****Walt & Eileen Petersen**

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

TRACES OF TIME . . .

{Last week: Scroll to end click "Older Posts" at bottom right.}
JULY 21-27, 2025

Stay on the Covenant Path
to reach the
Tree of Life

A wise person once said,
"Every society will be judged by
how it treats the least fortunate."
"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...
TIME...
On this blog I share with family and friends my thoughts, doings, what interests me, and--at times--tributes to my eternal sweetheart, Walt, who graduated to heaven on 8-21-2020.
*All that I am or ever hope to be,
I not only owe to my

angel mother and father,

...but to my wonderful husband,
Walter Ray Petersen.

Walt called himself...
"The last of the old-time country doctors."

He delivered about 4,000 babies, among fixing broken hips, other surgeries, and even made house calls.As Janie said in his obituary:"He healed many hearts, heads, hands, and everything in-between."
In the 1950s you had to be 20 to serve a mission. This is Walt in August 1954, on the day he was set apart in Salt Lake City
to be a missionary.

One of Walt's happiest of happy places was as the pilot flying...
Our first plane was a piper Cherokee...
Then in a six-seater Cessna high-wing, turbo-charged airplane. Foxtrot 48--something was the call number {he owned with two partners).
We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--First:July 1995-July 1998
       Mission President and wife of the   Mexico Merida Mission - Yucatan* * * Mar 2005-Feb 2007Area Medical Advisor - Central America Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama12 missions - 2,000 missionaries.* * Sep 2008-Mar 2010Area Medical Advisor - South America So.Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay14 missions - 2300 missionaries * *
July 2014-Nov 2018Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador Temple*** * This totaled 9 1/2 years out of theUnited States.Grampa Petersen told our grandchildren that the Prophet said: "If you love your grandchildrfen, serve a mission,"To which g-dau Ashley asked:"How many?"
* *Walt was also a carpenter at heart--like his carpenter father, Ray Petersen.

This blog is...Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen...
  ...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--8 spouses of G-C, and 8 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 71.
Week of
  JULY 21-27, 2025

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025

Family is Everything….

Sunrise: 6:15 a.m. Sunset: 8:52 p.m.

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Today's Belief- Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace
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Brewers at Petersens

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025

Family is Everything…

Today

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MOVIE NIGHT...

The Classics... {16}**
TREASURE ISLAND - 1990 version
Gary

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025

Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
Lunch Bunch was at

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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025
Family is Everything…

Pioneer Day

"We honor our pioneer members across the world not because they were perfect but because they overcame hardships, made sacrifices, aspired to be Christlike, and were striving to build faith and be one with the Savior. Their oneness with the Savior made them one with each other. This principle is true for you and me today.
The clarion call to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is to strive to be a Zion people who are of one heart and one mind and dwell in righteousness."
Quentin L. Cook
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FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2025

Family is Everything…

Happy

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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2025**

Family is Everything…

To Wendell, Idaho for
Graveside srvice for our
cousin, Carol Lee Huffaker

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Today is 12 years since my
angel Mother
Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson
graduated to heaven at age 93.
Born in Rigby, Idaho
January 14, 1920, then family
moved to Wendell, Idaho
in 1922.
Earliest photo we have
of my Mom, guessing age 4
with her
two older brothers,
Morris, 8, standing by the horse.
and David, age 6, on the
horse holding on to her.
1924
The horse's name was
"Old Nig"
Yup, they were farm kids...
Next earliest photo
in the orchard on
the Hansen* place.
Age 5 1/2
Summer of 1925
{Thank you to my cousin Lucy's daughter,
Connie, for putting several of these photos in
family search. It's such a blessing to have them!}
...Summer 1925 with
her Mom and new baby sister,
Lorraine born in June 1925.
(My Mom was always sad
they didn't have any baby
photos of her.)
1927 - age 7
Waiting for the school bus
with her brothers,
David 9, Morris11.
Here's the Wendell Elementary
School my Mom went to from
1926-1932 - Grades 1-6
I went there from 1945-1951
and Janice went there 1955-1957
until they moved to Gooding in 1957.

Here's the Jr. High and
High School she went to...

Miss McGinnis was one of her favorite teachers.
Miss Gertrude McGinnis Teacher at Wendell High School 1920s - 1930s - 1940s
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Here is her 8th grade graduation
photo from Wendell Jr. High
School in 1934 - Age 14

Age 16 - 1936
Age 17 - September 1937
eloped on a double-dare and
married Arnold Albertson
Age 23 - 1943
Arnold worked at ship yards
in Long Beach, California
during World War II.
{Army wouldn't take men with flat feet. They erroneously thought they couldn't march long distances.}
Arnold went to Long Beach in Oct 1941.
Verna and Eileen joined him in Jan 1942.
They moved back to Idaho in Sept. 1945.
Back in Idaho when the
War ended in August 1945
Eleanor, Lorraine, Ella--the Mom, Verna.
Morris, David, Dave--the Dad, and Don.
David still in his Air Force uniform.
Age 26 - 1946
Age 37 - 1957
By home in Wendell, Idaho
They moved to Gooding
in November 1957.
Age 41 - June 14, 1961
Arnold & Verna
Sealed in the Salt Lake Temple
the same day as Walt & Eileen
were married/sealed.
Age 46 - 1966
1973 - Age 53 - Arnold and Verna with
Walt & Eileen's and Don & Janice's families.
February 6, 1982 Verna's eternal
sweetheart, Arnold, died after
a 6-month battle with colon cancer.
Verna with her siblings in the 1980s
Huffaker Reunion - 1980s at Alturas Lake
Does anyone have more photos of this reunion?
Age 66 - June 14, 1986 - at 25th Wedding
Anniversary of Walt & Eileen with all of
her posterity - two daughters, their husbands,
and 11 grandchildren. Verna had been a widow
for 4 years.
1990s - Age 70 - Verna stopped coloring
her hair when she was on her mission
in London, England 1989-1991

Age 80 - 2000

FAMILY CELEBRATES
Verna Albertson's
80TH BIRTHDAY AT OPEN HOUSE - january 14, 2000
GOODING, idaho - VERNA ALBERTSON WILL BE HONORED FOR HER 80TH BIRTHDAY AT AN OPEN
HOUSE ON SATURDAY. FRIENDS AND RELATIVES ARE INVITED TO CALL FROM 2-4 P.M. AT THE SENIOR CITIZEN'S CENTER, 308 SENIOR AVE. IN GOODING.
VERNA HUFFAKER WAS BORN JAN. 14, 1920 IN RIGBY, IdahO. HER FAMILY MOVED TO WENDELL YWO TEARS LATER.
SHE MARRIED ARNOLD ALBERTSON
SEPT. 29, 1937.
THEY RESIDED IN idaho -- mostly the MAGIC VALLEY ALL BUT THREE YEARs OF THEIR MARRIED LIFE WHEN THEY MOVED TO LONG BEACH, CALIF.
ARNOLD ALBERTSON WORKED IN SHIPYARDS DURING WORLD WAR II TO SUPPORT THE WAR EFFORT. VERNA ALBERTSON GRADUATED FROM THE TWIN FALLS BUSINESS COLLEGE in 1957 AND WORKED 27 YEARS FOR SOUTHERN IDAHO PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSOCIATION IN GOODING.
AN AVID ARTIST, SHE WILL DISPLAY HER PAINTINGS AND AMERICANA COLLECTION DURING THE OPEN HOUSE.
THE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY HER DAUGHTERS, EILEEN (WALTER) PETERSEN OF BURLEY AND JANICE ROBERTSON OF OREM, UTAH. SHE HAS 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND 18 GREAT- GRANDCHILDREN.
FOLLOWING THE OPEN HOUSE, A NO-HOST DINNER REUNION FOR THE SOUTHERN IDAHO PRODUCTION CREDIT ASSOCIATION EMPLOYEES WILL BE HELD FROM 5-8 P.M. AT THE LINCOLN INN, 413 MAIN ST. IN GOODING.
Age 87
May 2007 By her
beautiful home in
Gooding, Idaho
917 Wyoming Street
2010 - Age 90
At wonderful birthday party at
Don & Marcele's home in
Sugar House.
Her three living siblings--
Lorraine, Don, Eleanor.
***
As of July 2025:
Lorraine at age 87 passed away 5 months
before Verna in Feb 2013.
Don is 96 now, will be 97 in Oct.
Eleanor passed away at age 94
last June in Boise.

Age 92
Age 92 with her
two daughters -
Eileen and Janice
for Mother's Day weekend

Her 93rd Birthday
January 14, 2013
with Janice
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Verna Beth Huffaker Albertson
1920-2013

Mom had just come to

live with us in April 2011

when we got called to

leave the country

and serve in the

El Salvador San Salvador

Temple for three years.

Julie said: "We'll take Grama."

So from June 2011

to July 26, 2013

Grama A lived with

Julie & John, Jacee,

Jackson, and Maddie.

We can never thank them

enough for all they did for her.

I think they made life a lot more

fun for her than Walt and I

could have. They took her to

the pool, to Corn Bellies at

Thanksgiving Point, and other

exciting places.

Julie & John, Janice and Walt and I

are

eternally grateful to you and

your kids for your care and

compassion for

Grama A -- especially those

last months that got harder.

Rest in peace, Mom,

until we see you again...

...on resurrection day in

your prime with

Daddy, your

Eternal Sweetheart.

{Actually, it doesn't sound like a lot of
rest from what's been revealed
about all that we will be doing in the
Spirit World.
You did tell me several times that you thought
it was going to be so interesting to
see what happens after we die.
You've had twelve years now finding
out.}
Posterity of Arnold & Verna Huffaker Albertson - 105
As of July 26, 2025
   Children – 2
       Spouses of Children – 2
              G-Children – 11
              Spouses of G-Children – 8
GG-Children – 54
                     Spouses of GG-Children – 14
                               GG-G Children – 14
Posterity of Walter & Eileen Albertson Petersen
Children – 7
       Spouses of Children - 4
G-Children – 39
       Spouses of G-Children – 9
GG-Children - 8
Posterity of Janice Lynn Albertson Robertson
Children – 4
       Spouses of Children – 4
        G-Children – 15
       Spouses of G-Children – 5
GG-Children – 6
As of July 26, 2025
...an excerpt from the
Life Story of Verna – an Idaho Girl – 1920-2013
           Introduction
Gem of the Mountains is the nickname for Idaho. It’s cold in the mountains in the winter. If this newborn could have had her druthers, she would have chosen a warmer place and time to enter the world. January 14, 1920, was frigid in Rigby, Idaho, when Verna Beth was born into the farm family of Ella and Dave Huffaker. She was their first daughter, joining two older brothers, Morris, 3 1/2, and David, Jr., almost 2.
“I think my spirit got frostbitten on its way to earth because I’m always cold,” jokes Verna as she begins telling her story.
Two years before Verna was born, World War I had ended. Over 21 million people died in a worldwide influenza epidemic after World War I. That same year Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in Russia by the revolutionaries. --“Center for Life Stories Preservation” www.storypreservation.com”
On January 10, 1920, four days before Verna was born, “the League of Nations, the first permanent international body encompassing many of the nations of the world, was established as the World War I Treaty of Versailles went into effect.” --Deseret News 1999-2000 Church Almanac, p. 499.
Here are some locations to pinpoint the move when Verna was two years old. Rigby is 12 miles northeast of Idaho Falls and has long winters with short summers. Wendell, 185 miles southwest of Rigby, was said to have a longer growing season. In Wendell, Verna lived on the Andrew, Amdal, Hanson, Simonton, Dean, and Barrett rented places from 1922 to 1937.
Dave was an excellent farmer and irrigator. He would calcimine [paint] inside each house they rented so everything would be clean and bright for Ella and the family. Then when they had a farm and house in tip-top shape, someone would buy it. They wondered if they would ever be able to scrape up a down payment to buy a place of their own.
Perhaps this was partly due to the little-known depression for farmers that started in 1919. History books tell us all about The Great Depression from 1929 to when World War II brought the United States out of it in the 1940’s. However, very few history books even mention the depression that hit the farm states following World War I. It’s almost as if it were the unmentionable depression.
From 1914 to 1918 the prices were going up and up and up for farm products. The government encouraged farmers to grow more and more for the World War I effort and foreign markets. Many Idaho farmers bought more land and equipment on credit. “As soon as the armistice was signed with Germany on November 11, 1918, the U.S. government canceled its farm contracts. By 1920 Europe was producing again, so the U.S. farmers’ markets dwindled away and the farm prices plummeted. Banks began foreclosing on farmers.” [Idaho History, Vol. 2, p. 43, Leonard J. Arrington.]
This could be why Verna’s family moved to so many different rental farms and why her Dad couldn’t buy a farm of his own until 1938.
These Idaho farm families were struggling for survival. Ella was a hard worker but there was always more to do for a large family than the farmer’s wife could get done. Perhaps this is why Verna, the oldest daughter, was expected to help out so much around the house and farm.
However, Ella told Dave that as his wife she was not going to be like some of the farmers’ wives who worked in the fields plus helping in the barn to milk the cows. And she never did. But she cooked plenty of delicious meals for her family and many hay and threshing crews, had a garden, canned hundreds of bottles of fruit, plus baked homemade bread several times a week, and hung out the cleanest wash in the county every Monday!
In addition to Verna and her two older brothers, Morris, born August 8, 1916, and David, born April 3, 1918, three more children rounded out the family. Her next younger sibling, Lorraine, was born June 25, 1925 when Verna was five years old.
Three years later Donald joined them on October 1, 1928, and then Eleanor was born March 30, 1930. Verna remembers that when she went to school on April 1st and told her friends she had a new baby sister, they all chimed: “Sure you do--April fool!"
Verna’s entire life story is 450 pages long...
Her entire Life Story is recorded in Family Search,
by each decade, under her name--Verna Beth Huffaker - 1920.
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SUNDAY, JULY 27**, 2025

Family is Everything…

Sunday

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

This afternoon...

**** I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation and the Atonement of Jesus Christ that makes this

Great Plan operational.

At the end of this
July 27th,
I pray you have had a restful, peaceful, and spiritual Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as   my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence. He loves us just as we are at this very moment.

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Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.

“An omnicompetent God leaves all mortals free to choose, but how grateful we should be that God chose long, long ago to rescue and to resurrect all His children through the Atonement of His Son. Nevertheless, some reject and many are indifferent to these and other divine beckonings, mostly because they are too caught up in the cares of the world. They are strangers to the Savior, who is far from the thoughts and intents of their hearts.”
Neal A Maxwell
How Choice a Seer!

    Revelation 19:16: -- "And he hath on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS".

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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

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Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
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President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
“Keep on the covenant path,”                                        “Gather Israel,”                                                                    “Let God prevail,”                                                                “Build bridges of understanding,”                                “Give thanks,”                                                            “Increase your faith in Jesus Christ,”                                “Take charge of your testimony,”                                        and “Become a peacemaker.”
Russell M. Nelson
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
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The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Priesthood Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
July 27, 2025


Next week ...

July 28-August 3, 2025**

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TRACES OF TIME . . .
{Last week: Scroll to end click "Older Posts" at bottom right.}
JULY 28-AUGUST 3, 2025

Stay on the Covenant Path
to reach the
Tree of Life

A wise person once said,
"Every society will be judged by
how it treats the least fortunate."
"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...
TIME...
On this blog I share with family and friends my thoughts, doings, what interests me, and--at times--tributes to my eternal sweetheart, Walt, who graduated to heaven on 8-21-2020.
*All that I am or ever hope to be,
I not only owe to my

angel mother and father,

...but to my wonderful husband,
Walter Ray Petersen.

Walt called himself...
"The last of the old-time country doctors."

He delivered about 4,000 babies, among fixing broken hips, other surgeries, and even made house calls.As Janie said in his obituary:"He healed many hearts, heads, hands, and everything in-between."
In the 1950s you had to be 20 to serve a mission. This is Walt in August 1954, on the day he was set apart in Salt Lake City
to be a missionary.

One of Walt's happiest of happy places was as the pilot flying...
Our first plane was a piper Cherokee...
Then in a six-seater Cessna high-wing, turbo-charged airplane. Foxtrot 48--something was the call number {he owned with two partners).
We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--First:July 1995-July 1998
       Mission President and wife of the   Mexico Merida Mission - Yucatan* * * Mar 2005-Feb 2007Area Medical Advisor - Central America Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama12 missions - 2,000 missionaries.* * Sep 2008-Mar 2010Area Medical Advisor - South America So.Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay14 missions - 2300 missionaries * *
July 2014-Nov 2018Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador Temple*** * This totaled 9 1/2 years out of theUnited States.Grampa Petersen told our grandchildren that the Prophet said: "If you love your grandchildrfen, serve a mission,"To which g-dau Ashley asked:"How many?"
* *Walt was also a carpenter at heart--like his carpenter father, Ray Petersen.

This blog is...Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen...
  ...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--8 spouses of G-C, and 8 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 71.
Week of
  JULY 28-AUGUST 3, 2025

MONDAY, JULY 28, 2025

Family is Everything….

Sunrise: 6:21 a.m. Sunset: 8:45 p.m.

TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025

Family is Everything…

Today

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MOVIE NIGHT

The Classics... {16}**
TREASURE ISLAND - 1990 version
Gary

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025

Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
Lunch Bunch was at

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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025
Family is Everything…

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FRIDAY, AYGYST 1, 2025

Family is Everything…

Happy

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 2025**

Family is Everything…

To

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3**, 2025

Family is Everything…

Sunday

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

This afternoon...

**** I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation and the Atonement of Jesus Christ that makes this

Great Plan operational.

At the end of this
August 3rd,
I pray you have had a restful, peaceful, and spiritual Sabbath Day...
I share these truths as   my testimony to you...

Heavenly Father lives and knows us each by name. He loves us and wants us to return to Him and Heavenly Mother when we leave this mortal existence. He loves us just as we are at this very moment.

* *

Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.

“An omnicompetent God leaves all mortals free to choose, but how grateful we should be that God chose long, long ago to rescue and to resurrect all His children through the Atonement of His Son. Nevertheless, some reject and many are indifferent to these and other divine beckonings, mostly because they are too caught up in the cares of the world. They are strangers to the Savior, who is far from the thoughts and intents of their hearts.”
Neal A Maxwell
How Choice a Seer!

    Revelation 19:16: -- "And he hath on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written,
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS".

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I am thankful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost as the third member of the Godhead.
Walt said to me once: "I look forward to thanking the Holy Ghost in person when I get to Heaven. I don't think we give Him enough credit for all He does."

* * * * *
Joseph Smith was foreordained to be the Prophet of the Restoration. He is the Restorer of all things.
* * *
President Russell M. Nelson is the Living Prophet today for all the world.
“Keep on the covenant path,”                                        “Gather Israel,”                                                                    “Let God prevail,”                                                                “Build bridges of understanding,”                                “Give thanks,”                                                            “Increase your faith in Jesus Christ,”                                “Take charge of your testimony,”                                        and “Become a peacemaker.”
Russell M. Nelson
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The Bible is "the Word of God as far as it is translated correctly" and is a Testament of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
* * *
The Book of Mormon is the Word of God and is Another Testament of Jesus Christ. It is the most correct book of any book on earth.
* * *
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the True Church on the earth today. Because of the restored Priesthood Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
August 3, 2025


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LAST YEAR JUNE 25, 2024

Family - PAST REUNIONS

WEPR - 2019

Gary & Isaac planned

a really fun reunion...

"Around the World"

Family is Everything...

...and so are friends!

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