This week
August 28, 2017
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September 3, 2017
End of Dog Days of Summer - Start of Autumn
August - September
Monday - August 28, 2017
We went to the viewing of Arvin Lee Hansen
Bob and Marcia Beaver were their neighbors
on Burton Avenue for six years about 1969-1975.
In the photo below Walt is standing with the Beavers.
Bob has been Walt's barber since we came to
Burley. Bob is retiring on Thursday, August 31.
Bob and Marcia Beaver were their neighbors
on Burton Avenue for six years about 1969-1975.
In the photo below Walt is standing with the Beavers.
Bob has been Walt's barber since we came to
Burley. Bob is retiring on Thursday, August 31.
Tuesday - August 29, 2017
The Rupert First Ward was overflowing
this morning for Arvin's funeral.
this morning for Arvin's funeral.
He had been in the funeral business for 50 years.
Wednesday - August 30, 2017
We rendezvoused with Dale and Connie at the temple in Twin Falls for the three o'clock session.
One turned out better of Dale and Connie...
and one seemed better of Walt and me...
so I'm leaving both photos in.
It was my turn to choose the restaurant...
I chose Sizzler.
We love being with Dale and Connie each Wednesday.
Just ahead of us in the line at Sizzler were
Kirk Thompson (Lon's brother) and his wife.
She told me they'd come to go to the Dunkirk movie
at 5:00 but because of all the road work and delays
on the Perrine Bridge for chipping and sealing,it had taken an hour from Jerome, so they were too
late for the movie. I told her to read the movie synopsis before they went because it was the hardest
movie to follow we'd ever been too.
If you know what's going on, the movie scenes are
breathtaking.
We got home about 7:30. We took the old Highway 30 back to Burley. There were no delays on it now that it's chipping and resealing are finished.
Thursday - August 31, 2017
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GOOD BYE A U G U S T
Hello and
Hello and
W E L C O M E to
Friday - September 1, 2017
Can't believe it's S E P T E M B E R already!
Saturday - September 2, 2017
Poor BYU Cougars. They just couldn't keep up with those LSU Tigers.
I wonder how many years it's been since the BYU Football Team was shut out?
I wonder how many years it's been since the BYU Football Team was shut out?
Sunday - September 3, 2017
Choice by Daniel. . .
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson.
For our testimonies tonight, we share a part of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's witness of the Prophet Joseph Smith from Elder Holland's General Conference talk from 2009.
This is what our Sunday School teacher, Lydon Crane, close our Sunday School Class
with today on "Sealing Their Testimonies."
"...Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all times—including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to “come unto Christ, and be perfected in him.”6 That phrase—taken from Moroni’s final lines of testimony, written 1,000 years after Lehi’s vision—is a dying man’s testimony of the only true way.
May I refer to a modern “last days” testimony? When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart of his brother:
“Thou hast been faithful; wherefore … thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.
“And now I, Moroni, bid farewell … until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ.”7
A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the page from which he had read, marking it as part of the everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were about to die. I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum read, the same corner of the page turned down, still visible. Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet turned to the guards who held him captive and bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon.8 Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators.
As one of a thousand elements of my own testimony of the divinity of the Book of Mormon, I submit this as yet one more evidence of its truthfulness. In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?
Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, friendless and homeless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor.9 Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as imposters and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon."
Our Savior, Jesus Christ, is the Redeemer and Savior of all.
The Prophet Joseph Smith is the Prophet of the Restoration and the Restorer of All Truths for The Last Dispensation of This World.
Walt and Eileen Petersen - Burley, Idaho - Sunday, September 3, 2017
