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Week of 

SEPTEMBER 7-13, 2025

Stay on the Covenant Path

to reach the

Tree of Life

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...        

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.

Dedicated to our Posterity of 78: Seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen, their spouses, our 39 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and posterity to come.                  MONDAY, 

SEPTEMBER 7, 2026 

Family is 

Everything... 

At the end of last Sunday's

 post--September 6--

 I added a new word I learned:

 ...the phrase "ontological increase"...

It's just before my testimony starts.

I also added some photos for the PUNN supper and ballgame plus

that last second miracle

Hail Mary touchdown

for Whittingham.

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The first Labor Day celebration was September 5, 1882 in New York City.

On that Tuesday, 10,000 citizens marched for labor rights down the streets of Manhattan. During this time the average American worked 12 hours a day, six days a week. It wasn't until the Adamson Act passed on September 3, 1916 that our modern eight-hour work day was established.

Sunrise:  7:01 a.m.                                           Sunset:  7:49 p.m

                           

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TUESDAY, 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 

Family is Everything..

 Institute resumed today...

The Book of Mormon

A year-long indepth

study...

Tony Goodall gave

an interesting thought:

4 main writers:

Nephi, Jacob.

Mormon, Moroni.

Purpose:

Come unto Christ

Saw our day

(I can't read my notes for

second one...

starts: Knew ...)

Saw Christ

Judged from contents 

[I will add the rest 

of my notes later.]

I learned so much from

our prepared and

inspired teachers today...

Brother & Sister Muse.

I didn't get a photo

of all the slides...

Dwight will send them.

       I so appreciate Carol driving

me since at 87, I don't

drive any more.

Happy Birthday,

Jeanie...

a Lunch Bunch gal,

and my ministering sister...

Steve and Jeanie...

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   Our Tuesday night movie was going to be

the first half of...

"Nuremburg " 

from November 2025

Budget	$40 million[3]
Box office	$70.5 million[4][5]

Information from Wikipedia

Nuremberg…

“ …is a 2025 American psychological thriller historical drama film written and directed by James Vanderbilt.

Overview & Plot

• Core Premise: The film focuses on a psychological cat-and-mouse showdown rather than just the courtroom proceedings.
• The Psychiatrist & The Prisoner: It follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelley, who is tasked with monitoring the mental health of imprisoned Nazi leaders. He engages in intense psychological interviews with high-ranking Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring before the trials.
• Source Material: The movie is an adaptation of Jack El-Hai's 2013 non-fiction book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist.
• Key Cast & Crew

• Director/Writer: James Vanderbilt
• Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring
• Rami Malek as Dr. Douglas Kelley “

...but Gary had to work late.

We will watch it next Tuesday.

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WEDNESDAY,

SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 

Family is 

Everything...

  

          Happy Birthday, 

Jackson "22" 

No celebration today...

Last year's photos - 2025...

 

 

Lunch Bunch was 

at Avenue Bakery...

   11 came...

Francine on her way back to Utah

 Valley hospital to be with Dave

where she's been with him since 

his bad motorcycle accident Monday,

Sep 7. He broke 6 or 7 ribs, his ankle--

which they did surgery on. He also

 broke his collar bone.

We think a car ran a light and Dave

 was about to T-bone the car so layed 

his cycle down. 

Sharon--a Harley gal herself--thinks

 that probanly saved his life.

Jen was with Francine when Kathie

came to get Marcy for Lunch Bunch.

We always enjoy Avenue Avenue...and

 Jennie can get gluten-free food.

Sue, Jennie

Marcy, Sharon

Eileen, Kathie, Vickie

MaryAnn, Diane

Carol, Annette

The 11 who could come...

Clockwise from left...

Eileen, Jennie, Kathie, 

Vickie, Carol, Annette...

...MaryAnn, Diane, Marcy,

Sharon, Sue.

Outside...Diane, Kathie, 

Vickie, Sharon, Eileen.

Gals who rode

with Kathie in

the Cybertruck...

Diane, Vickie,

Eileen, Marcy.

Thanks, Kathie.

This gal parked next to us while

she dashed into Avenue Bakery

 

to get something for her son's 

11th birthday.

The cybertruck was parked on a slope which

 made it just enough higher that I couldn't get

up onto the seat to get myself in,

She got something for me to stand 

on and with her help I was

able to get in.

When I thanked her and told

her how kind she was,

she said her Mom had

taught her that was

the nicest compliment

anyone could ever

give her.

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THURSDAY, 

SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 

                       Family is 

Everything…

             

      

    Adam-ondi-Ahman

from Jon & Bonnie

Gronemon - missionaries

       

there from Maplrton, Utah 

we became 

friends with when on

cruise with D. Kelly Ogden

in 2010.

Harvest...

         

 Sunset...

FRIDAY, 

SEPTEMBER 11, 2026 

       Family is 

Everything…

       Julie's post today... 

          My additions...

September 11, 2001

to

September 11, 2026

25 years...

    

 2977 killed, of whom

2793 were New Yorkers

...

RIGGY'S birthday cake...

Taitum's 5th grade teacher in

5th grade in Frisco, Texas...

just north of Dallas.

Our oldest geat-granddaughter

is loving living in Tesas.

Diesel, her brother, loves Karate.

SATURDAY,  

SEPTEMBER 12, 2026 

                  Family is 

Everything…

  Rendezvousing with 

Steve for game day...

J.DAWGS and the

BYU vs Arizona 

football game...

Congratulations BEAR!..and Cougar Nation...Our QB.-Bear B. is ONE OF A KIND gift to BYU at this time..:He is MORE than Football, He is humble, Hungry and Tough. he represents his Family. BYU and his faith in God. 

ARIZONA WILDCATS

17

vs

BYU Cougars

28

SUNDAY,

SEPTEMBER 13, 2026 

                     

Family is 

Everything

 Saratoga Springs UTAH

STAKE CONFERENCE

...to edit duplicates

I TOOK SO MANY PHOTOS TO TRY TO GET

Pres Erickson's talk from the closed captions...

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If you have not seen

 

our mini-life-sketch,

it is at the end of 

my testimony below...

Redemption is equal because Christ is infinite...

-- Alma 34:14.

Glory is different because agency is real...

-- Doctrine and Covenants 93:31.

--The Bronze Serpent

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** *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 

September 13th, 2026

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.

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Heavenly Mother...

♪♫♪♪♫ "...Truth is reason;

truth eternal tells me I've a

Mother there..." ♪♫♪♪♫

--Eliza R. Snow

"O, My Father"

President Dallin H.Oaks said...

"For as we have a Father in heaven, so also we have a Mother there, a glorified, exalted, ennobled Mother. That is a startling doctrine, I recognize, to some folk, and yet we ought to be governed by reason in giving consideration to this doctrine which is a revelation from God" (Sermons and Mission Services of Melvin Joseph Ballard, 205).

"For reasons the Lord has not revealed, we do not know much about a Heavenly Mother. But we have been told that the purpose of life on earth is to give us the opportunity to grow toward being like our Heavenly Father. And we know that we are children of Heavenly Parents. So we know that we have a Heavenly Mother or Mothers. But for reasons the Lord has not revealed, we do not know much about our Heavenly Mother. But we know we must have one because both men and women are working for exaltation . . ." - President Oaks

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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. 

“An omnicompetent God leaves all mortals free to choose, but how grateful we should be that God chose long, long ago to rescue and to resurrect all His children through the Atonement of His Son. Nevertheless, some reject and many are indifferent to these and other divine beckonings, mostly because they are too caught up in the cares of the world. They are strangers to the Savior, who is far from the thoughts and intents of their hearts.”

Neal A Maxwell

How Choice a Seer!

                                                                     Revelation 19:16: -- "And he hath on his vesture and on

 his thigh a name written, 

KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS".

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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."

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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 Dallin H. Oaks 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.  Because of the restored Priesthood Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.

Priesthood

Aaronic and

Melchizedek

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Of these truths I testify in the 

Name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Eileen Petersen

September 13, 2026   

  

  "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...              

Next Week...

Next week during my turn on earth..

SEPTEMBER 14-20, 2026

Our mini-life sketch:

 TRACES OF OUR 

TIME on this earth. . .                  Stay on the Covenant Path to reach the Tree of Life

 

A wise person once said, 

"Every society will be judged by

how 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 

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 that

I was the lucky gal 

whom he chose to be

 his

eterna sweetheart.

I still can hardly

believe it.

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...

June 1986 - Our 25th Wedding Anniversary

2018 - CHILDREN AND SPOUSES

   When you lose the man you loved most in this life, things are never the same.

The grief doesn’t just disappear — it 

simply becomes part of who you are. 

I will be forever grateful for my husband, one of the greatest gifts I've ever rsceived.

Sealed by the authority

of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood

  for time and eternity...

which means forever together.

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This blog is...

Dedicated to our seven children--Janie, Gary, Steve, David, Julie, Brian, Jen...

 

...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--12 spouses of G-C, and with a new gg-son 7-22-'26 = 12 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 78...

    Next Week...

Next week during my turn on earth...

AUGUST 17-23, 2026

 

  

Class of 1957...

  "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...     

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