month, is when Wayne and I were introduced by m...