****Walt & Eileen Petersen**

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Traces of Time . . . Week of November 2-8, 2026

Traces of

Time . . .
. . . FOR MY LIFE.
Eileen
Marie
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Week of
NOVEMBER 2-8, 2026
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.

November Family Birthdays
2026
November Family Birthdays
2026
02 - Lizzy Brewer "17"
07- Elliott Petersen "17"
07 - Shawn Fisher "66"
09 - Adam Brewer "14"
19 - Isaac Petersen "21"
21 - Ashley Fisher Sorenson "26"
23 - Pono Kaneao "35"
09 - Adam Brewer "14"
19 - Isaac Petersen "21"
21 - Ashley Fisher Sorenson "26"
23 - Pono Kaneao "35"

MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 2, 2026

Family is
Everything...
Back to
Standard time...

Sunrise: 6:57 a.m.

Sunset: 5:23 p.m.
Rainy day...

Happy Birthday
Lizzy Brewer "17"

Riggy new school photo...
Riggy played on a
football team this fall...

Cloudy skies...
...all day.
💖💖💖💞💞💞💕💕💕💘💘💘💘

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 3, 2026
Family is Everything...
…and so are friends...
Institute -
Teachers
Dwight & Teresa Muse

Jacob 5-7
Enos, Jarom, Omni,
Words of Mormon

TUESDAY,

NOVEMBER 3, 2026
Family is Everything...
…and so are friends...
Institute -
Teachers

LeAnn and her sister,
Valerie, were at
Instutute today.
LeAnn was so kind
to give me a ride home.
Our teachers, Dwight & Teresa Muse
really helped us understand
the Allegory of the Olive Tree
--in Jacob 5--a lot better.

Since we were talking about
Olive Trees...they brought this
carving from olive wood.

* * ***

Our Tuesday night movie was
cancelled because Gary is
changing from accounting
for summer activities to
winter activities at
Sundance Mountain Resort.
...So I watched election returns...
* ***

WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 4, 2026
Family is

Everything...

Happy 80th Birthday

to Howard...

Lunch Bunch was

at Strap Tank...

8 came...

* * *

Bunco was at Laura's home

on Waterside Drive...

15 came...

Sitting: Eileen, Lori, Diane, Lydia

Standing: Jeanue, SuzAnn, Kathie,

MaryLu, Jennie, Lyn, Joann,

Vickie, Laura, Monica, Shiloh

Sitting: Eileen, Lori, Diane, Lydia

Standing: Jeanue, SuzAnn, Kathie,

MaryLu, Jennie, Lyn, Joann,

Vickie, Laura, Monica, Shiloh

My sister, Janice, fell and hit her face. Now the black that first appeared inder her right eye has spread to under her left eye.**

THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER 5, 2026

Family is

Everything…

Laura sent me a photo

of her pilgrims...

when I saw it as we were

leaving. I had put my

phone in my purse.

* * *

Tammy texted that

it would be nice to

suooort this city

event...

so we're doing

it for Lunch Bunch

for Nov. 18...

\

* * *

* * *

FRIDAY,

NOVEMBER 6, 2026

Family is**

Everything…

Julie & Jonn

27th Wedding Anniversary

Sunrise - 7:03 a.m.

* * *

* * *
Neal A. Maxwell

said in 1986...
"
"Future revelations, brothers and sisters, will include astounding events as well as great and important truths. So much so, that Moses’ and Israel’s exulting song after safely crossing the Red Sea (see Ex. 15) and the Prophet Joseph’s 1842 litany will gladly give way to the crescendo of glorious events associated with Christ’s coming in majesty and power.

The valley of Adam-ondi-Ahman will ring again – this time with the sounds of dispensational reunion, as it glows with gathering (see Dan. 7:13-14; D&C 107:53-57; D&C 116:1)! Those of Enoch’s utterly unique city of “one heart” will greet those of the New Zion with holy embraces and holy kisses amid the sounds of sweet sobbing (see Moses 7:62–63)! The “hills shall tremble” at the presence of the lost tribes, and hearts, as well as ice, will melt, as they come “filled with songs of everlasting joy” (see D&C 133:26–33).

And it will all occur at the direction of the “Redeemer of Israel, our only delight.” Hence, “as children of Zion, good tidings for us. . . . The hour of redemption is near” (Hymns, 1985, no. 6) "
- Neal Ash Maxwell - “God Will Yet Reveal,”
Ensign, November 1986

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Traces of Time . . .**

SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 7, 2026
  Family is

Everything…and

so are friends...

     Happy Birthday to

Elliott "17" in

Brentwood and

Shelbyville, Tennessee

Your Dad & Moms...

and your sisters and brother

...and your cousins...

aunts, and uncles...

and your Grampas & Gramas...

\...here and in heaven...

...love you a lot!

Elliott, hope you have had a

wonderful birthday today.

Love from Grama Petersen...

...and many others

* * * * **** * * * *

Shawn Fisher**

Happy Birthday to

Shawn "66"

with his Grandmother

Elna Robins...

1915-2011 - age 95

She was a widow for 18 years.

Lloyd R. Robins 1911-1993 - age 81.

Shawn with 6 of his 7 children...

Your treasures...2022

Dance Competition - Oct 26, 2024

Shawn, hope you have a

great birthday, today.

Love from Grama Petersen...

...and Grampa Petersen

from heaven.

* * *
Same day...**

Rendezvousing with

Gary and Steve

for the football game...

BYU # 7 vs

U of Utah #3

Cougars / Utes

Utah favored by 5 points

We lost by 8 -

20-28

SUNDAY,

NOVEMBER 8, 2026

Family is

Everything

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

Presiding:

Bishop Justin Thompson

Conducting:

Eric Luedtke

Organist

Chorister

Cynthia Vaillancourt

Opening Hymn

Invocation:

Sacrament Hymn

#

Administration of the

Sacrament

Speakers:

Closing Hymn

#

Benediction:

New Schedule...8th week...

10:05 - 10:30

Gospel Doctrine

25 minutes...

10:35 - 11:00

Relief Society / Priesthood

25 minutes...

* * ***
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

* * *

* * *

**** 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
November 8, 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.

* *
* * *
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
* * *

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".

* * *
* * *
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 Dallin H. Oaks 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 Priesthood Temple Ordinances families can be sealed for eternity.
Priesthood
Aaronic and
Melchizedek
* * * * *

* * *
Of these truths I testify in the
Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
November 8, 2026
Our mini-life sketch:

TRACES OF my
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...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, great-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?"
* *

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

July 2018 - Last family photo by our
Burley Idaho home of those who
could come to our Family Reunion...

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.
2020 - Walt's headstone atthe Wendell, Idaho Cemeterydesigned by Aimee,our oldest grandchild.

Sealed by the authority
of the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood
for time and eternity...
which means forever together.
* * *
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...**

I'm adding a little more
this week from Walt's
birthdaypost in 2025...

THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025

Family is Everything…

APRIL 17, 2025

Walt's Birthday Remembrance

He would have been 91 today.

APRIL 17 IS WALT'S

BIRTHDAY

"Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
— Malcolm Gladwell, author
Walt made a lot of decisions

in his life. Many affecting

other people's lives for good.

He not only went by the Gladwell

quote but by prayer and inspiration.

Whenever he was confronted with

a situation, he never acted until

he knew both sides.

Here's my face book post:
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Walt Petersen
--my Eternal Sweetheart--
today April 17, 2021 - 91st B-day
Remembrance. It's his fifth one in heaven.
Walt died from Lewy Body Dementia
on August 21, 2020.
He was born in Wendell, Idaho,
April 17, 1934.
We had moved to Burley, Idaho, in 1966 after
medical school at Washington University
in St. Louis, internship in Minneapolis,
and military service at an Indian Hospital
in Talihina, Oklahoma which included
some time on the Coast Guard
Cutter Chatauqua in the
Pacific Ocean.
(The U.S. Public Health Service
furnishes the medical needs
of the Coast Guard--
anyway it did in the 1960s).
We lived in Burley, Idaho
for 52 years -
1966-2018 before moving to
Saratoga Springs, Utah,
when our kids determined
our health wasn't good
enough for us to live alone.
We are thankful for their
watchful care of us.
*
Julie's post from 2022:

Dad, you were larger than life

but you were also just my dad.

I know I’m one of the lucky ones

to have had such a great influence

right in my home.

I’m so grateful

my children were able to live

with you two different times

in their lives.

I love and miss you very much.

Wishing you a

Happy Heavenly Birthday!

* * * * * * *

Remembering Walt on his

91st Birthday...

This painting by Norman Rockwell

could have been Walt going off

to college...

his Dad was a hard-working carpenter

of very modest means.

Walt took a train to the state university -

University of Idaho --

265 miles from Wendell, Idaho

to Moscow, Idaho.

(Pronounced Mos-coe, in

Russia theirs is Mos-cow.)

And when I got engaged

to Walt, his Mom said to me:

"Eileen, you know Walt has

always had a dog."

Norman Rockwell painting

for the

Saturday Evening Post.

Details show the father, a hard-working man

of modest means, was going to flag

the train to pick up his son.

The wistful dog is a priceless inclusion.

Before he grew up and

went off to college...

here are some growing

up years . . .

Walt - 1938 - Age 4

with his dog Peggy.

Summer 1940

Walt - age 6

Ray 32, Jane 29, Bonnie 10,

Phyllis 8, Dale almost 1.

Walt - Age 6

Walt - First Grade

Walt - Freshman - 1948-1949

Wendell High School

Walt 14, Freshman - Dale 9, 4th grade

Big Winter '48-'49

Living in basement

Wendell, Idaho

Walt - Winter 1950

Sophomore - age 15, Dale 10.

Dad had just finished their home

above the basement where

they had lived for 3 years.

Walt - Sophomore 1949-50

Played on Varsity team

Walt wouldn't smile

in photos because of

the gap between his

front teeth.

Walt Senior year - Class of 1952

Wendell High School

Walt - 1952-53 was on the U of Idaho

freshman basketball team.

He was also in the ROTC.

Walt - 1953-54

The coach at Boise Jr College

recruited him to play basketball

his second year in Boise.

Walt - Sophomore at
Boise Jr. College
1953-1954
{It became Boise State University}

Walt - Age 19
with his sister Phyllis
and brother Dale
Walt - Aug 1954 to Mar 1957
A young man had to be 20 to
serve a mission and a
foreign mission was an extra
6 months to learn the language
in the country because there
was no MTC.
August 17, 1954 received
his endowment in the Salt Lake Temple.
(With Grama Mary Petersen
and
Grama Maria Prescott -
prounced "Mariah")
Walt - Aug 18-21, 1954,
Wednesday to Saturday
he had 4 days of instruction
on being a missionary.
On August 19, the group
of 127 missionaries did
a session in the
Salt Lake Temple.

These four days also
included being set apart by
a General Authority. Walt was
set apart by Elder Sterling W. Sill
on August 20, 1954 at the Church
Administration Building.

He boarded the train at 5:30 p.m.
on August 21 with 12 other
missionaries--4 going to Brazil,
5 to Argentina, and
4 (including Walt)
going to Uruguay/Paraguay.

They were 48 hours in
New York City getting
their visas, and boarded
Ship S.S. Argentina on the
afternoon of Thursday,
August 26.

It took 20 days to
arrive at
Montevideo, Uruguay on
Tuesday, September 14, 1954.

Walt's first assignment that
evening was to go to the
the Mission Basketball
Team practice.
"Deseret" was the name
of the team.
One of the highlights of
his 30-month mission--
during the 9 months he was
an Assistant to the President--
was to travel for 2 weeks with
the Apostle Henry D. Moyle
and be his translator.
This included a meeting with
the dictator of Paraguay,
President Stroessner.
* * * * * * *
Walt returned home from his
mission in March 1957 and
turned 23 in April.

He enrolled that spring
quarter at BYU,
but since he could finish his
engineering major a year
sooner at University of Idaho,
he went back there for the
Fall Semester of 1957.
At the end of three weeks
back at the U of I, he was
thinking about medicine vs
engineering. He went to talk
to the pre-med advisor and
within an hour he had switched
out of his engineering courses
to pre-med classes.

His Dad & Mom, sister Phyllis,
and brother Dale came to his
college graduation in May 1959.

(Actually, Dale had also been at
the U of I with his brother those two
years 1957-1959, and Dale stayed
with his engineering major, but after his mission to Argentina he finished at BYU.)
Walt's U of Idaho graduation photo.
Was it the right decision for
Walt to change to medicine?
...he said to me on his graduation
day from medical school:

"I could have been happy as an engineer,
but not now that I've graduated
in medicine."

Walt - June 1963
Graduates from
Washington University
School of Medicine

"Dr. Petersen"
Did I miss something?
Oh...just that Walt
found his
eternal sweetheart in Idaho
in the summer of 1960 and...
...they got married on
June 14, 1961 in the
Salt Lake Temple
Our reception was in Gooding, Idaho
June 17, 1961
...one of my favorite photos
from the reception.
...Walt was all smiles at
the end of the reception.

Walt did his one-year
family physician internship
at the Minneapolis General Hospital
June 1963-June 1964
Walt became a father on the
very day he began his internship--
two weeks after he graduated
from medical school...
He was age 29.

Grama A and my sister, Janice, came
on the train from Gooding, Idaho
to help us.

My mother had become a
grandmother at age 43.
My Dad was age 50.

For Walt's parents,
Janie was their 12th grandchild.
Ray was age 41 and Jane 38
when they had become
grandparents in 1948.
Mary Jane "Janie" Petersen
Walt - U.S. Public Health Service
June 1964 - June 1966
We had 7 children in 11 years...

When we had seven we
said that was heaven
and called it good.

Janie, Gary, Steve, David,
Julie, Brian, Jen.
Walt - Family Physician
and Surgeon in
Burley Idaho - July 1, 1966
to January 14, 2005
Walt took flying lessons at the
Burley Airport in 1967,
and got a small Cherokee
Piper airplane.
Then we had a 2-engine
Aztec with two other
partners for a while. Walt flew
us in that to a medical meeting
in Guadalajara, Mexico in
October 1972.
Then he ended up with his
dream airplane--a Cessna 206
turbo-charged (means it was
like always taking off at sea level).
It had the high wings that could
land on "pasture airstrips" without
loose rocks damaging the wings.
He was partners with
Newel and Leo.
Later Mike became
a partner, also.
Walt's happy place...
to fly with his wife and kids,
grandkids and friends...
...with Gary
...with Cortney and Kelsey
...with Kimble
♪♫♪♪♫ "Off 'he' goes into
the wild blue yonder..."♪♫♪♪♫**
Info from Wkikpedia
"High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before he died in a training accident. Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it was widely distributed when Magee became one of the first post-Pearl Harbor American casualties of the war on 11 December, after which it was exhibited at the American Library of Congress in 1942. Owing to its gleeful and ethereal portrayal of aviation, along with its allegorical interpretation of death and transcendence, the poem has been featured prominently in aviation memorials across the world, including that of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986."
High Flight
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

Walt & Eileen - 1970s
...with three years when
serving June 1995 to
July 1998 as a
Mission President for the
Mexico Merida Mission.
Presidente Petersen
loved his missionaries.
They worked very hard,
bicycled a lot of places,
then it changed to all walking.

"Dr. Petersen" did surgery on a lot
of ingrown toe nails
during these three years.
Hermana Petersen loved
the missionaries, too.
How blessed we were to
serve with such outstanding
young Elderes y Hermanas!
When we finished our 3 years
in July 1998, the mission office
(behind us) and a chapel to the
other side of us were torn down
and the
Merida Mexico Temple
was built there.
Dedicated missionaries...
Going back 25 years
before he was a
mission president...

Walt - 1970-1976
Bishop
Burley 7th Ward
We started skiing in
JANUARY 1976.
The photo below was
about 1977--Walt age 42.

Guess which number
Walt is at this
ski lesson at Sun Valley...

"7" our family #.

Walt also served on the high council,
as a counselor in a stake presidency,
as a stake president of the new
Burley Idaho West Stake when
it was divided from the
Burley Idaho Stake in
May 1983.

He served 9 1/2 years
until November 1992.

He was called as a patriarch
in February 1993 to give
blessings in Spanish
throughout all 14 stakes
in the Magic Valley.

1994 he was called by
President Hunter
to be a
mission president,
serving 3 years--

June 1995-July 1998--
which photos have been
posted above.

Branch President/Bishop --
Young Single Adult Branch/Ward
covering 7 stakes --
Burley/Burley West/Declo/
Oakley/Paul/Rupert/Rupert West
Jan 2000-Sept 2004

Walt worked 7 more years
after we returned in 1998,
then retired on January 14, 2005,
at age 70.

Here is Walt three weeks before
he retired having just delivered
his last baby of about 3500-4000.
I enlarged photo to see Walt better.
Recording in the chart...
Here's a photo of our
home on Burton Avenue,
Burley, Idaho,
that January of 2005.
Walt then served three more
missions with his wife:
2. Area Medical Advisor
for 2000 missionaries in
the 12 missions in Central America
for 23 months.
March 2005 to February 2007.

In between these missions,
we served as temple workers in
the Boise Idaho Temple,
driving 320-miles round trip
each Saturday from
March 2007-March 2008.

During this same year
Walt served on the
Twin Falls Temple Dedication
Committee with other
former stake presidents
from throughout the
Magic Valley--one of them
his best friend from Wendell
High School days--
Rulon Chandler.
Elder Brent H. Nielson,
Area Seventy, was over
this Committee.

Sunday, August 24, 2008 was
the dedication
of the Twin Falls Temple.
The mural on the back wall
is of Shoshone Falls.

Us at the Twin Falls Temple -- After our mission to Argentina-Uruguay-Paraguay, we were temple workers on the Wednesday evening shift, which did a Spanish session.
Walt was called as a sealer in September 2010.

The Sunday after the Twin Falls
Temple Dedication,
was our "farewell" on
August 31, 2008 for
our medical mission to the
South America South Area.

3. Area Medical Advisor for
2300 missionaries in the
15 missions for the
South America South Area of
Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay,
for 18 months --
September 2008 to March 2010.

#4 and final mission Walt served was
as Temple President of the new
San Salvador El Salvador Temple
July 2011 to November 2014.
Temple Presidency
and the
Temple Matron and
her Assistants.
Left: Pdte Rafael y
Hna. Aida Majano
Right: Pdte Eduardo y
Hna. Consuelo Alas.
* * * * * * *
Our children grew up...
All seven graduated from BYU.
Six served a mission...
and all have been sealed in the temple...

Walt became a grandfather at age 53
when our first grandchild
was born--Aimee.

Twenty-six years later--
by age 80--in 2014 he was
the grandfather of 39 grandchildren.

Aimee, Daniel, Katie, Heidi, Sam, Ashley, Michael,

McKell, Abbey, Jacob, Isaac,

Kelsey, Cortney, Kimble, Carter,

Joshua, Anna, Sam, William,

Mikayla, Jacee, Jackson,
Maddie, Rigdon,

Emma, Taylor, Avery, Elliott,
Slate, Olivia, Kayden, Jordan,

Seth, Sarah, Ben, Josh,
Liz, Adam, and Anna.

8 great-grandchildren in our family...
with one due in Sept 2025
{...as of 2026 Nov we have
12 great-grandchildren,,,}
Walt became a great-grandfather in
2016 when he was 81 years old.
* * *
When Walt died at age 86 in
August 2020
he had two great-grandchildren.
Taitum and Diesel.

Since his death, 6 more great-grandchildren have been born--
Umi; a boy; Scottie Marie, Maeve,
Ohi'a, and Ingrid.
{2026 update:
Bodie, Lively, Penelope, A'ali'i}

Counting our grandchildren's
spouses,
Michael, Kelly, Parker, Pono, Sara,
{Boyd, DarbyJo, Hailey}
Josh T., Maddie, Spencer, and David,
this brings our posterity to 71.
{2026 = 78}
We have joy in our posterity.

Family photo for our
50th Wedding Anniversary
June 2011
Last family photo at
our home in Burley
for our Family Reunion

-- WEPR stands for--

" walt & Eileen Petersen
Family Reunion"

IN JULY 2018
before we moved
from Idaho to Utah.
Janie & Shawn in charge.
"Aloha" theme

Our 7 children and their spouses in 2018...

Walt - Family Physician
and Surgeon in
Burley Idaho - July 1, 1966
to January 14, 2005
Walt took flying lessons at the
Burley Airport in 1967,
and got a small Cherokee
Piper airplane.
Then we had a 2-engine
Aztec with two other
partners for a while. Walt flew
us in that to a medical meeting
in Guadalajara, Mexico in
October 1972.
Then he ended up with his
dream airplane--a Cessna 206
turbo-charged (means it was
like always taking off at sea level).
It had the high wings that could
land on "pasture airstrips" without
loose rocks damaging the wings.
He was partners with
Newel and Leo.
Later Mike became
a partner, also.
Walt's happy place...
to fly with his wife and kids,
grandkids and friends...
...with Gary
...with Cortney and Kelsey
...with Kimble
♪♫♪♪♫ "Off 'he' goes into
the wild blue yonder..."♪♫♪♪♫
Info from Wkikpedia
"High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London, and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months before he died in a training accident. Originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it was widely distributed when Magee became one of the first post-Pearl Harbor American casualties of the war on 11 December,after which it was exhibited at the American Library of Congress in 1942. Owing to its gleeful and ethereal portrayal of aviation, along with its allegorical interpretation of death and transcendence, the poem has been featured prominently in aviation memorials across the world, including that of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986."
High Flight
"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace.
Where never lark, or even eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
– Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."

Walt & Eileen - 1970s
...with three years when
serving June 1995 to
July 1998 as a
Mission President for the
Mexico Merida Mission.
Presidente Petersen
loved his missionaries.
They worked very hard,
bicycled a lot of places,
then it changed to all walking.

"Dr. Petersen" did surgery on a lot
of ingrown toe nails
during these three years.
Hermana Petersen loved
the missionaries, too.
How blessed we were to
serve with such outstanding
young Elderes y Hermanas!
When we finished our 3 years
in July 1998, the mission office
(behind us) and a chapel to the
other side of us were torn down
and the
Merida Mexico Temple
was built there.
Dedicated missionaries...
Going back 25 years
before he was a
mission president...

Walt - 1970-1976
Bishop
Burley 7th Ward
We started skiing in
JANUARY 1976.
The photo below was
about 1977--Walt age 42.

Guess which number
Walt is at this
ski lesson at Sun Valley...

"7" our family #.

Walt also served on the high council,
as a counselor in a stake presidency,
as a stake president of the new
Burley Idaho West Stake when
it was divided from the
Burley Idaho Stake in
May 1973.

He served 9 1/2 years
until November 1992.

He was called as a patriarch
in February 1993 to give
blessings in Spanish
throughout all 14 stakes
in the Magic Valley.

1994 he was called by
President Hunter
to be a
mission president,
serving 3 years--

June 1995-July 1998--
which photos have been
posted above.

Branch President/Bishop --
Young Single Adult Branch/Ward
covering 7 stakes --
Burley/Burley West/Declo/
Oakley/Paul/Rupert/Rupert West
Jan 2000-Sept 2004

Walt worked 7 more years
after we returned in 1998,
then retired on January 14, 2005,
at age 70.

Here is Walt three weeks before
he retired having just delivered
his last baby of about 3500-4000.
I enlarged photo to see Walt better.
Recording in the chart...
Here's a photo of our
home on Burton Avenue,
Burley, Idaho,
that January of 2005.
Walt then served three more
missions with his wife:
2. Area Medical Advisor
for 2000 missionaries in
the 12 missions in Central America
for 23 months.
March 2005 to February 2007.

In between these missions,
we served as temple workers in
the Boise Idaho Temple,
driving 320-miles round trip
each Saturday from
March 2007-March 2008.

During this same year
Walt served on the
Twin Falls Temple Dedication
Committee with other
former stake presidents
from throughout the
Magic Valley--one of them
his best friend from Wendell
High School days--
Rulon Chandler.
Elder Brent H. Nielson,
Area Seventy, was over
this Committee.

Sunday, August 24, 2008 was
the dedication
of the Twin Falls Temple.
The mural on the back wall
is of Shoshone Falls.

Us at the Twin Falls Temple -- After our mission to Argentina-Uruguay-Paraguay, we were temple workers on the Wednesday evening shift, which did a Spanish session.
Walt was called as a sealer in September 2010.

The Sunday after the Twin Falls
Temple Dedication,
was our "farewell" on
August 31, 2008 for
our medical mission to the
South America South Area.

3. Area Medical Advisor for
2300 missionaries in the
15 missions for the
South America South Area of
Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay,
for 18 months --
September 2008 to March 2010.

#4 and final mission Walt served was
as Temple President of the new
San Salvador El Salvador Temple
July 2011 to November 2014.
Temple Presidency
and the
Temple Matron and
her Assistants.
Left: Pdte Rafael y
Hna. Aida Majano
Right: Pdte Eduardo y
Hna. Consuelo Alas.
* * * * * * *
Our children grew up...
All seven graduated from BYU.
Six served a mission...
and all have been sealed in the temple...

Walt became a grandfather at age 53
when our first grandchild
was born--Aimee.

Twenty-six years later--
by age 80--in 2014 he was
the grandfather of 39 grandchildren.

Aimee, Daniel, Katie, Heidi, Sam, Ashley, Michael,

McKell, Abbey, Jacob, Isaac,

Kelsey, Cortney, Kimble, Carter,

Joshua,**Anna, Sam, William,

Mikayla, Jacee, Jackson,
Maddie, Rigdon,

Emma, Taylor, Avery, Elliott,
Slate, Olivia, Kayden, Jordan,

Seth, Sarah, Ben, Josh,
Liz, Adam, and Anna.

8 great-grandchildren in our family...
with one due in Sept 2025

Walt became a great-grandfather in
2016 when he was 81 years old.

When Walt died at age 86 in
August 2020
he had two great-grandchildren.
Taitum and Diesel.

Since his death, 6 more great-grandchildren have been born--
Umi; a boy; Scottie Marie, Maeve,
Ohi'a, and Ingrid.

Counting our grandchildren's
spouses,
Michael, Kelly, Parker, Pono, Sara,
Josh T., Maddie, Spencer, and David,
this brings our posterity to 71.

We have joy in our posterity.

Family photo for our
50th Wedding Anniversary
June 2011
Last family photo at
our home in Burley
for our Family Reunion

-- WEPR stands for--

" walt & Eileen Petersen
Family Reunion"

IN JULY 2018
before we moved
from Idaho to Utah.
Janie & Shawn in charge.
"Aloha" theme...

Our 7 children and their spouses in 2018...
Left to right:
Natalie & Steve,
Brian & Jennifer, Gary,

CLASS OF 1957...Wendell, Idaho

Our mini-life sketch:

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