Sunday, June 22, 2014

"The Lord designated the purposes of marriage to go far beyond the personal satisfaction and fulfillment of adults to, more importantly, advancing the ideal setting for children to be born, reared, and nurtured.  Families are the treasure of heaven."

-Elder Russell M. Nelson as quoted by

Elder Neil L. Andersen in GC April 2014.

Somewhere in England

James left at 5:15 for stake council and then on to speak in the Linden ward.  Blain Curtis is gong to meet him there as his speaking companion.  

Ty Applegate was the youth speaker in our ward.  He spoke on work and self-reliance, a good topic for an Applegate since they are such hard workers.  Rob Langford and Adair Jim from the high council were our main speakers.  Brother Jim is a police officer on the Navajo reservation.  They both spoke on the sentence in the Family Proclamation which starts out: "Successful marriages and families...."  President Crandell was on the stand and spoke at the end of the meeting.  One thing he said was:  "When you have problems in a temple marriage, you work them out."

I sat by Patsy Tedder and we had a nice visit.  I went to high school with her brother Pete Whipple and she used to babysit my cousin Rita and her brothers.

Our Sunday School lesson was taught by Wendy DeWitt.  The lesson was about Samuel and Saul.  I sat by Sandra Wilhelm.

Denice Hall taught the young women about sustaining and supporting priesthood leaders.  I think it was appropriate that President Crandell and Brother Wilhelm came in.  Their comments really added to the lesson.

 A partial picture of the Phoenix temple.

 Rosie Lauritzen and I visit taught Lannie Gillespie after the block.  Lannie is assistant superintendent of Navajo schools and she says she is busier in the summer than during the school year because she is involved in alot of training.  

When I got home James was already there and had fixed me lunch.  We took a nap and then got up to prepare to feed the missionaries, Elder Russell and Elder Stott. When I asked him how his talk went he said he struggled with his voice but it went okay.

So grateful for our missionaries!   Elder Russell is from Tucson and Elder Stott is from Blackfoot, Idaho.  Elder Russell loves books so he went crazy when he saw all of mine.  He has been here six months and will be transferred to Scottsdale on Tuesday where he is going to be a district leader.  For dinner we had grilled chicken, rice, corn, and salad.  And for dessert brownies, and ice cream with chocolate sauce.  The elders took home some extra brownies.  I am always grateful to have the missionaries in my home because they bring such a wonderful spirit.  They gave us a list of all the people they are teaching so that we could pray for them.