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Stay on the Covenant Pathto reach theTree of Life
A wise person once said, "Every society will be judged byhow it treats the least fortunate.""Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...
TIME...we belongto eternity...Neal A. Maxwell
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
TIME...we belongto eternity...Neal A. Maxwell
angel mother and father,
...but to my wonderful husband,Walter Ray Petersen.For the 59 years we lived together on this earth,I pinched myself thatI was the lucky gal whom he chose to be hiseternal sweetheart.I still can hardlybelieve it.
Walt called himself...
"The last of the old-time country doctors."
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."He not only healed medically, but he healed spiritually as a bishop, stake president, mission president, temple president, patriarch, doctor, friend, husband, father, grandfather--an all around exceptional person. Our friend, Jeff Rasmussen, said: "There will never be another like Walt Petersen in our town."
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-- second only to being with me and our children--was as a pilot flying...
Our first plane was a piper Cherokee...
Then in a six-seater Cessna high-wing, turbo-charged airplane. 4824 Foxtrot was the call number. {He owned the plane with two partners).
We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--FIRST MISSIONJuly 1995-July 1998 3 YEARS
Mission President and wife of the Mexico Merida Mission - YucatanCancun was in our Mission.We drove 3,000 miles each month to Zone conferences and to interview the missionaries.*** *** ***SECOND MISSION Mar 2005-Feb 20072 YEARSArea Medical Advisor - Central America Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.We lived in Guatemala City.we went to a differant country each month.12 missions - 2,000 missionaries.*** *** ***THIRD MISSIONSep 2008-Mar 20101 1/2 YEARSArea Medical Advisor - South America So.Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay14 missions - -2300 missionaries*** *** ***
FOURTH MISSIONJuly 2011 -Nov 20143 YEARS 3 MONTHS
Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador TempleDedicated Aug 21, 2011*** *** ***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?"
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Walt was also a carpenter at heart--like his carpenter father, Ray Petersen.
Family... From 1963 to 1974 we hadseven and called that heaven...
This 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
NOVEMBER 10-16, 2025
MONDAY,
FOURTH MISSIONJuly 2011 -Nov 20143 YEARS 3 MONTHS
Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador TempleDedicated Aug 21, 2011*** *** ***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--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,
NOVEMBER 10, 2025
Family is Everything…. Sunrise: 7:08 a.m. Sunset 5:14 p.m.-
TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 11, 2025
TUESDAY,
Family is Everything…
Family is Everything...
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER12, 2025
Family is Everything…
...and so are friends! Lunch Bunch was at
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2025Family is Everything…
Burley Idaho TempleOpen House
Thank you toJanie and Julie for taking me.
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FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 2025
Family is Everything…
BYU BALLROOM -
DANCESPORT CHAMPIONSHIPS
Michael & Darby Jo
Want to get a sense of where we really are in the universe?
It takes our Sun about 250 million years to make one full orbit
around the Milky Way. That means the last time our solar system was in this
same spot, dinosaurs were just starting to roam the Earth.
The Milky Way itself is enormous — roughly 100,000 light-years
across and about 1,000 light-years thick. Our solar system sits around 26,000
light-years from the galactic center, tucked safely into one of the spiral
arms.
And we’re just a tiny part of the picture. Our Sun is one of
about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, and scientists estimate there could
be around 3.2 trillion planets in our galaxy alone.
Now zoom out even further — NASA estimates there are roughly 2
trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Each one packed with billions of
stars, planets, and possibilities.
It’s wild to think about — every orbit, every beam of light,
every galaxy out there reminds us just how small we are, and how much is still
waiting to be discovered.
Source:
Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space?
| NASA Science
D&C 76:70-71, 78, 81,89
70 These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is
that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun
of the firmament is written of as being typical.
71 And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and
lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of
the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even
as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.
78 Wherefore, they are bodies terrestrial, and not bodies
celestial, and differ in glory as the moon differs from the sun.
81 And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory
is that of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of the
glory of the moon in the firmament.
89 And thus we saw, in the heavenly vision, the glory of the
telestial, which surpasses all understanding;
*** *** ***SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 15, 2025
Family is Everything…
Want to get a sense of where we really are in the universe?
It takes our Sun about 250 million years to make one full orbit
around the Milky Way. That means the last time our solar system was in this
same spot, dinosaurs were just starting to roam the Earth.
The Milky Way itself is enormous — roughly 100,000 light-years
across and about 1,000 light-years thick. Our solar system sits around 26,000
light-years from the galactic center, tucked safely into one of the spiral
arms.
And we’re just a tiny part of the picture. Our Sun is one of
about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, and scientists estimate there could
be around 3.2 trillion planets in our galaxy alone.
Now zoom out even further — NASA estimates there are roughly 2
trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Each one packed with billions of
stars, planets, and possibilities.
It’s wild to think about — every orbit, every beam of light,
every galaxy out there reminds us just how small we are, and how much is still
waiting to be discovered.
Source:
Our Milky Way Galaxy: How Big is Space?
| NASA Science
D&C 76:70-71, 78, 81,89
70 These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is
that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun
of the firmament is written of as being typical.
71 And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and
lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of
the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even
as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.
78 Wherefore, they are bodies terrestrial, and not bodies
celestial, and differ in glory as the moon differs from the sun.
81 And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory
is that of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of the
glory of the moon in the firmament.
89 And thus we saw, in the heavenly vision, the glory of the
telestial, which surpasses all understanding;
Fun supper and games at the Brocasa...
Brian & Jenn were onthird row seats in Boston...lucky ducks!
We four had front row seatsin Lehi, Utah...
LOST basketball game by 2, won football by 31
