Bonnie: Another very special Sabbath. The Sister missionaries did the musical number today--one sang and the other accompanied her on the piano. We found out later that she composed the song. It was beautiful--about the atonement of the Savior. For our 5th Sunday meeting the CES coordinator spoke. (CES stands for the Church Education System, which is over Seminary and Institute classes for youth and young adults.) He was very good. His main purpose was to encourage the YSAs to take Institute classes, starting on the 11th of September. He really thinks that this generation of young adults needs to be prepared to see the second coming of the Savior. He didn't say that it would be this generation exactly, but that it will probably happen within three generations--them or their children or grandchildren. Wow! That's saying something! We do have strong young adults here. Some of them don't have transportation so they take the bus to church. Some have much opposition from their families.
After church, we came home, took short naps and them began working on YSA stuff and calling children! I talked to Lori and family tonight and also Scott and family. They sent me a birthday card with a darling picture of Nolan and Thea. How I love my children and their spouses and our grandchildren.
May you all have enough hugs today--remember we need to have 8 hugs a day to be healthy!
Love,
Mom/Bonnie
Bob: Church was good today. The CES coordinator pointed out some things in Church history that seem to indicate the Lord's purposes are being fulfilled. President Kimball was the 12th prophet of the Church. Although he doubled the number of missionaries and he doubled the number of temples in operation, Boyd K Packer said the crowning achievement of his administration was the publication and release of the LDS version of the King James Bible and the updated Triple Combination. The next prophet, Ezra Taft Benson, called upon church members 'to flood the world with the Book of Mormon' and to read it more. Howard W. Hunter, the next prophet, called upon the saints to look to the temple as a symbol of their membership. The next prophet, President Hinckley, caused over 100 new temples to be built. And now the current Prophet, Thomas S. Monson, has lowered the eligibility age for missionary service from 19 to 18 for young men, and from 21 to 19 for young women. It appears each of these prophets in turn was doing something to hasten taking the gospel message to more people in the world. I wonder what will come next.
After our naps today we decided to fix sandwiches. So we cut up the tomatoes we got at the market yesterday, added some fresh onion and avocado with mayo and ate it up!! So good.
I'm still playing around with the phone/text report. The clerk in the YSA ward is a computer guru and he thinks he might be able to write a program that will take the reports I have and spit out the information we are looking for. I hope he can do it.
Well I had better get ready for bed. Hope your day was blessed and that tomorrow is ever better.
Love,
Dad/Bob
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