President Monson's Message, Church, Birthday Celebration

Home Teachers Visit

My home teachers came this morning. They are so diligent and come often by the second Sunday. I appreciate them very much and they bring a message of love, hope and encouragement to move forward. One of my teachers is from the UK. He is a convert and a faithful priesthood holder. I am impressed with his sincerity. The other one was a shy gentleman and I have watched him open up and feel more comfortable.

Both participate in the lesson and one or the other gives the lesson and I usually ask the one who doesn't give the lesson to offer the prayer at the end of the visit. One of these times I am going to surprise them and offer the prayer myself. They always leave with a prayer and asked that I have a certain blessing that they are inspired to ask for in my behalf.

I enjoy their message and this month's thoughts were from President Monson from the August Ensign. It was about forgiveness. This theme is never obsolete, but a constant reminder of the atonement of Jesus Christ and what he did for me.

Church

I love the order of the organization of the Church. We are constantly reminded of the order when in our meetings. The brethren presiding are out watchmen. I was impressed yesterday during the sacramental prayers that our bishop was aware of the words said needed to be exact. Both priests had to repeat the prayers. The second one had stumbled over one word twice and then the bishop arose from his seat and walked over and lovingly pointed out the error at the sacrament table for the priest to recite it one more time. It was acceptable and we were able to partake of the water and continue our worship time during the sacred sacrament. We enjoyed a great meeting and sustained a new first and second counselor in our ward bishopric. The order of the church in action!




After church I went over to the Ks for dinner. Today, they were celebrating K1 & Hank's birthdays. K1 was back from her nanny job in the Kansas City area for a long weekend. She looked happy and told us a lot about her experiences and I observed the missionary opportunities available to her while she is living there. She seems to like the independence it gives her to be on her own, but at the same time earn a living. She is very industrious and I am pleased to see her happy and moving forward. I am positive her parents are equally pleased too.



It is always nice to go over for dinner visits with them when I can. I love the solidarity of all their extended family influence for good with their four generation get-togethers when Bestamor and Bestafar get to come. I miss that with my own parents and pray I can continue to be available over the years to make that kind of contribution to my own family as that fourth generation great-grandparent.

Photos to be posted later, I have to purge my files since I have so many still on the same file that keep adding to it. I will figure it out soon.

Later. :)