Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Traces of Time . . . October 20-26, 2025 . .

 TRACES OF TIME . . .     

                      {STILL WORKING ON 
LAS VEGAS TRIP POST FOR LAST WEEK--check for more photos and narrative}
{Last week: Scroll to end click "Older Posts" at bottom right.
It is in very tiny font: Older Posts} 
Week of

OctobeR 20-26, 2025

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.

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--
 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...



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
October 20-26, 2025

October Birthday THIS WEERK...

26 – William “Will” Joseph Petersen (2008) “17”

 TRACES OF TIME . . .     

                   Week of

Octobe 20-26, 2025

MONDAY, 
OCTOBER 20, 2025
Family is Everything….
 Sunrise:  7:44 a.m.                                           Sunset 6:40  p.m.



Waiting for my ride to Institute...
Carol drove me.
When we pulled up there were no other cars.
Then Carol remembered they had said last week there was no class on
 Oct 21 because new carpet was being put in, which a note on the door today confirmed.
The note also said a reminder email had been sent, which neither of us had seen.
And I missed class last week when I was in Las Vegas with Janie visiting 
Aimee & Michael.


A nice cool Autumn day... 



Riggy and Bridger coming
home from school
after the Fall Break
last Thursday,
Friday, and Monday.







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A freind from burley--
  Janet, Gordie's wife...

Retirement Party! 🎉Join us in the Cassia Regional Hospital cafeteria at 11 a.m. on Monday, October 20 as we celebrate the remarkable career of Janet Hansen and wish her well in retirement!

After 34 years of dedicated service, Janet is retiring, leaving behind a legacy of excellence, mentorship, and compassionate care. 

Her journey began in 1985 at L.A. County Hospital and led her to Cassia Regional in 1990, where she officially launched her career as an ICU nurse in 1991.

From her time in the ICU to her role as a Hospital Educator, Janet has shaped the lives of patients, colleagues, and nursing students alike. She’s been a leader, a teacher, and a tireless advocate for quality care.

Let’s honor Janet’s incredible contributions and send her off with love and gratitude. We hope to see you there! 💙

#CassiaRegional #RetirementCelebration #ThankYouJanet #HealthcareHeroes #NursingLegacy


TUESDAY,  

OCTOBER 21, 2025

Family is Everything…

       Family is Everything


movie night with gary...



WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 22, 2025

Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
......
 Lunch Bunch was at Cafe Rio in Orem,
followed by...




THURSDAY, 
OCTOBER 23, 2025
Family is Everything…

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FRIDAY, 

OCTOBER 24, 2025

                 
Family is Everything…
  

One week till

Happy Halloween...








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SATURDAY, 

OCTOBER 25, 2025

  
                    Family is Everything…


 To 

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SUNDAY, 

 OCTOBER 26, 2025 
                   

Family is Everything…


 Sunday

Saratoga Springs 3RD WARD




This afternoon...

Cousin Pumpkin Carving Gathering...










** *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 
October 26th,

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.

*** *** ***

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.

 
*** *** ***
Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
October 26, 2025 
                                      

Next week ...

October 27-November 2, 2025

xxx yyy zzz


TRACES OF TIME . . .                  {Last week: Scroll to end click "Older Posts" at bottom right.

It is in very tiny font: Older Posts} 
Week of

OctobeR 27-november 2, 2025




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.

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--
 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...

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
October 27-
NOVEMBER 2, 2025

                   Week of

October 27-
NOVEMBER 2, 2025

MONDAY, 
OCTOBER 27, 2025

with 

Family is Everything….
 Sunrise:  7: a.m.                                           Sunset 7:  p.m.-


TUESDAY,  

OCTOBER 28, 2025

Family is Everything…

       Family is Everything...


Las 

WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 29, 2025

Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
......

 Lunch Bunch was at 



THURSDAY, 
OCTOBER 3O, 2025
Family is Everything…

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FRIDAY, 

OCTOBER 31, 2025

                 
Family is Everything…
  

Happy Halloween









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SATURDAY,  

NOVEMBER 1, 2025



                    Family is Everything…


 To 

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SUNDAY, 

 NOVEMBER 2, 2025
                   

Family is Everything…


 Sunday

Saratoga Springs 3RD WARD




This afternoon...








** *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 2nd, 2025

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.

*** *** ***

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.

 
*** *** ***
Of these truths I testify in the Name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Eileen Petersen
November 2, 2025 
                                      

Next week ...

                            November 3-9, 2025

 

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TRACES OF TIME . . .        

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2024
Family is Everything…
...and so are friends!
Lunch Bunch was at
Thanksgiving Point...

Harvest Restaurant 

Beautiful inside...
Warm loaf of bread...
Chicken Pot Pie not on
menu again until November...
...so I got Fish 'n Chips

Thanksgiving Point
12 were able to come...
Clockwise...
Kathie, Jeanie, Faye,
MaryAnn, Jennie, Kaye,
Eileen, Tammy, Carol,
Nadine, Linda, Sharon.

MaryAnn, Jennie, Kaye
Tammy, Carol, Nadine
Kathie, Jeanie, Faye
MaryAnn, Jennie, Kaye
Linda, Sharon
Jennie tells the other gals
goodbye before she heads
back to her counseling job.
Some got meatloaf, some 
soup 'n sandwich--French Dip.
Some said the tomato basil soup 
was the best they've ever had.
Tammy took a photo of
me by the murals...


As we came out, the

the Grim Reaper said:

"Thou shalt not pass..."

So we got a photo with him.





Took some crème brûlée 

home. Best dessert ever!

But not as good as the

crème brûlée from the

Strap Tank two weeks ago.



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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2024

Family is Everything…
   

   Our Wednesday night movie...

The Classics...  {9}  

 from the

Novel by Jolán Földes. 

Golden EarringsJolán Földes. ... It won the 1936
 All-nations Prize Novel Competition of the Pinter Publishing Ltd (London).

Film: Golden Earrings - 1947 version

Golden Earrings is a 1947 American romantic spy film made by Paramount Pictures and starring Ray Milland and Marlene Dietrich...based on a novel by Jolán Földes. 



Gary and I are loving these

old movies made from classic books.


Wednesday November 6, 2024

will be The Classics...  {10}

Little Women is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor, and starring Katharine HepburnJoan BennettFrances Dee, and Jean Parker. The screenplay, written by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman, is based on the 1868-1869 two-volume novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott.

This is the third screen adaptation of the book. It follows two silent versions: the first released in 1917 with Minna Grey, and the second in 1918 with Dorothy Bernard. After this 1933 sound version came the 1949 Little Women, with June AllysonElizabeth Taylor, and Peter Lawford, the 1994 film Little Women, starring Winona Ryder, and the 2019 film Little Women, featuring Saoirse Ronan.

Little Women - 1933 version

with Katherine Hepburn as Jo


Wednesday November 13, 2024

will be The Classics....  {11}

Little Women - 1949 version

with June Allyson as Jo


Wednesday November 20, 2024

will be The Classics...  {12}

Little Women - 1994 version

with Winona Ryder


Wednesday November 27, 2024

will be

Happy Thanksgiving Eve

in Rexburg 



Wednesday December 4, 2024

will be The Classics...  {13}
 
a cHRISTMAS cAROL - 1938 VERSION

Reginald Owen as Scrooge


Wednesday December 11, 2024

will be The Classics...  {14}

a cHRISTMAS cAROL - 1984 VERSION

Geroge C. Scott as Scrooge


Wednesday December 18, 2024

will be The Classics...  {15}

a cHRISTMAS cAROL - 1999 VERSION

Sir Patrick Stewart as Scrooge


Wednesday December 25, 2024

will be

Christmas...

Merry Christmas in Rexburg


Wednesday JANUARY 1, 2025

will be 

Happy New Year


Wednesday JANUARY 8, 2025

movie night will resume....

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2024


                       Family is Everything…
                        
                                                            Happy Halloween 

  Happy Halloween


First we watched

Riggy in his school

Halloween costume parade......

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