Thoughts and stories, by Pal

  PAL’S THOUGHTS TO POSTERITY ON MY 80TH BIRTHDAY ! I decided today to put in my blog, the counsel I wrote to my posterity when we wrote our family book in 2006, with some minor changes.  We had our Golden Wedding the year before, and were working on what became a 635  page hard bound book of our lives, and some of our ancestors and posterity.  The book referred to was given to each of our children and grandchildren.   So here it is: ----- It seems strange to be thinking of thoughts to leave to  my posterity, as I feel I still have ten or so more years to  live. If I can live to the age my mother did, almost 91, and  longer, I plan to do as much genealogy as I can, and try to  be a help to my family, and others as much as I can.  This was taken just before we left on our mission to Sweden, in 1994.  Top row, L to R: McKay, Allen, Anita, Delsy, Wayne M., and Wayne and me.  Front row: Jeremy, Pamela, Tacy, an...

I just had to pass this on today -- It is so great and timely! New post on  Brian Mickelson.... How to Not Be Offended by General Conference… by  BJM No, I'm don't usually feel offended or hurt during General Conference. In fact, I never do. I mean, I do get a little sting every once in awhile because I need to change, but more often I feel comfort and peace and I feel excited to get to work on what needs to change in my life. What I do see online, however, are people expressing thoughts along the following lines:  How could President Packer say that? He obviously doesn't know what it is like to __________...  or  This is the problem! Elder Anderson just made matters worse when he said __________... In fact, I'd imagine that people are going to get a little worked up about Elder Cook's priesthood session address where he stated to unmarried young men (that are in the marriage age realm): ...the longer you remain single, after an appropr...

Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 4th, and Sunday, Oct. 5th, we will be watching all 5 sessions of this wonderful Conference.  Thursday, October 02 2014 Mormonism in Pictures: Preparing for the Worldwide General Conference By The LDS Newsroom The   Conference Center   has 21,000 seats; they will be filled five times between the 4th and 5th of October 2014 for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ semiannual general conference. More than 100,000 people will experience the worldwide conference from inside the Conference Center — many for the very first time.   Millions of others will watch and listen to the proceedings from overflow facilities on historic Temple Square, in Mormon chapels throughout the world, on television and radio, and from Internet and satellite communications into 190 countries, nations and territories. It takes several hundred people, behind the scenes, to prepare the Conference Center for the...

I began this entry on September 19th, a day after my husband got home from the hospital.  I wanted to post it that day, as I had decided to start a tradition this year, and first wrote about our oldest son, Wayne M., on his birthday July 8th.  But it became obvious I wouldn't be able to finish it, so I want to do that today.   ------------------Written on Sept. 19, 2014 Our third child, Anita, has a birthday today, and, if she doesn't mind, I'll tell that she is 55 years old. Anita was born on September 19th, 1959, in St. George, Utah, the fall that Wayne was teaching his first year, up north in Garden City next to Bear Lake.  We moved there in the summer after Wayne graduated from Utah State in Logan, and we didn't know anyone -- no doctor or someone to help me after she was born.  So we decided to take me and our son Wayne, 3 years old, and Delsy, almost 16 months old, down for us to be in St. George.  We had Dr. Reichman, who had delivered Wayne M....