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What Should Never Be Forgotten by our family from this day February 24, 2019 to forever.  Though the story is about another family it also applies to our family also. Wendell in his prime & Rosalie Wendell today This story came out of the BYU Magazine this month. Part 2 - Did you know that the Bible Dictionary is like reading a book.  It takes you through stories of whoever or whatever you are looking for.   While my friend, Kathy Smith and I have been studying in our new Church Recommended "Come  Follow Me" we learned many things about John the Baptist and John the beloved.  Two Johns that were very important in the life of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist had the authority to baptize through the priestly descent of both of his parents, Zacharias  & Elizabeth who were descendants of Levi.  John prepared the way for the Mesiah (Jesus Christ) to come and made ready a people to receive him.  He had been baptizing before ...

Weekend to remember: It began on February 17 with an 8:30 am. ride with Emily Royer to attend the blessing of little Willow Rose Allen, the daughter of Jennie and Bryce Allen.  We joined the family members at the the chapel where several were already gathered.  The blessing took place as planned with Bryce giving a very precious blessing and curly black haired Willow adding her loud message which must have been "Thank You." Bryce, Jennie, Peggy with River, Gr. Rosalie with Willow Rose, Maylynn, Owen After the meeting we all gathered at the Allen home where Jennie and her family helpers had prepared a delightful Brunch which was served to the adults upstairs and the children downstairs.  This made for a much more well organized visiting and playing time for everyone. Peggy Royer, Gr. Grandma Rosalie Christensen & Bruce Royer It was a wonderful time for me and I think for everyone in the upstairs category to share what was going on in our lives as we got rea...

GIFTS: Lets start off with a few of the gifts of God that everyone has that are free: light, darkness, rain, snow, wind, plants, animals. What others can you list? Now let us take a look at the free gifts that most of us have: We can see, hear, speak, smell, eat. What else can you think of? Heavenly Father gives us these gifts totally free, just because he loves us. However he also gives opportunities to use those gifts to become like Him, to inherit a place in the Celestial Kingdom where he lives. So lets look at just one of those free gifts he gives us and see what we could make of it that would help us to be worthy of the Celestial Kingdom: for instance “to see.” You choose which gift you want to talk about. Make up a little story about it, or it could be something that really happened. Example: I Saw a lady wandering up and down the street looking for her dog. It was a tiny dog and she was afraid that someone had stolen it or maybe it got hit by a car or else...