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It is in very tiny font: Older Posts} Week ofDECembeR 1-7, 2025This blog is...
Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen...
...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--10 spouses of G-C, and with a new gg-son 8-28-'25 = 9 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 73...2 gg-c due in 2026.
Week of
DECEMBER 1-7, 2025
MONDAY,
...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--10 spouses of G-C, and with a new gg-son 8-28-'25 = 9 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 73...2 gg-c due in 2026.
MONDAY,
DECEMBER 1, 2025
*** *** *** *** *** *** ***December Birthdays04 - Heidi - "29"04 - Ingrid - "1"07 - Anna - "25"12 - Steve - "59" 14 - Cortney - "32"17 - Slate - "29"15 - Eileen - "87"22 - Jacee - "23"22 - Olivia "Livvy" - "28"30 - Josh - "28"Remembrances...10 - Grama Rie Maria(h) Smith Prescott 1882-1970 "87" Bide & Rie Wedding - June 10, 1903He had just turned 29, she was 20.
12 - Grampa A - Arnold G. Albertson 1912-1982 "69"20 - Grampa Ray - Raymond O. Petersen 1907-1970 "62"*** *** ***
Family is Everything…. Sunrise: 7: a.m. Sunset 5: p.m.
A cold winter day...
A connecting wire had brokenon my left hearing aid the daybefore I went to Rexburg so allThanksgiving week I didn't hear well.
It is nice to have it fixed andhearing well now.
Thanks, Julie, for taking me to Costco.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2025Family is Everything…
Family is Everything...
Institute
We watched a Christmas movie...
KRANKS
WEDNESDAY,
KRANKS
DECEMBER 3, 2025
Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
Lunch Bunch was at Village Baker
in Saratoga Springs...
SORTING DUPLICATES...
Bunco...
Bunco...
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025Family is Everything… First December Birthdays...Happy Birthday to darling Ingrid "Iggy"
Happy Birthday to ourdarling Heidi...With Grampa on his 80th b-day
Happy New Year 2015...
Ballroom dancing with...
...brother Daniel.
Wedding July 17, 2020Heidi & Pono
Welcome baby Umi --Feb 2022
Welcome baby Ohi'a --Apr 2024
Heidi, hope you have a
wonderful birthdayin Houston, Texas. as *** *** ***
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The moon never leaves us. It just waits for us to look up.
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*** *** ***FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 5, 2025
Family is Everything…
My Ministering Sisters came today.
*** *** ***I like to read
"The Standard of Truth" from time to time. I had forgotten it was from "The Wentworth Letter" of 1842... 
“The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done.”
―
The Wentworth Letter
By Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–44)
Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization modernized.
Of this classic, Elder B. H. Roberts (1857–1933) of the First Council of the Seventy wrote: “The letter is one of the choicest documents in our church literature; as also it is the earliest published document by the Prophet personally, making any pretension to consecutive narrative of those events in which the great Latter-day work had its origin. … For combining conciseness of statement with comprehensiveness of treatment of the subject with which it deals, it has few equals among historical documents, and certainly none that excel it in our church literature.”
March 1, 1842.—At the request of Mr. John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat, I have written the following sketch of the rise, progress, persecution, and faith of the Latter-day Saints, of which I have the honor, under God, of being the founder. Mr. Wentworth says that he wishes to furnish Mr. Bastow [Barstow], a friend of his, who is writing the history of New Hampshire, with this document. As Mr. Bastow has taken the proper steps to obtain correct information, all that I shall ask at his hands is that he publish the account entire, ungarnished, and without misrepresentation.
“To read the full text of the Wentworth letter, which I highly encourage you to do, you can access it here > Wentworth Letter
God be thanked for calling the prophet Joseph Smith, and God bless Joseph Smith for sacrificing his whole life to bring about the restoration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are so grateful for him and his words of inspiration and light.”
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The Wentworth Letter
By Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–44)
Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization modernized.
Of this classic, Elder B. H. Roberts (1857–1933) of the First Council of the Seventy wrote: “The letter is one of the choicest documents in our church literature; as also it is the earliest published document by the Prophet personally, making any pretension to consecutive narrative of those events in which the great Latter-day work had its origin. … For combining conciseness of statement with comprehensiveness of treatment of the subject with which it deals, it has few equals among historical documents, and certainly none that excel it in our church literature.”
March 1, 1842.—At the request of Mr. John Wentworth, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Democrat, I have written the following sketch of the rise, progress, persecution, and faith of the Latter-day Saints, of which I have the honor, under God, of being the founder. Mr. Wentworth says that he wishes to furnish Mr. Bastow [Barstow], a friend of his, who is writing the history of New Hampshire, with this document. As Mr. Bastow has taken the proper steps to obtain correct information, all that I shall ask at his hands is that he publish the account entire, ungarnished, and without misrepresentation.
“To read the full text of the Wentworth letter, which I highly encourage you to do, you can access it here > Wentworth Letter
God be thanked for calling the prophet Joseph Smith, and God bless Joseph Smith for sacrificing his whole life to bring about the restoration of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We are so grateful for him and his words of inspiration and light.”
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SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 6, 2025
Family is Everything…
The Big 12 Championship Game...
