Traces of Time . . . March 8-14, 2021

TRACES OF TIME...

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THIS WEEK 

MARCH 8, 2021 
TO

MARCH 14, 2021

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2021                                          Family is Everything...                                                           

Today Sunrise: 7:01 a.m. Sunset: 6:26 p.m.

Face Book Sunday, March 7, 2021

I love his quote by Neal A. Maxwell about life in heaven:

 “From closing remarks of THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE: “”Eye hath not seen, nor heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. “. (1Corin 2:9)”

 “The best mortal music we have heard will be surpassed by the sounds of celestial chords we shall hear there. The most beautiful art and scenery experienced in the here and now of this earth will have scarcely prepared us for the beauties we shall see then and there... Those who hear the words “Well done thou good and faithful servant” ... can say of their own tiny trek “It is finished. “ and yet so much will have just begun. We will be home, and the promise to us is that God will land our souls “at the right hand of God in the kingdom of Heaven. ..

If we live correctly now, we need not hide our eyes then, for we can with Enos “see His face with pleasure”. Each soul must—now or later—surrender to God. At that moment the universe becomes a vast home, rather than a majestic but hostile maze. Surprisingly, with such surrender comes victory, and never have any received such surrender terms. To yield to Him is to receive ALL that He has!”

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021                                      Family is Everyhing...                                                                       the day 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021                      Family is Everyhing...                                                                         We had Ladies' Lunch at Mi Ranchito

Most of us got the lunch special:

Taco salad $9.99

 Sue and Judy...

 Eileen, Tammy...

Shauna, Sue, Judy...

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Tammy, Jennie... 

The six who could come today:

Left: Eieen, Tammy, Jennie.

Right: Judy, Sue, Shauna

Sue showed us how to

eliminate spam calls.

Promising sign of Spring...

Eating outside.

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Gary came for our Wednesday

movie night...

We watched a favorite from 1981...

"Chariots of Fire"

A true story about

the 1924 Olympics,,,

especially two runners,

Jewish Harold Abram...

...and Eric Liddle.

A great movie!

It beat out "Reds" for the

Best Movie of 1981.

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021

Family is Everyhing...                                                                            Brian's turn to choose 

the Sibling's Book Club book for March.

A Promised Land - a memoir by Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.  

Originally published: November 17, 2020.   Author: Barack Obama Page count: 768.                                                                    Series: The Presidential Memoirs, Volume 1                                            *** *** *** *** ***

just two weeks until:

GEM STATE CLASSIC                    March 25-27, 2021 Thunder Ridge High School, Idaho Falls                                                                                                                        Thursday: Pre-teen Team and Syllabus and Open Events, National Cabaret (Couples)                `                                                                                Friday:  Junior and Youth Show Team Events                                                    Saturday: Junior and Youth Individual Events (Syllabus and Open), Team Match                                                                                                                    More Information:   Gem State Website >                                                           The Gem State Classic hosts two National Championships:                             the National Youth Team Showdance Championship and                                 the National Youth Cabaret Championship.                        SPECTATORS /$7    PER PERSON - PER DAY  $25  FAMILY PASS - PER DAY                          Thank you for keeping Ballroom alive in Idaho.  © 2020 CLASSIC COMPETITONS              

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2021  

           Family is Everything...                                                           

                       

Doris Doris                                                                                              This has been a great month on Turner Classic Movies because          "The star of the month is Doris Day!" Ever since I have gone to movies, I've loved Doris Day. Her first movie in 1948 would have come out when I was 9, just before I turned 10 that December. And my favorite movie came out in 1955 "Love Me or Leave Me," in which Doris Day portrayed "Ruth Etting, a singer from the 1920s"--a true story. I've lost count of how many times I've seen it!

When she stopped making movies, she had a TV show from 1968-1973 "The Doris Show."  When our fourth child was born in 1969, Walt brought Mary Jane, Gary, and Steve to the hospital to see their knew baby brother. When we told them his name was going to be David, Steven, age 3 in two months, asked: "Could you name him 'David Doris Day'?"

"39 Film appearances -- Filmography from Wikipedia

Year	Title	Role
1948	Romance on the High Seas	Georgia Garrett
1949	My Dream Is Yours	Martha Gibson
1949	It's a Great Feeling	Judy Adams
1950	Young Man with a Horn	Jo Jordan
1950	Tea for Two	Nanette Carter
1950	The West Point Story	Jan Wilson
1951	Storm Warning	Lucy Rice
1951	Lullaby of Broadway	Melinda Howard
1951	On Moonlight Bay	Marjorie "Marjie" Winfield
1951	I'll See You in My Dreams	Grace LeBoy Kahn
1951	Starlift	Herself
1952	The Winning Team	Aimee Alexander
1952	April in Paris	Ethel  "Dynamite" Jackson
1953	By the Light of the Silvery Moon	Marjorie "Marjie" Winfield
1953	Calamity Jane	Calamity Jane
1954	Lucky Me	Candy Williams
1955	Young at Heart	Laurie Tuttle
1955	Love Me or Leave Me	Ruth Etting
1956	The Man Who Knew Too Much	Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna
1956	Julie	Julie Benton
1957	The Pajama Game	Katherine "Babe" Williams
1958	Teacher’s Pet	Erica Stone
1958	The Tunnel of Love	Isolde Poole
1959	It Happened to Jane	Jane Osgood
1959	Pillow Talk	Jan Morrow
1960	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	Kate Robinson Mackay
1960	Midnight Lace	Kit Preston
1961	Lover Come Back	Carol Templeton
1962	That Touch of Mink	Cathy Timberlake
1962	Billy Rose's Jumbo	Kitty Wonder
1963	The Thrill of It All	Beverly Boyer
1963	Move Over, Darling	Ellen Wagstaff Arden
1964	Send Me No Flowers	Judy Kimball
1965	Do Not Disturb	Janet Harper
1966	The Glass Bottom Boat	Jennifer Nelson
1967	Caprice	Patricia Foster
1967	The Ballad of Josie	Josie Minick
1968	Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?	Margaret Garrison
1968	With Six You Get Eggroll	Abby McClure

Box-office ranking: For a number of years, American movie exhibitors voted Day among the most popular stars in the country:

• 1950: 24th
• 1951: 9th
• 1952: 7th, 9th (UK)
• 1953: 11th, 9th (UK)
• 1954: 18th, 8th (UK)
• 1955: 14th, 4th (UK)
• 1956: 12th, 6th (UK)
• 1957: 17th
• 1958: 15th
• 1959: 4th
• 1960: 1st
• 1961: 3rd
• 1962: 1st, 6th (UK)
• 1963: 1st
• 1964: 1st
• 1965: 3rd
• 1966: 8th
• 1967: 25th
• 1968: 14th

SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021                                  Family is Everyhing...  

                           Steve and Natalie brought in supper

and we watched a movie "The Fifth Quarter" about a family who lost their 15-year-old in a car accident in which he was a passenger. Then how his older brother dedicated his football team's season at Wake Forest to Luke.

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Meanwhile, in the Ballroom World this weekend - Friday and Saturday, March 12-13 was the National competition (normally held at the BYU Marriott Center)  held at the American Fork High School Gymnasiums.

The Brigham Young University Ballroom Dance Program and American Ballroom Company are pleased to announce that for the 50th Anniversary of the United States National Dance Championships all U.S. National Amateur Championship titles, with the exception of the National Formation Championships, will be held in Orlando, Florida.  The Amateur Championships will be held September 9-11, 2021 in a separate ballroom in the Dolphin Hotel, immediately adjacent to the ballroom where the Pro/Am and Professional events will be held for the United States Dance Championships (USDC).

It is anticipated that the National Amateur Championships will return to Provo in March of 2022, where they have been held for many years.

The 2021 U.S. National Youth, Junior, and Pre-Teen Formation Championships will be held in Utah in March of 2021--March 12-13.  

United States National Amateur

                                        

                        Championships

were at the American Fork Hih School March 12-13

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Julie coached a youth team. Jacee and Maddie were both on their youth Ballroom teams. Many trophies were won!

                            Julie, Jacee, John...

                                Julie, Maddie, John... Maddies' partner, Ethan 

                            Jacee with another dancer...

                             All Utah Youth Ballroom and their trophies...

                                Team on the floor...

                                    Latin costumes...

Jacee and friends...

                            Jacee has admirors...

                            Jacee with one of her partners...

Jacee with another dance partner...

Trophies well earned...

Maddie with her dance team...

Maddie in another team gown...

Maddie and Ethan represent their winning

team on the Number 1 podium.

Maddie at her first Nationals...

Maddie with the team...

Maddie...

Maddie and dance friends...

Maddie relaxing

They got home about 3:30 a.m. after

getting all the costumes put away.

SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2021                                  Family is Everyhing...    

                           Come, Follow Me: "Strengthen the Church" 

Doctrine and Covenants 23-26

"Keep my commandments continually,

and a crown of righteouness thou

shalt receive...

"And verily, verily, I say unto you,

that this is my voice unto all. Amen"

I believe Emma Smith will always be

an Elect Lady!

I have tried to be a woman of

faith and truth. My goal is to be

good enough to be with my 

valiant husband forever!

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Our ward Y.W. Presidency was released:

President: Devon McPherson

1st Counselor: Brittany Andam 

2nd Counselor: Julie Peterson

Secretary: Jessica Harris

The new Young Women Presidency called:

President: Missy Ballantyne

1st Counselor: Jen Miller

2nd Counselor: Madeleine Summers

Secretary: Cristin Jones 

Julie will still be the Girls' Camp Director

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Sacrament Meeting on Zoom:

Andrew Miller, age 12, talked 

about the Good Shepherd.

Alissa Jones spoke about

Becoming a Shepherd, 

then Eric Luedtke spoke 

also about Shepherding.

He thanked the family in the

ward (they still don't who)

that did the twelve days of Christmas

for them. It really brightened

their holidays.

All the speakers helped us love

The Good Shepherd--

our Savior, Jesus Christ--

even more!

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At the end of this March 14th,

I pray you have had a

restful , peaceful, and spiritual

Sabbath Day...

*I am so thankful for The Plan of Salvation and 

the Atonement of  Jesus Christ that makes 

this Great Plan operational.

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. 

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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. 

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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.  

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Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Eileen Petersen

March 14, 2021