Monday, February 20, 2023

Traces of Time . . . February 20-26, 2023

Traces of Time . . . {Last week: Scroll to end and click "Older Posts" at bottom right.} On this blog I share with family and friends my daily thoughts, doings, what interests me, and--at times--tributes to my eternal sweetheart, Walt, who graduated to heaven on 8-21-2020.

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, and posterity to come.

THIS WEEK-
FEBRUARY 20-26, 2023
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Family is Everything...
Sunrise: 7:12 a.m.
Sunset: 6:09 p.m.

Today is our first-born
grandchild's birthday:
Aimee Fisher Mecham
We love her so much!!
And we love her eternal sweetheart,
Michael Mecham.

Aimee skiing with Grampa Petersen
Aimee - Beautiful ballroom dancer
Aimee - Rexburg High School Graduate
Aimee - visiting Guatemala MTC - 2006

Aimee - Gave her favorite necklace to
a Guatemala orphan
Aimee - Missionary
Oklahoma Tulsa Mission 2009-2010
Aimee - Home from Mission
Oct 2010 - with family
Aimee - Home from Mission
with Grampa 'n Grama Petersen
Aimee - married Michael Mecham
in Rexburg Temple - June 2011
Aimee - I need the wedding photo
of Aimee & Michael
......
From 2022
Aimee takes such good care of
her sweet dogs....
Here she is from a year ago
with Bo...
I always love it when I
get to be with Aimee...
This was last Christmas Eve day
in Rexburg when she helped
Katie's daughter, Taitum,
decorate cookies.

Aimee & Michael
Here's a photo Aimee posted
on fb in Jan 2023.
Don't know what year it
is from.
They are eternal sweethearts
for sure!

Hope you had a
wonderful birthday, Aimee.
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Sunset in Saratoga Springs tonight...
8:30 p.m.
Julie just brought in the mail.
I had this sweet Valentine card
from Aimee & Michael.
xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx

I have heard about this quote
since I was a little girl in
World War II.**

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
— Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered this speech in the House of Commons on June 4, 1940, following the Battle of Dunkirk. With the Allies heroically evacuated from Dunkirk, an invasion of Britain by Nazi Germany was a distinct possibility. It was time for Churchill to rally the nation, and that he certainly did.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Family is Everything…
Happy Birthday to our grandson,
Ben, in Rochester, MN

Hope you are having a fun
18th birthday, today!

Institute today was
"Come Unto Me"

Camie teaches us that
Our Savior loves us all,
and always wants us to
be better at helping others
"Come unto Him."

Heather drives me to Institute
when she is in town. I really
appreciate her help.

The rain has started.
And turned to snow tonight.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Family is Everything…

Daily Scripture: Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. - Isaiah 43:18-19
Daily Quote: We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and remove the burden of our sins. His Atonement allows us to leave the past behind and move forward with clean hands, a pure heart, and a determination to do better and especially to become better. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Lunch Bunch was cancelled

because of a winter blizzard.

After a lively 40 minutes of texting,

it was decided it was too risky to

venture out on this stormy day.

We may be older, but we are

also smarter.

Julie said it was a

"stew 'n scones" day.

How blessed I am to have

these good meals each day.

* * * * * * ***

Our Wednesday night movie was:

from 1939:

The first 2 hours of

"Gone With the Wind."

"

It won 8 of the 13 academy awards

it was nominated for of

the 1939 movies.

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2023**

                Family is Everything…


On Monday I had cancelled my

Dental appointment for today

to have a tooth pulled because

my sinus infection of 16 days

had not gone away.

I was dreading it anyway!

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Family is Everything…


I had an appointment

this afternoon...

...with Dr. Kimball at

Willow Creek Clinic in Lehi.

He said if this sinusitis I've

had for 3 weeks doesn't clear

up from the Augmenten

(Amoxicillian) he's prescribing

today, he will have to send me

to an ENT specialist.

The nurse with him is Mariah.

And Sophia is the

other helper.

This evening I watched some

episodes of Abbott Elementary.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2023


  Family is Everything…

Happy Birthday to our

granddaughter, Taylor.

A sophomore in college

at Colorado

majoring in

environmental urbanization.

Also, a birthday

remembrance to

Walt's two sisters in heaven--

Phyllis, left, Feb 25, 1932

to Aug 3, 2014.

She died from a fall

and Alzheimer's.

Bonnie, Feb 15, 1930

to Mar __, 1990.

She died from colon cancer.

* * * * * * *

This evening as I was catching

up my blog, I realized I hadn't

taken any photos today, even

though I'd driven to Smith's

to pick up my prescriptions...

...so I took a couple of

my bulletin board.

I watched a couple of

light-hearted movies while

I was folding clothes and

refilling my pill boxes for

the week, plus working on

my computer during the ads...

(when you don't 'rent or buy'

the movie, you endure ads:

"Legally Blonde" with

Reese Witherspoon,

and

"Miss Congeniality"

with Sandra Bullock.

I had seen neither of them.

Since I like both of those

actresses, I enjoyed them.

* * * * * * *

This is what Julie posted

tonight on facebook:
"When you’re with your team 10 out of 11 of the past days, you need some one on one time with your man." "
All reactions:
Heidi Fisher Kaneao, Sarah Day and 33 others

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2023


Family is Everything…

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

Our speakers were Roberta Sherman Jones

on Knowing our Redeemer lives.

Brittany Andam sang "Savior, Redeemer,

Savior of my Soul" accompanied by Emily

Slade.

Kirsten Novilla spoke on Elder Neil L

Andersen's talk. We need to be Rooted,

Come to the Master, and Learn.

Sue Allen taught this lesson in our SS3 Relief Society on

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023.

She did an excellent job. She taught Michelle Craig's General Conference talk from the Oct 2022 General Conference entitled "Wholehearted."
Sue shared a story about her husband, Craig's pioneer ancestor named Drusilla Doris Hendricks whose husband was shot at the Crooked River skirmish and paralyzed for the rest of his life. So Drusilla was his care-giver when they were crossing the plains.

When the U..S. Army came to recruit 500 men to form the “Mormon Battalion” to fight in the war with Mexico they wanted her 16-y-o son to go, but she said “No, he’s all I’ve got to help me get his paralyzed father [and other children] across the plains to Zion.”

However, after the Battalion had already marched out of the pioneer camp, they returned with word that they still needed more men to make the 500. A voice said to her that to become all the Lord wanted her to be, she needed to make the hard sacrifices. She bargained with the Lord that she would let him go if the Lord would protect his life.

She heard a voice say” “So be it,” and she let her 16-y-o William go.

Here's a painting the family had painted of Drusilla.

Sue had the perfect blend

of adding personal experiences,

class participation, and quotes

from the talk.

Her mother had a complicated

heart surgery by the famed

heart surgeon,

Dr. Russell M. Nelson.

She prayed fervently that her

Mom would live.

She did, but six weeks later

her Dad was hit by a drunk driver.

She prayed justn as fervently

that he would live.

He did not.

Then her only son, with

two young children got

a brain tumor and died.

Their widowed

daughter-in-law recently

had to have a biopsy of a

suspicious mammogram.

Fervent prayers again...

and everything is okay.

Their daughter and her

husband are helping watch

over their niece and nephew

who are without their

father now.

Sister Michelle D. Craig: ‘Wholehearted’

‘Trials do not mean that the plan is failing; they are part of the plan
meant to help me seek God’
By Church News Staff 1 Oct 2022
Sister Michelle D. Craig, first counselor in the Young Women general presidency, speaks
during the Saturday evening session of the
192nd Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Oct. 1, 2022.

The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints
Sister Craig’s conference talk summary

An 1857 newspaper article describes a group of Latter-day Saint women “dragging handcarts like beasts” across the Plains. One woman fell in the black mud.
“I’ve thought a lot about this mud-drenched woman. Why was she pulling alone? Was she a single mother? What gave her the inner strength, the grit, the perseverance to make such a wrenching journey through mud, pulling all her possessions in a handcart to an unknown desert home, at times being mocked by observers?”
To be such men and women is the call of our day — “disciples who dig in and find the strength to keep pulling when called to walk through the wilderness, disciples with convictions that have been revealed to us by God, followers of Jesus who are joyful and wholehearted in our own personal journey of discipleship.”
Disciples of Jesus Christ can believe and grow in three important truths:
We can keep covenants, even when it is not easy.
We can act in faith.
We can be wholehearted and joyful in our devotion.
“When I stumble I will keep getting up, relying on the grace and enabling power of Jesus Christ. … This is my path of discipleship.”

Notable quotes from Sister Craig’s conference talk

When your faith, your family or your future are challenged — when you wonder why life is so hard when you are doing your best to live the gospel — remember that the Lord told us to expect troubles. Troubles are part of the plan and do not mean that you’ve been abandoned; they are part of what it means to be His.

The point of walking the covenant path is to approach the Savior. He is the point, not our perfect progress. It is not a race, and we must not compare our journey to others. Even when we stumble, He is there.

When hard times come, I try to remember that I chose to follow Christ before I came to earth and that challenges to my faith, my health and my endurance are all part of the reason I’m here. … Trials do not mean that the plan is failing; they are part of the plan meant to help me seek God.

Who is Sister Craig?

Sister Michelle D. Craig, first counselor in the Young Women general presidency
..
Sister Michelle D. Craig has served as the first counselor in the Young Women general presidency since March 31, 2018.
Sister Craig served a full-time mission in the Dominican Republic only six years after the country was opened to the Church.
* * * * * *
John cooked another delicious
roast beef dinner today.
* *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 February 26th,
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.
He knows what our potential is.
* * *
Jesus Christ came to earth as The Only Begotten of the Father and fulfilled the Atonement. He is the Redeemer of all.
* * *
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.
* * *
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 Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

* * *
Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
February 26, 2023...

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