The Large Brass Plates must have been about everyday life--

"I have several stacks of photos and documents on a table here in my room which need to be organized. I will commit to do them in the next two weeks before moving to American Fork with Aaron and Candice. It just takes time, persistence and focus. Right?

God Bless me in the goal, I pray."

I remember making this statement in one of my blog entries not too long ago. Sure enough, I tackled that monumental project to at least get it started to make some order out of it. I went last Friday afternoon around 3:30 p. m. I dragged myself home after 10:00 p m. It was a long ordeal, but I persisted and didn't allow the opposition to discourage me, so pushed forward with faith that all would turn out.

The last set of photos I did was an impression I had to share a lot of the ancestors from Rodriguez-Sanchez' collection of photos with m y siblings. I ended up with the bulk of the family pictures and am so thankful and realize it was for a purpose. The purpose to preserve the family history and write about their individual lives.

I spoke with my youngest sister yesterday, and we caught up from our last conversation from a few weeks ago. It is always a wonderful opportunity to connect with my dear sister, who is flesh and blood and makes me feel so good to have that renewed connection each time.

It has been a struggle for me to accept my other siblings estrangement; I find solace with the support of my sister, and loving parents who continue to love me and who have an ongoing influence on my life for good. My heart is full.



Those experiences that I have had growing up and seeing the photos again binds me to them even more as the years go by. My love for them increases as I sense my paretns' presence/closeness to me, and know I am not the only one they watch over and influence ALL their posterity both here on earth and in the Spirit world. It is part of the eternal plan of happiness and I bear my witness of its validity.

I still remember vividly sitting on the couch in our home paging through my mother's photo albums. I have fond memories of the stories she would tell us. I know she shared those with my other siblings as well. I hope you will share those and send them to me, Linda, so I can add them to our "brass plates."

I still have my work cut out for me to put stories along with the photos for the family pictorial history. It can be an ongoing project as I find more or preserve other photos still to gather from other boxes. I have another project to complete a disc file on Carlos, my father to organize and scan. If any of you who read this want a copy of that hard disc, I can have more copies made when I do his, and am glad to send you at your request. Please let me know and leave a comment. Thanks.