August Week 3

Monday after the temple we visited the Wayne County fair. We saw the trotter races and had some fish and chips and fried bread. That night at FHE Brother Jenson gave the lesson on Who am I? He challenged us to study our patriarchal blessings which on Wednesday in the temple when we were not too busy I worked on and identified blessings, warnings and admonitions. After the temple we went to Sis. Cederlof’s home and watched Pres. Faust’s funeral. What a wonderful man and a legacy of love and service he left for his wife, family and the church. Elder Holland, Pres. Monson and Pres. Hinckley and his son, Mark, spoke. The Choir sang and they sang O Divine Redeemer and “This is the Christ”. Written by Pres. Faust.

Tuesday evening I went to my first Enrichment meeting here. They changed their usual night to Tuesday so I was available. Bro. Grommin, the CES director in this area spoke to us on “Reading the Scriptures”. He used a talk given by Pres. Howard W. Hunter in 1979.
Some main points:

There must be concentrated study
The study of the scriptures is the most profitable of all study in which we could engage
Through them God speaks to man
There should be a regular time set aside when we can concentrate without interference
An hour would be ideal, a half hour would result in substantial accomplishment, a quarter of an hour is little time, but it is surprising how much enlightenment and knowledge can be acquired in a subject so meaningful
Allow nothing else to ever interfere with our study

Wednesday we were in the temple for the morning and evening shift. Thursday, our P Day, we visited the Chiropractor, stopped at the Diner in Newark with the Jackman’s for spaghetti and then subbed in the temple office for the Lindseths.

Friday the 17, Happy Birthday to my dear friend, Edwina. Hope you had a wonderful day.

Friday we started out with not much happening in the temple and it developed into a wonderful day with people showing up for all the ordinances. We were very busy. After the temple we went over to help the Wards move some boxes into a trailer. There son, Dave, has a restaurant in Macedon and they gave us free hamburgers so we went over and had dinner. These hamburgers are ¼ lb, huge with French flies and onion rings. Really good. We then went to the Temple to help the Hutchinsons with baptisms for their grandchildren who are visiting from Utah and then we went on the 7:30 session and finished up endowments I had left to do. The Hutchinsons did the rest of the baptisms for us and Saturday afternoon I was able to do the initiatories for them.

Saturday morning we were asked to help with a big baptism group who were coming in at 7:30 am. They were from South Jordan 1st Ward. What a wonderful group they were. We had 20 in each group with lots of adult help. We served our shift in the afternoon and it was very busy.

Today, Sunday, we attended the Lyons Ward with the McEwens. We stopped by the Church on our way home and were asked to take over the Nursery for them for the next two weeks while they go to the singles conference and on vacation. That should be fun.

We finished off our day with a walk along the Erie Canal taking a little nature hike and then a walk up the Hill Cumorah to top it off.

We missed the Raymond and Verletta Family Reunion. We heard it was great and everyone had a great time. We always do when we get together.

Have a great week. We love you.