Blessed sacrament time visiting Hank's ward today

"The Gospel is like a fountain flowing, unto eternal life. It is also thirst quenching for righteousness in my life." --Mom

Blessed sacrament time: K2 blessed the bread as he said the sacrament prayer with meaning, touching my heart.

I noticed Josh, a young man in a wheelchair. His spirit it so pure he glows and his eyes are always smiling. He maneuvers his wheel chair with precision. Whenever I go to Hank's ward, I sometimes get to sit on the end of the row. Josh passed the sacrament today as well. I observed there was a reverence about him that I felt and my eyes were tearing because I remember feeling like it was as if the Savior who was passing it to me. The feeling came from such a beautiful prayer to bless the bread that K2 gave filled my spirit with LOVE. It was a sweet remembrance as I renewed my covenants this morning and sharing that time with the K's. K8 came over at the beginning of the meeting as he sat next to me.

The reason I went to visit their ward was because K2 was speaking. Hank had called this morning to let me know and invited me. My meetings were later in early afternoon, so I managed to get there to their meeting house close to on time. My spirit was well nourished.

The talks were great. The young woman, Hannah V. spoke first who gave a great talk on service and the example her mother is for her family. K2 spoke and shared quotes by Elder Bednar. He also shared about his Duty to God award, and he needed to give a talk in church. He was asked to speak this week, after speaking to one of the counselors in the bishopric and to fulfill his Duty to God award. I saw how he had matured in his testimony and walks in the footsteps of his leader, his father. I saw such a fine young man and mentally gave him the "Y.S.A.F.B." award.

I also observed K8 following his father's command to wait until after the sacrament to eat a piece of candy from Grandma's bottomless purse. I leaned over to K8 and told him Y.S.A F.B. aka "you are such a fine boy, K8." because he followed directions. Hank heard me and smiled, because he knows I'd tell him that often when he was growing up. And I still do at times with both my boys AND girls.

I really enjoyed my meetings in my ward and attended all of them besides felt a prompting to attend choir today. Choir practice was a first for me in the ward and I don't know how many decades it has been since I last attempted to support the choir. I loved it! The choir was practicing for the Patriotic program coming up before the 4th of July. I could barely keep the tears away, I felt the sweetness of the Spirit present while we sang. I am so patriotic since I used to say the Pledge of Allegiance the first five years of elementary school in Chicago, and sing, "My Country Tis of Thee."

My voice started to get better, louder and clearer too as we sang. I was able to harmonize with my choir partners sitting next to me. Funny I always do better singing that way and prayed very earnestly to be able to carry my voice to project and blend with the altos. I also watched the choir director so I could sing on cue, and not off cue. It helps. The director seemed to know what she wanted out of us, and by golly she got it!! It must be the NEW me, because I guess I was more or less clueless when it came to knowing anything about choir. It felt good, and I was glad I accepted an invitation from one of the other altos when I sat next to her in Relief Society a couple of months ago.

By the way, when we lived in Chicago from age 5, I attended Sunday school there and we had to memorize Psalm 100 to receive our bibles when I was about seven or eight. It begins, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands." So I did make joyful noise today joining choir. I rather enjoyed it and am excited to participate in the patriotic theme for the June 28th sacrament meeting. We also have a song we practiced for the second Sunday in June as well, "Come Unto Jesus." I liked it and was able to keep on cue for most of it. I seemed to sound better the more we sang. Maybe it just takes more practice to be good at something like singing in the choir. I appreciated the welcome and am glad I went. It is good practice. Maybe I can convince Aaron or Candice to come join the choir. We need them both! We'll just have to figure out who can watch the kids during choir.