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Merry Christmas this December  20, 2018 Our Christmas letter this year is one of THANKFULNES for our Savior, Jesus Christ. We are so grateful that he was willing to offer himself so that we can have the blessings and opportunity to become as He and His Father are, knowing and feeling perfect love for all of us & living in total happiness in the Celestial Kingdom. That is the sweetest goal we all can strive to attain. So we are thankful for the testimonies that Wendell and I have and share with each other when I visit with him. He always asks me, “Are we married?” “How long will we be married?” “Do you have other husbands?” Then we talk about how Jesus Christ has made it so that when we are resurrected we will be together again FOREVER. He has a big smile for that part of the story. So do I.  He loves to have visitors like when Nita came to visit him.  He was full of smiles for her fun and interesting stories and felt much happier and wanting to be mo...

"That's Progress," I think when I look at our Family Motto, "I lift thee and thee lift me and together we will ascend."  So this is a report of Grandpa's and Grandma's PROGRESS last week.  The pictures tell the story: Last Monday I took my clippers with me and performed a miracle cut on Wendell's hair.  It had gotten out of control.  Left - All ready to cut.  Right - all finished.  Just at my tall handsome husband! Tuesday found us having fun playing shut the box.  Wendell was sharp as a tack.  He could count the dots on the dice, recognize the numbers on the pegs and turn them down without any problem.  Dr. Brent visited him this day & said he was doing well.   This was the calm before the storm.  On Wednesday, when Peggy was going to pick me up to go to Jennie's to see their new baby an the rest of the family I got a surprise when I went to see Wendell he was totally irrational, couldn't do anything for...

                                                          Technically Speaking                                                              November 9, 2018 "Technically Moses is the first man to download files from the cloud using a tablet."  (I found that quote in some article I read this week & it started me thinking about how we receive revelation.) Downloading files from The Deseret News Voices pages 10 & 11 - "This is the power of gathering - it inspires us, delightfully to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful, more alive." (American chf & Author - Alice Waters)  Gathering in uplifting groups is strengthening to each individual.  An example I had...

Yes it all took place last Saturday, October 27, 2018.  What a wonderful thing to bring two more special people into our family to include in our Motto: "I lift thee and thee lift me and together we will ascend."  The pictures tell some of the story.  Sorry some are sideways.  The wedding dinner was held at a lovely restaurant where  Mark & Wendy treated us to a wonderful experience of ordering the item on the menu that we liked best.  Left to right - Mark, Rachelle, Chris, Rosie, Wendy, & Grace.  I, Rosalie, took the picture.  Rosie had many helpers to put together the lovely wedding and reception.  This friend of hers is adding the gold trim to the perfect red tiered cake she made. Chris is patiently waiting in the hall-way for the festivities to begin.  This sweet poster was displayed showing their courtship pictures. Wendy pins the rose on for Chris. Grandma Rosalie must...

October 13, 2018 - Patriarchal Blessings.   It was January 19, 1947  when I was 16 that I received my Patriarchal Blessing.  As I listened to the Patriarch's words carefully and read it later these words stood out to me above all the rest, "Walk uprightly so that your life might be happy.  Choose a good partner in life.  That is a very important thing; that, to choose a good partner in life.  So I bless you with wisdom, health and good judgement so that you might be wise in your choice." At that time I was going with a young man.  We had talked seriously about marriage.  When I read my Patriarchal blessing and prayed for the wisdom that Patriarch Eves had promised me I knew what I needed to do.  I had to tell him that I no longer could go out with him and we could not be married. And I did it very soon.  It was not easy.  In fact it was the hardest thing I had ever done.  But I knew it was right. Then a wonderful thing...

"I lift thee and thee lift me and together we will ascend," again our family Motto meshes with something else = "Saints" is a new series of books that have been compiled from the histories of Joseph Smith, his wife, Emma, his mother, Lucy Mack Smith, Orson Pratt & Joseph F. Smith, with comments about the book by Skousen & Hart and others.  Plus it tells the story that is in the D&C and the Book of Mormon.  However it is written in an exciting story form. Julie and I were talking about it and we are both convinced it adds many surprising things to the knowledge that is given us in the D&C and bears witness to both the D&C and the Book of Mormon. Why am I telling you this?  It is because it has become one of my "Sacred Stories" of Personal Revelation.  While reading this book on my i-pad revelation has come to me that has brought me to tears and strengthening my testimony of how the Lord works. One example of this is how I came to r...