Thoughts and stories, by Pal

This is so interesting -- to learn what our Church is doing around the world, and how to get the news from different countries.   Mormons Around the World: Peru, Ghana, Indonesia, Australia By The LDS Newsroom  · April 18, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Peru: Mormon Helping Hands Answer the Call in Local Disaster Latter-day Saints, wearing their familiar  Mormon Helping Hands  yellow shirts and vests, and themselves suffering from the effects of flooding rainfall, left their homes to help their neighbors. “I could not stay home watching what was happening in my country; I had to do something,” said Jose. Such were the thoughts of many Mormons who try to follow t...

This is so interesting!  Web links to Mormon Newsrooms in several other languages!  It could help a person keep up with the foreign language they have learned on their missions! Mormons Around the World: Nigeria, Peru, Canada, Philippines By The LDS Newsroom  · March 20, 2017 Sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE MormonNewsroom.org features stories from its international Newsroom websites to share what leaders and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints around the world are doing to better the communities in which they live. Nigeria: LDS Charities Helps Save 1.8 Million Children LDS Charities , in partnership with the  Pediatrics Association of Nigeria  (PAN), has helped save more than 1.8 million babies in the past 10 years through the neonatal resuscitation  project in Niger “If we save the lives of children, we brighten the hope of a better society,” said Kadun...

Our Missionary Grandson coming home from Indonesia, and his brother's wedding! Almost 2 years ago I posted this photo, showing where our grandson was going on his mission.  Well, today, Thursday July 28th, he is coming home, in the evening at the Salt Lake Airport, just in time for his brothers Temple wedding the next day in the Payson Temple!   Here are pictures! Elder Jacob Wayne Lieske will be coming home tonight at 6:35 p.m. in the Salt Lake City Airport.  He couldn't come home to St. George because he would have arrived at 11:15 p.m. at the St. George Airport, and then we'd have to be up to Payson for his brother Ben's and Ashlee's wedding in the Temple before 2:00 p.m.  He doesn't know it, but he will have several best friends who will travel to Salt Lake to be there, as he can't have his usual greeting at the home airport. This is the missionary picture which has hung on our wall for 2 years! He has filled a wonderful missio...

It has been 5 days since I have written in this blog, and a lot has happened!  I entered the last blog at 9:07 a.m., on March 27, 2014.  At that time our granddaughter Skye Nicholson was in the MTC, to prepare for her mission to Irvine, California.  Her family, (Parents and 5 sisters--all but her brother Caleb) were visiting at our home from Friday night until yesterday, Monday morning.  That is why I didn't write!     Skye had been on a "trial" mission of 12 weeks, from December 18, 2013, to March 11, 2014, and in the South Salt Lake Mission home we were there when she read her call to go to the California Irvine mission.  Because of her 12 weeks, when she entered the MTC just a week later on March 19th, she was a Senior companion, and a Sister Trainer leader there.  She is thrilled, and just this morning (April Fool's Day) she flew to Irvine.  Her first picture there is: We're not sure the names of these missionaries -- but O...