TRACES OF TIME . . .
TRACES OF TIME . . .
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A wise person once said, "Every society will be judged byhow it treats the least fortunate.""Time moves slowly, but passes quickly...
TIME...
On this blog I share with family and friends my thoughts, doings, what interests me, my testimony of The Savior, 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,
TIME...
...but to my wonderful husband,Walter Ray Petersen.
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."
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 was as the 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 with two partners).
We were blessed to serve 4 missions together--First:July 1995-July 1998
Mission President and wife of the Mexico Merida Mission - Yucatan*** *** *** Mar 2005-Feb 2007Area Medical Advisor - Central America Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama12 missions - 2,000 missionaries.*** *** ***Sep 2008-Mar 2010Area Medical Advisor - South America So.Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay14 missions - 2300 missionaries*** *** ***
July 2014-Nov 2018Temple President and Temple MatronSan Salvador El Salvador Temple*** *** ***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--8 spouses of G-C, and with a new gg-son 8-28-'25 = 9 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 72.
TRACES OF TIME . . .
Week of september 1-7, 2025
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
Family is Everything
*** *** *** Walt was also a carpenter at heart--like his carpenter father, Ray Petersen.
...their spouses--Julie, John, Jennifer, Jerry--our 39 grandchildren--8 spouses of G-C, and with a new gg-son 8-28-'25 = 9 great-grandchildren--for a posterity of 72.
TRACES OF TIME . . .
Sunrise: 6:55 a.m. Sunset: 7:59 p.m. 
SEPTEMBER 1, 2025
Goin' boatin...
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2025
Family is Everything…I was very impressed with and touched by this talk that was replayed on the BYU Channel today.
HIGHLIGHT…
Sister Tracy Y. Browning,
second counselor in the Primary General Presidency of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered her devotional address titled
"Preserving Our Relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ"
at Brigham Young University (BYU) on February 14, 2023. The address is
available to be read and listened to on the BYU Speeches website, the
BYU Radio website, and BYUtv.
The talk focused on evidence of God's love and the actions we
can take to maintain our personal connection with Him.
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God is always trying to
talk to
you—even when
you are unable to
perceive it. Most often
He is trying to tell
you
that He loves you and
that you are His priority.
He has provided and will
continue to provide many
countless ways to
demonstrate our value
and priority.
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Tracy Y. browning
Second Counselor,
Primary General Presidency
" Preserving Our Relationship
With Heavenly Father
and Jesus Christ "
BYU Devotional
February 14, 2023
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MOVIE NIGHT
The Classics... {16}MOBY DICK- versionGary
Sister Tracy Y. Browning, second counselor in the Primary General Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered her devotional address titled "Preserving Our Relationship with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ" at Brigham Young University (BYU) on February 14, 2023. The address is available to be read and listened to on the BYU Speeches website, the BYU Radio website, and BYUtv.
The talk focused on evidence of God's love and the actions we
can take to maintain our personal connection with Him.
God is always trying to
talk to you—even when
you are unable to
perceive it. Most often
He is trying to tell you
that He loves you and
that you are His priority.
He has provided and will
continue to provide many
countless ways to
demonstrate our value
and priority.
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Tracy Y. browning
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
Our Wednesday night movie...
To begin our movies made from
The Classics... "Sense & Sensibility" 1995
suggested to me by Carol Richardson.
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel. Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay and stars as Elinor Dashwood, while Kate Winslet plays Elinor's younger sister Marianne. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, members of a wealthy English family of landed gentry, as they must deal with circumstances of sudden destitution. They are forced to seek financial security through marriage. Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman play their respective suitors.
Budget $16 million Box office $135 million
The Book...
Sense and Sensibility is the first novel by the English author Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the title page where the author's name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (age 19) and Marianne (age 16½) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret (age 13).The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate at Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage, a modest home on the property of distant relative Sir John Middleton. There Elinor and Marianne experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is set in South West England, London, and Sussex, probably between 1792 and 1797.[2]
The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen book produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series of 1833.[3] The novel has been in continuous publication since 1811, and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage, film, and television.[4]
We really liked it!
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| Budget | $16 million |
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| Box office | $135 million |
The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters and their widowed mother as they are forced to leave the family estate at Norland Park and move to Barton Cottage, a modest home on the property of distant relative Sir John Middleton. There Elinor and Marianne experience love, romance, and heartbreak. The novel is set in South West England, London, and Sussex, probably between 1792 and 1797.[2]
The novel, which sold out its first print run of 750 copies in the middle of 1813, marked a success for its author. It had a second print run later that year. It was the first Austen title to be republished in England after her death, and the first illustrated Austen book produced in Britain, in Richard Bentley's Standard Novels series of 1833.[3] The novel has been in continuous publication since 1811, and has many times been illustrated, excerpted, abridged, and adapted for stage, film, and television.[4]
