****Walt & Eileen Petersen**

Monday, April 20, 2026

Traces of Time . . . Week of April 20-26, 2026

Traces of

Time . . .

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Week of
APRIL 20-26, 2026

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...

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- APRIL 20-26, 2026

MONDAY,

APRIL 20, 2026

Family is
Everything...
Sunrise: 6:42a.m.
Sunset: 8:1 p.m.
Days above normal --
breaking records...

One year ago...
Aprilo 20, 2025...
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Happy Birthday
Ohi'a
"2"
Today...
Here's last year's
birthday... ... ...

I caught up
on my blog.

Working on lunch bunch list and posts and photos...
Linda & Bill Hartley
married in the Oakland Temple
September 11, 1965.
When Bill passed away
on April 10, 2018, They
had been married for
52 years...

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TUESDAY,
APRIL 21, 2026**

Family is Everything…
To
Institute...

Isaiah
* * * * * * *
Our Tuesday night movie was:
The Robe

WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 22, 2026**

Family is

Everything…

Lunch Bunch was at

Mi Ranchitos

THURSDAY,

APRIL 23, 2026

                Family is

Everything…


          Happy

FRIDAY,
APRIL 24, 2026

Family is

Everything…


Happy Birthday...

Gary "61"

John "52"

Kimble "27"

SATURDAY,

APRIL 18, 2026


  Family is

Everything…

Happy Birthday...

Jerry "52"


Rendezvousing with

SUNDAY,

APRIL 19, 2026


Family is

Everything

Saratoga Springs 3rd Ward

* * ***
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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If you have not seen
our mini-life-sketch,
it is at the end of
my testimony below...
* * *

**** 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
April 26th, 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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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.

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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.
* * *
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
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Of these truths I testify in the
Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
April 26, 2026

Here is...
our mini-life-sketch,

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
eternal 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...

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.
  "Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...

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Next week during my turn on earth...

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